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A top general says more troops aren't the answer in Afghanistan

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:56:28 GMT

clipped by: papananook
clipper's remarks: But watch the new Prez do it anyway...to seem strong...it's such bullshit.

Clip Source: www.mcclatchydc.com

There's military slang that seemingly applies to the situation on the ground in Afghanistan today. The operative acronym is FUBAR - Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition. That first letter doesn't really stand for "Fouled," and the R sometimes stands for Repair.

One of the sharper military analysts I know has just returned from a tour of that sorrowful nation, which has been at war continuously since the Soviet Army invaded it in late 1979.

Gen. Barry McCaffrey, who retired from the U.S. Army with four stars and a chest full of combat medals including two Distinguished Service Crosses, says we can't shoot our way out of Afghanistan, and the two or three or more American combat brigades proposed by the two putative nominees for president are irrelevant. » read more

Best Demolition Tools to Tear Up Your House

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:32:10 GMT

clipped by: pussycatdoll
clipper's remarks: I like a man who can tear it up.

Clip Source: www.popularmechanics.com

A sliding hammer action sinks the beakish teeth of Crescent's classic nail puller into the wood around a nail. Using the curved leg as a fulcrum, its jaws clamp shut with enough pressure to grab even a headless nail. For smaller jobs, use a hammer to pivot the newer 8-in. Version (see inset photo, $8). It grabs nails less than 5 3/2-in. in diameter, extracting them with little damage to the surrounding wood. $42 for the Crescent No. 56; $8 for the 8-in.

CLICK FOR MORE: Top 12 Demolition Tools

Crescent #56 SureGrip Nail Puller	FuBar Forcible Entry Tool	Stiletto TiBar 16	Nail Jack
Dead-on Annihilator	Duluth Grip Bar	Shark 10 in. Prybar and Nail Puller	Stanley Super Wonder Bar
Artillery Tool System	Lee Valley Box Tool	Demo Dawg	Gutster

Tags: tool

Democracy Now on McKinney, Afghanistan FUBAR

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:40:46 GMT

clipped by: papananook
clipper's remarks: See site for video--very good program.

Clip Source: www.democracynow.org

US Forces Kill Son of Iraqi Governor

Afghan Residents Criticize Obama’s Call For More Troops

Sen. McCain Suggests Obama Might Be a Socialist

UK Warns About US Torture Policies

Maryland State Police Spied on Peaceful Groups

War Resister James Burmeister Sentenced to Six Months in Jail

First All-Women-of-Color Presidential Ticket in US History: Green Party Nominee Cynthia McKinney and Running Mate Rosa Clemente on War, Democracy and Hip Hop

The Green Party made history last week when it nominated the first all-women-of-color presidential ticket in US history. Former Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who was the first African American woman elected to Congress in Georgia, won the Green Party’s nomination last Monday. She named longtime community organizer, journalist and former director of the Hip Hop Caucus, Rosa Clemente, as her running mate earlier this month. They both join us for a wide-ranging discussion on the 2008 race, the media,

fubar midget

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:00:09 GMT

clipped by: Angel_Babe

Clip Source: fubar.com

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Easy USB Encryption for Gnome

Wed, 14 May 2008 06:46:29 GMT

clipped by: StaticStrike

Clip Source: lifehacker.com

In addition to TrueCrypt, there's also the excellent FreeOTFE ( http://www.freeotfe.org ). And for those that need Windows/Linux cross-platform use, FreeOTFE offers a cool bonus. If you encrypt your partition using LUKS ( http://luks.endorphin.org/ ) it can be decrypted in Windows as usual, but the new version of GNOME offers true plug-and-play simplicity. Just plug in your USB thumbdrive, GNOME will prompt you to supply your password, and voila! (screenshot: http://blog.fubar.dk/?p=64 )

Funny Comments sought

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:49:28 GMT

clipped by: Uniec

Clip Source: www.commentyou.com

uBar Demolition Tool

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:01:47 GMT

clipped by: flipper1378

Clip Source: www.kk.org

The FuBar is a single cast piece of high carbon steel that looks like a prettied up hammer. One end has a hammer and a tearing, armour-penetrating beak, while the opposite end has a conventional pry bar and nail puller. You can use it to drive nails, but what it really excels in is F'ing things up beyond recognition -- hence FuBar. You hit something with the axe-like end until it's weakened, then hit again, twist to pry, and CRUNCH!

