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Timeline of United States military operations . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_military_operations#1990.E2.80.931999
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1990 . . . Saudi Arabia. On August 9, 1990, President Bush reported that he launched Operation Desert Shield by ordering the forward deployment of substantial elements of the U.S. armed forces into the Persian Gulf region to help defend Saudi Arabia after the August 2 invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. On November 16, 1990, he reported the continued buildup of the forces to ensure an adequate offensive military option . . . American hostages being held in Iran . . . Staging point for the troops was primarily Bagram air field . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War#Operation_Desert_Shield
1991 . . . Iraq and Kuwait. Operation Desert Storm: On January 16, 1991, in response to the refusal by Iraq to leave Kuwait, U.S. and Coalition aircraft attacked Iraqi forces and military targets in Iraq and Kuwait in conjunction with a coalition of allies and under United Nations Security Council resolutions. In February 24, 1991, U.S.-led United Nation (UN) forces launched a ground offensive that finally drove Iraqi forces out of Kuwait within 100 hours. Combat operations ended on February 28, 1991, when President Bush declared a ceasefire . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Desert_Storm
1992 - 2003 . . . Iraq. Iraqi no-fly zones: The U.S., United Kingdom, and its Gulf War allies declared and enforced "no-fly zones" over the majority of sovereign Iraqi airspace, prohibiting Iraqi flights in zones in southern Iraq and northern Iraq, and conducting aerial reconnaissance and bombings. Often, Iraqi forces continued throughout a decade by firing on U.S. and British aircraft patrolling no-fly zones.(See also Operation Northern Watch, Operation Southern Watch) . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_no-fly_zones
1993 - 1995 . . . Bosnia. Operation Deny Flight: On April 12, 1993, in response to a United Nations Security Council passage of Resolution 816, U.S. and NATO enforced the no-fly zone over the Bosnian airspace, prohibited all unauthorized flights and allowed to "take all necessary measures to ensure compliance with [the no-fly zone restrictions]." . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Deny_Flight
1995 . . . Bosnia. Operation Deliberate Force: In August 30, 1995, U.S. and NATO aircraft began a major bombing campaign of Bosnian Serb Army in response to a Bosnian Serb mortar attack on a Sarajevo market that killed 37 people in August 28, 1995. This operation lasted until September 20, 1995. The air campaign along with a combined allied ground force of Muslim and Croatian Army against Serb positions led to a Dayton agreement in December 1995 with the signing of warring factions of the war. As part of Operation Joint Endeavor, U.S. and NATO dispatched the Implementation Force (IFOR) peacekeepers to Bosnia to uphold the Dayton agreement . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Deliberate_Force
1999 . . . Serbia. Operation Allied Force: U.S. and NATO aircraft began a major bombing of Serbia and Serb positions in Kosovo in March 24, 1999, during the Kosovo War due to the refusal by Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic to end repression against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. This operation ended in June 10, 1999, when Milosevic agreed to pull out his troops out of Kosovo. In response to the situation in Kosovo, NATO dispatched the KFOR peacekeepers to secure the peace under UNSC Resolution 1244 . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Allied_Force
2001 . . . September 11 attacks (9/11/01) . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks
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2001 . . . Afghanistan. The War on Terrorism begins with Operation Enduring Freedom. On October 7, 2001, U.S. Armed Forces invade Afghanistan in response to the 9/11 attacks and "begin combat action in Afghanistan against Al Qaeda terrorists and their Taliban supporters." . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Enduring_Freedom
2003 - 2011 . . . Iraq. Operation Iraqi Freedom. March 20, 2003. The United States leads a coalition that includes Britain, Australia and Spain to invade Iraq with the stated goal being "to disarm Iraq in pursuit of peace, stability, and security both in the Gulf region and in the United States." . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Iraqi_Freedom
2004 - present . . . Pakistan. Drone attacks . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_attacks_in_Pakistan
