Part Two: Local Marine Vet Describes Life In Iraq

Source: KUHF Houston Galveston

"We fly from California to Maryland, and in Maryland it still hadn’t hit, and we were still 18, 19, 20 year-old boys having fun on a plane. And then you look at when we got to Mannheim in Germany." Germany, officially outside of United States territory a ...
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U.S. Reaffirms Commitment to Advance Iraq Stability

Source: GlobalSecurity.org

WASHINGTON, May 25, 2012 – The United States reaffirmed its commitment to advance Iraq's stability by training, equipping and enhancing the capacity of its armed forces for defense and counterterrorism, members of the U.S.-Iraq Defense and Security Coope ...
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US seeks regional domination: Analyst

Source: Press TV

The Iranian negotiating delegation was headed by Saeed Jalili and the delegations of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany were headed by EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton. Catherine Ashton announ ...
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The code to Damascus

Source: Haaretz

this story is by At the end of a five-day visit last month to Damascus, the dominant impression was of latent explosive tension under the outward calm of quotidian life. What began as a popular protest against a stifling and moribund regime has ...
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Joint Statement of the U.S. - Iraq Defense and Security Cooperation Joint Coordinating Committee

Source: U.S. Department of Defense

The Governments of the United States of America and the Republic of Iraq reaffirmed their commitment to a strong and long-term security partnership between the two countries at the inaugural meeting of the Defense and Securi ...
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1812: Our first war of choice

Source: Baltimore Sun

In this bicentennial year of the start of the War of 1812, the StarSpangledBaltimore.com website tells us: "The War of 1812 represents what many see as the definitive end of the American Revolution. A new nation, widely regarded as an ups ...
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ACLU throws support behind State Department whistleblower

Source: The Washington Post

(Courtesy of Peter Van Buren) Peter Van Buren , a foreign service officer who wrote an unflattering book about his year leading reconstruction teams in Iraq, has received the support of the American Civil Liberties Union ...
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The New War in Iraq: US Occupation Shifts to Proxy Subversion

Source: Global Research

Since the withdrawal of US military forces from Iraq, there has been an ongoing campaign of demonization and subversion of Prime Minister Maliki. Though this effort likely began with an assassination attempt in December of 2011, it has come t ...
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The United Nations and its Conduct during the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq

Source: Global Research

Important article on the role of the UN in Iraq originally published by Global Research in March 2005 Introduction and Background Since 1990, the people of Iraq have been the victims of continuous US/UK-driven United Nations S ...
Full article at: Global Research  More like this  2 days ago, 8:40pm CDT