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Kurds From Iraq Kill 17 Soldiers in Turkey - BAGHDAD, Oct. 21 -- An audacious cross-border ambush by Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq killed at least 17 Turkish soldiers Sunday, ratcheting up pressure on the Turkish government to launch a military offensive into Iraq. (READ MORE)
Attacks Sharpen Among Party's Principal Rivals - ORLANDO, Oct. 21 -- The leading Republican presidential candidates staged their most contentious and personal debate of the long campaign season here Sunday night, clashing sharply over abortion, immigration, tort reform and their readiness to challenge Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) (READ MORE)
Bombing Shakes Pakistan's Political Culture - KARACHI, Pakistan, Oct. 21 -- For a few hours Thursday, Pakistan glimpsed its political future, and it looked like this: A crowd of hundreds of thousands spilling into the streets for a rollicking but peaceful welcome to former prime minister Benazir Bhutto that, when replicated across the country, would propel her all the way back to her old job. (READ MORE)
Cheney: U.S., Other Nations Won't Let Iran Get Nuclear Arms - The United States and other nations will not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon, Vice President Cheney said yesterday. "Our country, and the entire international community, cannot stand by as a terror-supporting state fulfills its grandest ambitions," Cheney said in a speech at a Washington think tank's conference, meeting at the Lansdowne Resort in Leesburg. (READ MORE)
Valerie Plame, Telling the (Edited) Inside Story - Mothers who are spies, it turns out, face the same juggling act as other working moms. After a year at home following the birth of twins, Valerie Plame Wilson returned to work in April 2001 in the Iraq branch of the CIA's Counterproliferation Division. "When I had to deal with pressing operational issues I had no choice but to bring the toddlers into my office on a Saturday," she writes in her memoir, published this week. (READ MORE)
The Wiretap Deal - As the Bush Administration winds down, one of its main tasks is preserving Presidential war-fighting powers against poaching by a hostile Congress and expansive judiciary. On this score, last week's Senate "compromise" on warrantless wiretaps is at best a mixed achievement. In return for Congress's blessing to continue this surveillance, the White House is ceding some of its Constitutional authority to unelected, unaccountable judges. (READ MORE)
From the Front:
Those Wacky Iraqis: The World Sport - Football (Soccer) is THE world sport. We as Americans are very arrogant to think that the average Iraqi gives a hoot about baseball, the NFL or hockey. They care only about their brand of football which is the premier and most popular sport world wide. It is such a simple game and all a kid needs is one ball. You dont need gloves, tees, pads, bats, goalie sticks, pucks, ice skates or any of the other gear that only the rich nations of the world can afford. you just need a ball, some spirit, and the will to play. (READ MORE)
Richard's Deployment to Afghanistan: Afghanistan, a country that is truly in need of our help... - Dear All, I am writing to you all from FOB Salerno, Afghanistan with a small story of my experiences in a country that truly is in need of our help. I am Sergeant First Class Michael Fields from Spokane Valley, Washington. First and foremost I would like to tell all of the American people thank you, for all of your help and support. I think that the best way that I could describe Afghanistan is the wild wild west, or life on the great frontier. (READ MORE)
Northern Disclosure: Life is going to have to wait a little bit longer - Several times I have referenced time. It's one of those things that man has never been able or will never be able to master or control. We do try hard to and many fantasize about the ability to manipulate it but that’s all it will ever be. I am getting ready to head home to be with my wife while we welcome our newest addition to the tribe into the world. I have been staying back from missions to prepare for this and to allow others the chance to get out as much as the guys and I. (READ MORE)
Michael Yon: Resistance is Futile - A gulf. A gap. A chasm. A parallel universe. All describe the bizarro-world contrast between what most Americans seem to think is happening in Iraq versus what is really happening in Iraq. Knowing this disconnect exists and experiencing it directly are two separate matters. It’s like the difference between holding the remote control during the telecast of a volcanic eruption on some distant island (and then flipping the channel), versus running for survival from a wretch of molten lava that just engulfed your car. (READ MORE)