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2010 - 2011 . . . Iraq. Operation New Dawn. On February 17, 2010, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced that as of September 1, 2010, the name "Operation Iraqi Freedom" would be replaced by "Operation New Dawn". This coincides with the reduction of American troops to 50,000 . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War#2010:_U.S._drawdown_and_Operation_New_Dawn
2011 . . . Libya. Operation Odyssey Dawn (3/19/11). Coalition forces enforcing U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 with bombings of Libyan forces . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Odyssey_Dawn
2011 . . . Pakistan. War on Terrorism. Osama Bin Laden is killed (5/2/11) by U.S. military forces in Pakistan as part of Operation Neptune Spear . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Neptune_Spear#Operation_Neptune_Spear
2011 . . . Somalia. Drone strikes on al-Shabab militants begin in Somalia. This marks the 6th nation in which such strikes have been carried out, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen and Libya . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shabaab_(militant_group)
2011 . . . Uganda. US Combat troops sent in as advisers to Uganda . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kony#United_States
2012 . . . Jordan. 150 US troops deployed to Jordan to help it contain the Syrian Civil War within Syria's borders . . . http://nsnbc.me/2012/12/28/the-dynamics-of-the-crisis-in-syria-conflict-versus-conflict-resolution-part-5/
2012 . . . Turkey. 400 troops and two batteries of Patriot missiles sent to Turkey to prevent any missile strikes from Syria . . . http://news.yahoo.com/pentagon-send-missiles-400-troops-turkey-093600827.html
2012 . . . Chad. 50 U.S. troops have deployed to the African country of Chad to help evacuate U.S. citizens and embassy personnel from the neighboring Central African Republic's capital of Bangui in the face of rebel advances toward the city . . . http://news.yahoo.com/us-troops-sent-aid-african-diplomat-evacuation-061047492--politics.html
2013 . . . Mali. US forces assisted the French in Operation Serval (1/11/13) with air refueling and transport aircraft . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Serval
2013 . . . Somalia. US Air Force planes supported the French in the Bulo Marer hostage rescue attempt (1/11/13). However, they did not use any weapons . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulo_Marer_hostage_rescue_attempt
2013 . . . North Korea crisis (1/24/13) . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea_crisis
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Why We Fight (A Film By Eugene Jarecki) (FULL)
A documentary on the commerce of war, and how the military industrial complex profits so much from war, that it must create wars to continue the growth of its business
http://youtu.be/TO7-GBRx1xM
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10:01 U.S. Strategy Plan calls for insuring no rivals develop, A one-superpower world, Pentagon's document outlines ways to thwart challenges to primacy of America, By Patrice Tyler . . . without the Soviet Union, there is no one who can possibly approach us in military terms, that's the way it ought to be. We are the new Rome.
11:34 Pre-emptive strikes and conflicts, never contemplated in the past, now must be contemplated under certain scenarios
17:34 After WWII, we had to fight the tyranny of communism wherever it was in the world, so it was decided that the U.S. remain militarist, permanently . . . from then on, we were in every corner of the earth
26:22 Most Americans don't want us to police the world, but they understand that if we don't at least help, then no one is going to . . . The question is how far to we go, from a force of good, to a force of Imperialism
26:42 People complain about American arrogance, but the great threat to the future is not American power and American strength, it would be American weakness and American withdrawl . . . it's not just for the benefit of America, but for everyone, also (American values, prosperity, and peace) - but, the way we're going to do that is to take over, even more than we did at the height of the cold war
30:07 Eisenhower saw how the military gets out of control, his own ability to shape policy was being hemmed in, and he was the President . . . "God help us when somebody sits at this desk, who doesn't know as much about the military as I do." His farewell address was 1/17/61
34:28 Eisenhower's concern about the military-industrial complex was that priorities would be set by what benefits corporations, as opposed to what benefits the country
40:17 There's too close a relationship between the Pentagon and industry, it's known as the revolving door, and people cash in on it all the time, government officials go to work for the companies, and make 10 times as much, the behavior of some of these individuals borders on corruption, both in industry, and the Pentagon
