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(CNN) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday welcomed U.S. President Barack Obama's plans for a U.S. troops drawdown... "The number of troops that he has announced to be withdrawn is a sign that Afghanistan is taking over its own security and is trying to defend its territory by its own means," Karzai said. "So we are happy about the announcement." As the United States pulls back, Karzai painted a picture of a more stable Afghanistan, despite the fact that May was the bloodiest month for Afghan civilians since 2007. "It is the responsibility of the Afghan people to protect...

KABUL, Afghanistan (Jan. 15, 2011) — Afghan and coalition forces targeted a Taliban facilitator during an operation yesterday, killing several armed insurgents in Wardak province. The targeted Taliban facilitator operates in Nerkh district, providing weapons and improvised explosive device components to local Taliban leaders and insurgents. He is in direct contact and supports the Taliban leaders for the area. Intelligence reports led the security force to the targeted compound in Nerkh district. Armed insurgents were observed leaving the compound as the security force arrived. The security force secured the compound and moved to interdict the evading armed insurgents. As the...

William Tecumseh Sherman is either a hated war criminal or a honored war hero in the United States in this article I do not debate this point but only draw upon his wisdom as it applies to war. In what follows I will apply this wisdom to our present long and destined to be longer war against the World Islamic Terrorist Organizations. The wars in Iraq, Afghanistan have been the subject of a great deal of controversy in the last decade. The words “Bush’s war” and the questions of the Iraq war’s legality have been the subject of many a...

KABUL, March 5, 2010 – The commander of NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan has issued new rules governing night raids, acknowledging that although they can have value militarily, they also can foster ill will toward international forces on the part of the Afghan people. In a written statement, International Security Assistance Force officials released unclassified portions of Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal’s new guidance “to ensure a broader awareness of [its] intent and scope.” “We are in a war of perceptions,” the new guidance says. “Our forces operate far from home with selfless courage, admirable intentions, and impressive precision...

The ubiquitous yellow jugs joined to the hips of Florida pool owners are different icons in Afghanistan. They’re the carriers of fertilizer and diesel fuel terrorists use to blow up our boys with roadside bombs called IED’s. Question: “Was it our general and not our President doing the dithering in the 90 days of contemplation before Obama released 30,000 more of our boys to be fed into the maw of a war we refuse to win?” In a recent NPR interview Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman (just returned from being “in country,”) told hostess Renee Montagne he observed our Marines tracking...

VETERANS' TRUTH PROJECT Recent Veterans: We Need Your Stories Why? Because these are stories every American needs to hear. When it comes to military service, most Americans just don’t get it. Why should they? Only soldiers know about the REAL military, the military that doesn’t get shown on the evening news or featured in recruitment commercials. The result? • Kids keep signing up without knowing what it’s really like. • Veterans keep coming home to communities that don’t understand what they have been through. • Americans go about their daily lives, oblivious to the fact that a WAR is being...

DEBUNKING CINDY SHEEHANHEAR ABE LINCOLN/JOHNNY CASH + PBS' NEIL CONANby Mia T, 8.31.05 (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE)   "You tell me the truth. You tell me that my son died for oil. You tell me that my son died to make your friends rich. You tell me my son died to spread the cancer of Pax Americana, imperialism in the Middle East."--Cindy Sheehan "And if you think I won't say bulls**t to the President, I say move on, cause I'll say what's on my mind."--Cindy Sheehan   The trusty triad's half-truths, exaggerations and outright lies,...

BIN LADEN 'IN AFGAHANISTAN' Osama bin Lada is alive and living in Afghanistan, according to the country's president Hamid Karzai. It is not known where the al Qaeda is hiding out, but previous reports have put him on the tribal borders with Pakistan. Mr Karzai said that was accurate. His remarks come as Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, a main ally of bin Laden, vowed to continue a holy war against the US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan. The US military in Afghanistan said this week it was confident of capturing bin Laden this year as well as Mullah Omar and...