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Warfare

A collection of stories about war and warfare.

Posted on 2010-09-07 17:47

Blair Reveals Cheney’s War Agenda - Dr Nasir Khan

by Robert Parry, Consortiumnews.com, September 8, 2010 Ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s newmemoir offers the expectedrationalizations for his joining in anillegal, aggressive war against Iraq,even to the point of quibblingabout the death toll. But Blair does reveal howmuch more war wasfavored by Vice President Dick Cheney and the neocons. In A Journey:...

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Posted on 2010-09-06 17:56

Despite Celebration, the Iraq War Continues - Dr Nasir Khan

By David Sirota, trutdig,com, Sep 2, 2010 U.S. Navy / MC1 Eileen Kelly Fors Something about 21st century warfarebrings out Washington’s lust for historical comparison. The moment thecombat starts, lawmakers and the national press corps inevitably portrayevery explosion, invasion, front-line dispatch, political machinationand wartime icon...

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Posted on 2010-09-05 16:03

The true cost of the Iraq war: $3 trillion and beyond - Dr Nasir Khan

By Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes, The Washington Post, September 5, 2010 Writing in these pages in early 2008, we put the total cost to the United States of the Iraqwar at $3 trillion. This price tag dwarfed previous estimates, includingthe Bush administration’s 2003 projections of a $50 billion to $60billion war. But today, as the United States...

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Posted on 2010-09-04 18:47

War Criminal Tony Blair pelted with eggs and shoes in Dublin - Dr Nasir Khan

Former prime minister attacked by anti-war protesters in Dublin as he promotes memoirs Henry McDonald, The Guardian/UK, Sep 4, 2010 Tony Blair’s first signing of his memoirs inDublin descends into violence as anti-war protesters clash with Gardai.Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Skirmishes broke out between protesters and police at the first public signing...

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Posted on 2010-09-03 07:38

The True Cost of the Iraq War - Dr Nasir Khan

Paul Craig Roberts, Information Clearing House, Sept 2, 2010 Obama’s “end of Iraq war” speech must have shattered any remaining belief in him. Forced to appease both his supporters and the warmonger right-wing, who denounce him as a Muslim and a Marxist, Obama resorted to Orwellian DoubleSpeak. He could only announce an end to the war by praising the...

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Posted on 2010-09-02 15:39

Obama Declares Iraq War ‘Over,’ But Fighting Continues - Dr Nasir Khan

50,000 Troops to Do ‘An Awful Lot of Training’ by Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com, September 01, 2010 US officials are continuing to jump on board the proclamationthat the Iraq War has ended, with Secretary of Defense Robert Gatesgoing from yesterday’s comments to a firm declaration today that we’re “not” at war in Iraq any longer. Thewhole...

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Posted on 2010-09-01 10:24

A trillion-dollar catastrophe. Yes, Iraq was a headline war - Dr Nasir Khan

Mission accomplished? The Iraq war did more than anything to alienate the Atlantic powers from the rest of the world Simon Jenkins, The Guardian/UK, August 31, 2010 Today the Iraq war was declared over by Barack Obama.As his troops return home, Iraqis are marginally freer than in 2003,and considerably less secure. Two million remain abroad as refugees fromseven...

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Posted on 2009-05-13 20:24

War games and rotary dial phones - Rational Review » Feature Articles

My twin sister and I will be celebrating our 54th birthday this week; or as she likes to say “the silver anniversary of our 29th birthday.” As is often the case, this causes me to look back at both past birthdays as well as childhood memories in general — I think people who have attained a certain number of birthdays ...

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Russia, U.S. to Make Cold War Era Spy Swap? - ChattahBox News Blog

(ChattahBox)– The surprising arrests of 10 Russian spies living the ordinary American dream, mostly in boring suburbia, has captured the imagination of the American public. And the Facebook glamor photos of spy Anna Chapman, variously dubbed, as “spy babe” and a sexy femme fatale “James Bond girl” has raised the libido of male admirers...