Although fighting currently continues in Iraq, there is increasing debate over how to end the conflict together with demands from political factions in the United States and Great Britain to Phase the war out and allow the troops to return to civilian life. It is getting more difficult to justify the costs of continued hostilities in Iraq and Afghanistan. Just what are the cost totals? Current figures are ever changing, and of course since the conflicts are ongoing, ... Read More

The Internet and the media are rife with conspiracy theories on what really happened during the September 11 terrorist attacks. Among the more popular bodies of evidence being bandied about by the conspiracy theorists pointing to a possible cover-up or engineering by the US government has something to do with the amount of damage sustained by the Pentagon during the 9/11 attacks. We will all remember that one of the four planes hijacked by the 19 terrorists supposedly deployed by ... Read More

Gates announces longer tours in Iraq WASHINGTON - Beginning immediately, all active-duty Army soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan will serve 15-month tours — three months longer than the usual standard, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday. It was the latest move by the Pentagon to cope with the strains of fighting two wars simultaneously and maintaining a higher troop level in Iraq as part of President Bush's revised strategy for stabilizing Baghdad. "This policy is a difficult but necessary interim step," Gates ... Read More