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added 2007 Fri Jun 1 19:08:04 by populist
The Pentagon has a disturbing pattern of withholding information on the impact of chemical/biological weapons and other toxins on US service members. As a result, veterans are often told that their debilitating symptoms are "in their head" and can go decades without receiving medical help. That's not supporting our troops.
added 2007 Mon May 7 7:01:37 by STONERS
The U.S. Navy said Sunday that it was maintaining a stepped-up military presence in the Persian Gulf by keeping two aircraft carriers in the area amid tensions with Iran .
added 2007 Fri Apr 13 13:59:42 by TimALoftis
As many as 6 million prepared meals stockpiled near potential victims of the 2006 hurricane season spoiled in the Gulf Coast heat last summer when the Federal Emergency Management Agency ran short of warehouse and refrigeration space, according to agency officials.
added 2007 Sun Apr 8 20:06:02 by populist
Much attention has been given to the Bush Admin's preparations for possible war against Iran as well as its drive to impose sanctions. Meanwhile, a less noticed policy has been unfolding, one that may in time prove to have grave consequences. There is a covert war underway in Iran, still in its infancy, but with disturbing signs of impending escala
added 2007 Sat Apr 7 20:32:03 by populist
British sailors and marines who were held hostage in Iran for 13 days told a press conference in Devon, England, on Friday that they had been arrested in what were undoubtedly Iraqi waters.
added 2007 Thu Mar 29 17:31:35 by ebrage
U.S. steps up activity at the Iranian border - while another carrier strike group heads to the Persian Gulf.
added 2007 Wed Mar 28 20:45:33 by populist
The Bush administration's message to its enemies has been very clear: if you possess WMD you're safe, and if you don't, you're fair game. Iraq had no nuclear weapons and was invaded, Iran doesn't as well and risks attack, yet that other "Axis of Evil" country, North Korea, reportedly does have nuclear weapons and is left alone.
added 2007 Tue Mar 27 19:15:34 by populist
The US navy said on Monday it is staging major war games in the Gulf involving two nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and their strike groups, at a time of high tensions with Iran.
added 2007 Sun Feb 11 6:08:59 by populist
As the US-Iran standoff escalates toward its inevitable denouement, analysts are busily gaming scenarios that may lead to the commencement of hostilities. Only the naive take solace in the illusion of peace, for it will take nothing less than a miracle of biblical proportions for either peace or de-escalation to prevail.

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added 2007 Thu Feb 8 3:36:19 by populist
Unfortunately, Iran's geo-strategic location in Eurasia places that nation at odds with any superpower that may wish to exert undue influence in the region, for whatever reasons, as in the case of the United States. And the timing, after Bush's failure in Iraq, couldn't be any more propitious for placing Iran as a scapegoat for this president.
added 2007 Wed Jan 31 23:52:14 by populist
The troop surge is about provoking and preparing war with Iran and has nothing to do with stabilizing Iraq. The plan is to escalate tension further so sectarian violence divides the Middle East along ethnic lines. It has always been divide and rule and time is running out...
added 2007 Sat Jan 27 6:10:44 by populist
An attack on Iran, which poses no immediate or imminent threat to the United States, would be the most heinous of international war crimes--a "crime against peace" violating the UN Charter and the Nuremburg Charter. It would also be a strategic disaster that would dwarf even the president's collassal strategic blunder in invading Iraq.
added 2006 Mon Aug 28 5:12:59 by Blargg
A hurricane watch was issued Sunday for the Florida Keys and Gov. Jeb Bush ordered a state of emergency in anticipation of Tropical Storm Ernesto.
added 2006 Fri Aug 25 12:10:18 by TimALoftis
DEPRESSION ALMOST A TROPICAL STORM... AT 500 AM AST...0900Z...THE CENTER OF TROPICAL DEPRESSION FIVE WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 13.4 NORTH...LONGITUDE 65.7 WEST OR ABOUT 345 MILES...560 KM... SOUTH OF SAN JUAN PUERTO RICO.