January 14, 2012
Piss on War by Abby Zimet Defense Secretary Leon Panetta calls the video of U.S. Marines urinating on dead Afghans “utterly deplorable”; a Marine commander calls it “wholly inconsistent with the high standards of conduct and warrior ethos that we have demonstrated throughout our history.” But Gawker‘s Hamilton Nolan calls it a crock. In a furious screed, he blasts [...]
Tags: Gawker Media, Hamilton Nolan, Leon Panetta, United States, United States Marine, United States Secretary of Defense, Urination, War
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January 8, 2012
Many of the key points in President Obama’s new blueprint for the next decade of U.S. defense strategy are straightforward. More spy gear; more special forces; fewer land wars; Asia, Asia, Asia. Whatever you think of the merits of those points, at least they’re internally consistent. Others… not so much. Sometimes the analysis in [...]
Tags: Army, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Cold War, Leon Panetta, Martin Dempsey, Obama, Pentagon, United States Secretary of Defense
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January 6, 2012
How Washington Lies About Cutting Defense Budgets John Glaser, January 04, 2012 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum At Reason‘s Hit & Run, Jacob Sullum highlights the utterly disingenuous politicking on the part of nearly everyone in Washington with regard to cutting defense budgets. The Obama administration and most of both parties in Congress have been [...]
Tags: Jacob Sullum, Leon Panetta, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Obama, Pentagon, Ron Paul, United States, United States Secretary of Defense
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December 29, 2011
Report: Israel, US Discuss Excuses for Attacking Iran Israeli Hawks ‘Furious’ at Panetta for Comments on War by Jason Ditz, December 28, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum A report today is claiming that the Obama Administration is in secret talks with the Israeli government to figure out [...]
Tags: Iran, Israel, Leon Panetta, Michael Oren, Nuclear program of Iran, Pakistan, Syria, United States Secretary of Defense
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December 21, 2011
Topics: iran ♦ leon panetta ♦ panetta The Pentagon on Tuesday sought to play down remarks by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta who has suggested Iran’s nuclear program could be on a faster track than previously suspected. In an interview with CBS News, Panetta said Iran could have anuclear weapon in a year or possibly sooner and that the timeline might be different if Tehran [...]
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Institute for Science and International Security, Iran, Israel, Leon Panetta, Pentagon, United States, United States Secretary of Defense
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December 19, 2011
Iraq War Officially Ends, Leaving Thousands Dead, Millions Displaced, Strong Contractor Presence It is always fascinating to watch the US leave the scene of failed interventions, wars and the like. There is none of the fanfare of ceremonial signings of documents aboard aircraft carriers or the subsequent war crimes tribunals that always [...]
Tags: Baghdad, George Little, Iraq, Iraq War, Leon Panetta, middle east, United States, United States Secretary of Defense
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December 14, 2011
Iran‘s pursuit of nuclear arms has less to do with Israel and more to do with the threat posed by the US [GALLO/GETTY] US Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta made some perhaps unintentionally interesting remarks regarding US policy toward Iran earlier this month, and it is fair to suppose that the venue in which he [...]
Tags: Brookings Institution, Iran, Israel, Leon Panetta, middle east, Obama administration, Robert Grenier, United States, United States Secretary of Defense
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December 4, 2011
President Mahmoud Abbas speaks after receiving an award during his visit to the national palace in the Dominican Republic.(MaanImages/file) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — President Abbas’ office said Saturday that he will not meet with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu unless Israel completely halts settlement activity.An Israeli official, who wished to remain anonymous, had told Ma’an earlier [...]
Tags: Abbas, Benjamin Netanyahu, East Jerusalem, Israel, Mahmoud Abbas, Mark Regev, Saeb Erekat, United States Secretary of Defense, West Bank
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December 3, 2011
Israeli soldier pictured firing at protesters in Qalandiya (MaanImages/file) JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israel on Saturday blamed the Palestinians for stalled peace talks, in a rebuttal to US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta who said Israel must take concrete steps to revive the process. “To our regret the Palestinians are the ones who decided to boycott the [...]
Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, Brookings Institution, Israel, Leon Panetta, Mark Regev, middle east, Palestinian people, United States Secretary of Defense
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November 10, 2011
The Virginia landfill where Air Force corpses were dumped Slain Troops Dumped in Landfill, Air Force Admits Insists Landfill Burials Were Limited to When Family Told Military to Dispose of Them by Jason Ditz, November 09, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum One day after the Office of Special Counsel’s report on the “gross [...]
Tags: Air Force, Dover Air Force Base, Jones, Leon Panetta, United States, United States Office of Special Counsel, United States Secretary of Defense, Virginia
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October 25, 2011
Image via Wikipedia Panetta: US Will Keep Large Numbers of Troops Around Iraq Says Iraq Can Deal with ‘Iran-Backed’ Militias Itself by Jason Ditz, October 23, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In comments that were half pep-talk about the chances of Iraqi forces and half attempt to combat criticism among US politicians of the [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Iran, Iraq, Leon Panetta, Panetta, Shia Islam, United State, United States Secretary of Defense
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October 17, 2011
Dispatch From Activist Arrested for “Assaulting” Leon Panetta During Supposedly Public Hearing LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest Civil Liberties headlines via email. A CODEPINK activist shares the story of how she and seven others were arrested last week while trying to bring [...]
Tags: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Code Pink, Congress, Iraq, Leon Panetta, United State, United States House Committee on Armed Services, United States Secretary of Defense
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September 18, 2011
Troops in Iraq: Who do we think we are fooling? Posted By Stephen M. Walt Friday, September 9, 2011 – 9:45 AM Share According to the New York Times, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta is backing a plan to keep some 3,000-4,000 U.S. troops in Iraq past the end-of-year deadline, albeit only in a training [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, Iraq, Leon Panetta, New York Times, Sadrist Movement, United States, United States Armed Forces, United States Secretary of Defense
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August 29, 2011
The Left’s Antiwar Movement in Monterey: Down but Not Out by David R. Henderson, July 25, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum There’s no doubt that antiwar activism among the left has declined substantially since Barack Obama became president. That has led many people to claim that the apparent antiwar views of many [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Monning, Central Intelligence Agency, Leon Panetta, Monterey County, Monterey County California, Monterey County Herald, Monterey Peninsula, United State, United States Secretary of Defense
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August 10, 2011
Defense Budget Hysteria By WINSLOW T. WHEELER The rhetoric of people rushing to rescue Pentagon spending from “completely unacceptable” cuts is quite hysterical. Leading the chorus has been Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. He termed the possible defense budget cuts (about $850 billion over 10 years according to most) a “doomsday mechanism,” if the automatic [...]
Tags: Congressional Budget Office, Leon Panetta, Military budget, New York Times, Pentagon, Soviet Union, United States, United States Department of Defense, United States Secretary of Defense, World War II
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August 9, 2011
Obama Vows to Continue Afghan War Panetta also backs continuing war, seeking to ‘honor troops’ by Jason Ditz, August 08, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In separate comments related to the deaths of 30 US troops in a helicopter downing over the weekend, President Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta both [...]
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July 29, 2011
US voices commitment to Israel in defense talks Published today (updated) 29/07/2011 22:00 WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States on Thursday reiterated its support for a strong military in Israel as Defense Minister Ehud Barak held talks with top leaders in Washington. Barak met separately with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and newly installed [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, Gaza Strip, Israel, Leon Panetta, United States, United States Secretary of Defense
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July 25, 2011
You hack, we shoot: Pentagon discusses armed counterstrikes to cyberattacks Lawmakers and some Pentagon officials argue that the US should shift cyberdefense from ‘How to build the next best firewall’ to an offensive message: Those who attack US computers risk ‘land-based attack’. Sen. John McCain (R) of Arizona, ranking Republican on the the Senate Armed [...]
