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June 14, 2011
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Iraq Soccer Pride T-Shirt $17.99 Iraq Soccer Pride T-Shirt. Iraq is the reigning champions of the Asian Football Confederation. Show your national pride in this Iraq tee. 100% cotton. Imported. |
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Iraq Football Pride T-Shirt $17.99 Iraq Football Pride T-Shirt. Iraq is the reigning champions of the Asian Football Confederation. Show your national pride in this Iraq tee. 100% cotton. Imported. |
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Iraq T-Shirt $15.99 Iraq T-Shirt. Show your support for the 2007 AFC Asian Cup winner and 2009 Conferdations Cup winner, Iraq. 100% cotton. Imported.T-shirt will ship in 3-5 business days. |
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Iraq Soccer Pride T-Shirt White XL $17.99 Iraq Soccer Pride T-Shirt. Iraq is the reigning champions of the Asian Football Confederation. Show your national pride in this Iraq tee. 100% cotton. Imported. |
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Iraq Soccer Pride T-Shirt White S $17.99 Iraq Soccer Pride T-Shirt. Iraq is the reigning champions of the Asian Football Confederation. Show your national pride in this Iraq tee. 100% cotton. Imported. |
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Iraq Soccer Pride T-Shirt White M $17.99 Iraq Soccer Pride T-Shirt. Iraq is the reigning champions of the Asian Football Confederation. Show your national pride in this Iraq tee. 100% cotton. Imported. |
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Iraq Soccer Pride T-Shirt White L $17.99 Iraq Soccer Pride T-Shirt. Iraq is the reigning champions of the Asian Football Confederation. Show your national pride in this Iraq tee. 100% cotton. Imported. |
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Iraq Football Pride T-Shirt White XL $17.99 Iraq Football Pride T-Shirt. Iraq is the reigning champions of the Asian Football Confederation. Show your national pride in this Iraq tee. 100% cotton. Imported. |
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Iraq Football Pride T-Shirt White L $17.99 Iraq Football Pride T-Shirt. Iraq is the reigning champions of the Asian Football Confederation. Show your national pride in this Iraq tee. 100% cotton. Imported. |
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Iraq Football Pride T-Shirt White M $17.99 Iraq Football Pride T-Shirt. Iraq is the reigning champions of the Asian Football Confederation. Show your national pride in this Iraq tee. 100% cotton. Imported. |
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Against War with Iraq: An Anti-War Primer (Open Media Pamphlet Series) $0.99 Despite public outcry at home and international opposition abroad, the Bush Administration deployed troops and invested millions in preparation for a massive military assault on Iraq. In this Open Media Series special edition, three legal scholars from the Center for Constitutional Rights argue persuasively that the looming war against Iraq is both unnecessary for national security, and illegal. Against War with Iraq describes the high cost of the US war in Iraq in terms of human life, as well as the economic and political havoc it will trigger. A timely and much needed anti-war primer, Against War with Iraq contains the core facts and analysis needed to understand the issues and become an effective advocate against hawkish U.S. foreign policy. |
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Airfields: Hardened Aircraft Shelter, Marsden Matting, Shamsi Airfield, Weapon Storage and Security System, Aerodrome, Helipad, Air Field $9.16 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hardened Aircraft Shelters (HAS), or Protective Aircraft Shelter (PAS), are a reinforced structure to house and protect military aircraft from enemy attack. Cost considerations and building practicalities limit their use to fighter size aircraft. HAS’s are a passive defence measure, i.e., they limit the effect of an attack, as opposed to active defences (e.g., surface-to-air missiles) which aim to prevent or at least degrade enemy attacks. The widespread adoption of Hardened Aircraft Shelters can be traced back to lessons learned in the 1967 Arab-Israeli Six-Day War when the Israeli Air Force decimated the unprotected Egyptian Air Force, at the time the largest and most advanced air force in the Arab world, at its airbases. An F-16 being towed into a Hardened Aircraft Shelter at Volkel Air BaseAs with many military items, whether structures, tanks or aircraft, its most prolific use was during the Cold War. NATO and Warsaw Pact countries built hundreds of HAS’s across Europe. In this context Hardened Aircraft Shelters were built to protect aircraft from conventional attacks as well as nuclear, chemical and biological strikes. NATO shelters, built to standard designs across the continent, were designed to withstand a direct hit by a 500lb (226 kg) bomb, or a near miss by a larger one (i.e., 1,000 lb+). In theory HAS’s were also built to protect aircraft in a nuclear strike; however, the effect of such an attack on airfield taxiways, runways, support facilities and personnel would have made any retaliatory mission extremely difficult and subsequent return and rearming almost impossible. In the post-cold war era the value of the HAS concept was further eroded by the introduction of precision-guided munitions. Iraq’s HAS hangers were built to a s… More: |
