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Is BP Oil Spill Helping Obama on Afghanistan War?

June 20, 2010
By David Corn
Is BP Oil Spill Helping Obama on Afghanistan War?

Filed under: Deep Background, Oil SpillThe spill has put coverage of the war on a back burner. Considering how poorly the war is going, that's a good thing for the administration. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs&nbs...
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Allegation: Some Contractors in Afghanistan Paying Protection Money to Taliban

December 20, 2009
By David Wood
Allegation: Some Contractors in Afghanistan Paying Protection Money to Taliban

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Some international contractors, hired by the United States to build roads and other large construction projects in Afghanistan, are paying Taliban insurgents not to attack them and to act as their security guards, according to allegations filed with the Pentagon and other U.S. investigative...
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Reserve Recall and Stop-Loss: The Army Just Can’t Get Enough of Sgt. Zemcik

September 8, 2010
By David Wood
Reserve Recall and Stop-Loss: The Army Just Can’t Get Enough of Sgt. Zemcik

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Robert Zemcik had just been whacked in the head when we sat down under a shade tree so I could hear his story.
Here in north-central Afghanistan, Sgt. Zemcik is a turret gunner on a Caiman armored truck, which puts him some 12 feet off the ground. Coming back...
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A Death in Afghanistan

September 8, 2010
By David Wood
A Death in Afghanistan

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More than 5,000 American servicemen and women have been killed in action since 9/11. Some of them I knew.
Why is this one hitting me so hard?
I think it's because Bill Cahir struggled so openly with the conflicting responsibilities of home and...
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Defense Secretary: McChrystal Report Won’t Request More Troops in Afghanistan

September 8, 2010
By Ria Misra

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Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top commander in Afghanistan, is set to submit an assessment on the war within the next few weeks. On Thursday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said at least one thing would be missing from the...
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Women in Combat: GI Jane Goes to Iraq and Afghanistan

September 8, 2010
By Alex Wagner

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Given the ever-shifting measures of success regarding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it's heartening to know that one major battle is being won, decisively. Monday's New York Times reports that the fight to integrate female soldiers...
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Children of War: An Afghan Boy and his Little Sister

September 8, 2010
By David Wood
Children of War: An Afghan Boy and his Little Sister

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BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan -- This war's wounded are collected from outposts around Afghanistan by C-130 aeromedical flights. The planes land here with the broken and lacerated bodies of young Americans, lying comatose in casts and bandages among their intravenous tubes and their...
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Thanks, Ted, From the War Zone

September 8, 2010
By David Wood
Thanks, Ted, From the War Zone

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FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan -- Jouncing along a dusty road the other day in one of the huge armored trucks called MRAPs, built to protect troops from bomb blast, I had a sudden vision of Ted Kennedy's intense blue eyes boring into...
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