Tags: Carl Levin, James Cartwright, John McCain, Pentagon, United States, United States Department of Defense, United States Secretary of Defense, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Posted in Hacking response is to shoot, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US public opinion, US war crimes, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War Crimes, War criminals all types, War is a crime | No Comments »
July 19, 2011
Pentagon Revisionism: Panetta Speeches and ‘Transcripts’ Two Different Things ‘Plain Speaking’ Panetta’s Gaffes Carefully Edited Out of the Record by Jason Ditz, July 18, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Some in the media have marveled at Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s “plain-spoken” comments, which appears primarily to be a euphemism for [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Camp Victory, Iraq, Leon Panetta, Pentagon, Syria, United States Secretary of Defense
Posted in US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US public opinion, US torture; art and science, US war crimes, USA, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War and economics, War Crimes, War criminals all types, War is a crime, War means war, War on drugs | No Comments »
July 18, 2011
Iraqi VP: No Extension of US Troop Agreement US Envoy Assured Willingness to Continue ‘Training Services’ by Jason Ditz, July 17, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi (Iraqiya Party) has issued a statement today in the wake of meeting with US Ambassador James Jeffery, declaring his opposition [...]
Tags: Iraq, Maliki, Nouri al-Maliki, Robert Gates, Status of Forces Agreement, Tariq al-Hashimi, United State, United States Secretary of Defense
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July 12, 2011
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta sits with Commanding General of US Forces in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Lloyd Austin as they fly in a Blackhawk helicopter over Baghdad, on Monday, July 11. Paul J. Richards/AP Enlarge By Anna Mulrine, Staff writer / July 11, 2011 WashingtonAfter being sworn in as the nation’s new secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta’s first [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Central Intelligence Agency, David Petraeus, Iran, Iraq, Leon Panetta, Lloyd Austin, Private militias in Iraq, United States, United States Armed Forces, United States Secretary of Defense
Posted in Afghan Youth, Afghanistan, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Iran, Iraq, Leon Panetta, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, oil and gas resources, President of the World, Propaganda, Protests, Psycopaths, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US public opinion, US war crimes, USA | No Comments »
July 11, 2011
Panetta Slips Up on Troop Withdrawal from Afghanistan By Adam Entous KABUL, Afghanistan — Leon Panetta, on his first day here as U.S. defense secretary, made what appeared to be his first big policy announcement: The U.S. would keep 70,000 troops in the country until the end of 2014, when the Afghans are scheduled to assume [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, David Petraeus, Douglas Wilson, Hamid Karzai, Kabul, Leon Panetta, United States Secretary of Defense
Posted in Afghanistan, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Capitalism and debt, Capitalism for Zombies, Imperial Project, Imperialism, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US public opinion, US torture; art and science, US war crimes, USA, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War and economics, War child victims, War Chomsky views, War creates misery and despair, War Crimes, War criminals all types, War is a crime, War means war, War no reason needed, War on drugs, War on terror, Water, Waterboarding | No Comments »
July 3, 2011
US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates warned that if Europe’s attitude to NATO did not change, the alliance would degenerate into “collective military irrelevance” [GALLO/GETTY] The old vocation of what Rudyard Kipling called the “White Man’s Burden” – the driving idea behind the West’s quest for global hegemony from the days of imperial expansion in [...]
