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• Surging Through the Khyber Pass and into a quagmire - Cmon Obama, Lets have a real buildup in Afghanistan!

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 137
  This article, by Richard Lee, was posted to The Rag Blog, November 11, 2009 To Barack Obama: Let’s have a military buildup! You can show those crazy-ass generals at the Pentagon that you aren’t just a chicken-shit weenie from Harvard. You gotta do it right, however. Stop waffling about a measly 40,000 or 44,000 ...
  19 hours ago

• "You can take that to the bank": BHO in 2007: I will end the war

  
  All This Is That — Authority: 431
  BHO on the campaign trail in 2007 explains how the first thing he will do in office is end the war. Two years later, he ponders just how much to expand the war in Afghanistan, and no doubt, any other Stans that need a tune-up. ---o0o---
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• Surging Through the Khyber Pass and into a quagmire - Army says morale down among troops in Afghanistan

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 137
  This article, by Pauline Jelinek, was poublished by the Sacramento Bee, November 13, 2009 Morale has fallen among soldiers in Afghanistan, where troops are seeing record violence in the 8-year-old war, while those in Iraq show much improved mental health amid much lower violence, the Army said Friday. Soldier ...
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• IVAW News - Stopping by the barracks: GI Michael Kern hands Obama IVAW letter

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 137
  This article, by Victor Agosto, was posted to the Rag Blog, November 11, 2009 President Obama visited Fort Hood today [Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009]. He dropped by Michael Kerns barracks. Michael handed President Obama a letter, saying, "Sir, IVAW has some concerns wed like for you to address." Obama then dropped his hand ...
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• ‘The Surge’ Shows That Numbers Matter

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 813
  While President Barack Obama  prepares to discuss potential military strategies  for the war in Afghanistan today, the nation prepares to honor veterans of our nation’s wars. On the Monday before Veterans Day, the nonprofit, nonpartisan  Institute for the Study of War  took a constructive look at major military ...
  3 days ago

• Surging Through the Khyber Pass and into a quagmire - We Will Not Solve the Problem with Troops Alone

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 137
  This interview, with National Security Adviser General James Jones, was published by Spiegel Online International, November 9, 2009 US National Security Adviser James L. Jones talks to SPIEGEL about his skepticism regarding calls for more US troops to be sent to Afghanistan, the chances of Pakistans nuclear ...
  4 days ago

• A Sweet Papa

  
  The Girl Who — Authority: 495
  Because hell never do it himself Im going to toot Serges horn for him. And no, Serge, thats not a euphemism for a "blowy" . Someone was kind enough to scan his Esquire article online. If youd like to read it click here for the first page and here for the second page.
  1 week ago

• A Chat About The Good Soldiers

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 911
  David Finkel talks about his book, "The Good Soldiers," based on eight months in Iraq with a battalion sent as part of the surge.
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• A Chat About The Good Soldiers

  
  At War — Authority: 133
  David Finkel talks about his book, "The Good Soldiers," based on eight months in Iraq with a battalion sent as part of the surge.
  1 week ago

• Coming Soon: ‘The Surge — The Untold Story’

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 813
  Earlier this year, I met with Washington’s Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a non-partisan, non-profit public policy research organization, with some of the most accomplished academics in the field of military affairs. ISW wanted to produce a military history in the form of a documentary film. The purpose was ...
  1 week ago

• Surging Through the Khyber Pass and into a quagmire - Sen. Kerry Rejects McChrystal Strategy

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 137
  This article, by Greg Grant, was posted to Military.com, October 26, 2009 Sen. John Kerry told a Washington audience today that Afghan commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s call for an expanded counterinsurgency campaign reaches “too far, too fast.” Instead, Kerry called for a more “narrowly focused” ...
  2 weeks ago

• Armchair Generals, Talking Heads and Other Media Parasites - "Americas Priorities," by the Beltway elite

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 137
  This article, by Glenn Greenwald, was published by Salon Magazine, October 24, 2009 Something very unusual happened on The Washington Post Editorial Page today: they deigned to address a response from one of their readers, who "challenged [them] to explain what he sees as a contradiction in [their] editorial ...
  2 weeks ago

• Surging Through the Khyber Pass and into a quagmire - Veteran Army Officer Urges Afghan Troop Drawdown

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 137
  This article, by Gareth Porter, was posted to ipsnews.net, October 15, 2009 WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (IPS) - A veteran Army officer who has served in both the Afghanistan and Iraq wars warns in an analysis now circulating in Washington that the counterinsurgency strategy urged by Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal is likely to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Surge Accomplished

  
  The Vigilant Lens — Authority: 125
  Two years later…this is your Representative Brian “bush” Baird surge of accomplishment.The Representative Brian “bush” Baird surge of accomplishment, accomplished at least 841 dead Iraqi humans this year alone…due to your Baird/Bush surge of suicide bombings.In 2008, suicide bombers killed more than a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Surging Through the Khyber Pass and into a quagmire - Al-Qaedas guerrilla chief lays out strategy

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 137
  This article, by Syed Saleem Shahzad, was published by the Asia Times Online, October 15, 2009 ANGORADA, South Waziristan, at the crossroads with Afghanistan - A high-level meeting on October 9 at the presidential palace between Pakistans civil and military leaders endorsed a military operation against the Pakistani ...
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• Surging Through the Khyber Pass - Echoes from Vietnam: Dying again in Afghanistan

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 137
  This article, by Larry Ray, was published by the Rag Blog, October 4, 2009 Forty three years ago as a young civilian correspondent and documentary filmmaker, I stepped off the plane in Saigon knowing nothing about the history of that country or its people, and little or nothing about why Americans were fighting and ...
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• Surging Through the Khyber Pass - Beware a Times/Pentagon virtual coup

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 137
  This article, by Harvey Wassereman, was published by the Rag Blog, October 24, 2009 Some military coups are still done the old-fashioned way. Tanks surround the capital, generals grab the radio station, the slaughter begins. Here, the Declaration of Independence scorned King George III for elevating his army over ...
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• Shutting Down the Machine - Urge Congress to Oppose Military Escalation in Afghanistan

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 137
  This call to action was posted to noescalation.org, October 19, 2009 No to More Troops, Yes to Exit Strategy President Obama is weighing a decision on General McChrystal’s request to escalate militarily in Afghanistan by sending 40,000 more troops. Some Members of Congress have spoken out, but more have not. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Shutting Down the Machine - NoEscalation.org: Can the Peace Movement Reach President Obama?

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 137
  This article was posted by Robert Naimann, to After Downing Street, October 22, 2009 If there were ever a time when the peace movement should be able to have an impact on U.S. foreign policy, that time should be now. If there were ever a time for extraordinary effort to achieve such an impact, that time is now. The ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cheney: “Drumbeat of Defeatism” from Obama

  
  Axis of Right — Authority: 426
  I Heart Cheney for many reasons.  I love his unabashed defense of the Bush Administration’s Gitmo policy, the free-market, the CIA’s advanced interrogation techniques, and now his defense of what the Bush Administration left for Obama to deal with  in Afghanistan.  Here’s how Fox reported Cheney’s ...
  3 weeks ago

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