Articles from 'November 2009'
Supreme Court decision lets Pentagon keep detainee photos secret
Washington - The US Supreme Court Monday vacated a federal appeals court ruling requiring disclosure of a cache of photos allegedly depicting abuse of US-held ...
A troop surge can only magnify the crime against Afghanistan
After months of waiting, President Obama is about to announce the new US strategy for Afghanistan. His speech may be long awaited, but few are ...
Anti-war protesters startle Seattle's holiday shoppers
SEATTLE - A bizarre scene unfolded amid the festive holiday atmosphere at Westlake Center on Saturday, as men in U.S. military uniforms stormed through the ...
Senator: Delay health care to focus on Afghan war
WASHINGTON — Postpone the health care overhaul until next year so Congress can concentrate on how to pay for President Barack Obama's expected plans for ...
An Open Letter to President Obama from Michael Moore
Dear President Obama, Do you really want to be the new "war president"? If you go to West Point tomorrow night (Tuesday, 8pm) and announce ...
Senators split on exit strategy and funding to continue war in Afghanistan
The second ranking Republican in the Senate urged President Barack Obama not to speak of an exit strategy when he announces his Afghanistan decision Tuesday, ...
A Last-Minute Meeting On Afghanistan
President Obama convened a last-minute meeting of his national security team tonight to discuss the language that his administration will use to describe its new ...
Poll: Afghanistan Troop Increase Unpopular
Fewer than one in three Americans believe the number of troops in Afghanistan should be increased, a new CBS News/New York Times poll finds, despite ...
Afghanistan troop surge could test alliance between Obama, Pelosi
If President Barack Obama announces next week he's sending more than 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, as he's expected to do, most members of Congress ...
Democrats in revolt over Barack Obama’s troop surge
Barack Obama's much-vaunted eloquence faces the biggest test of his presidential career this week when he takes to the stage at West Point military academy ...
Bernanke Forgot About His Role In Causing the Great Recession
Ben Bernanke's column in the Washington Post has to be absolutely infuriating to anyone old enough to remember the events of 2008. In this column, ...
After 8 years, many feeling ripples of Afghanistan war
President Obama addresses the nation Tuesday on the war in Afghanistan, and he is widely expected to add roughly 30,000 troops to the 68,000 already ...
Anti-Taliban leader killed
KHAR, Pakistan - A key anti-Taliban tribal leader was assassinated yesterday in a roadside bombing, the latest in a series of attacks against pro-government militias ...
Inouye wants more Afghanistan war funds considered by authorizers
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye has indicated that he won’t approve any additional request for Afghanistan war money without proper debate and scrutiny.Inouye (D-Hawaii) ...
Obey’s right about cost of Afghan escalation
President Obama plans to announce on Dec. 1 his decision on the request from some of his more ambitious generals for a troop surge in ...
U.S. will be out of Afghanistan by 2017: White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will not be in Afghanistan eight years from now, the White House said on Wednesday, as President Barack Obama ...
Stabilizing Afghanistan may take at least four years, McChrystal says
WASHINGTON — The week before a major presidential speech on Afghanistan strategy, Gen. Stanley McChrystal told lawmakers touring the combat zone that it could take ...
Tell us, Mr. President, how to exit Afghanistan
PRESIDENT Obama's highly anticipated national address on Afghanistan must focus on one central theme: ending America's involvement in that muddled conflict. Obama truly makes the ...
U.S. faces 'absolute defeat,' Taliban leader purportedly says
(CNN) -- The United States and its allies are facing "an absolute defeat" against the Taliban in Afghanistan even if additional troops are sent, according ...
Germany's Doubts About Afghanistan Grow After Revelations About Air Strike
It was a great scoop. "Did Minister Jung conceal the truth?" Germany's mass-circulation tabloid Bild demanded to know Thursday in a story focused on the ...
House Democrats from the Bay Area line up against Obama's expected troop surge in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON — As President Barack Obama prepares to announce his long-awaited decision on Afghanistan, many war-weary Democrats in Congress are holding their tongues, uneasy about ...
President vs. party on troop increase
President Obama will reveal his new Afghanistan war strategy in a speech Tuesday evening to cadets at West Point, but his most skeptical audience is ...
Get Ready for the Obama/GOP Alliance
With President Obama pushing a huge troop escalation in Afghanistan, history may well repeat itself with a vengeance. And it's not just the apt comparison ...
Kaptur Takes on Foreclosures
Before President Bush left office, Representative Marcy Kaptur visited then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Jr. and presented him with a list of all of the people ...
Rising military suicides
More U.S. military personnel have taken their own lives so far in 2009 than have been killed in either the Afghanistan or Iraq wars this ...
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