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Vera Lynn sings one of the most popular songs of World War II--"Auf Wiedersehn."
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TOUCHING video of dogs attacking suicide bomber in Iraq and Afghanistan
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AC-130 GUNSHIP takes out Taliban safe house.
This CBS reports shows what some of the 66,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan had for Thanksgiving Day dinner and how they celebrated the day.
Click on this link for full story and pics: http://tiny.cc/95s7nw
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After more than eight months in Afghanistan, the Soldiers of the North Carolina National Guard's Operational Support Aviation Detachment 17, based here, came home on Nov. 21, 2012. Friends, family and fellow Soldiers greeted them when they arrived at their home base at Army Aviation Support Facility No. 1 adjacent to RDU International Airport.
Susan Rice, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, was dispatched by the Obama White House to Sunday morning TV talk shows right after the attack on the Benghazi, Libya compound which killed the US Ambassador and three other Americans.
In this news report and video, Rice explains for the first time how she was only following what had been declassified by the CIA, other intelligence agencies and the White House.
Fox News and Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsay Graham have unleashed a brutal attack on Rice which she calls completely "unfounded."
Rice is being considered for the job of Secretary of State when Hillary Clinton steps down in the next month or two.
McCain said Rice was not smart enough for the job and yet Rice graduated with honors from Stanford University and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and received her Phd in political science from Oxford University.
It is worthy to note McCain is the same person who named Sarah Palin as his Vice President candidate in the 2004 campaign based on the fact Palin said she could see Russia from her front porch.
Here is the link to the full story and video of Susan Rice: http://tiny.cc/8j45nw
Bill Corcoran
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Taliban forces are caught on helmet cam ambushing US Army in Kunduz Afghanistan
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Helmet cam captures intense firefight between U.S. forces and Taliban in Afghanistan.
Congressional House Republicans proved beyond a shadow of a doubt they are the scum of the earth in the way they have attacked U.S. Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice.
Rice, who is a graduate of Stanford University, a Rhodes Scholar and who earned a Phd from Oxford University, was said to be too dumb for the job of Secretary of State by Republican Senator John McCain.
Many in the Democratic party think the attack on Susan Rice is racially movtivated. She is an African American like Attorney General Eric Holder, Special White House Assistant Valerie Jarrett and, of course, President Obama who have all been the victims of "dog whistles" and "code words" used by Angry White Male Republicans who put on public display their racism on a daily basis.
You can read the full story here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/19/house-republicans-susan-rice_n_2162419.html?ir=Politics
As I look at what we now know the intelligence community was saying that week -- and I look at Ambassador Rice's statements on television on the following Sunday morning, I don't find anything inconsistent between those two. But, I must tell you that I think we are focusing on questions that are not insignificant but they are not the most significant. Of course, there was a terrorist attack. Whether or not there was a protest before it is interesting, but not that critical to me. There was a terrorist attack and the question is: who did it?
In a letter to Obama, the 97 Republicans said the credibility of the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has been gravely wounded by her account of the September 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. The letter says Rice "propagated a falsehood" that the attacks were a spontaneous response to a video that depicted the Prophet Muhammed. The administration then said more than a week later that terrorism may have played a role.
"Ambassador Rice is widely viewed as having either willfully or incompetently misled the American public in the Benghazi matter," it says. "Her actions plausibly give U.S. allies (and rivals) abroad reason to question U.S. commitment and credibility when needed.
So I wonder why we are starting this new Congress with a protracted debate about a foregone conclusion… . I can only conclude we are doing this for no other reason than lingering bitterness at the outcome of the elections… . We all have varying policy views, but the President, in my view, has a clear right to put in place the team he believed would serve him best.
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A Standard Patrol In Afghanistan When Their Convoy Stopped To Check Out Their Surroundings.
Then Out Of The Blue Small Arms Fire Was Directed At Them.
One Marine Got Shot Just Above His Ass.
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Attacks on US-led troops are rapidly rising in Afghanistan. But it is mostly Afghan security forces who target them-not the Taliban alone. These attacks are known as Green on Blue.
But they were killed for different reasons. They say they turned their weapons on US-led forces either because of combat stress or disrespect to Islamic values by foreign troops. These attacks have jumped, especially after the burning of the Holy Quran by American forces in Bagram Air Base this year.
Green on blue attacks have greatly affected that relations between Afghan forces and US-led troops too. They do not trust each other very much now. US forces have stepped up security around and inside their bases. Most joint military compounds have also been separated. And both US and Afghan government seem worried about this trend.
Fayez Khorshid, Press TV, Kabul
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A MK-48 gunner is engaged in an intense firefight with 10-15 insurgents 50-100 meters away in Afghanistan. An A-10 is called in to engage with it's 30mm cannon on the enemy positions striking several times
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DAVID PETRAEUS, who recently resigned at head of the CIA, will testify behind closed doors to a select committee of Congress on Friday on what he discovered happened before and during the attack on U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya.
CNN is reporting in this video that CIA officials claim everything FOX NEWS has been reporting about the Benghazi attack is either false or a flat out lie.
Republicans are desperately trying to pin what happened on President Obama, but like everything that takes place in a theater of war everything that has been said by Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsay Graham is pure speculation or an attempt to muddy the waters using conspiracy techniques.
It is very possible nobody will ever know for sure what happened to the four Americans who were killed in Benghazi because "the fog of war" is always guesswork at best.
The major lesson to be learned from this Republican led dog and pony show is never trust FOX NEWS because they are not a news organization, but a propaganda arm of the Republican Party.
Remember this: Close to 200 U.S. Marines were killed in Lebanon in 1983 when Ronald Reagan was President and nobody called for an investigation.
Also, over 4,700 young Americans were killed in the Iraq war started with lies by George Bush and Dick Cheney about Saddam Hussein having WMDs and a nuclear bomb and nobody called for an investigation when it was found Saddam Hussein didn't have WMDs or a nuclear bomb.
The U.S. Military has been rocked by a second sex scandal this time involving eight commanders and 50 victims at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas.
Read the full story here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/14/lackland-scandal-petraeus-allen_n_2133660.html
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1080p GoPro footage of a Minigun being used to engage enemy positions by U.S. Special Forces in Afghanistan. This video has been cleared for opsec. This footage is part of the ongoing documentation of war in Afghanistan.
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Army unit lays down suppressing fire and moves in to seize insurgent drug compound.
