Tag: Afghanistan

US Troops Pose with Dead Insurgents

Filed in International by on April 19, 2012 1 Comment
US Troops Pose with Dead Insurgents

One of the big stories yesterday as the Los Angeles Times publishing of photographs that showed our troops posing with bodies of dead insurgents in Afghanistan.

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Taliban Launch Coordinated Attacks

Filed in International by on April 16, 2012 0 Comments
Taliban Launch Coordinated Attacks

Yesterday, the Taliban along with its offshoot Haqqani launched several coordinated attacks in Kabul and other cities.

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Another Pat Tillman?

Filed in National by on December 15, 2011 0 Comments

It appears that we might have another Pat Tillman-like case on our hands. Tillman, you may remember, was an outstanding defensive player for the Arizona Cardinals, who gave up his career and enlisted in the Army after 9/11. He was killed in the line of duty. Only later, after questions from his family, did it […]

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Dishonorable Discharge

Filed in National by on December 9, 2011 1 Comment

It seems that the Bush-era Department of the Air Force and Defense Department really didn’t give a damn about those who made the ultimate sacrifice for out country. The Air Force dumped the incinerated partial remains of at least 274 American troops in a Virginia landfill, far more than the military had acknowledged, before halting the secretive practice three years ago, records show.

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Karzai’s Brother Assassinated In His Own Home

Filed in International by on July 12, 2011 5 Comments

President Karzai’s brother Ahmed Walid Karzai was assassinated last night in his own home by one of his security guards.

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Time to End the Wars

Filed in International, National by on June 21, 2011 7 Comments

The US Conference of Mayors did something on Monday that they haven’t done in over 40 years. They passed a resolution calling for an accelerated end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. What is important to me at least is that the last time the Conference acted on this subject, we were mired in […]

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My Cartoon on Meet the Press

Filed in Delaware, National by on May 9, 2011 9 Comments
My Cartoon on Meet the Press

I was out shopping for groceries for Mother’s Day Sunday morning when I found out that my cartoon about the death of Osama bin Laden was featured on this week’s “Meet the Press.”

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Will Bin Laden’s Death End The Afghanistan War?

Filed in National by on May 5, 2011 4 Comments

Will Obama use his popularity bump from the success of getting bin Laden to end the war in Afghanistan?

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The War Is Over (If Mitt Romney Writes An Op-Ed)

Filed in National by on April 26, 2011 17 Comments

Mitt Romney writes an op-Ed but makes some stupid factual errors.

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Goodbye Richard Holbrooke And Thank You

Filed in International, National by on December 14, 2010 6 Comments

Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, who negotiated the Dayton Peace Accords, died yesterday at the age of 69. His last words were “You’ve got to stop this war in Afghanistan.”

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Huge Wikileaks Document Dump – Fascinating Reading

Filed in International, National by on November 29, 2010 13 Comments

The website Wikileaks has released a new set of documents, >250,000 diplomatic cables.

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Heretic!

Filed in National by on July 2, 2010 5 Comments

At a Republican fundraiser, Michael Steele said that Afghanistan was a war of Obama’s choosing and that the U.S. could engage in non-military ways. Burn him!

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Oh Great, A Reason To Stay In Afghanistan

Filed in International by on June 14, 2010 5 Comments

Afghanistan has a $1T deposit of industrially important minerals, like lithium, copper, gold, iron and cobalt according to a just-released Pentagon study.

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