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Aliens and Cowboys: (Bush’s Legacy of Lies) $15.32 In the first four years the Bush White House allowed a former lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute to re-write a government report on global warming, editing out scientific conclusions he didn’t like. Bush’s Interior Department offered to overpay a wealthy Republican donor for oil and gas rights on Everglades land that the government already owns.The Pentagon’s inspector general released a report on a lucrative Air Force contract for Boeing that cost too much for planes the military didn’t want. Perhaps the White House pushed for the contract because Boeing was a generous contributor to the Bush/Cheney reelection campaign? Former big tobacco employees now working as Bush officials at the Justice Department reduced its settlement request with the tobacco industry from $130 billion to $10 billion. Echoes of Watergate fill the air with names like Enron, Halliburton, and Jeff Gannon (a gay prostitute) being linked to the White House. Bush’s failures include lying about Weapons of Mass Destruction to justify the Iraq War, soaring gas prices, privatizing social security, and granting amnesty to illegal Aliens. The press has mostly buried the failures of this administration. But that’s no surprise during the past four years the press has been missing in action. Aliens and Cowboys tells the truth about George W. Bush proving he’s the most corrupt president since Richard M. Nixon. |
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America’s Defense Meltdown: Pentagon Reform for President Obama and the New Congress $19.95 America’s Defense Meltdown: Pentagon Reform for President Obama and the New Congress describes how America’s armed forces are manned and equipped to fight, at best, enemies that do not now—and may never again—exist and to combat real enemies ineffectively at high human and material cost. Given that many regard America’s military as “the best in the world,” how can this be?In answer to this question, 13 “non-partisan Pentagon insiders, retired military officers, and defense specialists” lay out an array of hard-hitting and well-documented charges against our current defense establishment. They demonstrate that the hugely expensive and excessively complex weapons embraced by the Pentagon and Congress as vital for our national defense are barely adequate for engaging in outmoded 20th century forms of warfare. They are woefully inadequate for fighting a 21st century “fourth generation” war, as we’ve learned so painfully in Iraq and Afghanistan. At least as disturbing is the condition of the US defense budget. Over time, policy makers of all political stripes have created budgets that have made our forces smaller, less well equipped, and less ready to fight—all at dramatically increasing cost.Fortunately, the book’s authors offer “real-world” solutions to all the problems they identify. At the same time, however, they remain pessimistic about the prospects for real change—arguing that in a system that measures merit by the amount of money spent, the reform proposals elaborated in this book are likely to meet intense resistance. As Winslow Wheeler remarks, “The changes require a president with an iron will who will require real, not cosmetic, reforms of a system determined to and skilled at countering them. It will also require a president who will stick with the process for years, continuously making decisions that will ultimately reverse the present disastrous course U.S. national security is now on. ” |
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America’s War with Saddam $18.05 In August of 1990, the cancerous cost of America’s past sins slipped out of its nest and invaded its neighbor, Kuwait. During the 1980′s the United States had turned a blind eye to the world’s support of Saddam in his invasion and subsequent war with Iran. Hussein was to serve as a proxy fighter for the U.S. against Iran. The weight of the Vietnam War still prevented sustained American military action abroad, and when Saddam needed to know when Iran was about to attack, the U.S. happily sent him satellite photos to prepare stronger defenses. At the same time, the U.S. was arming Iran via the Iran-Contra Scandal, but the strategy of encouraging tyrannical regimes to bleed each other white was running out. After millions had died in America’s proxy fight, Saddam’s debts forced him to invade Kuwait and gain the oil needed to repay Europe and the Soviets.Operation Desert Storm was the first battle in America’s War With Saddam.After the 1991 Cease-Fire Agreement was signed, the American people washed their hands of Iraq, and