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1 Memorial Service for Fallen Marine from New York Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/warzone/2009... |
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1 Recommended Reading: Human Rights Report On Murders Of Gays In Iraq http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/08/r... ---------- Kirkuk: a businessman killed, a doctor kidnapped. Fear returns to haunt Christians http://www.asianews.it/index.php... ---------- Iraqi Christians in Danger of Extinction http://www.rantrave.com/Rant/Iraqi-Christians... ---------- Blackwater’s Free-Market Crusade http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/pol... ’s_free-market_crusade |
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1 "I'm very ashamed" The former Texas official who got George Bush into the National Guard apologizes for making sure that young men with important "family names" did not have to fight in Vietnam. By Jeff Horwitz Aug 27, 2004 | Another bombshell in the battle over Vietnam service that has been raging in the 2004 presidential race exploded on the Web Friday. In a video originally posted on the Web by a pro-Kerry organization in Austin, Texas, Ben Barnes, a former lieutenant governor of Texas, apologized for his role in getting a young George W. Bush into the Texas Air National Guard while young men who were not from prominent or wealthy families "died in Vietnam." "Let's talk a minute about John Kerry and George Bush, and I know them both," said Barnes in the video, which was filmed at a gathering of about 200 Kerry supporters in Austin on May 27. "I got a young man named George W. Bush into the Texas National Guard when I was lieutenant governor, and I'm not necessarily proud of that. But I did it. I got a lot of other people in the National Guard because I thought that was what people should do when you're in office, and you help a lot of rich people." "And I walked to the Vietnam Memorial the other day," Barnes continued, "and I looked at the names of the people that died in Vietnam, and I became more ashamed of myself than I have ever been, because it was the worst thing I ever did, was help a lot of wealthy supporters and a lot of people who had family names of importance get into the National Guard. And I'm very sorry about that, and I'm very ashamed, and I apologize to you as voters of Texas." Barnes then condemned the Republican attacks on John Kerry's war service: "And I tell you that for the Republicans to jump on John Kerry and say that he is not a patriot after he went to Vietnam and was shot at and fought for our freedom and came back here and protested against the war, he's a flip-flopper, let me tell you: John Kerry is a 100 times better patriot than George Bush or Dick Cheney." http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/... |
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1 Marine to be buried at Arlington cemetery By MARK MARONEY - mmaroney@sungazette.com POSTED: August 19, 2009 A carry team hoists the transfer case containing the remains of Marine Sgt. William J. Cahir of Washington, D.C., Saturday at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Cahir was killed Thursday. A former State College man who was killed Thursday in Afghanistan while serving with the Marines is expected to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Meanwhile, a memorial fund has been established in his name through a bank to raise money for his wife and unborn twin daughters. Sgt. William J. Cahir, 40, of Washington, D.C., died while supporting combat operations in Helmand Province in southwestern Afghanistan, according to the Department of Defense. Cahir, who last year ran an unsuccessful Congressional bid, is going to be buried at Arlington, but the cemetery is overwhelmed with bodies of elderly veterans and young soldiers, according to family friend David Price. A memorial fund has been established to defray costs for his wife, Rene, who is expecting twin daughters in December, he said. http://www.sungazette.com/page/content.detail... |
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1 4 charged in Plymouth soldier's death BY ERIK SHILLING • NEWS JOURNAL • AUGUST 22, 2009 PLYMOUTH -- Four soldiers in Baghdad have been charged with cruelty and maltreatment of subordinates in connection with the suicide of Pvt. Keiffer Wilhelm, 19, of Plymouth, according to a U.S. Army statement released Friday. The Army said the four Multi-National South Division soldiers -- three sergeants and a specialist, all out of Wilhelm's unit in Fort Bliss, Texas -- abused troops under their command. If convicted, they could face eight to 25 years in confinement and a dishonorable discharge. MSNBC reported Lt. Col. Kevin Olson as saying the four abused Wilhelm with excessive physical fitness and hazing. Wilhelm shot himself with a rifle Aug. 4 just 10 days after arriving in Maysan Province, Iraq, the report said. Days before, he had stopped going out in public to avoid ridicule. Wilhelm's family could not be reached for comment. The four soldiers are Staff Sgt. Enoch Chatman, of West Covina, Calif.; Staff Sgt. Bob Clements, of Eastland Texas.; Sgt. Jarrett Taylor, of Edmund, Okla.; and Spc. Daniel Weber, of Frankenmuth, Mich. All were of B Troop, 2nd Squadron, 13th Cavalry Regiment, Fort Bliss, Texas. http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/article/2... |