45:07 The corporate interests that stand to benefit from a war are so interwoven with the politicians, that there becomes a willingness to go to war . . . when war becomes profitable, you're going to see more of it
1:04:45 "Weakness is provocative. Strength deters" . . . Think tanks are paid to come up with new rationalizations, and new threats . . . Think tanks are new to what we used to think of as the military-industrial complex . . . People are making policy who have zero accountability to the voter . . . They take bits of intelligence out of context, and present it as a factoid, to manipulate public opinion, and inspire fear, so they could have their war
1:11:21 There's a belief that the public doesn't need to know the truth - so they cover themselves, those who are in charge of the war . . . What they learned from Viet Nam was that they lost the war, because they couldn't keep it private from the American public
1:12:50 The improvement on Viet Nam was embedded reporting - no finds out the rationals for going in . . . we have a miniature version of what goes on in totalitarian states, that build up the leader
1:16:27 If you join the military today, you are not defending the US, you're helping policy makers persue an imperial agenda
1:17:45 Congress fails us in every way, because they are beholden to the military-industrial complex - they don't ask the right questions, they don't hold the President to account
1:18:16 Being seen in opposition to a strong defense policy is bad for your career - for politicians, experts, journalists,
1:23:54 The precision guided munitions are not that reliable, and the guidance isn't that good. Reality is that they miss the target most of the time.
1:27:58 Bush clarifies that we didn't go into Iraq and kill Sadaam Hussein for 9/11, there's no evidence he was involved with that . . . So what did we go there for? Why was he a liar? What's wrong with the system? Feelings of patriotism being exploited, a desire for revenge - willing to believe anything.
1:30:43 The reason we were in Iraq was never told to the American people, it certainly had nothing to do with the liberation of Iraqi people, that was never even part of the agenda, and it isn't now
1:31:06 There's great hubris now that America is the pre-eminent power on planet earth, an American empire is actually flaunted in people's faces around the world, where we rub our shoe in their face, and we tell them we're top dog - and you will work with us, because you sure as hell don't want to be against us
1:31:37 The world has changed, and we're not going back to where we were - We're not the same people that we were before . . . we're taking the same path as the Roman Republic - they found that to maintain, expand, and protect this empire, they required standing armies - this is what George Washington warned us against in his farewell address, that they would destroy the structure of government that we tried to create in our Constitution, to prevent the rise of an imperial presidency
1:32:40 The single most important article in our Constitution is the one that gives the right to go to war exclusively to the elected representatives of the people, to the Congress - Our Congress, in October of 2002, voted in both houses to give this power to a single man, including the use of nuclear weapons if he so chose, and of course he chose to exercise this power 6 months later in Iraq.
1:33:35 Most of the government's decisions today are substantially dictated by powerful corporate interests - clearly, capitalism is winning over democracy
1:33:50 Due to this behavior, America will fail. She will fail completely among the countries. And another country will rise and take America's place. America will lose because her behavior is not the behavior of a great nation . . . Empires go down pretty easily
1:34:18 The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, and America has not been vigiiant since Dwight Eisenhower's warning, in allowing unauthorized power in the hands of the military-industrial complex
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Why we Fight - director Eugene Jarecki on the Election 2008 - Eugene Jarecki, director of the film Why We Fight, speaks about how the influence of the military-industrial complex over elected officials makes it impossible for them to change the system if the voters don't put constant pressure on the officials before and after they are elected. In absence of such pressure, he says, "our vote is wasted." . . . http://youtu.be/ewXWeCyX9sA
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Corporate Soldier . . . http://www.deesillustration.com/artwork.asp?item=498&cat=satire
The Truth is in the Timeline - How 9/11 Happened - Ann Coulter . . . http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter040104.asp
The Obama Deception HQ Full length version . . . http://youtu.be/eAaQNACwaLw
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