For fake exit #1, see this and this. As for the second attempt: Guardian The last US combat troops have left Iraq, seven-and-a-half years after the US-led invasion, and two weeks ahead of President Obama’s 31 August deadline for withdrawal from the country. The final troops to leave, 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, rolled… Continue reading Fake Iraq exit #2
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Mercenary ops expanding in Indonesia and Iraq
NYT: “U.S. Lifts Ban on Indonesian Special Forces Unit” JAKARTA, Indonesia — The United States is lifting a ban of more than a decade on military contact with an elite Indonesian special forces unit implicated in past killings of civilians and other abuses, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced Thursday, after meeting here with President… Continue reading Mercenary ops expanding in Indonesia and Iraq
The sanctity of Ground Zero
The Right has been throwing a fit about a mosque to be built at “Ground Zero” in New York. As the NYT notes, Since long before the Islamist terrorist attack of Sept. 11, 2001, a storefront mosque has been sitting on West Broadway in TriBeCa, a dozen blocks from the World Trade Center. No one… Continue reading The sanctity of Ground Zero