Michael Totten: On to Fallujah with the Marines - I’m out of fresh material from Iraq, so I’ll be heading back in a few weeks to get more. This time I plan to visit in Fallujah. I’ll spend more time there than I did in either Baghdad or Ramadi, and I’ll embed with the Marines instead of the Army. Fallujah all but demands more time and attention. On the surface it resembles Ramadi. But Fallujah is meaner and murkier. This is the notorious city from which the Sunni insurgency was launched in full force. (READ MORE)
Jason's Iraq Vacation: Quickie - I just got back from a short trip out West to Habbiniyah and al-Taqaddam (TQ) , so I will write a better update tomorrow. However, I wanted to make a quick comment regarding football this Sunday. 1st - I'm not able to watch the Eagles this week, so feel free to bet accordingly. 2nd - listen to the announcers. It's one of my favorite things to do. In particular, listen to the awful statistics they use freely throughout the game. (READ MORE)
Hard Soldier: "Trick or Treat" - Ah yes one of my favorite holidays is rapidly approaching and yet again I have to be stuck in Iraq and unable to participate in the festivities of All Hallows Eve otherwise known as Halloween. What is the true meaning of Halloween I ask? Before you start bombarding me with legitimate histories and legends about Halloween let me tell you what your kids, boyfriends and husbands think about the true meaning of Halloween. It's all about the candy ladies and gentlemen, that is while you’re a kid. (READ MORE)
From an Anthropological Perspective: My Daily Routine - My routine is that each day is somewhat different from the next. Like the soldiers I work with, we are on the job 24/7. I put in between 12-15 hours a day, seven days a week. Some of that time is working out the purpose and strategies of team members going out on a patrol or other mission as a ride along in order to become better situationally awareness of life in the neighborhoods. Some of those 12-15 hours are spent in briefings and other meetings. Some hours are spent interviewing Iraqis and Americans and the occasional foreign national about their experiences. (READ MORE)
Bill and Bob's Excellent Afghan Adventure: Picture and Movie Time - Well, in the post below (also published today,) Blogger could or would not allow me to upload pictures. Gremlins; you know I hate 'em. Anyway, I ranted instead. However, the good people at Blogger are nothing if not astute, so they immediately fixed whatever problems the aforementioned gremlins had caused, enabling me to bring you these fine pictures. Enjoi. (READ MORE)
On the Web:
John Fund: Bayou Boy Wonder - Bobby Jindal can't hold down a job: That's the joke circulating around Louisiana today about the election of Mr. Jindal, a son of immigrants from India, as governor. Mr. Jindal, a 36-year-old Republican congressman from the New Orleans suburbs, won 54% of the vote in Saturday's election, avoiding the need for a runoff next month. When he takes office in January he will be the nation's youngest governor. But he has already held a glittering array of other positions of responsibility in his short career. (READ MORE)
Burt Prelutsky: 180 Degrees of Separation - One of the silliest complaints that liberals never tire of leveling against conservatives is that we’re divisive. I should hope so. God forbid that those of us on the right should ever roll over for the knuckleheads on the left. But this is a perfect example of the pot calling the kettle divisive. The truth of the matter is that it’s nearly always the folks on the left who go out of their way to promote the issues that separate Americans. (READ MORE)
Debra J. Saunders: Was the Recall Worth It? - Was the recall worth it? California government is still spending more than it takes in. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger promised to blow up the "boxes" of state government, but he didn't. Democratic legislative leaders are enjoying lavish lifestyles when they should be rolling up their sleeves. (READ MORE)
Suzanne Fields: A Long Trail to November - John Edwards is right about one thing. Lots of people are acting as if Hillary Clinton has the Democratic nomination wrapped up in tissue paper and safely tucked away in her Louis Vuitton handbag. "Did I miss something?" he asks. "Did we already have the Iowa caucuses? Did we already have the New Hampshire primary?" "It's a long, long time from May to December," the lyricist Maxwell Anderson consoled lovers, and the presidential candidates are learning that the days will begin to dwindle down to November soon enough... (READ MORE)
Donald Lambro: Largely Irrelevant? Bush Soldiers On - WASHINGTON -- George Bush was asked last week whether he had become irrelevant in the decisions of government, a question that has been posed before in previous presidencies. The suggestion came from a reporter at a White House news conference who must have been out of the country for most of the year -- because the president clearly remains a force to be reckoned with in the twilight of his second term in office. (READ MORE)
