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U.S. troops quietly surge into Middle East

Sat, 01/14/2012 - 12:02 — Dave Culver
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Foreign Affairs
Peace & Nonviolence

  • The Pentagon has stationed nearly 15,000 troops in Kuwait, adding to a small contingent already there.
  • The Pentagon also has decided to keep two aircraft carriers and their strike groups in the region.
  • Our future depends on stopping an attack on Iran

David S. Cloud, San Franciso (CA) Chronicle

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The Pentagon has quietly shifted combat troops and warships to the Middle East after the top American commander in the region warned that he needed additional forces to deal with Iran and other potential threats, U.S. officials said.

Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, who heads U.S. Central Command, won White House approval for the deployments late last year after talks with the government in Baghdad broke down over keeping U.S. troops in Iraq, but the extent of the Pentagon moves is only now becoming clear.

More...

Our future depends on stopping an attack on Iran, Harvey Wasserman,  IntrepidReport.com

  • The hypocrisy of the 1% railing against bombs allegedly flowing from Iran’s “Peaceful Atom” program comes in unholy tandem with the corporate push for a “nuclear renaissance” peddling these same reactors all over the world. (It helps to remember that the nuclear industry once tried to sell 36 “peaceful” reactors to the Shah).
  • Slanting the Case on Iran’s Nukes
  • 'World fears US as a war-hungry drunk' - ex-US Senator
     

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