24 Wednesday Apr 2013
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Lawmakers are upset that the Pentagon kept giving billions of dollars to a food supplier for U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
Pentagon claims $757 million overbilling by contractor in Afghanistan
13 Saturday Apr 2013
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17 Monday Sep 2012
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07 Tuesday Aug 2012
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Jimmy Tiberius Carter (The 39th US President)
Back in 1980, Thinksquad would be turning 10 in September, but during that very summer, our not so famous US President, Jimmy Carter, wanted to take the moral high ground and boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics, being held in Moscow. Many athletes were pissed knowing full well they could win a gold but not being allowed to compete. The US got 65 other countries not to compete in the 1980 Summer Olympics as well.
In Soviet Russia, we can win more gold medals, if no one shows up
Now you are asking me, BUT WHY THINKSQUAD? Well my loyal reader, the US did not compete, because of the 1979 Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan.
Yes, Exactly!
Yes already!
It would not be till I graduate high school in 1989, eight years after Carter left office, that the bankrupt Soviet Union, through war, left Afghanistan.
20 Wednesday Jun 2012
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Afghanistan, Election, foreign policy, Forward, Iran, Iraq, Obama, war
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20 Wednesday Jun 2012
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20 Wednesday Jun 2012
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25 Saturday Jun 2011
America’s wars are forcing Afghans and Iraqis to flee their homes in greater numbers. According to a recent U.N. High Commission for Refugees study, nearly one half of the world’s refugees are from Afghanistan and Iraq, 3.05 million and 1.68 million, respectively. But neither the United States nor much of the developed world bears the burden of the 10.55 million refugees under the UNHCR’s purview globally. Instead, Pakistan, Iran, and Syria serve as the top host countries. The Economist has charted the numbers.
23 Monday Aug 2010
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Since the war started in 2001, a milestone of 2000 deaths for the allied forces was reached last week. With the US accounting for 60% of the total dead.
According to www.iCasualties.org, an independent website that monitors foreign troop deaths, 2023 troops have been killed since 2001, 1,242 of them Americans. British losses total 332, with the remaining 449 shared among the other 44 coalition partners.
Now over in Iraq, where coalition forces are winding down, but we all know we are never leaving that country,( ask the Japanese if we ever left their country, and that been since World War II) the death toll from that war is 5,623, and 31,882 wounded from the war, and suicides are up according to Veteran’s Affairs.
On the flip side of the coin, We have killed 97,362-106,246 Iraqis,
and in Afghanistan, they estimate at least 11,443 – 14,240 civilian deaths.