Michael Barone: We're Not in 2006 Anymore - Things are not working out as Democratic congressional leaders expected. For the first eight months of this year, they struggled to find some way to shut down the American military effort in Iraq. They took it for granted that we were stuck in a quagmire in Iraq, with continuous high casualties and very little to show for them. They pressed hard to get the Republican votes they needed to block a filibuster in the Senate and were cheered when some Republicans, like John Warner, seemed to lean their way. (READ MORE)
Dinesh D'Souza: The atheist indoctrination project - It seems atheists have developed a comprehensive strategy to win the minds of the next generation. The strategy can be described simply: let the religious people breed them, and we will educate them to despise their parents’ beliefs. Many people think that the secularization of the minds of our young people is the inevitable consequence of learning and maturing. In fact, it is to a large degree orchestrated by teachers and professors to promote anti-religious agendas. (READ MORE)
Star Parker: Clarence Thomas' very American story - Futurist John Naisbitt, in his most recent book, talks about trends and leadership. He notes the price that genuine leaders often pay, evoking envy and resentment, because they refuse to be defined by "prevailing values, rules, and expectations" in their pursuit of higher goals. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is a case study of the phenomenon. He is a far too humble man to describe himself in these terms. But this is the case. (READ MORE)
Mike S. Adams: Why Islamic Fascists Get Away With Hate Speech - When, in class one day, a student said that “hate speech” was not free speech, I asked him the following: “Can you even define hate speech?” After a long silence, I assured him that I, too, was unable to define hate speech. But, since then, I think I have come up with a suitable definition that helps me understand both the failure of speech codes and the success of Islamic terrorism. (READ MORE)
Chickenhawk Express: Artist Fasts to Honor the Memory of the Haditha Victims While Slamming the Military - A truly misguided gesture by one of the anti-war, peaceniks has flown under the radar in the mainstream. An artist who spends his time creating art devoted to exposing the "atrocities" committed by US Soldiers in Iraq is currently on a water only fast in honor of the memory of the victims at Haditha. The fast is part of his "multi-media installation" titled "One Morning in Haditha". It follows his previous artistic slam against the military in Fallujah. The enlightened one, Russ Smith, is keeping a diary of his fast. (READ MORE)
Melanie Phillips: The shifting quicksands of prejudice - Keith Jarrett, president of the National Black Police Association (NBPA), has stirred up a hornets’ nest with his call for the police to make greater use of stop and search in order to control gun and knife crime, including areas where the concentration of black residents would mean stopping and searching more young black people. Mr Jarrett speaks no more than pure common sense. Yet he has provoked outrage among the so-called representatives of ethnic minorities. The NBPA’s own legal adviser, Chief Superintendent Ali Dizaei, has said, for example, that stop and search is of limited value and that greater use would merely ‘increase tension in the black community’. But as Mr Jarrett says, it is what black parents themselves are calling for — and for one outstandingly good reason. Their children are getting murdered at an appalling rate: (READ MORE)
Neptunus Lex: Troubled - I’ve walked out of movies before and I’ve walked away from conversations. But until today, I’d never walked out of church - and I’m not at all sure that I did the right thing. Our national church is in the middle of an ugly schism. The church hierarchy is dominated by revisionists who have taken a particular side in the American culture war and who have, by doing so, not only disenchanted broad swathes of the American church but also alienated that body from the much larger Anglican Convention. (READ MORE)
Bill Roggio: Raid in Baghdad's Sadr City kills 49 Special Groups operatives - Multinational Forces Iraq conducted a major raid in Baghdad's Sadr City. Forty-nine Special Groups operatives were killed in a nighttime raid targeting a cell leader of the Iranian-backed Shia terror group. Coalition forces, often the cover name given to the special operations forces hunter-killer teams of Task Force 88, met heavy resistance in Sadr City as they cleared buildings in search of the Special Groups leader. (READ MORE)
Yankeemom: She’s My Hero - Well, it’s official as of this past Friday. My daughter has reenlisted in the Army for four more years. She will be getting transfered to Ft Belvoir here in VA next year. I have to say that I had moments of non-breathing, partly from my incredible pride in my daughter and that ol’ Mom terror thang. As I told a young soldier who was talking about being deployed, we spend 18 years of our lives doing everything to keep you from harm and danger and there you go ~ walking straight into it. And there’s not a thing we can do about it. And our heart swells with pride and awe that you…our child, a part of us… is made up of such stuff. (READ MORE)
