By VOA News 14 November 2009 A U.S. military survey says morale among American troops in Afghanistan has dropped sharply because of increased fighting and multiple deployments. The army sur...

Citing an interview the President gave to White House correspondent Chip Reid, at the top of Wednesday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith declared: “An outraged President Obama says heads may roll when he returns from A...

Just a thought that has popped into my mind this morning as I drink my coffee. The potential numbers of pregnant women and children that were and are killed by Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan with the bombings and wh...

(CNN) -- An Australian special forces dog has been found alive and well more than a year after going missing in action in Afghanistan. Explosives detection dog Sabi was recovered by a U.S. soldier who found her wanderin...

Just a yes or no.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday voiced a list of concerns about Afghanistan: "corruption, lack of transparency, poor governance, absence of the rule of law."

http://www.opposingviews.com/questions/how-can-the-us-win-in-... On October 7, 2001 the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in response to the 9/11 attacks, hoping to disable terrorists operating from the mountainous country. After s...

From http://jumpinginpools.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-to-consult-m... WASHINGTON- Amidst growing pressure to declare a comprehensive plan for the war in Afghanistan, President Obama has made an unexpected decision: using a...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7wcyJEpJ3c From CBS News: After months of dithering, Obama has settled on a new strategy for Afghanistan. He will send a lot more troops and plans to keep a large force there, long term. cli...

The Fundamental Transformation of America When Obama wrote a book and said he was mentored as a youth by Frank, (Frank Marshall Davis) an avowed Communist, People said it didn't matter. When it was discovered th...

OBAMA'S "CZARS"-- Read who they are and realize what they want to do . OBAMA'S CZARS CZAR Czar Position Summary Richard Holbrooke Afghanistan Czar Ultra l...

The elections in NJ and VA?

with an estimated 100 Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, and less than 300 in Pakistan, and the Taliban only fighting us because we are THERE IN THEIR LAND should we be sending in more troops? there are 34,000 now. thats 3,400 for e...

Lack of health care killed 2,266 US veterans last year: Wed Nov 11, 1:06 pm ET WASHINGTON (AFP) – The number of US veterans who died in 2008 because they lacked health insurance was 14 times higher than the US milita...

Tumultuous Obama by Jed Babbin 11/09/2009 Has there ever been a president who had to govern in more difficult times? Even Franklin Roosevelt had years to deal with the Great Depression before World War 2 came upon hi...

Another Fake Prize for a Fake Leader by Tammy on November 19, 2009 · 0 comments Maybe he’ll wear it when he picks up the Nobel on December 10th. Obama to Receive Honorary Taekwondo Belt U.S. President Barack Oba...

Seven different indicators suggest that 2010 will be a very tough year for the Obama Administration's plans to turn America into a Socialist People's Republic. If some of these indicators pointed one way and others pointe...

Hey, Barack! When you are done bowing and scraping to the folks who pay our bills, how 'bout coming back here and producing an Afghanistan plan?

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was a member of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization, although he lived in Kuwait rather than Afghanistan, heading al-Qaeda's propaganda operations from sometime around 1999. According to the 9/11...

KASHK-E-NOKHOWD, Afghanistan | Army Capt. Casey Thoreen wiped the last bit of sleep from his eyes before the sun rose over his isolated combat outpost. His soldiers did the same as they checked and double-checked their ...

A Commentary By Tony Blankley Wednesday, November 18, 2009 In the past few days, the White House has made it clear that the president wants specific exit strategies for all his Afghan war options. That brought to mi...

Obama: 'We've restored America's standing' November 18, 2009 10:03 a.m. EST Beijing, China (CNN) -- A little more than a year after his election, President Obama said his administration has laid the groundwork ...

http://nygoe.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/allen-west-on-fort-hood... Allen West on Fort Hood Massacre November 7, 2009 in General , Guest Authors Tags: Allen West , Attack , Fort Hood , Islam , Terror The following is...

Afghanistan: A War of Lies by Eric Margolis President Barack Obama and Congress are wrestling with widening the war in Afghanistan. After eight years of military operations costing US $236 billion, the ...