Tags: Admiral Mike Mullen, European Union, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Michael Mullen, NATO, Robert Gates, United State, United States Secretary of Defense
Posted in Collective Military Irrelevance, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US public opinion, US torture; art and science, US war crimes, USA, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War and economics, War creates misery and despair, War Crimes, War is a crime, War means war, War no reason needed, War on drugs, War on terror, Waterboarding | No Comments »
June 22, 2011
La Nation Building du Jour by Philip Giraldi, June 16, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Critics of Washington politics have often noted that there is a huge disconnect between the thinking on Capitol Hill and what is clear to most Americans who live in the rest of the country. [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Philip Giraldi, Republican, Robert Gates, United State, United States Secretary of Defense
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June 19, 2011
Despite Gillard‘s crawling to Obama it seems she may be the last to know what the real US attitude is to Afghanistan, particularly with an election looming in the US. Unfortunately for lapdogs and the servile once you start on your hands and knees you really never get to stand on your own two feet. [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Ayman Al Zawahiri, Barack Obama, Hamid Karzai, Osama BinLaden, President of Afghanistan, Robert Gates, Taliban, United State, United States Secretary of Defense, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
Posted in Australia, Australia and crimes against the indigenous, Australia and support it gives to Afghan war crimes, Australia and the imperial project, Australia Coal Country and Uranium and metals, Australia Politics, Australian complicity in international war crimes, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian economy, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Australian presence is the the Rudd dream, Australian support for Zionism, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US torture; art and science, US war crimes, USA, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War and economics, War creates misery and despair, War Crimes, War is a crime, War means war, War no reason needed, War on drugs, War on terror, Waterboarding | No Comments »
June 18, 2011
Promoting Militarism While Hiding Bloodshed EMAIL PRINT SHARE SHARE 3 Posted on Jun 17, 2011 By David Sirota In a breathless story somehow presented as a groundbreaking revelation, The New York Times recently reported that the Pentagon is—shocker!—using all sorts of media channels to market itself to the nation’s children. Though the Times presents this as a brand-new [...]
Tags: David Sirota, New York Times, Pentagon, Robert Gates, Television advertisement, United States, United States Armed Forces, United States Secretary of Defense
Posted in Middle East, Militants, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, Mission Creep, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US torture; art and science, US war crimes, USA, War, War and economics, War creates misery and despair, War Crimes, War is a crime, War means war, War no reason needed, War on drugs, War on terror, Waterboarding | No Comments »
June 18, 2011
This article makes the very necessary link between the imperial project and war. Bearing in mind that you can make out another very necessary connection between the capital project and the need for any imperial project, it is suggested that the creation of systems that can only exist in an atmosphere of rampant growth is the basis [...]
Tags: Cato Institute, Judd Apatow, Pentagon, Robert Gates, Saddam Hussein, Tim Pawlenty, United State, United States Department of Defense, United States Secretary of Defense
Posted in US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, USA, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War and economics, War creates misery and despair, War Crimes, War is a crime, War means war, War no reason needed, War on drugs, War on terror, Waterboarding | No Comments »
June 18, 2011
Pulling Obama at Both Ends on Afghanistan Pullout John Glaser, June 17, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Obama will make a public decision on an initial draw-down of troops in Afghanistan in the next few weeks. On one end, we have Defense Secretary Gates, General Petraeus, and – officially now – the [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, David Petraeus, Iraq War troop surge of 2007, The Wall Street Journal, United States, United States Armed Forces, United States Secretary of Defense
Posted in Afghan Youth, Afghanistan, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Foreign Policy, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Islam and the US, Leon Panetta, Middle East, Militants, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, Mission Creep, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, oil and gas resources, Oil in the USA, Peak oil, Predator Drone, President of the World, Propaganda, Protest, Protests, Psycopaths, Special Ops, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US torture; art and science, US war crimes, USA, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War and economics, War creates misery and despair, War Crimes, War is a crime, War means war, War on drugs, War on terror, Waterboarding | No Comments »
June 10, 2011
Panetta: Iraq Will ‘Request’ US Troops Stay Past 2011 Claims 1,000 al-Qaeda Remain in Iraq by Jason Ditz, June 09, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Speaking today at the US Senate, incoming Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta insisted that Iraq was already preparing to request the continuation of the US occupationbeyond the [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Iraq, Leon Panetta, NATO, Robert Gates, Status of Forces Agreement, United State, United States Secretary of Defense
Posted in Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Iraq, Middle East, Militants, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, Mission Creep, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, oil and gas resources, Oil in the USA, Propaganda, Psycopaths, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, War, War and economics, War Crimes, War is a crime, War on drugs, War on terror | No Comments »
June 7, 2011
If Killing Were As Evil As Flirting Submitted by davidswanson on Tue, 2011-06-07 04:14 Afghanistan I, Robert Gates, resign my position as Secretary of Defense of the United States of America with deep regret for actions that do not reflect my true values. For decades I have experienced a steady lapse of judgment for which [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, David Petraeus, Military budget, Osama bin Laden, Robert Gates, Soviet Union, United States, United States Secretary of Defense
Posted in Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, immigration, Imperial Project, Middle East, Militants, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, Mission Creep, torture, Torture as an aid to memory loss, Torture rules ok, Torturers are true Americans, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US torture; art and science, US war crimes, USA, War, War and economics, War Crimes, War is a crime, War on drugs, War on terror, Waterboarding | No Comments »
May 14, 2011
Afghanistan: war without end? Obama promised no open-ended occupation – and to draw down forces from July. A 2.5% cut is hardly an encouraging start Share68 Comments (94) David Swanson guardian.co.uk, Thursday 12 May 2011 19.31 BST Article history General David Petraeus, commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan, greets US defence secretary [...]
