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$547 Million Can't Paper Over Failure of afghanistan War12:53 AM on 09/03/2010 Alternet Can Lessons Learned In Iraq Work In afghanistan?
As the combat mission ends in Iraq, 30,000 additional troops are heading to Afghanistan. Comparisons between the two wars are inevitable. Gen. David Petraeus, who commanded U.S. forces in Iraq, brings to Afghanistan many familiar military faces and the strategy of creating local forces to take control of security at the grass-roots level.
08:36 AM on 09/02/2010 NPR News - Politics What Obama Didn't Say About afghanistan
| My Fellow Americans... so much for Iraq. Turning now to Afghanistan...
03:19 PM on 09/01/2010 Infowars Turning the page & #8211; to afghanistan
Obama now must focus on the Afghanistan war which has experienced a summer of military setbacks.
04:33 AM on 09/01/2010 Politico Top Stories afghanistan bomb attacks kill twenty-one US soldiers in 48 hours
| Deaths have risen consistently each year since 2001. Afghan police and civilians have suffered far higher casualties.
03:02 PM on 08/31/2010 Infowars 4 American Troops Killed By Bomb In afghanistan
A roadside bomb attack killed four U.S. troops in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, the latest deaths in a particularly bloody spell that has left 18 service members dead since Saturday.
05:32 AM on 08/31/2010 NPR News - Politics Military Subcontractors Bribing U.S. Personnel With Prostitutes? The Shady World of War Contracting in afghanistan and Iraq
Taxpayer cash is flowing to subcontractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, who engage in shady, illegal practices with few repercussions.
09:00 AM on 08/31/2010 Alternet 7 U.S. Troops Killed By Bomb Attacks In afghanistan
NATO provided no details of the attacks, but eyewitnesses said an armored U.S. Army Humvee hit a roadside bomb in the southern city of Kandahar. The deaths bring to 14 the number of U.S. troops killed in action in eastern and southern Afghanistan over the past three days.
10:48 AM on 08/30/2010 NPR News - Politics Paying For Friends In afghanistan Doesn't Buy Loyalty
Gen. David Petraeus makes fighting corruption a fundamental part of his strategy to turn Afghanistan around. But while he warns his troops about striking financial deals with potentially unreliable allies, the CIA is prosecuting its part of this war by doing exactly that.
12:00 AM on 08/30/2010 NPR News - Politics 7 U.S. Troops Killed In Latest afghanistan Fighting
Seven U.S. troops have died in weekend attacks in Afghanistan's embattled southern and eastern regions, while officials found the bodies Sunday of five kidnapped campaign workers for a female candidate in the western province of Herat.
08:09 AM on 08/29/2010 NPR News - Politics Two Bases In afghanistan Attacked By Insurgents
Insurgents launched pre-dawn attacks Saturday on a major NATO base in eastern Afghanistan and a nearby camp where seven CIA employees were killed last year in a suicide bombing. NATO said there were no coalition casualties and the attacks were repelled.
07:41 AM on 08/28/2010 NPR News - Politics Bringing Freedom and Prosperity to afghanistan
The Obama administration is seeking to rechristen the Afghan debacle it inherited from the Bush administration. Obama's efforts to legitimize the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan simply ignore the previous record of American actions in that nation. But the past debacles ensure the failure of Obama's ramped-up interventions.
08:42 AM on 08/26/2010 Prison Planet Is Mosque Hysteria Being Ginned Up to Bolster Support for the Disastrous Wars in afghanistan and Iraq?
The right-wing mobilization at the core of the Islamic center controversy is about rebuilding political support for the 'global war on terror.'
12:00 AM on 08/26/2010 Alternet 90,000 secret US military documents leaked on web, documenting NATO war crimes in afghanistan and other classified information
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04:52 AM on 08/25/2010 The Insider Cartoonist Matt Bors on Islamic Center Nonsense: It's Nice to be in a Tolerant Country Like afghanistan'06:57 PM on 08/25/2010 Alternet Biden: Iraq, afghanistan on track
"We are beginning a transition," he says.
02:43 PM on 08/24/2010 Politico Top Stories Reporter's Notebook: Waiting Around In afghanistan
Guest host Rachel Martin returned to Afghanistan last week for the first time since 2006. What definitely hasn't changed, she says, is how hard it is to get around the country.
08:00 AM on 08/22/2010 NPR News - Politics The US Has Lost in afghanistan -- We Have to Come to Grips with What That Means
There never was a goal set by NATO and Afghanistan that was achievable; because their blood and capital are finite.
12:00 PM on 08/21/2010 Alternet Brutality Against Women Stirs Fear In afghanistan
In one recent case, an Afghan widow suspected of adultery was tortured and shot. In another, a woman seeking to flee an abusive marriage had her nose cut off. Activists say the U.S.-supported government of Afghanistan has been passive on issues of human rights as it is eager to negotiate peace with the resurgent Taliban.
03:51 PM on 08/21/2010 NPR News - Politics Poll: Nearly 6 in 10 oppose war in afghanistan
Opposition to Afghan war grows while many welcome end to US combat role in Iraq A majority of Americans see no end in sight in Afghanistan, and nearly six in 10 oppose the nine-year-old war as President Barack Obama sends tens of thousands more troops to the fight, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. [...]
01:55 PM on 08/20/2010 Raw Story How the Pakistan Floods Could Change the War in afghanistan
The human suffering of millions in Pakistan's floods may have just begun if the country destablizes -- meaning, the U.S. could be there for a very long time.
12:00 AM on 08/20/2010 Alternet Military Deaths in afghanistan under Obama Top Those under Bush
| The latest casualty figures show 577 American soldiers have died in the war from January 20, 2009, the date of Obama?s inauguration, until now.
06:22 PM on 08/20/2010 Infowars Why Gen. Petraeus Is Going to Be the Last Person to Recognize That afghanistan Is Totally Lost
When Obama asks General Petraeus how things are going in Afghanistan, he responds, "we are making solid progress, Mr.President."
10:00 AM on 08/18/2010 Alternet Poll: Opposition to Iraq, afghanistan wars reach all time high
| A majority believe that the U.S. will never achieve its goals in Iraq no matter how long troops remain there.
05:51 PM on 08/18/2010 Infowars Liberals stand with afghanistan
For liberals, Afghanistan was always the 'good war". Until, quite suddenly, it wasn't.
11:26 AM on 08/17/2010 Politico Top Stories Petraeus: Time is key for progress in afghanistan
Top Army general in Afghanistan argues for patience, says progress occurring in 9-year-old war Progress in the Afghanistan war is occurring gradually, despite rising U.S. casualties, Army Gen. David Petraeus says in comments aimed at shoring up support among an increasingly skeptical American public. Arguing for patience, Petraeus said that it was only in the [...]
10:29 AM on 08/16/2010 Raw Story 1.8 billion barrel oilfield discovered in afghanistan, Petraeus says US may need to stay longer
Afghanistan said on Sunday it had discovered an oilfield with an estimated 1.8 billion barrels in the north of the war-ravaged country, where U.S. and other foreign forces are trying to tame a Taliban-led insurgency.
09:57 AM on 08/16/2010 Prison Planet Petraeus cites Bush-era shortcomings in afghanistan
U.S. military leaders inherited a faulty strategy for the war in Afghanistan at the end of the Bush administration and are still working to ?refine the concepts,? the U.S. commander said in an interview airing Sunday on NBC?s ?Meet the Press.?
03:54 PM on 08/16/2010 MSNBC Politics Media Failing to Ask Tough Questions on afghanistan WarAgain04:50 PM on 08/16/2010 Alternet Petraeus: 'Small Pockets Of Progress' In afghanistan
The general's comments come as U.S. support for the nine-year war is slipping and the death toll is climbing. July was the deadliest month for U.S. forces, when 66 troops were killed.
01:59 PM on 08/16/2010 NPR News - Politics His Last War Unfinished, Top Sergeant Exits afghanistan
As the U.S. counterinsurgency strategy is tested in Afghanistan, Army Command Sgt. Maj. Mike Hall reflects on his career and service in the war. Hall retired only to be called back into service in 2008 by Gen. Stanley McChrystal to help turn around the war effort. The general once called Hall "the finest soldier I have ever known."
01:10 PM on 08/14/2010 NPR News - Politics Petraeus wants more time in afghanistan
| ISAF commander Gen. David Petraeus and other military officers are publicly and privately pushing to limit troop reductions starting in July 2011.
06:44 PM on 08/14/2010 Infowars NATO Slack Forces U.S. To Send afghanistan Trainers
Defense Secretary Robert Gates had no choice but to sign orders deploying hundreds of additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan recently because NATO trainers had not arrived. Pentagon officials and military officers say NATO nations still aren't doing enough.
12:00 AM on 08/13/2010 NPR News - Politics Showdown: Petraeus to ask for more time for afghanistan mission
It begins.
12:54 AM on 08/13/2010 Hot Air Ricks: afghanistan Could Turn Out Better Than Iraq
Military expert Tom Ricks said Afghanistan may turn out better than Iraq from the U.S. perspective. The Afghans don't want to live under Islamic extremism anymore while Iraqis have failed to work out a governing pact between Shia, Sunni and Kurds.
12:00 AM on 08/12/2010 NPR News - Politics Ron Paul: The Cycle of Violence in afghanistan
| Last week the National Bureau of Economic Research published a report on the effect of civilian casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq that confirmed what critics of our foreign policy have been saying for years.
06:39 PM on 08/12/2010 Infowars 1,200 Crosses Say No to afghanistan War10:41 PM on 08/12/2010 Alternet Counter-Terorism vs. Counter-Insurgency in afghanistan
What America needs to do is implement both a counter-terrorism (CT) and counter insurgency (CS) policy.
01:03 AM on 08/11/2010 American Thinker Jihadist Web site Uses Mass Baptism of Marines As Proof of 'Christian Crusade' in afghanistan
Pentagon policy prohibits military officers from endorsing particular religious beliefs. Why do so many in the military ignore this directive?
02:00 PM on 08/11/2010 Alternet 90,000 secret US military documents leaked on web, documenting NATO war crimes in afghanistan and other classified information
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