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Obama Declares US Combat Mission Over

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In an address from the oval office, Obama declared the US combat mission in Iraq to be over again. "It's really really over," Obama declared from the oval office. etc. Another stunt? or for real this time.
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US attends Hiroshima memorial ceremony for first time

The United States on Friday for the first time attended a ceremony commemorating its atomic bombing of Hiroshima, 65 years after the Japanese city's obliteration rang in the nuclear age.
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‘We are losing our nation to lies about the necessity of war’

"We are losing our nation to lies about the necessity of war. Bring our troops home. End the war. Secure our economy." It's not the first time Kucinich has lambasted aid funding to Afghanistan. The Congressman declared in a 2009 press release: "U.S. contractors are paying U.S. tax dollars to the Taliban in order to protect the delivery of U.S. shipments of U.S. goods to U.S. soldiers so that our soldiers can fight the Taliban."
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Should we reconsider the draft?

For every draft avoider, someone else was made to serve in order to meet the military's quotas. That "someone else" might very well have been killed in Vietnam. Many of America's most accomplished young men were ready to pass the buck and let someone else — someone less sophisticated and knowledgeable — make the sacrifices while they pursued their personal ambitions.
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CIA hires Blackwater to guard facilities in Afghanistan

The previously undisclosed CIA contract is worth about $100 million, said the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the deal, which is classified. "It's for protective services . . . guard services, in multiple regions," the source said.
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Arlington National Cemetery headstones found lining stream bed

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Several mud-caked headstones line the banks of a small stream at Arlington National Cemetery, the country's most venerated burial ground. Farther upstream in a wooded area, a few others lie submerged with the rocks that line the stream bed.
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40th anniversary of Kent State massacre

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May 4 was the 40th anniversary of the Kent State massacre, in which the Ohio National Guard shot and killed four college students at Kent State University - two who were protesting the Vietnam War, and two who were simply walking outside between classes. A fifth student's spine was severed by a bullet; he was confined to a wheelchair for life and remains so to this day.
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Should it be illegal to lie about military awards of valor?

But now the law is being challenged in court by free speech advocates who say that lying about military valor might be shameful but should not be criminal. The First Amendment's guarantee of free speech means that if burning the flag is legal, then wearing unearned medals should be, too, critics say. The Constitution, they say, protects acts of personal reinvention, whether it's a politician rewriting his past, a guy trying to pick up a woman in a bar or someone donning a fake medal.
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Senate urges Obama to sign treaty banning land mines

More than two-thirds of the Senate is urging the Obama administration to consider signing an international treaty that bans land mines, reviving a dormant campaign from the 1990s that left the United States divided from its closest allies.
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UN report: Polluted water deadlier than war

On Monday, the U.N. released a report entitled "Sick Water?" containing some stunning and disturbing statistics. Contaminated and polluted water now kills more people than all forms of violence - including wars.
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WWI Camouflage

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British Artist and naval officer Norman Wilkinson had this very insight and pioneered the Dazzle Camouflage movement (known as Razzle Dazzle in the United States). Norman used bright, loud colours and contrasting diagonal stripes to make it incredibly difficult to gauge a ship’s size and direction. It was cheap, effective, and widely-adopted during the War. Check out the incredible photographs below.
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Afghan Taliban's second in command captured in Karachi

The Afghan Taliban's second in command, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, was captured last week in Karachi during a joint operation by Pakistan's intelligence service and the CIA, according to U.S. and Pakistani sources.
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