Archive for the 'War' Category

This Is Interesting

By the time you are done reading this, the war in Iraq would have cost the USA an additional $50,000.
According to the NYTimes that is. ($70,000)
Thats $5,000 a second. ($80,000)
If you are a slow reader, then some one is in deep sh*t. ($110,000 - $200,000 varies depending on intelligence, amount of sleep, how long of […]

A Pissed Off Soldier

Heres a post on Craigslist, by a marine who is pissed off at the war in iraq:
I’m having the worst damn week of my whole damn life so I’m going to write this while I’m pissed off enough to do it right.
I am SICK of all this bullshit people are writing about the Iraq […]

Bidaina?

A senior Sunni politician in Iraq has condemned a U.S. military project to build a five-kilometre wall around a Sunni enclave in Baghdad.
Adnan al-Dulaimi, leader of the largest Sunni bloc in the Iraqi parliament, on Saturday said construction of the wall began in the Azamiyah district without the neighbourhood council’s approval.
Hmm if they are building a […]

US Navy Shows Off Anti-Terror Dolphins

In a world of high-tech sensors and underwater robotics, Koa the bottlenose dolphin and others like her may still be the Navy’s best line of defense against terrorists in scuba gear.
“They are better than anything we have ever made,” said Mike Rothe, head of science for the Navy’s marine mammal program, which trains dolphins and […]

Iraq War Coalition Casualties

An interesting way to graph the casualties in Iraq suffered by the Coalition forces
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If They Knew

Interesting website about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, aimed at Americans. .:.Link.:.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Confession

“I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z,” he said.In a rambling statement, Mr. Mohammed, the chief aide to Osama bin Laden, said his actions were part of a military campaign. “I’m not happy that 3,000 been killed in America,” he said. “I feel sorry even. I don’t like to kill children […]

US Sending Injured Troops To Iraq

Are they that desperate? .:.Link.:.

Latest Bin Landen Hunting Tactics

AN elite group of Native American trackers is joining the hunt for terrorists crossing Afghanistan’s borders.The unit, the Shadow Wolves, was recruited from several tribes, including the Navajo, Sioux, Lakota and Apache. It is being sent to Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to pass on ancestral sign-reading skills to local border units.
In recent years, members of the […]

“Technical Error” My A$$

This is probably the lamest excuse ever, and for what?
Ehud Olmert [Israeli Prime Minister] today blamed the artillery shelling which killed 18 Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip yesterday on a “technical error” and called for an urgent meeting with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian President, to whom he pledged to “offer a lot”.
Are the lives […]