Allahpundit: Yon to media: Will you publish the truth about Iraq if I give it to you for free? - No joke. So despairing is he of the gap between what he’s seeing on the ground versus what he’s seeing in the papers, especially in Basra, that he’s offering his reports and photos to the National Newspaper Association at no charge. But he needs your help, in two ways: “Using the lessons learned from “Bless the Beasts,” it probably won’t be enough just to make the news I am reporting available to NNA-member publications at no cost. There may need to be a little irritating sand in order to get a pearl out of this oyster…” (READ MORE)
Bryan Preston: History Channel: Stalking Jihad - I just finished watching Mark Bowden’s Stalking Jihad on the History Channel. You may remember Bowden as the author of Black Hawk Down. Stalking Jihad covers the US-Philippine war against Abu Sayyaf, which is al Qaeda’s branch in the Philippines. It covers the rescue of American missionary Gracia Burnham, who along with her husband Martin was taken hostage by Abu Sayyaf in 2001, and follows past that to the defeat of Abu Sayyaf’s commander in 2002. (READ MORE)
Sig Christenson: Remembering Wilbert Davis - As many times as I have been to Arlington National Cemetery, every visit except the first has felt like an abstraction, one with no strong personal connection. That first visit, back in the mid-1980s, was to the grave of President John F. Kennedy. The profound power of this place, however, came home last weekend. I stumbled onto the headstone of Sgt. 1st Class Wilbert Davis, who I last saw alive on the evening in the last hours before the Battle of Karbala Gap. This was in early April. Davis was in the driver's seat of a Humvee, and it seemed to me that he was fast asleep as I talked with journalist Michael Kelly and Senior Airman Dan Housley. (READ MORE)
Ed Morrissey: Shattered TNR - This weekend, we finally watched the movie Shattered Glass, the story of the fabulist Stephen Glass at The New Republic. The movie recounts the deception that Glass repeatedly perpetrated in placing himself as an eyewitness to events in order to write colorful and libelous articles, in one instance about young conservatives at the CPAC conference in the mid-90s. It's a good movie, although it tends to overlook the fact that a number of people publicly questioned Glass' veracity on his earlier stories before Forbes.com exploded Glass' article on a hacker convention that never took place, as Jonathan Last noted at the time. (READ MORE)
The Captain's Journal: The Strong Horse in Counterinsurgency - In the Saturday, October 20, 2007 edition of the Wall Street Journal, Michael Ledeen wrote an interesting and compelling commentary entitled Victory is Within Reach in Iraq, in which he quote me from an article here at TCJ entitled Reorganizations and Defections Within the Insurgency in Iraq: “There is no point in fighting forces (U.S. Marines) who will not be beaten and who will not go away.” On January 23, 2004, a letter was captured in a safe house in Baghdad from Abu Mus’ab al-Zarqawi to senior al Qaeda leadership, in which he said (in part) that “America, however, has no intention of leaving, no matter how many wounded nor how bloody it becomes. It is looking to a near future, when it will remain safe in its bases, while handing over control of Iraq to a bastard government.” (READ MORE)
The Belmont Club: Croak and Dagger - The Raw Story has this just up: “CBS News has confirmed, in advance of a 60 Minutes interview with outed CIA agent Valerie Plame to be run this Sunday, that Plame ‘was involved in operations to prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons.’ CBS states further that Plame ‘was involved in one highly classified mission to deliver fake nuclear weapons blueprints to Tehran. It was called Operation Merlin, and it was first revealed in a book by investigative reporter James Risen.’” (READ MORE)
Ace of Spades: Is Assassinating The Israeli Prime Minister Part Of The Peace Process? - One would think that a person harboring assassins committed to killing their opposite number in a negotiation would be cause for doubting that person's commitment to 'the process’. But in this case we’re talking about the Palestinians and they get an unending number of mulligans. “According to meeting participants, (Shin Bet Director) Diskin said Palestinian gunmen had planned to attack Olmert's convoy as it entered the West Bank town of Jericho on Aug. 6 for a meeting with Abbas.” (READ MORE)
