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• Bush war czar calls draft an option

  Published: August 11, 2007, 4:09 am

  Tags: Perpetual War

  growing disapproval of the war in Iraq has complicated the Army’s efforts to attract new soldiers who know they probably will be deployed quickly to an overseas war zone. As the Bush administration’s war strategy has pushed more than 162,000 troops into Iraq amid possible 15-month tours, officials say it is increasingly difficult to

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• Chickenhawk Romney defends 5 sons’ lack of military service

  Published: August 11, 2007, 2:19 am

  Tags: Perpetual War, Crime Amp Amp Corruption, 2008 Election

  the question by an anti-war activist after a speech in which he called for “a surge of support” for U.S. forces in Iraq. “The good news is that we have a volunteer Army and that’s the way we’re going to keep it,” the former Massachusetts governor told some 200 people gathered in an abbey near the

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• Iraq ‘needs a dictator’ says US think tank

  Published: August 12, 2007, 9:12 am

  Tags: Perpetual War, Crime Amp Amp Corruption, Social Engineering, Bizarre, Police State

  Leaves: Dictatorship, Civil War, or Regional Conflict?” July 19, 2007 Out with the old boss, in with the new boss… same as the old boss. After changing the pretext for invasion from “a major threat”, to just finding WMDs to “establishing Democracy and freeing Iraq from a dictator”, well it seems they have

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• Bush Executive Order Designates Iranian Military Unit as a Terrorist Group

  Published: August 15, 2007, 6:19 am

  Tags: Perpetual War, Terror Psyops

  during the bloody Iran-Iraq war waged from 1980 to 1988. The Guard, also known as the Pasdaran, has since become a powerful political and economic force in Iran. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rose through the ranks of the Revolutionary Guard and came to power with support from its network of veterans. Its leaders are linked to many

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• War Stress Pushing Army Suicides Higher

  Published: August 18, 2007, 1:01 am

  Tags: Perpetual War, Mental Health

  Repeated and ever-longer war-zone tours are putting increasing pressure on military families, the Army said Thursday, helping push soldier suicides to a record rate. There were 99 Army suicides last year - nearly half of them soldiers who hadn’t reached their 25th birthdays, about a third of them serving in Iraq or Afghanistan. Col.

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• Putin denies Shanghai regional group is military bloc

  Published: August 18, 2007, 12:57 am

  Tags: Asian Union, Global Government, Perpetual War, Communism

  states pledged to push forward with creating a joint mechanism to counter threats to regional peace, stability and security, and to deepen cooperation in fighting drug trafficking and illegal migration.

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• Russia, China display firepower, warn US on Central Asia

  Published: August 18, 2007, 12:36 am

  Tags: Global Government, Perpetual War

  Group conducts joint war exercises to counter U.S., NATO MOSCOW: Russia, China and four Central Asian members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) conducted their largest war games in the southern Ural Mountains on Friday. Chinese armoured personnel carriers take part in war games in Chebarkul. The presidents of Russia, China

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• Vladimir Putin rearms his Cold War military

  Published: August 20, 2007, 4:29 am

  Tags: Perpetual War, Communism

  that we lost the Cold War, or rather that like everything else, we won the war and then lost the peace.” A source close to the US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, who cut her teeth in government as a Kremlinologist in the Eighties, said that Middle East issues had diverted her attention from a more rigorous engagement with

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• Sino-Russian Coalition flexes military muscle

  Published: August 20, 2007, 3:59 am

  Tags: Asian Union, Global Government, Perpetual War

  a counterweight to NATO. The war games were staged under the flag of the Shanghai Co-operation Organization (SCO), a regional grouping that includes Russia, China and four central Asian states. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who watched the war games with Chinese President Hu Jintao, dismissed comparisons with NATO. “Today’s

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• Great powers cast bids for strategic Central Asia

  Published: August 20, 2007, 3:49 am

  Tags: Global Government, Perpetual War

  for planes supporting the war against the Taliban in nearby Afghanistan. Neither Beijing nor Moscow wants the Taliban back and, while unhappy about the US base, they are toning down calls for Kyrgyzstan to follow Uzbekistan's 2005 closure of a similar US air force facility. The US will strengthen itself in Kyrgyzstan. This is a forward post

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• US ambassador to UN: Middle East turmoil could cause world war

  Published: August 28, 2007, 2:09 am

  Tags: Perpetual War

  since the end of the Cold War, Khalilzad wrote Clinton along with fellow PNAC members and future Bush administration members/Iraq war architects Donald Rumsfeld, John Bolton, Richard Perle, and Paul Wolfowitz in January of 1998. Although we are fully aware of the dangers and difficulties in implementing this policy, we believe the

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• Bush to say Iraq is front line against Iran

  Published: August 28, 2007, 2:41 am

  Tags: Perpetual War

  to bolster support for the war in Iraq ahead of a critical September 15 progress report. “The president will talk about Sunni extremism and Shia extremism. Neither represents Islam. They represent a brutal and heartless ideology of death and destruction,” a senior aide said in a preview of the speech. “Sunni extremism is

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• US surge sees 600,000 more Iraqis flee murderous violence

  Published: August 28, 2007, 4:53 am

  Tags: Perpetual War

  which says the strain the war is putting on the military endangers American security, and commanders on the ground who still say it is a winnable war. For President Bush, the greatest danger may come from losing the support of Senator John Warner, one of the most influential Republicans in Congress on Iraq. Just back from a trip to the

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• Afghan opium production soars to frightening record level

  Published: August 28, 2007, 4:26 am

  Tags: Perpetual War, Crime Amp Amp Corruption, Drug Trafficking

  take part in the anti-drug war in this country as they fear their participation may push many Afghan poppy planters into their opponent camp led by the Taliban. As to this, UNODC chief Costa called on NATO countries to more actively support counter-narcotics operations, saying “Since drugs are funding insurgency. Tacit acceptance of opium

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• Afghan opium production soars 34%

  Published: August 28, 2007, 4:23 am

  Tags: Perpetual War, Crime Amp Amp Corruption, Drug Trafficking

  UN agency asks for NATO action. Think tank calls on Canada and its allies to legalize poppy growing to cut drug trade CanWest News Service Aug 28, 2007 by MIKE BLANCHFIELD, The United Nations has no choice but to legalize Afghanistan’s poppy crop after its latest study yesterday documented “frightening” new levels of opium

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