I dislike Obama not because he is a communist Muslim Kenyan who wants to destroy America(which is untrue), I dislike him because he has continued the mistakes of the Bush Administration. He continued with Bush's bailouts, ...

Looking back on the four years of his first administration, President Obama can be proud: He made the US welcome among the family of nations again; he reduced our reliance on military force; and he gave us peace by reachin...

Officials handling the multibillion dollar bailout of insurance giant American International Group Inc. mismanaged an initial rescue attempt and may have overpaid other banks to wind down AIG's business relationships, a...

KASHK-E-NOKHOWD, Afghanistan | Army Capt. Casey Thoreen wiped the last bit of sleep from his eyes before the sun rose over his isolated combat outpost. His soldiers did the same as they checked and double-checked their ...

If you read this, you WILL forward it on . You just won't be able to stop yourself. The average age of the military man is 19 years. He is a short haired, tight-muscled kid who, under normal circu...

Senate Bill Would Allow "Mentally Incapacitated" Vets to Buy Guns — By Corbin Hiar | Mon November 16, 2009 3:03 AM PST Major Nidal Hasan, accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood Army base , has been described by forme...

This has been on my mind for a while. Obama's catch phrase or mantra if you prefer was of course "YES WE CAN" followed by the ever popular, "HOPE AND CHANGE". But it occurred to me that there are many things we CAN do but ...

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg described it as "fitting" that the five terrorists who were involved in the Sept. 11 plot, including Khalid Sheik Mohammed, would face trials in New York City . That decision, however...

Almost daily, we are receiving more proof of the hidden agendas from Obama's entire cabinet. Obama and his cohort, Holder, went after the CIA last summer in order to pave the way for moving the spy criminals from Gitmo to ...

We can't just laugh this off and say he's crazy. This man leads the Islamic center of England. Nov 14, 2009 JPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST Ayatollah Abdolhossein Moezi, the Iranian Supreme Leader's representat...

Limbaugh redefines dangerous ideologue November 13, 2009 4:18 pm ET by Jeremy Holden During a three-hour tirade about Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to transfer five detainees from Guantanamo Bay to the United S...

THIS IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY A CERTIFIED TERRORIST--(per DHS)--A COMBAT MARINE--VIETNAM--jscusmc69 I and MANY other VETERANS have seen MORE DEATH and DESTRUCTION than most AMERICANS could EVER comprehend or understand so MAK...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Medicalizing Mass Murder By Charles Krauthammer WASHINGTON -- What a surprise -- that someone who shouts "Allahu Akbar" (the "God is great" jihadist battle cry) as he is shooting up a room of A...

Obama to the troops in Jacksonville, FL... "I will never rush the solemn decision of sending you into harm's way." I wonder how much longer will he wait before sending badly needed reinforcements to the troops fighting in...

If you know much about me, you know that I have a son serving in Afghanistan with the 5th Stryker Brigade out of Fort Lewis, Washington. As a veteran I have always been a big supporter of the military, and I am very proud ...

Thursday, November 12, 2009 Email to a Friend ShareThis Forty-five percent (45%) of U.S. voters now give President Obama poor marks for his handling of the economy, the highest level of disapproval this year. A new Rasmuss...

North Korea's Atomic Full Monty by Gordon Cucullu 11/12/2009 Last Tuesday's announcement that North Korea has successfully reprocessed 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods into sufficient material to produce a plutoniu...

The Plunder Of Iraq’s Oil The Plunder Of Iraq’s Oil By James Cogan 11 November, 2009 WSWS.org Countercurrent.org The awarding of development rights over the huge West Qurna oilfield in southern Iraq to Exxon-M...

President won't accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing instead to clarify when responsibility would be turned over to the Afghan government. WASHINGTON -- President ...

By Tarek Fatah, Citizen SpecialNovember 10, 2009 As dozens of talking heads descended on CNN and FOX TV to give their opinions on the Fort Hood massacre last week, no one seemed to notice the significance of the attir...

From The Times November 11, 2009 Michael Evans, Defence Editor President Obama is to ask members of Nato to provide up to 4,000 more troops to help to break the deadlock in Afghanistan. Mr Obama is po...