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USAF A-10 Warthog over Afghanistan
Via Think Progress:
According to statistics provided in a new report from the United States Institute of Peace, the use of air power in Afghanistan by U.S. and NATO allies increased from 5,000 pounds of munitions per month in 2005 to 168,000 pounds in December 2007. The result is that “civilian casualties [...]

I don’t know how many times we have to tell you people. The idea of fighting terrorism with law enforcement agencies belongs to an outmoded, naive September 10 mentality. People who think that Al Qaeda’s attacks on the USA could have been stopped by the FBI (if the top brass listened to their [...]

Queers behind bushes, queers in dark alleys, queers in positions of power. Queers free on the streets, queers in pulpits, queers bearing arms. And worst of all, queers at the altar! Is no place free of this menace, no institution sacred? Our world teeters on the brink. Can no one save us?
Cue background music, William [...]

Meet Mustafa Ahmed Muhammad Uthman Abu al-Yazid, aka Sheikh Saeed. The 53-year-old Egyptian is al-Qaeda’s operational commander for Afghanistan, and may be the third highest ranking al-Qaeda leader, after Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Al-Yazid just gave an interview to the Pakistani TV station Geo, in the Afghan province of Khost. It [...]

The more than 200 insurgents who made a predawn attack on an outpost near the Pakistan border outnumbered defenders three to one, according to the New York Times. Sunday’s assault occurred just three days after 45 US soldiers, likely from the 173rd Airborne Brigade, and 25 Afghan troops established a new combat outpost in [...]

From the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen:
“In the last six or seven months, we have a put a tremendous amount of focus on Afghanistan, and I think rightfully so,” he said. “It is an economy-of-force campaign, and by definition, that means we don’t have enough forces [...]

By Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — The Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison accused the Bush administration Wednesday of committing “war crimes” and called for those responsible to be held to account.

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If I made up an example like this to illustrate how the Bush Lovers use equivocation to apologize (escape blame) for supporting Bush…no one would believe me. Enter our newbie, Bob S.
We need to get a common dictionary, because I dont agree that I was an apologist for the Bush administration.
In all [...]

The official story is that this year’s Taliban spring offensive was blunted because Coalition forces seized the initiative. The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit was sent in to Kandahar Province to chase bad guys, and the enemy disappeared without a fight (as insurgents often do), retreating back to Pakistan.
That’s the official story.
John McCreary, a former [...]

Sorry, this has nothing to do with President Bush’s upcoming visit to Utah, later this month. Instead, it’s a remarkable glimpse of a mind that is fixated on what I would call the opposite of reality. Back in April 2003, Josh Marshall warned that the neocon strategy for the entire Middle East could [...]

The Government Accountability Office released a report (PDF) today concluding that the United States has no plan to combat al Qaeda and other terrorist threats in Pakistan. The GAO found that “[t]errorists are still operating freely in Pakistan along the country’s Afghanistan border, despite the U.S. giving Pakistan more than $10.5 billion in military and [...]

President Bush and the rest of the right wing never get tired of telling us that America is hated by religious fanatics who can’t stand the ideas of freedom and democracy. Considering how many right-wingers are religious fanatics themselves, they may be projecting their own intolerance on others.
Although there are a minority who truly [...]