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More than 250 soldiers from the 86th Signal Battalion of the 11th Signal Brigade will return home from their 15-month deployment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom sometime during the first week of November.
When will we listen to the troops? I'm not talking about soldiers used as props for a George Bush photo op, telling reporters what Washington wants to hear. The military is disciplined and thus accustomed, from Gen David Petraeus on down, to toeing the official line.
Today marks five years since the authorization of military force in Iraq, setting Operation Iraqi Freedom in motion. Five years on, the Iraq war is as undermanned and under-resourced as it was from the start. And, five years on, Iraq is in shambles.
When those responsible for the American war in Iraq face a public reckoning for their colossal crimes, the weekend of September 15-16, 2007 will be an important piece of evidence against them.
If the current debate over the United States' failure in Iraq is to yield constructive results, it will have to go beyond bumper-sticker conclusions ...
Operation Iraqi Freedom, it turns out, was never a war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq. It was an invasion of the federal budget, and no occupying force in history has ever been this efficient.
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Of all the reasons President George W. Bush has given in order to rationalize or justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq before, during and after the military campaign, one phrase seems to be truer than any other:
About 3% of US deaths in Iraq have resulted from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and suicide can create casualties of war months after troops have left the field of battle.
Al-Qaida could have only dreamed that, shortly after they used airplanes as missiles to take down the towers of the World Trade Center, prominent American politicians, journalists and bloggers would be arguing that American surrender was the best path to victory.
It doesn't matter how skeptical of the war a journalist might be, according to an Army public affairs officer who spoke with me about it on condition of anonymity.
BALAD AIR BASE - More than 40 "battlefield docs" - surgeons and physician assistants from around Iraq - converged at Air Force Theater Hospital May 21 here to hone their already razor-sharp surgical skills at the Tri-Service Extremity War Surgery Symposium.
It's been 40 years since anti-war and anti-military protestors trampled upon the hearts and spirits of America's troops who served in Vietnam.
When President Bush recently answered a reporter's question about Iranian shipments to Iraq of lethal explosive devices, he was very careful to avoid assigning direct responsibility to the highest levels of the clerical regime. He needn't have been.
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If George W. Bush had not won the presidential election of 2000, the world would have looked different. Most people would agree to that. To guess exactly how different it would look is an exercise in counter-factual history.
Few outside the administration would contest that the mission's "measurables" are miserable. The progress in Iraq reconstruction has been glacial and the security situation has steadily deteriorated, despite a great expenditure of time, money, and lives.
This article is partly a response to a challenge from The OttO Show to present a clear condemnation of an enemy to the USA in the "war against terror".
Wilmington, NC - The UNCW College Republicans and Young America's Foundation Present an evening with Lt. Col. Scott Rutter, on Thursday, November 9, 2006, from 6:00pm - 8:00pm in Cameron Hall Room 105 on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
AN expert who took part in the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq said today that he quit because he felt the programme was being used to justifying the United States' decision to go to war.
As any hopes of success wane in the fourth year of the Iraqi war, a theatrical gesture may be the only way to revive them.
Gallup trends from the mid-1960s through the early '70s show that the difference of opinion between Republicans and Democrats about Vietnam never exceeded 18 percentage points.
Reading Hemingway taught me one thing: Nobody writes better than people who have seen war. I've grown a real taste for IRL blogs that portray things the way they look from a humanized perspective. Just take something like this:
A dispute between officers and privates: Army Captain Brad Schwanz has sued to get out of the Army Reserve. Another soldier criticize the double standard:
Code of Honor
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