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• Afraid to kill: Fighting terror with wishful thinking

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 173
  Its not true that the only good terrorist is a dead terrorist. Even dead terrorists arent good. But at least theyre dead. And that helps. But political correctness has possessed Washington. Its so bad that even Defense Secretary Robert Gates, whos done a great job in many other respects, parrots the cliché that "we ...
  15 hours ago

• Obama Set To Address the Nation on Afghanistan Dec. 1

  
  Today With President Barack Obama — Authority: 153
  President Obama is expected to address the nation early next week, saying he will send a sizable force of additional troops to Afghanistan, sources tell NPR. The tentative plan is for the president to make his announcement Dec. 1, followed shortly thereafter by testimony on Capitol Hill by Defense Secretary Robert ...
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• Defense Dept. releases objectives of Fort Hood review

  
  CNN Political Ticker — Authority: 843
  Washington (CNN) - A Defense Department review in the wake of the shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, is aimed at determining whether weaknesses in programs or procedures put service members and their families at risk, the military said. The Pentagon Monday released the objectives of the 45-day review, announced last ...
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• White House to Hold Last-Minute Af-Pak Meeting Tonight

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 157
  Chances are President Obama will announce a readjusted Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy shortly after the Thanksgiving holiday. It’s very likely that strategy announcement will come paired with an announcement of a troop escalation. Before that happens, however, Obama will host one last all-hands-on-deck meeting with ...
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• Obama Holds an Evening Meetup on Afghanistan

  
  Today With President Barack Obama — Authority: 153
  In addition to a just-added meeting with all the Afghanistan bigwigs tonight at 8 pm eastern, Obama is meeting with his cabinet and his national security team. Hes also having lunch with Joe Biden and having a one-on-one meeting with Hillary Clinton. This could be a signal that Obama will soon announce a strategy in ...
  1 day ago

• Obama Meeting With National Security Team On Afganistan And Pakistan Tonight

  
  TPM LiveWire — Authority: 805
  The President will meet with his National Security team in the Situation Room tonight, to discuss the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan. According to a release from the White House Press Office, expected attendees include: Vice President Biden Secretary of State Clinton Secretary of Defense Gates Ambassador ...
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• Are Pentagon “Senior Mentors” Pushing the Envelope?

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 735
  An article in last Wednesday’s USA TODAY caught my attention because of its “military nature.” Actually, it didn’t just catch my attention. With its front page column titled “ Military’s ‘senior mentors’ cashing in ,” and another two-page spread on the inside, it jumped at me, grabbed and kept my ...
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• Afghanistan: U.S. Military Contractors Outnumber U.S. Troops

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 528
  Despite Surge in U.S. Deployments, More Civilians Are Posted in War Zoneby August Cole | Wall Street JournalEven as U.S. troops surge to new highs in Afghanistan they are outnumbered by military contractors working alongside them, according to a Defense Department census due to be distributed to Congress — ...
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• Racist Obama billboard in Denver?

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 133
  No. In bad taste, maybe. Wolf Interstate Leasing in Wheat Ridge, Colorado has put up a billboard insinuating that President Obama is somehow tied to Jihadists and the Fort Hood shootings. The billboard features cartoons that show a caricatured President morphing from a suit-wearing politician into a turban-wearing ...
  2 days ago

• Burkha Barbies

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 133
  This should unite the Islamic Extremists and the western feminists but the feminists wont say a work about this.. One of the worlds most famous childrens toys, Barbie, has been given a makeover  - wearing a burkha. Wearing the traditional Islamic dress, the iconic doll is going undercover for a charity auction in ...
  2 days ago

• Indian PM Manmohan Singh lands in US

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  Washington DC, Nov 22 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The Indian PM Manmohan Singh is on a state visit to the US, at the invitation of the American President Barack Obama. It is a four-day official visit.Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his team landed at the Andrews Air Force Base in nearby Maryland on Sunday afternoon, which [...]
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• Reid ramrods Obamacare to next step with bribes

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 133
  Conservatives need to descend on DC on the 30th to stop this asinine socialized HC bill. A bruising debate on health care awaits the Senate after Thanksgiving now that the historic legislation has cleared a key hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama. ...
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• SECDEF Comments

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 516
  Secretary of Defense Robert Gates delivers remarks at Halifax International Security Forum in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
  3 days ago

• Nicolas Cage dances with Somali pirates

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 133
  Cage, a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador on Drugs and Crime, seems more concerned about the pirates than the crime victims. Film star Nicolas Cage has visited a Kenyan prison holding suspected Somali pirates awaiting trial to highlight the problem of piracy in the Indian Ocean. Inmates danced for the movie star and shook ...
  3 days ago

• Is Obama dissing jews with WH Hanukkah party?

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 133
  He doesnt want to offend his Muslim “friends”. As the White House prepares for its annual Hanukkah party and candle-lighting, many previous attendees are going to find themselves left in the dark as the number of invitations is set to shrink to half of last years. Though several Jewish leaders expressed ...
  3 days ago

• White House prepares for first state visit by Manmohan Singh

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  Washington, Nov.21 (ANI): The Obama White House is preparing for its first full state visit when US President Barack Obama will host the Indian Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh.Singh’s three-day state visit starting November 23 (Monday) is being seen in New Delhi as Obama’s intention of sustaining a relationship ...
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• NY Gitmo trails may not start for a year

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 133
  but where are the terrorists going to be kept before and during the trail. Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said he thought there was little chance that Mr. Mohammed would be acquitted. But he argued that Mr. Holder’s decision was a mistake for a different reason: in the future, he said, ...
  4 days ago

• S2781: The “Don’t call them retarded” Act

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 133
  More political correctness because someone was offended by the term of mentally retarded. S. 2781 To change references in Federal law to mental retardation to references to an intellectual disability, and change references to a mentally retarded individual to references to an individual with an intellectual ...
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• HR4111: The ‘Don’t 7-11 captured Islamic Terrorists” Act

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 133
  Don’t mirandize enemy combatants caught on foreign soil. Don’t treat them like they robbed the local 7-11. H. R. 4111 To prohibit the prosecution of unprivileged enemy combatants by the Department of Justice. Source: Thomas LOC Don’t allow enemy combatants caught on foreign soil tried on US Soil in the ...
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• Fort Hood Probe: "Troubling Questions"

  
  'Imagine' A World Of Peace,Understanding,Tolerance — Authority: 137
  Daniel Zwerdling, of National Public Radio, once again with his outstanding investigative journalism is getting information, some damning again, that are clearing up the many questions raised especially after the round of first initial reports and seeming changing stories of those being asked the questions in those ...
  4 days ago

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