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• Pregnancy Equals Prison for US Troops in Iraq

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 438
  For both male and female soldiers in Iraq, pregnancy is a punishable offense.Early last month, Army Maj. Gen. Tony Cucolo (left) issued General Order #1 as a means of informing those assigned to his Multi-National Division North (a.k.a., “Task Force Marne”) that becoming pregnant — or assisting in the effort — ...
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• Military News Update

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 446
  The first of 30,000 new troops have arrived in Afghanistan. Efforts to find missing hikers officially changed to search and recovery. The Commander of U.S. forces in the Republic of Korea says the U.S. military has made a huge difference in the stability and security of northeast Asia.
  5 days ago

• Taliban Return to Northern Afghanistan, previously declared secure

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 593
  Afghanistan’s Kunduz province had been earlier evaluated as secure that is why troops were moved to other hotspots.  Now, with US and Afghan forces concentrated on the southern regions of Afghanistan, the Taliban have returned to the northern Kunduz province. In fact, ‘the Taliban is now threatening a key route ...
  2 weeks ago

• Afghanistan: The Betrayal

  
  Dr Nasir Khan — Authority: 439
  Garry Wills, The New York Review of Books , Dec 3, 2009 US soldiers at the Camp Phoenix base observing a moment of silence during Barack Obama’s inauguration, Kabul, January 20, 2009 (Musadeq Sadeq/AP Images) I did not think he would lose me so soon—sooner than Bill Clinton did. Like many people, I ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bill Clinton Supportive of Obama’s Surge

  
  Brave New Wave - Children of a Lesser Revolution — Authority: 129
  While speaking at a dinner attended by 1,000 Democratic activists in Manchester, New Hampshire, former U.S. President Bill Clinton praised Obama’s careful decision to send more troops to Afghanistan. To Clinton, whose wife Hillary is the current Secretary of State, what was most impressive about Obama’s decision ...
  2 weeks ago

• When 30 Thousand Isn’t Really 30 Thousand: How Obama Is Fudging The Afghan Troop Surge Numbers

  
  The Feldman Blog — Authority: 111
  I guess one man’s thirty thousand is another man’s thirty five thousand, or maybe more? Just the other day, President Obama announced his determination to dispatch another 30 thousand U.S. troops to Afghanistan, bringing our total troop deployment to over 100 thousand. He says he will start to pull them out in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Top 10 Observations About President Barack Obama’s Afghanistan War Strategy Speech

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 438
  Following President Barack Obama’s a war strategy speech Tuesday night, myriad observations surfaced about the way forward for the United States military in Afghanistan.  Below are my Top Ten observations about that speech:1) It took three months for President Obama to come up with this;2) President Obama believes ...
  2 weeks ago

• More Troops To Surge Afghanistan, Drawdown To Begin July 2011

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 446
  The United States will send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan by next summer, but plans are to begin transferring security responsibilities to the Afghan forces and withdrawing U.S. forces in July 2011, a senior administration official said today. The announcement comes as President Barack Obama prepares for his ...
  3 weeks ago

• More Troops Likely for Afghanistan’s East, South

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 446
  With President Barack Obama’s expected announcement tonight to send more U.S. forces to Afghanistan, a defense official said a portion of the additional troops are likely to reinforce the country’s contentious eastern and southern areas, according to AFPS’ John J. Kunzel. A chief responsibility of Army Gen. ...
  3 weeks ago

• US troops increase as local hero says no – Afghanistan’s Malalai Joya

  
  Women News Network - WNN — Authority: 91
  Cairo correspondent Joseph Mayton for Women News Network – WNNHer name doesn’t roll off the tongue easily. But what makes Malalai Joya who she is has nothing to do with her name. It is the fact that the former Afghanistan Member of Parliament is not shy about speaking her mind. It has run her into [...]
  3 weeks ago

• DownRange

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 446
  U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday.
  3 weeks ago

• The First Draft: Poll shows growing U.S. support for Afghan troop increase

  
  Front Row Washington — Authority: 590
  If President Barack Obama opts to increase the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan next week, the decision could be underscored by something a bit unusual for his policies: growing U.S. public support.        Polling data have shown for a while now that most Americans don’t favor many of Obama’s policy ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Pentagon Garrisons the Gulf

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 143
  As Washington Talks Iraq Withdrawal, the Pentagon Builds Up Bases in the Region By Nick Turse , ZNet , Nov 24, 2009 Source: TomDispatch Despite recent large-scale insurgent suicide bombings that have killed scores of civilians and the fact that well over 100,000 U.S. troops are still deployed ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Pentagon Garrisons the Gulf

  
  Dr Nasir Khan — Authority: 439
  As Washington Talks Iraq Withdrawal, the Pentagon Builds Up Bases in the Region By Nick Turse , ZNet , Nov 24, 2009 Source: TomDispatch Despite recent large-scale insurgent suicide bombings that have killed scores of civilians and the fact that well over 100,000 U.S. troops are still deployed in ...
  4 weeks ago

• Obama to Announce Troop Increase in Afghanistan on December 01

  
  Brave New Wave - Children of a Lesser Revolution — Authority: 129
  According to a report by NPR, United States President Barack Hussein Obama is set to announce his decision on troop levels in Afghanistan on December 01 , 2009. Obama Closes In On Afghan Troop Increase [NPR] McClatchy is stating that Obama will send 34,000 more American troops to Afghanistan within the next ...
  4 weeks ago

• 4 MORE GIs KILLED AS OBAMA CONTINUES TO DITHER ON TROOP POLICY

  
  THIRDWAVEDAVE — Authority: 541
  Months ago, Obama settled on an Afghan strategy. But when his top General requested an additional 40k troops, Obama seemed to forget about his previous decision and went completely blank. He has not made a decision on troop increases nor has he settled on what his "new" strategy will be. In fact, Obama has had 10 ...
  4 weeks ago

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