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Posted in Afghan Youth, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Arab Spring, Assassination, Atomics Corporation, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian economy, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Bin Laden, Bradley Manning, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Consent, debate and discussion, Democracy, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Education, Elites, Fascism, Foreign Policy, Gillard, Gitmo, Gitmo disclosures, Guantanamo Bay a human disaster, Guantanamo crimes, Guardian, Hillary, Human Rights, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Leon Panetta, Middle East, Militants, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, Mission Creep, NATO, oil, oil and gas resources, Pentagon, people's protests, Predator Drone, Propaganda, Protest, Protests, Racism, Swanson, UK, UK Foreign Policy, UN, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, USA, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War Crimes, War is a crime, Wikileaks, Women in the Middle East, Women's issues, Womens' views and action | No Comments »
April 22, 2011
Obama Approves Drone Strikes in Libya NATO Pushed for US Drones to Attack Misrata Targets by Jason Ditz, April 21, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Speaking at a Pentagon briefing early Thursday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced that President Obama has authorized the use of drone strikes in [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, James Cartwright, Libya, middle east, NATO, Pentagon, Robert Gates, United States Secretary of Defense
Posted in Libya, Military, Military madmen, Obama, Propaganda, UK, UK Foreign Policy, UN, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, USA, War, War Crimes, War is a crime | No Comments »
April 17, 2011
THE ROVING EYE The sweet smell of counter-revolution By Pepe Escobar To follow Pepe’s articles on the Great Arab Revolt, please clickhere. United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is in Riyadh to talk to Saudi King Abdullah. The Associated Press told the world’s media they should discuss the “Arab upheaval”. Then there are all [...]
Tags: Ali Abdullah Saleh, Amr Moussa, Arab Revolt, House of Saud, NATO, Saudi Arabia, United States, United States Secretary of Defense
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April 14, 2011
Top US Official: Keeping US Troops ‘Best for Iraq’ Insists Iraqi Military Not Able to ‘Ward Off Threats’ by Jason Ditz, April 13, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum A top, albeit anonymous, US military official insisted that it was vital for the Obama Administration to keep some troops in Iraq past the [...]
Tags: Iran, Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr, Politics of Iraq, Robert Gates, Shia Islam, Status of Forces Agreement, United States Secretary of Defense
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April 11, 2011
Yet another Jason Ditz piece from antiwar.com, showing the hypocrisy of the statements about getting out of Iraq, they will try to make sure they never leave and will do the same in Afghanistan. All in the name of security of course. Remember this organisation is very devoted to the anti war cause and deserve all the [...]
Tags: Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr, Politics of Iraq, Robert Gates, Status of Forces Agreement, United States Armed Forces, United States Army, United States Secretary of Defense
Posted in Iraq, Uncategorized, US Foreign Policy, USA, War, War Crimes, War is a crime | No Comments »
