You don’t need Obama here,” “I bought the cow.”

This is Firebase Vimoto, named for Pfc. Timothy R. Vimoto, an American soldier killed in the valley two years ago. If all goes according to the Pentagon’s plan, this tiny perimeter — home to an Afghan platoon and two Marine Corps infantrymen — contains the future of Afghanistan. The Obama administration hopes that eventually the Afghan soldiers

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Donkeys gone wild

A senior British Army officer and six other military personnel survived an attack when a tethered donkey laden with explosives was detonated as their armored vehicle passed in southern Afghanistan.

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Al -Qaeda’s Ultimatum

Al-Qaeda’s North African arm has threatened to kill a British hostage within 20 days unless Britain releases the extremist cleric Abu Qatada from a maximum security jail.In a message posted on a well-known jihadist website, the group demanded the release of the Palestinian preacher in return for that of a British hostage captured this year.

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1976: The Epidemic That Never Was

On the cold afternoon of February 5, 1976, an Army recruit told his drill instructor at Fort Dix that he felt tired and weak but not sick enough to see military medics or skip a big training hike.Within 24 hours, 19-year-old Pvt. David Lewis of Ashley Falls, Mass., was dead, killed by an influenza not seen since the plague of 1918-19,

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Soldier Disfigured in Blast Aims for Physical Recovery

SAN ANTONIO — Sgt. Darron Mikeworth's first glimpse in the mirror was largely a blur.He'd just come out of a drug-induced coma three weeks after a bomber blew up his Humvee in Iraq.Mikeworth awoke in a bed at Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio.

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The West Coast Plot: An "Inconvenient Truth"

Critics of the CIA program are desperate to convince Americans that no valuable information came from the interrogations of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) and other senior terrorists. They know that if our citizens learn the details of how enhanced interrogations stopped terrorist plots, most would support the CIA program.

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These are Funny Enjoy your Sunday...

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Vietnam vet from Ariel decorated for saving ship

I should have died. I shouldn’t be here today, but for the grace of God I Go,” Allardyce told me a few weeks ago. “This is the first time I ever told this story to anybody. I want to tell it before I die of cancer.”

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Legion leader accepts apology from Napolitano

"[Ms. Napolitano] said the report was not worthy of the department or the veterans of this country," Mr. Rehbein said. "She gave us some explanation of how the report went out before it should have been released, before it was properly vetted by the senior leadership of the department."She was very sincere. She used the words 'I'm sorry'

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Somali Pirates Form Unholy Alliance with Islamists

Warships have done little to deter Somalia's pirates. But now it seems that terror on the High Seas is making an unlikely alliance with Islamic terror inland. It's a terrifying alliance: The pirates supply money and arms, while the Islamists have troops and the power on land.

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Bush Saved 100,000 ++ Iraqis From Sadam & Clinton Embargo

So how do Bush's numbers compare to the slaughter during Saddam Hussein's reign or the deadly embargo kept in place during the Clinton years? The numbers have been crunched and you will be amazed.....

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John Rich’s powerful video about the loss of American Manufa

How Wall St and The Bankster's are shuting down and destroying American middle class lives.

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Platoon Fights for its Life in Taliban Ambush

A Soldier caught in an ambush - looking for safety while returning fire, with ears ringing and skin pouring sweat - can feel utterly alone, trapped in a box of crisscrossing lead and terrifying sound, with death an instant away.He is actually part of something more complicated. Bullets flew down into the river bed from three sides.

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In One Battle, Nine Earn Valor Awards

"When we went to enter the house, all hell broke loose."McCaffery was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for Valor for what he did as bullets whizzed around him.His entire unit, 10th Group's 3rd Battalion was honored with the Army's Valorious Unit Award for their collective actions that helped turned the tide in Iraq during the 2007 surge

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Tea Party Spin:The Story Inside The Story

It's funny and quite telling how the various news agencies seem so eager to cover up in lieu of providing legitimate coverage for the event. Either they are looking away because the story did not involve six women wearing pink boas or quite possibly someone is afraid that not all is well in Obamaland-and that just won't do.

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Army Sharpshooters to Get SEAL Sniper Rifle

It's not just elite Navy SEALs who get to plink their sniper targets with a new high-speed semi-auto rifle designed to replace their Vietnam-era, bolt-action predecessors. Soon even Joes scanning mountain redoubts in craggy Afghanistan will have the same tools to take out insurgents that elite Frogmen do.

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Information Overload: How do you know what to trust nowadays

We on the Right have several problems, but a big one is that crazy stuff can come in mainstream packages and trick all of us.The latest escapade - and I don’t even know what to believe myself, I’m just reading the sources and pretty much withholding judgment - involves a Department of Homeland Security report

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Murtha immune from Marine's defamation suit

Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) is immune from a defamation suit filed against him by a U.S. Marine, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday.Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich filed suit against Murtha, claiming that the veteran lawmaker damaged his reputation when he told the press that Wuterich's squad in 2005 killed civilians in cold blood in Haditha, Iraq.

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Surviving in a post-American world

Somewhere between apologizing for American history — both distant and recent; genuflecting before the unelected, bigoted king of Saudi Arabia; announcing that he will slash the US's nuclear arsenal, scrap much of America's missile defense programs and emasculate the US Navy; leaving Japan to face North Korea and China alone...

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Thomas Jefferson and Barak Obama - Dealing with Pirates

The Navy’s efforts are highly commendable, but Presiden's orders are troubling and present us with questions. Did Obama’s administration plan to negotiate and pay a ransom? Mr. Obama is well acquainted with the Qur’an in its original, is his knowledge of America’s history just as embarrassing as his many faux pas at the the recent G20 Summit?

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