Ex Gaurd at Abu gharib boasts about his experience in iraq, he reveals what happens at Abu gharib regardinq torture and rape of young girls.
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CNN story on Iran war plans, including Col. Sam Gardiner (retired) statement that "We're conducting military operations inside Iran right now. The evidence is overwhelming. From both the Iranians, Americans, and from Congressional sources."
"The terrorists and the Baathists loyal to the old regime will fail because America and our allies have a strategy, and our strategy is working." -- President Bush, November 1, 2003
"Our strategy is working." -- Vice President Cheney, September 28, 2004
"That's our strategy. And it is working and it is going to work, for the good of the country." -- President Bush, June 24, 2005
"Our strategy is working." -- White House's "National Strategy for Victory in Iraq", November 30, 2005
"This approach is working." -- President Bush, December 7, 2005
"It is a concrete example of how our strategy is working." -- Frm. White House spokesman Scott McClellan, March 20, 2006
"It took time to understand and adjust to the brutality of the enemy in Iraq. Yet the strategy is working." -- President Bush, March 20, 2006
In the BBC World Service poll of 23,000 people in 22 countries, 67 percent said they backed a troop withdrawal inside a year, while 49 percent believed the United States would permanently leave troops in the country.
...General Petraeus, maintains that the situation in Iraq is not only salvageable, but actually improving, due to the “surge” of U.S. combat troops into Iraq over the past year. All the president and his collection of GI Joe hand-puppets ask for is more time, more money and more troops.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran must pay $2.65 billion to the family members of the 241 U.S. servicemen killed in the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, a federal judge ruled Friday, calling it the largest-ever such judgment against another country.

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We were TOLD these weapons were being moved to be decomissioned. THAT IS NOT TRUE! This current USAF doc says the missiles are being 'refitted' to extend their service life until fiscal year 2030! These are state of the art weapons. The service plan even includes upgrading the W-80 warheads to keep them IN SERVICE.
Let's summarize the month of September up to now shall we?
We have no shortage of sabre rattling:
Bush Warns US Will Confront 'Nuclear Iran'
'Three-day blitz' plan for Iran
Iran warns of 'problems' if US attacks
We have two bizarre nuclear stories days apart:
Missing American Plutonium. This one to raise fears of a dirty bomb?
eport: Air Force lost track of nuclear missiles. This story obviously leaked to the media and allowed to be publicized by the mainstream media for some reason. Is someone being put on notice? In their outrage and surprise, people and the MSM are overlooking the obvious questions such as why were they being moved and why were they moved to a base that is involved in Middle East Operations?
Then we have Russian Leader Calls For Urgent Delivery Of Anti-aircraft Missile Systems To Iran. A story showing up in the business press and not covered by mainstream media.
Then we have Syria claiming violation of it's airspace with some reports that "something" was dropped and Israel claiming it's planes were shot at for no reason. See Syria 'fires on Israel warplanes' and Israel bombs Syrian targets (mixed reports)
Now this: Iran offers to aid Syria following new tensions with Israel
We also have: RAF Fighter Planes Intercept Russian Bombers where EIGHT bombers were intercepted. I mean I could see a patrol of 1 or two bombers, but a fleet of eight? That'll get somebody's attention!! The story also takes care to point out that these can carry cruise missiles and nuclear weapons.
"The president had no interest in the intelligence," a CIA officer disclosed. "Bush didn't give a f-k about the intelligence. He had his mind made up."
"No one in Congress was aware of the secret intelligence that Saddam had no WMD as the House of Representatives and the Senate voted, a week after the submission of the NIE, on the Authorization for Use of Military Force in Iraq," Blumenthal writes. "The information, moreover, was not circulated within the CIA among those agents involved in operations to prove whether Saddam had WMD."
Fighting al-Qaeda in Iraq is the last big argument for keeping U.S. troops in the country. But the military's estimation of the threat is alarmingly wrong.
United States President George W. Bush is supplying high technology weapons to US allies in the "war on terr", and providing them with billions of dollars in military assistance despite unstable governments, deadly conflicts, and human rights abuses, an independent think tank reported today.
