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Overseas Contingency Operations

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  • Flying under the radar because of the “they-said, she-said, he-knew, she-knew, they all knew” torture brouhaha is the fact that Congress passed another 94 BILLION dollar supplemental funding package for Obama’s so called Overseas Contingency Operations and the fact his EPA … which stands for Environmental Protection Agency (what an Orwellian name) has approved 42 new sites for West Virginia mountaintop removal to extract coal.

    For Cripes' Sake, Make Him Already! 2009

  • This plane ship supplies, troops and even vehicles from bases and supply depots in the United States to the far flung corners of Overseas Contingency Operations.

    Frida Berrigan: Arms Trade: A "Booming" Business 2009

  • The legislation would provide $53.3 billion for foreign assistance and the State Department - $42.1 billion for the base budget and $11.2 billion for the Overseas Contingency Operations account.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • As for Obama's Overseas Contingency Operations (formerly Bush's "War on Terror"), they are minor in American grand strategy, which must deal with China, Russia, India, Brazil, the EU, etc.

    The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2010

  • This is in keeping with the concept of Overseas Contingency Operations.

    RANGER AGAINST WAR 2010

  • "OCO" is the new term of art for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the abbreviation for Overseas Contingency Operations.

    t r u t h o u t 2009

  • "Global War on Terror": The Administration is seeking $130 billion in discretionary spending to cover the costs of Overseas Contingency Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

  • At Barack Obama's press conference on Tuesday, there was not one question about Iran's rapid pursuit of nuclear weapons or the newly labeled Overseas Contingency Operations.

    theTrumpet.com: Front Page 2009

  • "Global War on Terror": The Administration is seeking $130 billion in discretionary spending to cover the costs of Overseas Contingency Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

  • As the War on Terror, freshly baptized under the name of Overseas Contingency Operations, works itself into frenzy in the Pakistan-Afghanistan theatre, as the inexorable Predator drone attacks by the US military in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) continue to claim civilian casualties, as further drone attacks are promised in the face of remonstrances made by Pakistan's Government, as never-ending waves of fiyadeen bombings strike Pakistan's cities, and as the Pakistani Taliban prevail over the military, expand the territory under their control and threaten Islamabad itself, the horrified world finds itself bearing witness to the intensifying breakdown of the Pakistani state from internal and externally generated stresses and contradictions.

    Signs of the Times 2009

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