Al Qaeda has vowed revenge for the killing of Osama bin Laden and it looks like they are making good on it: Pakistan’s Taliban on Friday claimed their first major attack to avenge Osama bin Laden’s death as 80 people were killed in a double suicide bombing on a paramilitary police training centre. Around 140 […]
From TPM: Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander of the Afghanistan War, said today the planned burning of Korans by a Florida church could put American troops in danger. “It could endanger troops and it could endanger the overall effort,” Petraeus told the Wall Street Journal. “It is precisely the kind of action the […]
Last night WikiLeaks published the largest single disclosure of military documents in U.S. history. The 91,000+ page dump represents a different view of the Afghanistan War than we have been told and represent a timeframe from January 2004 to December 2009, right before President Obama announced the new strategy. Here’s a few various tidbits from […]
The chairman of the RNC has done it again. Check out this video of him blasting and lying about the Afghanistan War. In this Steele calls Afghanistan a “war of Obama’s choosing”. Does this moron even know who decided to invade Afghanistan? Does Michael Steele and the RNC believe that those who senselessly murdered 3,000 […]
MSNBC is reporting that according to Pentagon officials, General Stanley McChrystal has been relieved of his command. The President is going to address that nation from the Rose Garden at 1:30 pm. UPDATE 1: MSNBC is now reporting that David Petraeus will take over command of the Afghanistan war.
What does this say? House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and House GOP Conference Chairman Mike Pence (R-Ind.) are voting against the House/Senate fiscal year 2010 defense authorization bill — because it contains hate crimes provisions designed to protect gays and lesbians. Boehner and Pence are putting their own bigotry against the needs of our […]
It looks like what happened in Iraq is starting to spread: Afghanistan’s president has sent a list of demands to the United States government about troop conduct ahead of the arrival of more U.S. forces next year. President Hamid Karzai said in a speech in the capital Thursday that he sent the missive last month […]