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1 Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/081909.htm... |
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1 2009 now deadliest year for US troops in Afghanistan http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/08/25/2009-n... |
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1 Sep-19-2009 17:50 Army Gives Bad Discharges to Thousands of PTSD Vets Gordon Duff Salem-News.com Benefit denial scams raise suicide rates. (CINNCINATTI, Ohio)- It all began as a Bush era program, promoted by Dr. Sally Satel, the famed "PTSD denialist" putting thousands of soldiers at risk and pushing hundreds to suicide. Thousands of veterans lost all benefits, GI Bill, medical care and more through Army discharge scam, part of Neo-con "cost saving program" How did it work? Simple. A very large percentage of combat vets with PTSD are problem drinkers, self medicating in the only way they can and, in the process, getting worse and worse. Redeployments of soldiers needing treatment only adds to the problem. When vets with severe PTSD demonstrate severe symptoms, including alcohol abuse, they are put in short and unproven "quit" programs with an extremely high failure rate. This is all part of a game, one invented to trap soldiers and cut costs. Step 2 in the game, the Army "orders" the soldier not to drink, knowing the order itself is absurd. Real treatment for PTSD is denied. When the soldier drinks, and they always do, the soldier is arrested, jailed and charged, now get this, with disobeying a direct order, Article 34 and disrespect to an officer or non-com. Sometimes even more charges are piled on. In the end, the deal is the same. Leave the army with nothing but years of honorable service now labeled as "dishonorable" or "bad conduct" and face civilian life crushed and abandoned by the country you risked your life to serve. The Army learned the game from the VA. The VA denied PTSD diagnoses to Vietnam veterans used alcohol, claiming they couldn't be diagnosed. Problem is, almost all PTSD vets use alcohol or drugs as self medication. End result, tens of thousands of Vietnam vets were denied diagnosis, treatment and compensation for decades with thousand dying as a result. The basis of the Army policy is the Dr. Sally Satel "theory" that PTSD does not exist and all vets are fakers. Her beliefs, fringe "neo-con medicine" comes from a theory that soldiers and veterans are part of a non-productive social class that taxes a nations economic health as soon as they leave a combat zone. The end analysis supports the supposition that a disabled veteran and an illegal alien on welfare contribute exactly the same to the overall welfare of society. Vets are leeches If Darwin meant for illegal aliens to survive, they would have been born in the United States, or as in the case of our warriors, they would have sought an occupation less dangerous, stressful and likely to bring about personal harm. Soldiers, through choosing to serve, prove themselves unworthy of survival in a society of the fittest. In some ways, this is a powerful arguement for Social Darwinism and Eugenics. By that standard, our chickenhawks in Congress should dominate the food chain for a million years. However, from a standpoint of loyalty, patriotism and support of our military forces during wartime, the concept sucks big time. Thank heavens nobody knows about this, not the Veterans Service Organizations, the ACLU, the Obama Administration or our officer corps of Service Academy graduates. How can organizations whose purpose it is to protect and serve our military and veterans and the officers generously paid to care for our soldiers choose to look the other way while this has gone on so long, so openly and has done so much harm to so many? http://www.salem-news.com/articles/september1... |
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You think this Iraq News is getting any CONservative airtime in BuSh's Brownwood ? Iraq reality: Out of sight out of mind for the little Village that is home to nearly 100 Churches ! After years of war, Iraqis hit by frenzy of crime By SINAN SALAHEDDIN (AP)– 19 hours ago BAGHDAD — The kidnappers holding an Iraqi auto mechanic's 11-year-old son gave him just two days to come up with $100,000 in ransom. When he could not, they were just as quick to deliver their punishment: They chopped off the boy's head and hands and dumped his body in the garbage. The boy's final words to his father came in an agonizing phone call. "Daddy, give them the money. They are beating me," Muhsin Mohammed Muhsin pleaded a day before he was killed. As the worst of the country's sectarian bloodshed ebbs, Iraqis now face a new threat to getting on with their lives: a frenzy of violent crime. