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• Operation Enduring Mess - The Damage Done (The 10 big takeaways from America's adventure in Iraq)

  Sun Dec 25, 2011
  • JM, Just a correction. It wasn't solely US sanctions but UN Security Council Resoultions 661 and 687. Sanctions brought about due to actions/behavior of Saddam without any due regard to possible consequences inflicted upon the Iraqi people, his people.

• Tea Party Nation Upset Over Lesbian Naval Officers' Kiss (Remember, They're All About Taxes)

  Sat Dec 24, 2011
  • Petty Officers are still considered as "enlisted" due to the fact that they enlist for a specific time of service in the form of a contract. Once their intitial contract of enlistment nears completion, they can opt to "reenlist" for additional time of service or to ETS out of the military.

• Report: Growing number of military women see combat, serve in leadership roles

  Thu Dec 22, 2011
  • bf,

• Report: Growing number of military women see combat, serve in leadership roles

  Thu Dec 22, 2011
  • I've been serving as an officer in the US Army for almost 15 years now. I'm an MP and have seen the number of females serving in the MP Corps continuously rise during that time. I started out in a DIV MP Co as a PL and had a handful of female MPs.

• Uganda president: US troops not sent in to fight

  Sun Oct 16, 2011
  • One of the core missions special ops troops conduct is called Foreign Internal Defense (FID).

• Uganda president: US troops not sent in to fight

  Sun Oct 16, 2011
  • One of the core missions special ops troops conduct is called Foreign Internal Defense (FID). They have been called upon to conduct FID in several countries around the world for years. They are doing it in the Philippines, Djibouti and other countries right now.

• APNewsBreak: US drops keeping troops in Iraq

  Sat Oct 15, 2011
  • MountainMike, I'm sure you are aware that the Security Framework Agreement was signed by President Bush in 2008. This agreement stipulated all US forces out of Iraq by the end of 2011. Last time I checked, President Bush was a Republican.

• Hostages' message in a bottle leads to rescue from pirates

  Tue Oct 11, 2011
  • Pirate motherships are captured regional dhows that transport most of the commerce along the coast, from India, Pakistan, Yemen, etc. to Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, etc. Sometimes they use captured fishing vessels (FV).

• NATO captures senior Haqqani leader in Afghanistan

  Sat Oct 1, 2011
  • Poor people who have loved ones killed or lose everything when their house or farm is bombed or never had a house or a pot to piss in become easy recruits to the Wahhabi madrassas that feeds the ranks of the Taliban.

• Perry Brags About Texas’ Tax System That Charges The Poor Four Times As Much As The Rich

  Fri Sep 16, 2011
  • The title is a little confusing, maybe even misleading.