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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Petraeus’ Weapons Picks |
| Published: September 10, 2007, 4:55 pm |
| Tags: Iraq Sucks, Politics Amp Other Disorders |
| So which weapons systems did General David Petraeus call out in his underwhelming testimony before Congress? The advances you have underwritten in weapons systems and individual equipment; in munitions; in command, control, and communications systems; in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities; in vehicles and counter-IED |
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| What Surge? |
| Published: September 11, 2007, 2:24 pm |
| Tags: Iraq Sucks, Politics Amp Other Disorders |
| An anonymously-penned analysis of the surge — “The Urge to Surge” — is circulating the ‘net, and has this to say about the supposed boost to forces in Iraq: The combined number of coalition troops in Iraq American and allied is 173,500. This number is noticeably below the previous peak of 183,000, which |
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| Petraeus Wrong about Iraq Dead |
| Published: September 11, 2007, 2:45 am |
| Tags: Iraq Sucks, Politics Amp Other Disorders |
| Liar, liar, pants on fire. “Coalition and Iraqi operations have helped reduce ethno-sectarian violence,” Iraq occupation boss General David Petraeus told Congress on Monday. Surge operations, he said, have succeeded in: bringing down the number of ethno-sectarian deaths substantially in Baghdad and across Iraq since the height of the |
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| Petraeus = Ass-kisser? |
| Published: September 17, 2007, 11:28 pm |
| Tags: Politics Amp Other Disorders, Lies My Leaders Told Me |
| France is preparing war plans in case an international coalition decides to force Iran to give up its alleged nuclear weapons program, according to Reuters “We must prepare for the worst,” [Foreign Minister Bernard] Kouchner said in an interview, adding: “The worst, sir, is war.” Our Frankish friends across the sea |
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| Latest Mogadishu Brawl |
| Published: October 28, 2007, 8:28 pm |
| Tags: Africa S Annoying, Politics Amp Other Disorders |
| Ethiopian occupiers and Islamist fighters have kicked off another round of fighting in Mogadishu while leadership rivalries paralyze the nascent Somali government. “Today Mogadishu, the situation: fighting is going on since last night,” my Somali friend Ajoos told me by email on Saturday. Ajoos is slated to be my fixer when I |
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| Pentagon Flack Runs Amuck |
| Published: October 30, 2007, 5:27 pm |
| Tags: Iraq Sucks, Politics Amp Other Disorders, Reporters Are Terrorists, Lies My Leaders Told Me |
| written by Scott Beauchamp, a deployed soldier. Of course, Beauchamp admitted to faking those stories (faked stories, after all, are TNR’s true forte). But that’s beside the point, according to Greenwald. For in the course of blogging about the leaks to The Standard, Greenwald drew Boylan’s ire. Greenwald says he |
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| FEMA Flack Shenanigans |
| Published: October 29, 2007, 7:37 pm |
| Tags: Politics Amp Other Disorders, At Sea, Reporters Are Terrorists, Lies My Leaders Told Me |
| D.C. think tanks & expanded executive fellowships to raise awareness of Coast Guard’s relevance in homeland security issues; resulted in numerous Op Eds & other published material by leading academics. Supervised executive & military fellows assigned to think tanks & war colleges. Leveraged intellectual capital of |
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| Somalia Journal, Day Four: Everybody Parley Down! |
| Published: November 21, 2007, 12:58 am |
| Tags: Africa S Annoying, Politics Amp Other Disorders |
| This summer, for the first time in history, all of Somalia's roughly 300 clans plus business leaders, diaspora representatives and women's advocates gathered in Mogadishu to parley and to draft a plan for national reconciliation. It was a remarkable event, and one of the best chances to end 16 years of civil war that have killed |
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| World Politics Review: New Somali Prime Minister Will Face Security, Humanitarian Crises |
| Published: November 25, 2007, 8:44 am |
| Tags: Africa S Annoying, Politics Amp Other Disorders, Baby Blue Beret |
| absence of large refugee camps inside Somalia means that displaced persons are seeking shelter in impoverished rural villages that cannot support them, exacerbating a refugee crisis that date back to the early 1990s. While tapping a former Red Cross employee for the prime minister post might lead to some progress on the humanitarian front, |
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| Somalia Journal, Day 16: Back on the Air |
| Published: December 5, 2007, 3:31 am |
| Tags: Africa S Annoying, Politics Amp Other Disorders, Reporters Are Terrorists, Policed State, Lies My Leaders Told Me |
| Eight dead. Ten tortured. Scores arrested. More than 50 fled. Mogadishu’s independent media workers comprise a long list of chilling statistics. A government crackdown, launched in early November and apparently energized by Mogadishu’s firebrand mayr Mohamed Omar Habeeb, has devastated media ranks. Three independent radio stations bore |
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| Brits Leave Basra: What Next? |
| Published: December 13, 2007, 11:06 pm |
| Tags: Iraq Sucks, Politics Amp Other Disorders, Reconstructicons, The Iranians Are Coming |
| preparing his troops for a campaign against the government. Many British officers are less alarmist — and more pragmatic about ending the occupation. “There’s a limit to what you can achieve with troops,” a major told me yesterday. I’ll be posting here as regularly as possible. Check back for updates. Related: |
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| What’s Not On Bush’s Africa Tour |
| Published: February 18, 2008, 2:45 pm |
| Tags: Africa S Annoying, Politics Amp Other Disorders |
| President Bush has been touring Africa to highlight the effects of U.S. policies on the continent. He’s toured Ghana, Libera, Benin, Tanzania and Rwanda, countries that today are fairly stable and making economic progress, thanks in part to billions of dollars in U.S. grants. Guess where he’s not going? Somalia, where no senior U.S. |
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| Franz Gayl: One Man Reforming Machine |
| Published: February 28, 2008, 11:57 pm |
| Tags: Politics Amp Other Disorders, Lies My Leaders Told Me |
| In recent years he has championed a wide range of potentially game-changing technologies: some quite simple, like non-lethal laser “dazzlers,” and others truly cutting edge, such as his proposed squad space transport. The one thing many of his favorite techs had in common: the Marine Corps bureaucracy usually wanted nothing to do |
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| Oh No |
| Published: March 11, 2008, 4:52 pm |
| Tags: Politics Amp Other Disorders |
| One of the Pentagon’s most reasonable, and pro-diplomacy, regional chiefs has resigned. |
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| “It’s a Major Prize” |
| Published: April 20, 2008, 11:32 pm |
| Tags: The Industry, Politics Amp Other Disorders, At Sea, Lies My Leaders Told Me |
| Faulty ocean-going cutters that are 100-percent over-budget and a year late. Boarding teams mistreating boaters. A blogger fired and a news story forged. A whistleblower threatened at gunpoint. Lies told by men with stars on their uniforms. Since taking command of the U.S. Coast Guard in 2006, Admiral Thad Allen has presided over an |
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