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Blackwater Banned

Federal auditors on Monday put a stop to Army plans to award a $1 billion training program for Afghan police officers to the company formerly known as Blackwater, concluding that other companies were unfairly excluded from bidding on the job.  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget]
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Did Bush and Rove "lie us into war" in Iraq with WMDs?

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Former president George W. Bush did not mislead the nation about weapons of mass destruction as a way to "lie us" into war, his former top political aide, Karl Rove, asserts in a new memoir, "Courage and Consequence."  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget]
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Cousin Marriage makes nation building really hard

In Iraq, as in much of the region, nearly half of all married couples are first or second cousins to each other. A 1986 study of 4,500 married hospital patients and staff in Baghdad found that 46% were wed to a first or second cousin, while a smaller  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget]
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CIA bomber was invited onto base

The brazen attack that killed seven CIA employees at a remote outpost in Afghanistan is likely to raise questions about whether the agency could do more to protect its operatives on dangerous assignments. [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget]
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Lt. Col. Weitz: Learn From Vietnam- No Winning In Afghanistan

Have we not learned the lessons of Vietnam and Iraq? No! Listen to defense strategists and generals. How about McNamara, Westmoreland, Rumsfeld and the many generals replaced in Iraq? As for supporting democratic governments, what about those puppet g [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget]
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Pelosi to include raising the debt ceiling in defense bill

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that she would include legislation to raise the debt ceiling in a must-pass defense spending bill headed to the floor of her chamber next week. [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget]
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Afghan war commander: Afghanistan war strategy is achievable

WASHINGTON -- The general in charge of the war in Afghanistan is telling Congress that President Barack Obama's new war strategy is achievable and that combat force levels can be reduced starting in the summer of 2011.  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget]
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With speech, Obama takes ownership of Afghan war

President Obama assumed full ownership of the war in Afghanistan on Tuesday night with a speech arguing that the fastest way out of the conflict is a rapid and significant escalation of it. [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget]
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Obama: U.S. security depends on surge

President Obama announced Tuesday that he will send 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan by next summer and begin withdrawing forces in July 2011, making his case to the nation that Islamist extremism in the region remains an enduring threat t [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget]
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Blackwater reportedly OK'd Iraq bribes after killings

WASHINGTON - -- Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 incident in which Blackwater security g [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget]
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75% of young people are ineligible to serve in the army

About 75 percent of the country's 17- to 24-year-olds are ineligible for military service, largely because they are poorly educated, overweight and have physical ailments that make them unfit for the armed forces, according to a report to be issued Th [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget]
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Karzai challenger Abdullah quits upcoming Afghan election

KABUL -- The top challenger to President Hamid Karzai announced Sunday that he would not take part in a runoff election scheduled for Saturday, further clouding the country's uncertain political picture and likely leaving Karzai in power without a cre [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget]
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