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• Barack Obama to send two more brigades to Afghanistan

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  West Point speech will be one of biggest gambles of Barack Obamas presidency Barack Obama will end months of uncertainty over his Afghanistan policy when he announces tomorrow night that he is to deploy two extra brigades in the country, one from the Marines and one from the army, in a last-ditch attempt to prevent ...
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• The Right Needs to Step Back from the Navy SEALs Trial

  
  The Sundries Shack — Authority: 603
  I’ve been chewing on this story of the three Navy SEALs over the weekend and, for the life of me, I don’t understand the furor (and, believe me, there’s furor). I’ve yet to have anyone explain why I should be outraged beyond “those guys shouldn’t be tried for giving a dirtbag killer a fat lip”.Here’s ...
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• Obama faces a hard sell as costs and deaths mount

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Factors that Barack Obama must weigh up in deciding to send more troops to Afghanistan How much has the war in Afghanistan cost the US so far? John Kerry, the former presidential candidate and chairman of the Senate foreign affairs committee, estimated that the campaign in Afghanistan had cost a "staggering" ...
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• ICC Makes a Play to Try US Soldiers

  
  Blogs For Victory — Authority: 560
  If you haven’t been entirely outraged yet, this will do the trick : Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed “great regret” in August that the U.S. is not a signatory to the International Criminal Court (ICC). This has fueled speculation that the Obama administration may reverse another Bush policy and ...
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• US bid to bypass Karzais Afghan government upsets allies

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Appointment of high representative in Kabul forms part of Barack Obamas latest strategy The US is seeking to extend its control over the day-to-day running of Afghanistan with the appointment of an international "high representative" in Kabul in an attempt to bypass Hamid Karzais much-criticised government. The ...
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• One More Reason to Be Thankful: NCOs

  
  At War — Authority: 133
  While Gen. David H. Petraeus and Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal are household names, the success or failure of the mission is just as contingent on the character and competence of young sergeants and senior NCOs.
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• Obama Hands Afghanistan to Taliban

  
  Maggie's Notebook — Authority: 618
  A Wall Street Journal report says President Obama is against building the ranks of the Afghan police to the levels suggested by General McChrystal. The president has a realistic view of how successful the trainingregimen can be, and that has helped inform his decision," a senioradministration official said Sunday. ...
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• Obama asks Pakistan to snap ties with militant groups: report

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Nov 30 (DPA) The United States has offered Pakistan an expansion of military and economic cooperation but has insisted that Islamabad ends dalliance with militant groups for its policy ends in India and Afghanistan, the Washington Post reported Monday on its website.Citing government officials speaking on ...
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• WHICH ’safe haven,’ Mr. Obama?

  
  Antiwar.com Blog — Authority: 527
  If things run on schedule, Mr. Obama will announce tomorrow that he and his organization will be sending approximately 34,000 more U.S. troops to harass and sometimes kill men, women and children ( as “collateral damage” ) in Afghanistan.  And then he has to sell his unpopular decision. If previous statements are ...
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• The situation in Kandahar

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 591
  President Obama will unveil his blueprint for the war in Afghanistan tomorrow night at the US Military Academy at West Point, New York. Mr Obama’s address will include his response to a request from the top commander in Afghanistan for tens of thousands of reinforcements. You can be certain that President Obama’s ...
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• President Obama’s Afghanistan plan

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 591
  President Barack Obama has said it is his intention to “finish the job” in Afghanistan after eight years of US involvement there. The President will make his long-awaited announcement on US strategy in Afghanistan on Tuesday during a visit to the West Point military academy. He has been considering a request from ...
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• SLOW TIMES

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 612
  “What should we make of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who apparently killed 13 innocent people at Fort Hood?” asks Thomas Friedman . He’s a New York Times columnist, so he takes a while longer than most of us to work things out: Here’s my take: Major Hasan may have been mentally unbalanced — ...
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• Taking Chance

  
  Kenneth G. Davenport — Authority: 466
  I watched an amazing movie tonight called " Taking Chance ". If you have not yet seen it, please rent it. Its the story of Lance Corporal Chance Phelps final trip home, as told from the perspective of Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, the Marine officer who accompanied him from Dover Air Force Base to Chances home in Wyoming. ...
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• CAIR Urges Obama to Investigate Afghan Abuse: Afghan Teenagers Allege Abuse at Bagram

  
  Maggie's Notebook — Authority: 618
  The Council on America Islamic Relations (CAIR) has sent an open letter to Barack Obama urging him to address U.S. abuses against two Afghans in his Tuesday night prime time speech delivered from West Point. Bagram Air Base The Washington Post says that two teenagers alleged the abuse happened at ...
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• Gordon Brown to announce 500 more British troops for Afghanistan

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  • UK deployment to increase to 9,500 • PM airs frustration with Pakistans efforts Gordon Brown will announce tomorrow that he is sending more British troops to Afghanistan, pre-empting a long-awaited statement from Barack Obama expected on Tuesday. According to reports in Washington, Obama will announce that ...
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• Rape within the U.S. Military: 1 in 3 women service members sexually assaulted at least once

  
  The Islamic Workplace — Authority: 127
  By Ann Wright, New York Times OpEd NewsJournalists Pascale Bourgaux and Mercedes Gallego in their trips to Iraq as war correspondents were stunned to hear from military women in Iraq that they should be very careful working in military units due to sexual assault and rape.When they left Iraq they decided to ...
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• "Killing is right and proper" (What happened at Travis AFB, yesterday)

  
  Action Center For Justice — Authority: 104
  “The Killing is Right and Proper”By Cindy Sheehan, Cindy Sheehans Soapbox Blog, Nov. 29, 2009Yesterday, Bay Area CODEPINK and I, started our caravan to Creech AFB in Nevada with a morning peace rally at Travis AFB in Fairfield, CA.After we got there we were informed that we had to move off the base and were shown ...
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• "Bizarre calf mutilations found on Colorado ranch"

  
  This Fucking War — Authority: 141
  Dont blame me, its your Americangovernment at work - Cr: Ufoinfo.comAs an Anomalist and Fortean, this story is not surprising. Colorado and New Mexico, especially the San Luis Valley -- See The mysterious San Luis Valley, Parts I, II -- have been a hot spot of cattle and animal mutilations. As to whom is doing the ...
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• Will Obama allow International Criminal Court to prosecute our troops?

  
  Bear Creek Ledger — Authority: 469
  Maybe Glenn Beck wasn’t wrong in advising his nephew to not re-enlist. Obama isn’t exactly batting 1000 here – Little Rock Recruiting office shooting,mirandizing of detainees in Afghanistan, Fort Hood attack, SEAL team prosecution, dithering over Afghanistan troop increase,Gitmo detainees out of military ...
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• US missed chance to get Bin Laden

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Report says the failure to attack Bin Laden when he was holed up in Tora Bora in late 2001 has had far-reaching consequences Osama bin Laden was unquestionably within reach of US troops in the mountains of Tora Bora when military leaders made the costly decision not to pursue him with massive force, a Senate report ...
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