The long war: Pentagon to Release 20-Year Plan Today
The United States is engaged in what could be a generational conflict akin to the Cold War, the kind of struggle that might last decades as allies work to root out terrorists across the globe and battle extremists who want to rule the world, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11774.htm
Pentagon Lays Out 'Long War' Strategy
The Pentagon, readying for what it calls a "long war," yesterday laid out a new 20-year defense strategy that envisions US troops deployed, often clandestinely, in dozens of countries at once to fight terrorism and other nontraditional threats.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020406Z.shtml
Iraq war is costing $100,000 per minute
The cost of military operations in 2006 is $35 billion higher than what Congress had estimated a few months ago that the Defense Department would need this year
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2002780385_spending03.html
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U.S. officials warn of greater threats from terrorists
Top U.S. intelligence and military officials said Thursday that the threat of terror attacks against American interests might be greater than ever, despite progress against al-Qaida and the continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11775.htm
Bush to Request $439.3B Defense Budget
The figures did not include about $50 billion that Bush administration officials said Thursday they would request as a down payment for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2007. The administration said war costs for 2006 would total $120 billion.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11773.htm
Whatever happened to what’s-his-name?
‘Scourge of Western civilisation’, ‘leader of the insurgency’, ‘al-Queda in Iraq’, ‘Usama’s right-hand man’, the Scarlet Pimpernel of ‘Islamic fundamentalism’, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. For the past couple of years we were bombarded by the mythical man’s dastardly deeds, then all of a sudden-he disappeared from the headlines.
http://williambowles.info/ini/2006/0206/ini-0391.html
Ugly phrase conceals an uglier truth
Behind the US Government's corruption of language lies a far greater perversion, writes Salman Rushdie.
http://snipurl.com/m7hi
From Information Clearing House
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11774.htm
Pentagon Lays Out 'Long War' Strategy
The Pentagon, readying for what it calls a "long war," yesterday laid out a new 20-year defense strategy that envisions US troops deployed, often clandestinely, in dozens of countries at once to fight terrorism and other nontraditional threats.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020406Z.shtml
Iraq war is costing $100,000 per minute
The cost of military operations in 2006 is $35 billion higher than what Congress had estimated a few months ago that the Defense Department would need this year
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2002780385_spending03.html
From Information Clearing House
U.S. officials warn of greater threats from terrorists
Top U.S. intelligence and military officials said Thursday that the threat of terror attacks against American interests might be greater than ever, despite progress against al-Qaida and the continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11775.htm
Bush to Request $439.3B Defense Budget
The figures did not include about $50 billion that Bush administration officials said Thursday they would request as a down payment for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2007. The administration said war costs for 2006 would total $120 billion.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11773.htm
Whatever happened to what’s-his-name?
‘Scourge of Western civilisation’, ‘leader of the insurgency’, ‘al-Queda in Iraq’, ‘Usama’s right-hand man’, the Scarlet Pimpernel of ‘Islamic fundamentalism’, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. For the past couple of years we were bombarded by the mythical man’s dastardly deeds, then all of a sudden-he disappeared from the headlines.
http://williambowles.info/ini/2006/0206/ini-0391.html
Ugly phrase conceals an uglier truth
Behind the US Government's corruption of language lies a far greater perversion, writes Salman Rushdie.
http://snipurl.com/m7hi
From Information Clearing House
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