Jonathan Adler: Five "Myths" About Rendition - Former Clinton Administration National Security Council staff member Daniel Benjamin takes to the Washington Post's Outlook section to address "5 Myths about Rendition (and that New Movie)." Writes Benjamin: "With hearings in Congress, legal cases bouncing up to the Supreme Court and complaints from Canada and our European allies, the issue of rendition is everywhere. There's even a new, eponymously titled movie in a theater near you, starring Reese Witherspoon as a bereft wife whose innocent husband gets kidnapped and Meryl Streep as the frosty CIA chief who ordered the snatch. Like most covert actions and much of the war on al-Qaeda, the practice is shrouded in mystery — and, increasingly, the suspicion that it's synonymous with torture and lawlessness." (READ MORE)
Jay Tea: Tempting, But I'll Pass - When it comes to choosing which candidates to back, I tend to go by my "gut" more than any rational reason. I tend to trust my instincts, my subconscious, my hunches more than a cool analysis of issues and resumes and accomplishments. But there are some things that I do allow to overrule that. There's something deep inside me that wants to like John McCain, that wants to back him for president. There's something about the man's character that I find appealing in a leader. (READ MORE)
Scott Johnson: It's the coverup that kills you, part 3 - It's been another week without word from the New Republic on the status of its "investigation" into the columns of TNR Baghdad Diarist Scott Thomas Beauchamp. "The editors" have not spoken on the matter since their August 10 update. At that time "the editors" spoke grandly of their "commitment to the truth" and their efforts to resolve the "legitimate concerns about journalistic accuracy" that had been raised by the critics of Beauchamp's TNR Baghdad Diarist columns. They also said they took those concerns "extremely seriously." Ten weeks later, however, their promises have proved empty. "The editors" think they can stonewall their way through the scandal. They should know better. Indeed, as we will see below, once upon a time TNR editor Franiklin Foer instructed readers in the wisdom of the proposition that "stonewalling never works." (READ MORE)
Kim Zigfeld: That Woman Behind the Armenian Curtain - The Democrats have been drowning in bad news lately. A staunchly conservative Republican (and a racial minority to boot!) was overwhelmingly elected governor of Louisiana on the first ballot over the weekend. The New York Times (and Daily Kos) are moaning about their need to "double-check that the Democrats actually won control of Congress last year" after brutal defeats on national security and health care reform votes at the hands of George Bush, and moaning too as Speaker Pelosi is forced to back away from a crazy colleague spewing anti-Bush hatred under the withering fire of the conservative blogosphere. And the Democrats themselves are raising serious questions about whether their runaway presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton is electable. (READ MORE)
McQ: Republicans and the Senate - Obviously everyone knows what’s at stake in ’08 when voters head to the polls. The House of Reps is in Democratic hands, and most likely will remain that way. And there’s a very real possibility that a Democrat may end up in the White House. There’s little doubt of what sort of agenda will then be proposed. For Republicans, the Senate, even in minority status, could end up being the key to surviving the election. Democrats certainly understand what that would mean: (READ MORE)
ROFASix: Fascism In America - When I write that America has become fascist I know the first thing that comes to mind is that I am calling us Nazis. Nothing could be further from the truth. Most kids today get out of school thinking fascism means Nazi Germany. They were never taught that the despotic Nazi state was fueled by the policies of National Socialism and fascism was but one element of it. A closer look at the ideology of the National Socialists reveals a jingoistic state. One finds a particularistic allegiance to country, culture, and 'Aryan' ethnicity. Add to this, a suspicion of rationalism, a preference for economic autarky, and a view of life as one of inevitable but glorious struggle and you get a feel for the politics and policies of National Socialists after they seized power in Germany. (READ MORE)
John Hawkins: How Can Anyone Think Hillary Has A Lock On The Presidency In 2008? - If Hillary Clinton going to be the next President of the United States? These numbers say "no, she isn't"... Bad news for New York’s junior senator. “While Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) has won broad support in national tracking polls in her quest for the presidency, the former first lady is steeped in negative attitudes, according to a Zogby International poll released Sunday. Half of likely voters nationwide said they would never vote for New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, in a poll Zogby conducted Oct. 11-15, 2007, with a margin of error of +/– 1.0 percentage point.” (READ MORE)
