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The United States Army has canceled at appeaance by aging rock star and right-wing nutcase TED NUGENT over his inflammatory comments about PRESIDENT OBAMA and others at a recent NRA convention.
Australian troops could begin pulling out from Afghanistan in the coming months and may have exited the country almost entirely by the end of next year, Prime Minister Julia Gillard of Australia said Tuesday.
That would mean that most of the more than 1,500 Australian soldiers in Afghanistan could have left a year earlier than the government had previously suggested.President
Karzai: We're ready to defend our nation
That timetable puts Australian forces on a quicker withdrawal timetable than Gillard had previously described. In a speech to parliament in November, she had said that the transition in Uruzgan might well be completed before the end of 2014.
The much-predicted Taliban spring offensive began Sunday as the armed outfit launched multiple suicide attacks and gun shots in several Afghan cities including the fortified capital city Kabul. A group of insurgents including some suicide bombers, according to police and eye witnesses, sneaked into a luxury hotel named Kabul Star in the embassy area which was also located next to a United Nations (UN) office and some government institutes.
The Taliban have launched a series of attacks on government building and military installations all across Afghanistan as the Spring Offensive gets underway.
No American troops have been killed or injured at this writing, but if the attacks continue that could change.
To read a full account of the Taliban attacks click on this link:
I would love to say I found the IED today, but I'll have to wait until I'm an 80-year-old grandpa. For now I have to tell the truth, the Afghan National Army Soldiers we were with found it. It wasn't much of a surprise, the Canadian Soldiers who are partnered with them told us last night the ANA find nine out of ten of them. It's because they've been doing it for more than six years and they know these roads and the Taliban.
While Americans traditionally take Memorial Day to look back and remember the men who have given to their country, the women who have entered the battlefield often go unnoticed. 150 female US soldiers have been killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and as Amber Stone of Military Families Speaks Out says, even once off the frontline there is a war within that is never truly silenced. Stone speaks to RT about her ordeals on and off the front.
Production of U.S. Marines with Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, taking highly accurate IDF at Patrol Base Georgetown in Kajaki Sofla, Afghanistan
REPUBLICAN ILLINOIS CONGRESSMAN JOE WALSH, who owes over $160,000 in back child support, blasted military veteran and amputee TAMMY DUCKWORTH by saying serving in the military does not qualify anyone for a political office.
Duckworth is an Iraq War veteran and former U.S. Army helicopter pilot whose severe combat wounds cost her both of her legs and damaged her right arm. She continues to serve as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Illinois Army National Guard along with her husband, Major Bryan W. Bowlsbey, a signal officer and fellow Iraq War veteran.
Perhaps the "deadbeat dad" should have told that to Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower and Sen.Bob Dole, both Republicans.
A heroic Sergeant was laid to rest Monday after giving his life for a child.
After lifting a boy out of the way of an oncoming armored vehicle, Sgt. Dennis Weichel was struck by the truck and subsequently died from injuries he sustained, according to the Associated Press. The military originally reported that Weichel had saved an Afghan girl.
A funeral service was held for Weichel on Monday in Providence, R.I. where the flags were flown at half staff, WPRI reports. He will be buried at the State Veterans Cemetery at Exeter. "I knew Weichel would do something like that because he definitely cares about people," Spec. Seth Chiaro told the news outlet.
Weichel was posthumously promoted to Sergeant and was awarded the bronze star and the NATO Service Medal Afghanistan Campaign Ribbon RI Star, the AP reports.
During the funeral service, according to WPRI, Maj. General Kevin McBride called Weichel's selfless act "a virtue we should all live by."
The IRAQI man, who was known as "Curveball," will appear in a British television interview on Monday and he plans to confess that he misled BUSH and CHENEY about WMDs in Iraq and the result was the IRAQ war was launched that cost over 4,500 American lives and 100,000 Iraqi citizens.