Official: Several Gadhafi grandchildren also die in attack that killed son. - CNN
"The Guantanamo Files": As Acts of War or Despair, Suicides Rattle a Prison - NYTimes
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The Kill Team - Rolling Stone
How U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan murdered innocent civilians and mutilated their corpses – and how their officers failed to stop them. Plus: An exclusive look at the war crime photos censored by the Pentagon
“Reagan was much different than Obama. Reagan invited the bipartisan leadership to the White House – Lugar as SFRC Chair – and told them planes were on their way to Libya for the sole mission of taking out Gadhafi, because of the intelligence that he had personally ordered the murder on a US soldier at a Berlin bar. Reagan said if anyone objected, he would order the planes turned around. No one, including Byrd, objected. …”
“The President is acting (Actions against Libya) outside of the authority of the constitution.” - Rep. Dennis Kucinich
MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer went on to list all of the Presidents who used military action without consent from congress which lead Kucinich to hold up his pocket constitution as she continued.
“Defending The Future Of The Nation”
ALERT: General Petraeus reportedly out in Afghanistan
“This is what it looks like when wars end.” - Rachel Maddow
“My dear sweet mother, now in heaven, taught us as kids never to use braggadocio,” the elder Bush said, reading from a script. “…There are a few things I probably could have done better, but in the case of Desert Storm I honestly think history will say we got this one right.”
CNN Poll: 63% Oppose Afghan War
“The war has not always been unpopular – back in March, when a majority thought that the war was going well, the country was evenly divided. But by September, the number who said that things were going well for the U.S. in Afghanistan had dropped to 44 percent, and opposition to the war had grown to 58 percent,” says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. “Today, with Americans remaining pessimistic about the situation in Afghanistan, they also remain opposed to the war.”
While the United States might be at war in Afghanistan, many of the people we are trying to fight seem to be taking refuge in Pakistan. While the government won’t acknowledge it, there is a massive operation using unmanned aircraft to hunt and kill militants in Pakistan. The New America Foundation has been tracking these operations since 2004, and their numbers show that as the war in Afghanistan winds down, our attacks in Pakistan are increasing. (Good)
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“Cenk Uygur: Let me be specific on the issues. Afghanistan; let’s say the Rand Paul wing comes to you and says, “look we’ve got to get out of there. The military is talking about 2014, we’re bleeding lives, we’re bleeding money, let’s defunded it.” Are you guys open to that?
Rep. Anthony Weiner: I think there are a lot of us who are open to that even before Rand Paul came on to the scene.”
“I’m a Christian. I don’t want to kill. But if some guy wants to go see Allah, I’m happy to help him. I’m a Muslim pimp: I’ll get him his 40 virgins. I just wanna leave as a warrior not a fucking bitch.”