Rhymes With Right: Will The Democrats Condemn This Practitioner Of Rendition? - You know, if they really think that those who use it to go after terrorists are violating the Constitution and international law. “Beginning in 1995, the Clinton administration turned up the speed with a full-fledged program to use rendition to disrupt terrorist plotting abroad. According to former director of central intelligence George J. Tenet, about 70 renditions were carried out before Sept. 11, 2001, most of them during the Clinton years.” I'll take serious the Democrat complaints about rendition when they demand that Bill Clinton be turned over to an international court for prosecution. (READ MORE)
Michael Tanji: Self Defense is National Defense - The defense of a nation ultimately depends on the wherewithal and actions of that nation’s citizens. The true measure of how secure a nation is against attacks of all sorts is not the number of federal agents employed or size of its intelligence agencies, but by how well those at every level of power and authority recognize current and emerging threats and prepare to deal with them. In 2001, in the span of a few minutes, the people of this nation were reminded that threats to national security were not ethereal, far-off affairs that impacted someone else. Nearly every day since then we have been subjected to daily bombardment of information about threats to the nation and to ourselves as individuals. The response to these threats has ranged from military action to boosting the size, power, and authority of national security establishments. (READ MORE)
Mark Steyn: SAINT AL OF THE ECOPALYPSE - A couple of days before Al Gore was awarded his Nobel Peace prize, Michael Burton, an English High Court judge and apparently a fine film critic, ruled that Al's Oscar-winner An Inconvenient Truth was prone to "alarmism and exaggeration" and identified nine major factual errors. For example, the former vice-president predicts a rise in sea levels of 6m "in the near future". "The Armageddon scenario he predicts," declared Burton, "is not in line with the scientific consensus." (READ MORE)
Lawhawk: [T]hugo's Largesse - [T]hugo Chavez, the thuggish leader of Venezuela, has seen fit to spend millions of his country's currency on projects in inner city areas of the United States, hoping to curry favor among the down and out in the US to change US opinions of his thuggish and socialist views. He wants to spend millions of dollars on places like the South Bronx and selling cheap home heating oil through his nation's oil company Citgo, in order to curry favor.That's not sitting well with many Venezuelans, including the mayor of Caracas, where the poor and wretched are ignored by the Venezuelan government. (READ MORE)
Richard Landes: A PCP Anomaly Worth Considering: Arabs choose Israeli “Occupation” - It’s an axiom of PCP (especially the second variety, the Post-colonial paradigm) that occupation is inevitably and inherently evil and oppressive and humiliating, and that “resisting occupation” is the right of anyone under occupation. Indeed, occupation is so evil that any form of resistance — including suicide terrorism — is legitimate. That such an attitude is ludicrous when one considers the difference between say, the Allied occupation of Germany, and the Nazi occupation of Europe. It’s part of the moral miscalculations of the “progressive left” to identify the Israeli occupation with the Nazi one, rather than with the Allied one. Part of what makes that identification so grotesque is that in the case of the Nazis, because they systematically used collective punishment — hundreds of civilians randomly rounded up and shot in retaliation for one Nazi soldier killed — resistance was not only difficult, but endangered the very civilians the resisters presumably sought to free. (READ MORE)
Amy Proctor: D-Congressman: Soldiers Killed in Iraq for Bush's Amusement - D-Calif Pete Stark, a self-described "Unitarian who does not believe in a Supreme Being", angry that his party has no power with their so-called mandate to lose the war in Iraq, lashed out against Bush Thursday on the floor of the Congress for their failure to override Bush's veto of the SCHIP. (READ MORE)
Right Truth: The Future of Iraq - Yesterday I reported on some good news from Iraq, but we need to realize that there is still much to be done to accomplish peace in that country. "U.S. officials in Baghdad fear that violence between Sunnis and Shi'ites in some areas will erupt into "ethnic cleansing" with the departure of U.S. forces." With each new report coming out of Iraq there is a mixed bag of good and bad news. That's the way it is with war, it's not pretty.
The facts on the ground, direct from sources in Iraq, on the progress on the Baghdad Security Plan: "... is limited to the military track, with the little military progress, which has been made, unsustainable, over time. No progress, whatsoever, on the political rack. Not now, nor in the near future. None of the key objectives having been met, or about to be met. ... 'redeployment without replacement,' is the plan. ..." (READ MORE)
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