Skype emotions

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:12:13 GMT

clipped by: Gavin69

Clip Source: www.skype.com

:) :-)
:( :-(
:D :-D
8)
:o
;(
(sweat)
:|
:*
:P
:$
:^)
|-)
|(
(inlove)
;)
]:)
(talk)
(yawn)
(puke)
(doh)
:@
(wasntme)
(party)
:S
(mm)
8-|
:X
(hi)
(call)
(devil)
(angel)
(envy)
(wait)
(makeup)
(chuckle)
(clap)
(think)
(emo)
(rofl)
(whew)
(happy)
(nod)
(shake)
(smirk)
(punch)
(bow)
(hug)
(y)
(n)
(handshake)
(skype)
(L)
(u)
(e)
(F)
(rain)
(sun)
(o)
(music)
(~)
(mp)
(coffee)
(pizza)
(cash)
(muscle)
(^)
(beer)
(d)
(dance)
(ninja)
(*)
(mooning)
(finger)
(bandit)
(drunk)
(smoke)
(toivo)
(rock)
(headbang)
(bug)
(fubar)
(tmi)
(swear)
(poolparty)
(heidy)

Ten Clips A Day: Two Wars-FUBAR?

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:09:22 GMT

clipped by: DizzyDezzi
clipper's remarks: 3 days, 2 hours, 53 minutes to Iraq Deployment 3.0. Maybe the third time will be the charm and troops in both war zones will be able to come home within the next year...

...a girl can dream, can't she?

Clip Source: www.americablog.com

Afghanistan continues to fall

Even Kabul is close to being threatened. Chalk up another botched mission by Team Bush and his boot-licking Tony Blair. If the US wants to be a leader, it's going to have to actually lead and not run away as we've seen in Afghanistan. Moving troops out of Afghanistan and into Iraq is coming back to haunt us. It's only a matter of time before the Bush crowd starts complaining again about NATO needing to send more troops when in fact, it was the US who abandoned this war. Mission Accomplished?

Tags: afghanistan war, iraq war, ten clips a day

A 'fit' of panic is good when bad things happen

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:47:05 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cnn.com

The military has given the English language two words that brilliantly articulate different types of crises: The first is snafu, an acronym for "situation normal, all f***ed up." The second is fubar, which stands for "f***ed up beyond all recognition." As we travel the bumpy road of life, we must prepare to deal with both.

Go ahead and freak out

Levine noted that people who have physical emergency reactions often cope better with crisis, and show fewer symptoms of trauma afterward, than people who hold still. Stress compels action; in snafu situations, Mother Nature gives just one instruction to all her children, and that instruction is, "Move!"

When the unexpected strikes, find a private space and let your body do whatever it wants. Heave, kick, shake your head like a wet cat. Then let that energy flow into constructive action, whether it's contesting a credit card charge, yanking cactus spines out of your child, or slapping duct tape on a broken pipe.

Tags: stress, health, mental, crisis, emergency, nature, trauma, emotion, reaction

Perhaps Adam Curry Isn't Evil

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:33:26 GMT

clipped by: bgiltner

Clip Source: curry.podshow.com

Today’s Medium Music Fubar Friday Show is a couple days in the making after I swallowed a big red pill in London earlier in the week. So only two topic; a lightweight discussion on the crippled iPhone, and we dive deep into this fantastic piece of internet video documentary mashup that is compulsory material to watch: The ZeitGeist movie.

Direct Link to the show.

Clip Source: www.btpodshow.com

This is Ron Paul asking Fed Chairman Barnecke a Question:

http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine/short-film

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clipped from books.guardian.co.uk

Naomi Klein: What is The Shock Doctrine?

No Logo author Naomi Klein explains the argument underpinning her new book

Friday September 7 2007

Tags: 9/11 truth

Petraeus goes back on promise to assess surge in Sept.

Thu, 17 May 2007 19:03:18 GMT

clipped by: jklugman
clipper's remarks: As late as April 26th David Petraeus promised that we would know whether things were working out by September:

General Petraeus said he and the American ambassador to Iraq, Ryan C. Crocker, intended to stick by a vow to offer the White House and the Pentagon an assessment of the progress of the new strategy by early September. And he signaled that he hoped for political progress in Iraq, not just military improvements.

