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With Friends Like the US, Pakistan Doesn't Need Enemies - Washington's Clumsy Approach Sparks Civil War
US Politics & Gov't (tags: Pakistan, Afghanistan, war profiteering, terrorism, military, abuse, crime, usa, ethics )

David
- 21 days ago - informationclearinghouse.info

Pakistan is paying an increasingly heavy price. Like a spate of previous Taliban attacks in recent days, today's mayhem in Lahore underscored fears that the principal consequence of Washington's Afghan paralysis is the further destabilisation of Pakistan.

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Are We the Martians of the Twenty First Century, and Is the War in Afghanistan Fun?
US Politics & Gov't (tags: war, iraq, afghanistan, pakistan, iran, north korea, crime, abuse, lies, money, money money, greed, military, death, media, dishonesty, flying saucers, pigs will fly, propaganda, politics, troops, ethics )

David
- 22 days ago - motherjones.com

After almost eight years of war, only now does the danger that we might "look increasingly like occupiers" rise to the surface. Since "occupier" is a role Americans just can't compehend. Let's agree that we are aliens, intent on destroying the planet?

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Thanks! But What's With the Nobel Peace Prize for a War President?
US Politics & Gov't (tags: WAR, PEACE, terrorism, government, crime, iraq, afghanistan, pakistan, humanrights, freedoms, nobel prize, ethics what are they? )

David
- 29 days ago - worldcantwait.net

I guess to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee it means presiding over the further destruction of the population of three countries that didn't harm anyone. I guess it means voting for every war-funding bill while one is a Senator and continuing torture?

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Vietnam: A Retrospective - Washington and Lee University - a Lesson Never Learned? - Iraq, Afghanistan, Is Pakistan Next?
US Politics & Gov't (tags: war, vietnam, afghanistan, pakistan, iraq, iran, gaza, russia, Govtfearmongering, government, corruption, dishonesty, lies, military, media, propaganda, terrorism, usa, crime, politics, ethics )

David
- 47 days ago - wlu.edu

Why are such Monday morning reflections important? The answers are obvious. Vietnam is still embedded in America's national psyche. As a people, we have never successfully put the encounter behind us. Is the slaughter in Afganistan and Iraq justified?

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CODEPINK : Women Say No To War
US Politics & Gov't (tags: war, politics, military, iraq, pakistan, afghanistan, petition, government, freedoms )

Jelica
- 58 days ago - salsa.democracyinaction.org

End the wrongful and unnecessary occupations of Afghanistan, Pakistan & Iraq! Join Tom Hayden and peace activists around the world in demanding President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid stop the needless killin

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Stop Bombing Us!: Osama Isn't Here, Says Pakistan - Bugger Off and Have Your Silly War Somewhere Else - We Really Don't Need You
US Politics & Gov't (tags: pakistan, afghanistan, every war, you've, pointlessly ignited, for no good reason, other than greed, we've had enough!...Yankee go home! )

David
- 117 days ago - timesonline.co.uk

Osama bin Laden and the top Al-Qaeda leadership are not in Pakistan, making US missile attacks against them futile, according to the country's interior minister....If Osama was in Pakistan we would know! Why kill us all, we really don't like that! :-)

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Photos Show Pakistan 'Expanding Nuclear Sites'
US Politics & Gov't (tags: government, usa, pakistan, Nuclear weapons, war, dishonesty, cover-up )

Dee
- 172 days ago - news.yahoo.com

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Satellite photos released show Pakistan has expanded two sites crucial to its nuclear program as part of an effort to bolster the destructive power of its atomic arsenal, a US arms control institute said.

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Stopping Pakistan Drone Strikes Suddenly Plausible
US Politics & Gov't (tags: Pakistan, Drone_Strikes, Aggression, Government, Lies )

Just
- 184 days ago - truthout.org

Doyle McManus notes that counterinsurgency guru David Kilcullen has told Congress that US drone strikes in Pakistan are backfiring and should be stopped. Until now, Congress has been reluctant to challenge the drone strikes, as they are reluctant . . .

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A War Fighter's Budget
US Politics & Gov't (tags: abuse, afghanistan, americans, budget, congress, constitution, dishonesty, economy, Gates, Govtfearmongering, iraq, media, news, military, obama, Pakistan, pentagaon. politics, propaganda, republicans, terrorism, troops, war )

Kit
- 210 days ago - washingtonpost.com

Budgets are the coldest of documents -- flat, gray realms of numbers and projections. But when referring to the origins of the recently proposed defense budget, Secretary Robert Gates, normally precise and analytical, speaks with an intensity that comes..

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Secrecy and Denial as Pakistan Lets CIA Use Airbase to Strike Militants - Times Online
US Politics & Gov't (tags: Afghanistan, Pakistan, United? States of America, crime, corruption, cover-up, war, terrorism, military, cia, abuse, dishonesty, ethics, lies )

David
- 263 days ago - timesonline.co.uk

The CIA is secretly using an airbase in southern Pakistan to launch the Predator drones that observe and attack al-Qaeda and Taleban militants on the Pakistani side of the border with Afghanistan, a Times investigation has found. Pakistan: Stop the drones

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U.S. Military Will Offer Path to Citizenship
US Politics & Gov't (tags: afghanistan, americans, congress, constitution, democrats, ethics, freedoms, iraq, military, obama, pakistan, politics, terrorism, troops, war )

Kit
- 265 days ago - nytimes.com

Stretched thin in Afghanistan and Iraq, the American military will begin recruiting skilled immigrants who are living in this country with temporary visas, offering them the chance to become United States citizens in as little as six months.

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Please Listen To India's Request, Mr. President
US Politics & Gov't (tags: india, pakistan, world war III, doomsday, world, humans, terrorism, national security, humans, interesting, Barack Obama, obama, americans, democrats, government, news, politics, u.s., war )

SirRobert
- 286 days ago - merinews.com

Letter to President Barack Obama - Excerpt Quote: "If the issue of terrorism is not tackled immediately, then the whole world will have to be prepared for its doomsday."

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Obama Administration to Ratchet Up Hunt for Bin Laden
US Politics & Gov't (tags: obama, terrorism, troops, military, cia, afghanistan, pakistan, war, iraq )

Dar
- 360 days ago - cnn.com

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President-elect Barack Obama wants to renew the U.S. commitment to finding al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, according to his national security advisers.

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We Have the Bailout Money -- We're Spending It on The War : Congress Just Passed New Appropriations Bill
US Politics & Gov't (tags: war, military, spending, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, 2009, defense authorization bill, fiscal insanity, radar site, Czech Republic, pork-barrel projects, diverting scarce resources, US infrastructure, national security )

Alba
- 402 days ago - thenation.com

Wed Sept 24, right in middle of WallSt bailout fight, House passed $612b defense bill by 392-39 vote without a murmur of public protest or any meaningful press comment (NYTimes- 3 short paragraphs buried in story about another appropriations bill)

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This Is Not Our War: New Pakistani Leadership Tells US
US Politics & Gov't (tags: Pakistan, U.S. fears peace, sends John "Death Squad" Negroponte )

- 590 days ago - opednews.com

"We will deal with them sensibly. When you have a problem in your family, you don't kill your own family, you sit and talk. Britain got the Ireland problem solution. So what's the harm in negotiations?" He has also asked the United States to come up with

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