Cenk Uygur notes that “the media missed” a false statement from Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) recent CBS interview where he incorrectly claimed the surge “began the Anbar Awakening.
Blackfive posted this email yesterday and has another supporting account (added below in an update) from another member of the military who was also present during Obama's carefully scripted P.R. World Tour.
The screencap captures it nicely: Heather Wilson, smiling. Robert Wexler, mouth agape. On this afternoon's Hardball, the feisty, brilliant [bio: high honors Air Force Academy grad, Rhodes Scholar] GOP representative from New Mexico took on the duo of the combative congressman from Florida and host Chris Matthews, and walked away a winner.
An ex-US narcotics official accuses President Hamid Karzai of obstructing efforts to tackle the Afghan drugs trade.
WASHINGTON - The towering trucks that give U.S. troops the best protection against roadside bombs and enemy bullets also make them vulnerable to routine hazards like sharp turns, rutted roads and rickety bridges.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghan officials say three Taliban militants have been killed in clashes with police in southern Afghanistan.
Violence and government interference seen as threats to elections being scheduled for a year from now
KABUL -- U.S. and NATO military officials in Afghanistan have launched investigations into three separate U.S.-led airstrikes that Afghan officials say killed at least 78 civilians this month.
If there was any section of Obamaamp;#39;s speech that was worth some real applause, it was this section:This is the moment when we must renew our res... . . .
Fierce fighting broke out in southern Afghanistan when scores of Taliban insurgents attacked an Afghan Army convoy on the main highway south of the capital.
A former U.S. anti-narcotics official says Afghan President Hamid Karzai is protecting drug traffickers that support his goverment and hindering opium poppy eradication efforts in the country.
U.S. and NATO military officials in Afghanistan have launched investigations into three separate U.S.-led airstrikes that Afghan officials say killed at least 78 civilians this month.
It was as if the fates had conspired to give Barack Obama the kind of foreign affairs photo op that a campaign manager would see only in his wildest dreams. Damp, gray Berlin was alive with bright sunshine.
Here is the much discussed video from the Islamic Jihad Union showing children being trained for battle. The Uzbek jihad group trains in Pakistan and, like its allies in al Qaeda and the Taliban, raids NATO and Afghan forces.
Fierce fighting broke out in southern Afghanistan when Taliban insurgents attacked an Afghan Army convoy on the main highway south of the capital.
Midway through his speech in Berlin, Obama brought up the awkward subject of European efforts in Afghanistan. Germans have become very opposed to the war in Afghanistan as well as Iraq. CRS noted that support for the war in Afghanistan.
BAGHDAD, July 24 -- The International Olympic Committee has banned most of Iraq's seven-member team from participating in the Beijing Games because of concerns that the Iraqi government has interfered politically in the leadership of the country's Olympic movement.
PERTH, Australia: The United States and Australia on Friday urged Pakistan to do more to control militant activity in its border areas to stem the growing insurgency in Afghanistan.
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration underscored its continued support for Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday despite fresh allegations from a former U.S. anti-drug official that Karzai is playing both sides of the effort to combat a raging drug business.
BERLINO - Tappa in Afghanistan per il ministro degli Esteri tedesco Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Per la terza volta nel paese, Steinmeier è arrivato oggi a Herat per una visita a sorpresa. Scopo d..
U.S. and NATO military officials in Afghanistan have launched investigations into three separate U.S.-led airstrikes that Afghan officials...
AFP - The United States and Australia on Friday urged Pakistan to do more to control militant activity in its border areas to stem the growing insurgency in Afghanistan.
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