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• Dept. Of These Wars Don't Make Themselves!: Pentagon Bravely Arming Iran Again

  Published: August 3, 2007, 2:15 pm

  Tags: Air Force, Dept Of These Wars Don T Make Themselves, Dod, Iran, Iran Contra, Online Shopping, Pentagon, Tomkat

  Good news, America: With the Pentagon’s sale of thousands of fighter-jet parts that only be used by Iran’s Air Force, there is still hope of a Gulf of Tonkin-style incident to finally...

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• Dept. Of Begun This Clone War Has: Rise of the Machines

  Published: August 13, 2007, 5:18 pm

  Tags: Dept Of Begun This Clone War Has, Iraq, Pentagon, Robots, Roomba

  There’s another SURGE going down in Iraq — but this time, American Robots are doing the surging. These special robots appear to be made by the same company that makes those funny round...

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• Dept. Of Begun This Clone War Has: Rise of the Machines

  Published: August 13, 2007, 5:18 pm

  Tags: Dept Of Begun This Clone War Has, Iraq, Pentagon, Robots, Roomba

  should turn out well. The Pentagon has ordered another 3,000 of the reconnaissance robots to Iraq, where they’ll do whatever it is they do over there, which is to basically try to freak out everybody because OMG ROBOTS. Unmanned “Surge”: 3000 More Robots for War [Danger Room]

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• Making Money The Old Fashioned Way: Small company soaks Pentagon for $20 million ...

  Published: August 16, 2007, 1:26 pm

  Tags: Making Money The Old Fashioned Way, Pentagon, Quicklinks

  Small company soaks Pentagon for $20 million in “shipping costs” for sending a handful of tiny parts; nobody at DoD noticed for six years. [Bloomberg/Yahoo]

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• "Cost Effective" Support For The Troops

  Published: August 23, 2007, 2:07 am

  Tags: Robert Gates, Pentagon, Iraq, Ieds, Mrap, Mrapv

  needed for shipment, the Pentagon said on Wednesday. Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said the Defense Department expected defense contractors to produce 3,900 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles this year. But only 1,500 would make it to the war zone -- down from the Pentagon's previous shipment target of 2,500 to 3,000.

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• Pentagon Gives Up; Hands War Over to Bush

  Published: August 30, 2007, 2:02 am

  Tags: Pentagon, Department Of Defense, Surge, George W Bush, Iraq War, Robert Gates, David Petraeus, Failed Leadership, Recommended, Front Paged

  the day the Pentagon announced it was done being responsible for Mr. Bush’s waste of lives, time, and money in Iraq.  Tonight, the Defense Department has essentially told the President, "Thanks for the war, George, but it’s all you from here on out, buddy."

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• The meaning of 'terrorism'

  Published: August 31, 2007, 1:36 am

  Tags: Bushist, Pentagon, Terrorism, Greece, Wtc, Gwot, Republican, Cnn, Jihad, 9 11, Duhbya, America

  a living.The attack on the Pentagon on 9/11 was a little different. The Pentagon is the nerve center of our military and thus a legitimate - but still outraging - target. Only an infantile wingnut could claim that I don't want to defend it and the men and women who serve our country there and elsewhere.My point is that understanding the world

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• WARRING CHRIST (Blog Against Theocracy II)

  Published: July 2, 2007, 1:06 am

  Tags: Pentagon, Christian Right

  Theocracy is derived from the two Greek words, Qeo/j(Theos) meaning "God" and kra/tein (cratein) meaning "to rule." The Reverend Rod Parsley, a champion of theocracy, or what he calls a "christocracy," told his congregation at the World Harvest Church, located just outside Columbus, Ohio, "Theocracy means God is in control, and you are

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• Chinese Army Blamed for Pentagon Hack

  Published: September 4, 2007, 10:44 am

  Tags: Press, China, Hacks, Military, News, Pentagon

  has caused some alarm at the Pentagon. It's proof that network security in the government isn't quite what it should be, as an attack such as this at a critical time could prove disastrous. As far as I'm concerned, they can take down internal Pentagon networks all they want as long as they leave the parts of the internet I use alone. Don't mess

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• The Tail of the Chimera: A Reflection on the 9/11 Attacks & George W. Bush

  Published: September 5, 2007, 4:43 am

  Tags: Afghanistan, Iraq, Dick Cheney, George W Bush, Republicans, Media, 9 11, Cia, Fbi, Condoleezza Rice, Neoconservatives, Al Qaeda, Gen Petraeus, Scandals, Donald Rumsfeld, Military Affairs, Bush Administration, Gwot, Mideast, Osama Bin Laden, Democrats, Pentagon

  Sergeant Joseph Mosner, veteran of Bush’s Forever War As As we slouch toward to the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, the real story of that awful day and its aftermath is now well known. While the attacks were the darkest day for the world’s remaining superpower since Pearl Harbor, astoundingly they were leveraged by

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• He Has A Point

  Published: September 6, 2007, 8:04 am

  Tags: Stalin, Nuclear Weapons, Pentagon, Putin, Russia, Cold War

  Stalin, nuclear weapons, pentagon, Palomares, B-52, cruise missile, cold

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• Cyberwar

  Published: September 6, 2007, 7:39 am

  Tags: Computers, Cyberwar, China, Internet, Pentagon, Russia, Hacking, Hackers

  the Chinese have hacked the Pentagon how do they know it wasn't the Russians?Is the Chinese military responsible for recent attacks on Pentagon computers?That's the question after numerous reports surfaced claiming that the People's Liberation Army of China hacked into a system in the office of U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates in June.In a

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• A Conflict About Casualties

  Published: September 8, 2007, 12:49 pm

  Tags: Blogging, War, Iraq, Media Criticism, Media, Msm, Surge, Military Affairs, Bush Administration, Newspapers, Journalism, Pentagon

  The war in Iraq has been painful and divisive in so many ways that it’s hard to imagine what could make it worse for Americans of all opinions. In the past week, I found out. What follows is the culmination of a disagreement about the government’s use of casualties to prove that the Surge is [...]

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• The Glenn and Helen Show: Law, Terror and Politics

  Published: September 13, 2007, 4:55 am

  Tags: Aardvark, Exclusive, Glenn Helen Show, Homeland Security, Podcast, Us News, Al Qaeda, Al Qaeda, Osama, Bin Laden, Terror, Terrorism, War On Terror, September 11, 9 11, Wtc, World Trade Center, Pentagon, Pennsylvania, Gwot

  The sixth anniversary of September 11 is just past, and it's a good time to look at where we are, and what to do in coming years. Glenn Reynolds and Helen Smith spoke to Harvard Law Professor Jack Goldsmith, whose new book, The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration, tells the story of his experience working at the

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• Hello Reality, We Missed You

  Published: September 17, 2007, 9:15 pm

  Tags: Mouqtada Al Sadr, Petraeus, Surge, Pentagon, Patraeus, Iraq, Policy Analysis, President, Politics, Iraq War

  quite so fun, though: The Pentagon reported to Congress Monday that political progress in Iraq remains stalled despite a surge in US forces, and warned that improvements in security were not enough to win the war. The quarterly report to Congress on stability and security in Iraq said the surge had led to improvements in security, including a

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