Organized by the Campaign to Defend America, the media campaign is going to make Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Norm Coleman, R-Minn., Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Pete Domenici, R-N.M., have a much tougher time explaining to their constituents why they aren't criticizing the ongoing occupation of Iraq in ads tailored to each politician.
A spokesman for GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney slammed an earlier report from Radar Online that claimed the candidate's Utah finance committee co-chair, who is the co-founder of an education group facing allegations of child abuse and fraud, was asked to resign his position at the urging of the campaign.
Yesterday, John McCain tried to pull off the unthinkable. The Arizona Republican Senator cited a pessimistic study that referred to the Iraqi police force as dysfunctional, and spun it to further the notion that we need to stay in Iraq.
Clinton's prayer group was part of the Fellowship (or "the Family"), a network of sex-segregated cells of political, business, and military leaders dedicated to "spiritual war" on behalf of Christ, many of them recruited at the Fellowship's only public event, the annual National Prayer Breakfast. (Aside from the breakfast, the group has "made a fetish of being invisible," former Republican Senator William Armstrong has said.) The Fellowship believes that the elite win power by the will of God, who uses them for his purposes. Its mission is to help the powerful understand their role in God's plan.
"The people who say there'll be a blood bath are the same ones who said it would be a cakewalk. . . . Why believe them?" His foreign policy: "Mind our own business, bring our troops home, defend our country, defend our borders." After Mr. Paul spoke, it seemed half the room booed, but the other applauded. When a thousand Republicans are in a room and one man of the eight on the stage takes a sharply minority viewpoint on a dramatic issue and half the room seems to cheer him, something's going on.
As the results were shown, Sean Hannity dismissed Paul's sweeping victory by claiming it was probably a few people who called in a bunch of times. THIS WAS A BLATANT LIE, YOU COULD ONLY VOTE ONCE.
On September 6, 2007, Adam Kokesh (IVAW) and Tina Richards (Grassroots America) were arrested in Washington, D.C. for defying a federal government ban on posting promotional material for the September 15th Antiwar Rally, to be held in this city.
Around 100 also dropped their trousers in a ``21-bum salute'' to APEC leaders in Sydney.
The first "North American Union" driver's license, complete with a hologram of the continent on the reverse, has been created in North Carolina.
Mexican trucks are rolling over the U.S. border, freely bound for anywhere in America, and it seems that nothing -- not furious Teamsters nor angry environmentalists, not even Congress -- can stop them.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Texas have been ordered to abbreviate national security checks at one of the nation"s busiest ports of entry to speed up travel between the United States and Mexico, according to official documents and multiple interviews with agents.
"What's most disturbing is learning about it from The Wall Street Journal," said Committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss.
WASHINGTON - Employers sliced payrolls by 4,000 jobs in August, the first such decline in four years and a stark sign that a painful credit crunch that has unnerved Wall Street is putting a strain on the national economy.
With a little over an hour to go here on a key Friday morning, the dollar seems likely to close under 80.0 and gold to close above $700 per ounce. If "they" allow this to happen, then they acknowledge the inevitability of no interest rate increases (and, perhaps, a decrease on the 18th) and their acceptance of the now-inevitable hyperinflation created by the incredible, ongoing and mushrooming bailout of their financial buddies. We can expect to see the dollar ratchet down to oblivion eventually, of course, as we mere mortals pay to save their golden asses.
Economists fear that a wave of evictions of borrowers unable to afford the higher payments will blight neighbourhoods, hit home prices, deepen the worst housing downturn in 16 years, and harm the wider economy.
"The period of the missing email starts with the invasion of Iraq and runs through the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina."
“Thank you for being such a fine host for the OPEC summit,” Bush said to Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
Oops. That would be APEC, the annual meeting of leaders from 21 Pacific Rim nations, not OPEC, the cartel of 12 major oil producers.
Bush quickly corrected himself. “APEC summit,” he said forcefully, joking that Howard had invited him to the OPEC summit next year (for the record, an impossibility, since neither Australia nor the U.S. are OPEC members).
…Talking about Howard’s visit to Iraq last year to thank his country’s soldiers serving there, Bush called them “Austrian troops.”
