Kerry in Iraq to build support for fighting Islamic State
Secretary of State John Kerry landed in Iraq Wednesday with a goal of gaining Middle Eastern allies to defeat the Islamic State. Later Wednesday, President Obama will lay out his plan to destroy IS in an address to the American people. VPC
Prime Minister Tony Abbott needs to stick just the facts on Iraq
Judging by their rhetoric, many Australian politicians haven't yet quite discovered that just how complex Iraq is. Back in the 1980s, our leaders imagined Iraq was an oasis led by a friendly democrat named Saddam Hussein who was fighting desperately to ...
Double car bomb attack kills 13 in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) — Twin car bombs near pet and vegetable markets in Baghdad killed 13 people on Wednesday, Iraqi officials said, as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived to urge a united front against the Islamic State extremist group. Police officials ...
Is Iraq's new government the ally Obama is looking for?
U.S. leaders hope the government approved by Iraqi lawmakers this week can unite the country’s fractured ethnic and religious communities against the extremist group known as Islamic State. Secretary of State John F. Kerry was quick to applaud the “new ...
Blasts in Baghdad kill 12 even as John Kerry visits battle-torn Iraq
BAGHDAD: Bomb attacks killed at least 12 people in Baghdad on Wednesday as US secretary of state John Kerry visited the Iraqi capital for talks on combating jihadists, officials said. They said a suicide car bombing followed by a car bomb struck near a ...
Kerry in Iraq backs government, to build support against Islamic State
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was in Baghdad on Wednesday, beginning a tour of the Middle East to build military, political and financial support to defeat Islamic State militants controlling parts of Iraq and Syria. Kerry said he ...
Iraq should not cooperate with ‘occupiers’: Moqtada al-Sadr
BAGHDAD: Cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, head of a powerful Shiae movement in Iraq, said on Wednesday during a visit by US Secretary of State John Kerry that Iraq should not cooperate with "occupiers". "We wish for Iraq to cooperate with the neighbouring countries ...
Attrition: The Other American Deserter
In 2005, the rate was .24 percent of the total force per year. That was down from the Vietnam era high (in 1971) of 3.4 percent (more than twice the 2007 rate). Actually, there was another upward trend in the late 1990s (peaking at about .45 percent on September 11, 2001), nearly doubling from the r ...
The Perspective That Age Bestows
Unlike some, I do not bemoan the passage of time. True, I am of that generation known as 'the baby boomers,' but while I am at times mildly bemused about certain things ('How can it be 50 years since the Beatles first played in Toronto?'), I was never beguiled by the notion that we would be young fo ...
DUBYA, ISIS & PNAC
All in favor of razing the George “DUBYA” Bush Presidential Library say “AYE”. Wow, what the hell is all that background yakety yak racket chatter? It's the AYE sayers! Here is what I don't understand, why would an idiot have his own library? He can't read anything beyond a Mad magazine and he is no ...
ASESINADO CON 14 AÑOS, TRAS SIETE DÉCADAS DE SILENCIO SE RECONOCE EL MARTIRIO DE ROLANDO RIVI
Le mataron partisanos comunistas, hicieron circular mentiras. Es la indiferencia la que mata dos veces a los mártires. La indiferencia generada por la ley del silencio. Lo saben bien los cristianos de Iraq que son expulsados de su tierra por las milicias islámicas del Isis. Una indiferencia de la qu ...
A Call to Arms.
The president will address the nation tonight when he is expected to lay out his strategy for defeating ISIS. The president will make the case that ISIS poses a serious threat to American national security that needs to be addressed. There are those that believe that the president is late in coming ...
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Sara Gilbert In recent months, the CBS daytime talk show "The Talk" has become one of my favorites. I record the show and watch it later in the day if time permits. I enjoy the ladies' take on current issues and surprisingly have grown to like and respect Sharon Osbourne. Tuesday, on the second day ...
