U.S. President Barack Obama is about to announce progress in the "War on Terror(ism)" in Afghanistan - ostensible proof that his "surge" strategy is working. But is progress really being achieved? A pair of classified intelligence reports published in The New York Times on Wednesday morning paint
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A week after U.S. President Barack Obama took a victory lap around his newly-appointed Oval Office to trumpet the end of combat operations in Iraq, two American soldiers were gunned down at an Army base north of Baghdad. The attack was not as a result of combat operations, however. The American soldiers
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More than seven years after it began, Operation Iraqi Freedom was declared "over" by U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday - although it is unclear whether Obama's "fulfillment" of his promise to end combat operations by August 31 will benefit him politically (or end the war). "We have met our responsibility,"
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An unidentified U.S. soldier was killed in a rocket attack mere hours after the "last American combat brigade" left Iraq ... a sign of how the highly-publicized American troop withdrawal doesn't mean an end to the Iraq war (or its casualties). That's because America still has 50,000 troops stationed
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By FITSNews || Improvised explosive devices killed three American soldiers in Afghanistan on Thursday, bringing the U.S. death toll for July to 63 - the bloodiest month in the history of the nine-year war. According to the Associated Press, 60 American soldiers died in June. Since 2001, more than
Read story »By FITSNews || We'd heard the buzz surrounding The Hurt Locker, which swept the recent BAFTA awards and tied James Cameron's Avatar with nine Academy Award nominations. But is the flic - which tells the story of a military bomb squad in Iraq - really as good as advertised? Honestly? It was better. In
Read story »Turns out the "American Way" is still the way. For many U.S. companies, business is good and capitalism is thriving. The catch is that this is true only for some American companies – specifically, those which do business primarily overseas. As domestic mercantilism has faltered, revenue has soared
Read story »ARE AMERICAN MILITARY DEATHS UNDER BUSH AND CLINTON COMPARABLE? FITSNews - June 24, 2008 - So here's a trick question: Have more U.S. soldiers died under the war-happy presidency of George W. Bush or the blissfully ignorant peacetime years that marked the Bill Clinton era? Of course the answer
Read story »CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE NOW SEEKS TO DISTANCE HIMSELF FROM INTELLIGENCE ROLE IN BUSH ADMINISTRATION FITSNews - May 29, 2008 - A Democrat running for U.S. Congress in South Carolina served as the Bush administration's Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Oversight - a high-profile position
Read story »PRESIDENT'S EX-SPOKESMAN FIRES AWAY ON IRAQ WAR, HIS FORMER BOSS FITSNews - May 28, 2008 - We'll be bringing you an interesting story later this week about a South Carolina connection to all of this, but for now the statements from former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan are worth examining
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