That one was fixed for him. Though tapes of the speech clearly show Bush saying “Austrian,” the official text released by the White House switched it to “Australian.”
Then, speech done, Bush confidently headed out the wrong way.
He strode away from the lectern on a path that would have sent him over a steep drop.
Did you think the "voters" with questions relayed by Carl Cameron during the Fox News debate were typical patrons enjoying a meal out? Wrong! Young's Restaurant serves only breakfast and lunch and closes by 2:30 pm, except when Fox News wants dinner served to carefully screened "voters" at its private function. See the restaurant hours below.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego has reached a $198.125 million settlement with 144 people who were sexually abused by Catholic priests and church workers.
Joel S. Hirschhorn, PhD, former Senior Staff Member of the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), called for a new investigation of 9/11. “First, let the technical truth emerge. Then, if necessary, cope with the inevitable political, conspiracy and other questions. But let us not allow a possible painful truth block the primary task of determining once and for all what caused the collapse of the WTC towers and building no. 7.”
# Top officials' whereabouts and changing stories on the day of 9/11
# Insider trading before the attacks
# War games coinciding with Sept. 11th
# A confrontation between the families and FBI Director Mueller
# British reports that some of the hijackers named by the FBI are simply wrong
# Government whistleblowers' calls for accountability
# The FBI informant who lived with 2 of the hijackers
# A Defense Department program that identified 4 hijackers in 2000
# The families' push to receive the Pentagon crash tapes
# Bin Laden extradition negotiations after 9/11
# The Project For the New American Century
Discredited Pentagon-affiliated IntelCenter to release another dubious tape right when Bush needs it most, Osama pops up hours after new Zogby poll shows Americans want new 9/11 investigation for second time running
Al Jazeera television said the footage, produced by al Qaeda's media arm, was likely to be shown within 72 hours.
A U.S. intelligence official said of the tape, "We're analyzing it. We need to take a look at it to see whether it's old or new and we're doing it very quickly."
CAIRO, Egypt — Usama bin Laden appeared for the first time in three years in a new videotape Friday, telling Americans they should convert to Islam if they want the war in Iraq to end, according to a transcript obtained by ABC News.
The word on the street, also known as the news media, is that Osama bin Laden plans to mark the anniversary of 9/11 with one of his famous YouTube-caliber videos. Expect anti-American vitriol, terror alerts and long lines at the airport—as long as our government is still paying attention to these things, that is.
How convenient of Osama to distract attention away from the poll. What a helpful chap. It doesn't matter that the Osama videos about 9/11 are fake, according to scientists and top Bin Laden experts, or that he is dead, according to Israeli intelligence, Pakistani intelligence, and other sources.
Neal Krawetz, a researcher and computer security consultant, gave an interesting presentation today at the BlackHat security conference in Las Vegas about analyzing digital photographs and video images for alterations and enhancements.
Of course, this makes perfect sense, as Osama died in late 2001, and as for the audio messages, these are routinely dismissed as fakes, although this is rarely mentioned by the corporate media.
My entire Republican party is being destroyed because of this catastrophe that’s happened in Iraq and all these wonderful young soldiers - 27,000 wounded and disabled soldiers, 12 - 15 million [thousand?] with severe mental problems, almost 4,000 dead. That’s 50,000 young men that…lives have been either partially destroyed or are dead today and we have accomplished absolutely nothing. It is very sad and very pathetic and you can put lipstick on this pig any way you want to, but in the final analysis, we have accomplished absolutely nothing and it is very sad to see my party destroyed over this issue.
In the other words, the DoJ has no problem with AT&T and Verizon charging extra for certain types of online content.
What Israel claims to be 'new airport regulations' has literally torn an American family apart. The children in the family were all born in the United States and are US citizens.....they are not being allowed to leave Israel... being designated as 'Palestinians' by the zionist authorities.
The mysterious disappearance of honeybees in America and other parts of the world could be explained by a virus which is transmitted by a parasitic mite, scientists believe.
Is it me, or does changing GI JOE into this just a way to convince people that the UN and special un-American forces are good guys fighting bad guys? PROPAGANDA? You decide.