had to endure little more than the nightly news 2-3 minute reminders. Despite the massive death toll in Iraq, for Americans, the period between Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom was ignored. Everyone heard about the infamous Gulf War Syndrome, its 300,000+ cases, and even the 11,000+ Americans who died from their service in Operation Desert Storm, but with little if any attention was paid by the Average westerner. In the eyes of Saddam, the average Iraqi, and in the pages of history, the two Gulf Wars are but one event. From the invasion of Kuwait through his final defeat in Operation Iraqi Freedom, this is the complete story of America’s WarWith Saddam.Iraq’s Smoking GunHow Did It Come To This: The American Experience in the New World OrderThe Ignored WarandSaddam’s Ties to Al Queda |
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Asian Americans in the United States Military: Japanese American service in World War II, Tammy Duckworth, Military history of Asian Americans $20.96 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Japanese American Service in World War Ii, Tammy Duckworth, Military History of Asian Americans, List of Asian American Medal of Honor Recipients, Francis B. Wai, Young-Oak Kim, Daniel Akaka, Bhagat Singh Thind, James Yee, Mun Charn Wong, John Pippy, Daniel Choi, Elmelindo Rodrigues Smith, Stephen Funk, Ralph Siu, Vietnamese American Armed Forces Association, Quang X. Pham, Susan Ahn Cuddy, Wah Kau Kong. Excerpt: Ladda Tammy Duckworth (born 1968) is the Assistant Secretary of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. She was previously the director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs. Duckworth is an Iraq War veteran and former U.S. Army helicopter pilot whose severe combat wounds cost her both of her legs and damaged her right arm. She continues to serve as a Major in the Illinois Army National Guard along with her husband, Major Bryan W. Bowlsbey, a signal officer and fellow Iraq War veteran. In the 2006 election, Duckworth was the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives seat for the sixth district of Illinois which was being vacated by long-time Representative Henry Hyde. Duckworth lost to her opponent, Representative Peter Roskam, by 2% of the vote. A supporter of the presidential election campaign of Barack Obama, Duckworth was given a prime-time speaking slot on the third night of the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Duckworth was born in Bangkok, Thailand, to Frank and Lamai S. Duckworth. Her father (died 2005) was a former longtime member of the U.S. military who traced his family roots in America all the way back to the Revolutionary War; her mother, a native of Thailand, is of Chinese ancestry. She has one brother, Tom. Her family moved around Southea… More: |
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B-2 Spirit $95 The Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit (also known as the Stealth Bomber) is an American heavy bomber with “low observable” stealth technology designed to penetrate dense anti-aircraft defenses and deploy both conventional and nuclear weapons. Because of its considerable capital and operations costs, the project was controversial in Congress and among Pentagon brass. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Congress slashed initial plans to purchase 132 bombers to just 21. The cost of each aircraft averaged US$737 million in 1997 dollars. Total procurement costs averaged US$929 million per aircraft, which includes spare parts, equipment, retrofitting, and software support. The total program cost, which includes development, engineering and testing, averaged US$2.1 billion per aircraft (in 1997 dollars). Twenty B-2s are operated by the United States Air Force. Though originally designed in the 1980s for Cold War operations scenarios, B-2s have been used in combat to drop bombs on Serbia during the Kosovo – Serbia Conflict in the late 1990s, and see continued use during the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. One aircraft was lost when it crashed on takeoff in 2008. |
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Battles Of The Gulf War $8.31 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Battle of Khafji – Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Battle of Khafji was the first major ground engagement of the Gulf War. It took place in and around the Saudi Arabian city of Khafji, from 29 January to 1 February 1991 and marked the culmination of the Coalition’s air campaign over Kuwait and Iraq, which had begun on 17 January 1991. Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, who had already tried and failed to draw Coalition troops into costly ground engagements by shelling Saudi positions and oil storage tanks and firing Scud surface-to-surface missiles at Israel, ordered the invasion of Saudi Arabia from southern Kuwait. He ordered the 1st and 5th Mechanized Divisions and 3rd Armored Division to conduct a multi-pronged invasion toward Khafji, engaging American, Saudi and Qatari forces along the coastline. These three divisions, which had been heavily damaged by Coalition aircraft in the preceding days, attacked on 29 January. Most of their attacks were fought off by U.S. Marines and Coalition aircraft, but one of the Iraqi columns occupied Khafji on the night of 2930 January. Between 30 January and 1 February, two Saudi Arabian National Guard battalions and two Qatari tank companies attempted to retake control of the city, aided by Coalition aircraft and American artillery. By 1 February, the city had been recaptured at the cost of 43 Coalition soldiers dead and 52 wounded. The Iraqi Army lost between 60 and 300 dead, while an estimated 400 were captured as prisoners of war. The battle serves as a modern demonstration that air power can halt and defeat a major ground operation. It was also a major test of the Saudi and Qatari armies. Although the capture of Khafji was a propaganda victory for Saddam Hussein’s regime, its subsequent recapture by Sa… More: |
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Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization $14.95 During the summer of 2004, a small group of Iraqi insurgents blew up a southern section of the Iraqi oil pipeline infrastructure. This attack cost an estimated $2,000 to produce, and no attackers were caught, while the explosion cost Iraq $500 million in lost oil exports—a rate of return 250,000 times the cost of the attack.In Brave New War, the controversial terrorism expert John Robb argues that the shift from state-against-state conflicts to wars against small, ad hoc bands of like-minded insurgents will lead to a world with as many tiny armies as there are causes to fight for. Our new enemies are looking for gaps in vital systems where a small, cheap action—blowing up an oil pipeline or knocking out a power grid—will generate a huge return. Drawing on scores of chilling examples from the ongoing insurgency in Iraq, Robb reveals how the technology that has enabled globalization also allows terrorists, criminals, and violent ideologues of every stripe to join forces against a far bigger and richer foe without revealing their identities, following orders, or even working toward the same ultimate goal. This new brand of open-source warfare enables insurgents to coordinate attacks, swarm on targets, and adapt rapidly to changes in their enemy’s tactics, all at minimal cost and risk. And now, Robb shows, it is being exported around the world, from Pakistan to Nigeria to Mexico, creating a new class of insurgents he calls global guerrillas.This evolutionary leap in the methods of warfare makes it possible for extremely small nonstate groups to fight states and possibly win on a regular basis. The use of systems disruption as a method of strategic warfare gives rise to a nightmare scenario in which any nation—including the United States—can be driven to bankruptcy by an enemy it can’t compete with economically. We are staring at a future where defeat isn’t experienced all at once but as an inevitable withering away of military, |
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Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization $1.99 During the summer of 2004, a small group of Iraqi insurgents blew up a southern section of the Iraqi oil pipeline infrastructure. This attack cost an estimated $2,000 to produce, and no attackers were caught, while the explosion cost Iraq $500 million in lost oil exports—a rate of return 250,000 times the cost of the attack.In Brave New War, the controversial terrorism expert John Robb argues that the shift from state-against-state conflicts to wars against small, ad hoc bands of like-minded insurgents will lead to a world with as many tiny armies as there are causes to fight for. Our new enemies are looking for gaps in vital systems where a small, cheap action—blowing up an oil pipeline or knocking out a power grid—will generate a huge return. Drawing on scores of chilling examples from the ongoing insurgency in Iraq, Robb reveals how the technology that has enabled globalization also allows terrorists, criminals, and violent ideologues of every stripe to join forces against a far bigger and richer foe without revealing their identities, following orders, or even working toward the same ultimate goal. This new brand of open-source warfare enables insurgents to coordinate attacks, swarm on targets, and adapt rapidly to changes in their enemy’s tactics, all at minimal cost and risk. And now, Robb shows, it is being exported around the world, from Pakistan to Nigeria to Mexico, creating a new class of insurgents he calls global guerrillas.This evolutionary leap in the methods of warfare makes it possible for extremely small nonstate groups to fight states and possibly win on a regular basis. The use of systems disruption as a method of strategic warfare gives rise to a nightmare scenario in which any nation—including the United States—can be driven to bankruptcy by an enemy it can’t compete with economically. We are staring at a future where defeat isn’t experienced all at once but as an inevitable withering away of military, |