APNewsBreak: US reviewing Iraq troop pullout pace
BAGHDAD — Worries over increased violence fueled by Iraq's political instability have forced U.S. commanders to reconsider the pace of a major pullout this summer without overstepping a deadline to cut the military's presence by nearly half by the end of August.More than two months after parliamentary elections, the next ...
GAO report casts new doubt on Afghanistan policy
WASHINGTON -- An independent government report on Wednesday raises new questions about the likelihood of success for President Barack Obama's Afghanistan policy, which nearly doubles the number of U.S. troops there before a planned drawdown begins in July 2011.The report, by the Government Accountability Office, found the Taliban remain a ...
Number of Soldiers Seeking Opiate Abuse Treatment Skyrockets
The number of American soldiers seeking treatment for opiate abuse has skyrocketed over the past five years, at a time when the U.S. military has been surging forces into the heart of the world's leading opium producer. Pentagon statistics obtained by FoxNews.com show that the number of Army soldiers enrolled in ...
William Ayers Stirs up Controversy in Fresno
FRESNO, Calif. -- One of the leaders of a radical political movement of the sixties and seventies drew a crowd of protestors in Fresno Thursday night. William Ayers will speak at Fresno State Friday. He's a controversial figure because he led the Weather Underground, a radical group that set off ...
War protester in Norfolk sentenced to day in jail
For the second time in two years, perennial war protester Steve Baggarly was sentenced to one day in jail for stepping over the legal line in his fight against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.U.S. Magistrate Judge Tommy E. Miller on Tuesday found Baggarly in violation of federal probation and ...
Crimes Are Crimes – No Matter Who Does Them
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US soldier dismissed for threats in Iraq protest
BAGHDAD — The U.S. Army has dismissed a soldier who threatened fellow troops and sent the Pentagon a violent rap song he wrote to protest his Iraq redeployment orders, officials said Saturday.The dismissal for misconduct means Spc. Marc A. Hall will avoid criminal charges but lose all military benefits earned ...
Binghamton Mayor to Install Donated Cost of War Sign
Binghamton, NY — Members of the Broome County Cost of War Project were joined by Mayor Matt Ryan to announce the details of a new campaign to raise awareness and spark discussion about the astronomical cost to taxpayers for wars and U.S. militarism around the world.“Every Mayor in this country ...
Peace Activists Extend an Olive Branch to the Tea Party to Talk about War
On Tax Day, Tea Party members from around the country will descend on the nation’s capitol to “protest big government and support lower taxes, less government and more freedom.” CODEPINK, a women-led peace group advocating an end to war and militarism, will be sending some representatives to begin a dialogue. ...
US Treasury beefing up staff in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Treasury Department is sending more staff to Afghanistan to target the financial networks that provide money for the Taliban, a Treasury official said Wednesday.The boost in personnel there, along with additional staff dedicated to that effort here in Washington, will coincide with the Pentagon's surge in ...
Iraq War Vet: "We Were Told to Just Shoot People, and the Officers Would Take Care of Us"
On Monday, April 5, Wikileaks.org posted video footage from Iraq, taken from a US military Apache helicopter in July 2007 as soldiers aboard it killed 12 people and wounded two children. The dead included two employees of the Reuters news agency: photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen and driver Saeed Chmagh. The US ...
Pentagon wants $33 billion more for war in Afghanistan
The Pentagon wants $33 billion in additional funding to pay for the war in Afghanistan this year and train the Afghan military, but members of Congress want to make sure they’re not writing a blank check.Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared before Senate appropriators ...
Top US general: US has Plan B for slower Iraq exit
WASHINGTON – The top U.S. general in Iraq said Monday he could slow the exit of U.S. combat forces this year if Iraq's politics are chaotic following elections this spring. Gen. Ray Odierno said there are no signs that will be necessary, but he says he has a Plan B ...
Obama's Pentagon Rebrands Iraq War, Rolls Out PR Offensive in Afghanistan
This week, the same week that saw the U.S. military launch a major new assault in Afghanistan -- a much ballyhooed effort that is as much a PR offensive as a military one -- the Pentagon decided to formally rebrand the Iraq War.In a one-page memo dated Feb. 17, 2010 ...
U.S. contractor abducted in Iraq
The Pentagon has acknowledged that an American contractor for the Defense Department is missing in Baghdad, an apparent confirmation of a Shiite militant group's claim last week that it abducted an American in Baghdad in January.The case marks the first reported kidnapping of an American citizen in Iraq in more ...
Reid criticizes GOP over vote delays
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid laid into Republicans this morning, saying the Senate is unable to fill key military and intelligence posts because GOP senators continue to delay votes.“Senate Republicans are simply so opposed to everything — absolutely everything — that they even oppose putting people in some ...
Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Defense Sect. Gates says military to be lenient while studying policy on gays
Don't ask, don't tell. Don't worry.Defense Secretary Robert Gates says military brass will take a lenient stance toward gays while the Pentagon takes a year to study revising its policy against homosexuals in the service.The study, expected to be announced Tuesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee, is a step ...
Sen. McCain comes out against changing 'don't ask, don't tell' policy, calling it disruptive
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. John McCain is bristling at the Pentagon's decision to launch a yearlong study into allowing gays to serve openly in uniform, saying he is "deeply disappointed" and calling the assessment "clearly biased" because it presumes the law should be changed. McCain, the top Republican on the ...
Gates Backs Repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that he supports President Obama's decision to seek the repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy prohibiting gays from serving openly in the military and has appointed a "high-level working group" to figure out how to do it. Gates, in testimony before the Senate ...
USS Vinson to leave Haiti soon, signaling turning point in aid efforts
The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson will soon leave Haiti, the Pentagon said Monday, marking a turning point in the US military’s initial response to the earthquake last month.Also this week, the military head of Haiti relief efforts will decide if the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), which has been ...
Vets: Burn pits are killing us
Combat had changed him. Yet Andrew Rounds was still the adoring son his mother had sent off to war. He was still the hard worker who had helped her deliver newspapers after school. He was still the amiable soul who knew the names of everyone in the tiny village of ...
Bush holdover Gates agrees to another year with Obama
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the lone holdover from the Bush administration, has decided to stay on the job for at least another year, a Pentagon spokesman said.As secretary, Gates leads the Defense Department, which is in charge of providing the military resources needed to protect the United States.In an interview ...
Soldier Jailed for Rap Song Against Stop Loss Military Policy
ARLINGTON, Va. - A soldier put his anger at being sent back to Iraq in a rap song. The military, however, did not think it was fun or creative.After a 14-month tour of duty in Iraq, Army Specialist Marc Hall was supposed to be redeployed but now he's in a ...
The decisions to send us to risk life and limb around the world—today in Afghanistan and Iraq—are not decisions that we have any part of, nor do our families, nor do the vast majority of people in the United States. They are decisions for the millionaire politicians, who have the ...
Obama's nuclear-free vision mired in debate
Reporting from Washington - President Obama's ambitious plan to begin phasing out nuclear weapons has run up against powerful resistance from officials in the Pentagon and other U.S. agencies, posing a threat to one of his most important foreign policy initiatives.Obama laid out his vision of a nuclear-free world in ...
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