Archive for the 'War' Category
Military Whistleblowers on Fraud Facing Penalties: “It Was a Wal-Mart for Guns”
August 25th, 2007I post a lot of stories on Cryptogon, but read this one a bit slower than usual and let this sink in. Then check out the related stories below. Via: Forbes: One after another, the men and women who have stepped forward to report corruption in the massive effort to rebuild Iraq have been vilified, […]
More War on the Horizon
August 24th, 2007Via: Antiwar: No pullout from Iraq while I’m president, declares George W. Bush. On to Iran, declares Vice President Cheney. Israel is a “peace-seeking state” that needs $30 billion of US taxpayers’ money for war, declares State Department official Nicholas Burns. The Democratic Congress, if not fully behind the Iraqi war, at least no longer […]
Semper Fi in His Eye
August 21st, 2007Via: SF Gate: Semper fi in his eye: There’s no mistaking which branch of the military Nicholas Popaditch served with — his prosthetic eye is embedded with the Marine Corps emblem. Popaditch, a retired gunnery sergeant and tank commander from San Diego, was wounded by a rocket-propelled grenade in Fallujah, Iraq. He lost his right […]
Russia: Putin Orders Strategic Bomber Patrols
August 17th, 2007Via: AP: President Vladimir Putin said Friday that he had ordered the military to resume regular long-range flights of strategic bombers, news agencies reported, returning to a practice that ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Speaking as Russian and Chinese forces held major war games exercises for the first time on Russian territory, […]
Pentagon Paid $998,798 to Ship Two 19-Cent Washers
August 16th, 2007Via: Bloomberg: A small South Carolina parts supplier collected about $20.5 million over six years from the Pentagon for fraudulent shipping costs, including $998,798 for sending two 19-cent washers to an Army base in Texas, U.S. officials said. The company also billed and was paid $455,009 to ship three machine screws costing $1.31 each to […]
Iranian Unit to Be Labeled ‘Terrorist’
August 15th, 2007This is an extremely serious development. By the way, has Halliburton stopped doing business with the Iranians yet? Via: Washington Post: The United States has decided to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, the country’s 125,000-strong elite military branch, as a “specially designated global terrorist,” according to U.S. officials, a move that allows Washington to target […]
Fatigue Cripples U.S. Army in Iraq
August 13th, 2007Even the “Public Affairs” people, who are paid to lie to reporters, are having trouble maintaining appearances now. Via: Guardian: Where once the war in Iraq was defined in conversations with these men by untenable ideas – bringing democracy or defeating al-Qaeda – these days the war in Iraq is defined by different ways of […]
Italy Probe Unearths Huge Iraq Arms Deal
August 12th, 2007What is it about Italy and weird arms deals involving Iraq? Remember, Iraqi Insurgents Carrying Covert Ops Bump Guns? Via: Yahoo / AP: In a hidden corner of Rome’s busy Fiumicino Airport, police dug quietly through a traveler’s checked baggage, looking for smuggled drugs. What they found instead was a catalog of weapons, a clue […]
Dick Cheney ’94: Invading Baghdad Would Create Quagmire
August 12th, 2007Via: Grand Theft Country:
Bush War Adviser Says Draft Worth a Look
August 11th, 2007Via: Guardian: Frequent tours for U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan have stressed the all-volunteer force and made it worth considering a return to a military draft, President Bush’s new war adviser said Friday. “I think it makes sense to certainly consider it,” Army Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute said in an interview with National Public […]
