USA Invasion Of Iraq: War – March 19, 2003 | Nine Years Later President Obama Ends the Iraq War (VIDEOS)

3CHICSPOLITICO Posted on March 19, 2012by Ametia NINE years ago today, March 19, 2003, President George W. Bush and the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA declared “WAR on Terror” and invaded Iraq. December 18, 2011 President Obama speaks in Fort Bragg about the last troops getting out of Iraq. 3 Chics wanted to HIGHLIGHT this significant [...]

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Iran Nuclear Threat Brings No U.S. Enthusiasm For A Military Strike

Huff Post- Posted: 2/15/12 | Updated: 2/15/12 By- David Wood WASHINGTON –  The threat of punishing U.S. military strikes underlies Washington’s campaign to halt Iran’s nuclear weapons program. But there is no enthusiasm evident within the U.S. military for a war many believe would be messy, bloody, unpredictable and ultimately inconclusive. Seeking to prevent Iran [...]

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Tony Blair to face ‘scathing criticism’ from Chilcot inquiry into Iraq war

Tony Blair will face scathing criticism from Sir John Chilcot’s inquiry over his role in the Iraq war, according to reports. The former prime minister will be held to account for major failings in the war in which 179 British soldiers, 3,500 US soldiers and more than 100,000 Iraqis died, it has been alleged. He [...]

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Christ Rice: Ca$hing in on Hard Times

Click pic to enlarge A coleague  just resently recieved this in the mail from the future CEO of this company. We’re excited about moving forward on this and anticipate putting food on the table on a global basis. and as far as promotion goes, all options will be on the table. When the times get [...]

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Why Even Have “Memorial Day?”

I’m going to start this post out properly. This is a day meant to honor fallen veterans, so let’s do that first. This is a list of United States Armed Forces members killed in Afghanistan in the month of May, 2011. Army Pfc. William S. Blevins Army Pvt. Andrew M. Krippner Army Pvt. Thomas C. [...]

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Politicking In The Mos Eisley Cantina

. Politicking in the Mos Eisley Cantina Monday 25 April 2011 by: Davidson Loehr, Truthout Our economic and political mess became more clear once I realized that most of the important political deals take place in the Mos Eisley Cantina. You know the scene from the first “Star Wars” movie in 1977: a dark, smoky [...]

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Militarized Conservatism and End(s) of Higher Education

Militarized Conservatism and End(s) of Higher Education Tuesday 5 April 2011 by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout The Pathologies of War There can be little doubt that America has become a permanent warfare state.(1) Not only is it waging a war in three countries, but its investment in military power is nearly as much as all [...]

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Wikileaks: Top Brass warns of putting troops & civilians in “harms way”

Wikileaks recieved excellent coverage on CNN last night, including inteviews with Daniel Elsberg, Pentagon Papers, John Sloboda, the Iraq Body Count’s co-founder, and Phil Shiner of the U.K.-based Public Interest Lawyers. John Sloboda, the Iraq Body Count’s co-founder, told reporters that the names of civilian victims are among the details included in the documents. “Almost every [...]

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Biden Visits Iraq To Mark Formal End To U.S. Combat

Biden Visits Iraq To Mark Formal End To U.S. Combat LARA JAKES and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | 08/30/10 11:22 AM | BAGHDAD — Vice President Joe Biden returned to Iraq Monday to mark this week’s formal end to U.S. combat operations and push the country’s leaders to end a six-month postelection stalemate blocking formation of a [...]

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The US isn’t leaving Iraq, it’s rebranding the occupation

Obama says withdrawal is on schedule, but renaming or outsourcing combat troops won’t give Iraqis back their country Seumas Milne, The Guardian/UK, August 5, 2010 For most people in Britain and the US, Iraq is already history. Afghanistan has long since taken the lion’s share of media attention, as the death toll of Nato troops [...]

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