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POPSHow the Surge has left us wounded "If we accept the mainstream narrative on its face, the surge worked. It transformed the U.S. troop presence from being counterproductive to being indispensable for maintaining stability. But can we continue with anything close to the current level of troops deployed over there?"
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POPSUS General: Bush committed war crimes, must be prosecuted Maj. Gen. Taguba led the US Army's official investigation into the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal and testified before Congress on his findings in May 2004. Taguba retired in January 2007, later alleging that Pentagon officials had ordered him to retire for being "overzealous" in his criticisms of the military. He writes here, in the Preface to the report "Broken Laws, Broken Lives."
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POPSI hope your name is Hawkins "Only those named Hawkins would be saved"; nuclear war still on for Thursday. Alas, that troublesome Jesus, always messes up peoples' religions: he said, "You don't get to know the time. Timing is the Father's business." (Acts 1). Sorry, Hawkinses, if the apostles didn't get to know, I 'spect you don't either.
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POPSWhy is military spending highest since WWII? Hi-tech cold-war toys in development. One thing's sure: if we get them, we'll use them on a few thousand poor suckers. Meanwhile Lieberman crusades for deep water submarines that, coincidentally, are made in his home state, but serve no strategic purpose.
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POPSKeep the anti-war pressure on Obama I think it's important, then, that people who want Obama to win, especially the young people, go inside the Obama campaign offices, the Obama campaign headquarters, and say, "Hey, we are going to raise this issue. Don't leave us out in the cold. If you do become the president elect, we are going to keep raising the issue of how jeopardized we are because of this addiction to war."
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POPSGore Vidal: Obama better than JFK Re Clinton: "... this long campaign, this daily search for the grail, has driven her crazy.” Re McCain: You could beat McCain! ... He went to a private school and came bottom of his class. He smashed up his aeroplane and became a prisoner of war, which he is trying to parlay into ‘war hero’.” “a goddamned fool. He was on television talking about mortgages, and it was quite clear he does not know what a mortgage is. His head rattles as he walks”.
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POPSGAO: Faulty defense accounting, 3rd year in a row Little accountability, transparency; cites large contractor billings in "miscellaneous" category; we really don't know how our money is being spent, or if contractors are taking us to the cleaners in the GWOT (global war on terror)
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POPSDOD's Defense University: Iraq a "major debacle" "the war in Iraq is a classic case of failure" - from former senior Pentagon official who served under Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, writing report for the Department of Defense's elite school of national defense. Puts McCain and Lieberman at odds with professional military eval of the war.
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POPSUSA paralyzed by Iraq Like Johnson's "Great Society", which fell over Vietnam, a host of domestic issues go un-addressed, as $3 trillion goes to Iraq
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