''We'll have seen whether in fact our efforts in these areas have helped produce the kind of progress that they are designed in fact to produce,'' he said. ''One would certainly hope that the Iraqi legislators would match that with their own hard work. That's our expectation.''

(from the New York Times, "US Commander Says Fall Pullback in Iraq Would Lead to More Sectarian Killings", by David S. Cloud and Michael R. Gordon, April 26th)

Clip Source: www.iraqslogger.com

Baghdad – Three months into the job, General David Petraeus says it is difficult to predict how well the surge of troops in Baghdad will succeed before the full number of troops arrive and that he would not have a definitive answer about prospects for stability by September, when he is to report back to Congress.

“I think generally is is still early days. We are literally still just setting the footprint if you will to do what we intend to achieve but until we get all those forces in and have really worked with them for a while I think it’s difficult to see what’s going to happen,” he told me in an interview Tuesday evening.

Tags: david petraeus, promises, iraq, fubar

Bush endangering troops by not planning for withdrawal

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:24:14 GMT

clipped by: jklugman
clipper's remarks: Mark Thoma reproduces part of a National Journal article that points out that troop withdrawal can be very dangerous for the troops, and by failing to plan for it the Bush administration is increasing the odds for a chaotic, difficult, and dangerous withdrawal for the US troops when withdrawal does come.

Clip Source: economistsview.typepad.com

in all probability, the United States is going to draw down some or most of its troops from Iraq sooner or later, regardless of whether the surge ends up pacifying Baghdad or not (likely not). Military experts all agree that pulling out could end up being the most difficult and treacherous phase of the entire war. But the Pentagon can’t really plan for withdrawal because the president doesn’t want to discuss it.

As you pull forces out, it reverses, and your strength curve goes down, and the situation becomes steadily more dangerous. It's most dangerous for the very last squad that leaves the country. That's why you saw helicopters on the rooftops of the Saigon embassy in 1975."

The military could take a host of steps to help mitigate the risks of a U.S. troop drawdown... [But] ... It's almost impossible for the military to seriously plan for a contingency -- withdrawal -- that the commander-in-chief won't even discuss, Sinnreich noted.

Tags: bush administration, iraq, fubar, incompetence, war

US officer: our generals are not worthy of our soldiers

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:20:04 GMT

clipped by: jklugman
clipper's remarks: Lt. Col. Paul Yingling wrote an article in the Armed Forces Journal that says that lack of accountability has resulted in generals who are basically toadies of the civilian leadership, failed to confront the seriousness of the insurgency in Iraq, and misled the public about the situation there.

Via Richard Adams at the Guardian News Blog.

Clip Source: www.washingtonpost.com

An active-duty Army officer is publishing a blistering article attacking U.S. generals, saying they have botched the war in Iraq and also misled Congress about the situation there.

"America's generals have repeated the mistakes of Vietnam in Iraq," charges Lt. Col. Paul Yingling, an Iraq veteran who is deputy commander of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment. "The intellectual and moral failures . . . constitute a crisis in American generals."

Its appearance signals the public emergence of a split inside the military among younger, mid-career officers and the top brass.

America's general officer corps did not accurately portray the intensity of the insurgency to the American public," he writes. "For reasons that are not yet clear, America's general officer corps underestimated the strength of the enemy, overestimated the capabilities of Iraq's government and security forces and failed to provide Congress with an accurate assessment of security conditions in Iraq."

Tags: iraq, military, army, paul yingling, incompetence, fubar, soldiers

White House backtracking on temporary surge

Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:12:15 GMT

clipped by: jklugman
clipper's remarks:

Basra, Iraq (AHN)-During a news conference with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, the top U.S. commander in Iraq Gen. George Casey estimated that the 21,500 additional U.S. troops sent to Iraq will only need to stay until around late summer.[1]

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

WASHINGTON, April 27 — The Bush administration will not try to assess whether the troop increase in Iraq is producing signs of political progress or greater security until September, and many of Mr. Bush’s top advisers now anticipate that any gains by then will be limited, according to senior administration officials.

In interviews over the past week, the officials made clear that the White House is gradually scaling back its expectations for the government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki. The timelines they are now discussing suggest that the White House may maintain the increased numbers of American troops in Iraq well into next year.

Tags: iraq, bush administration, promises, deception, fubar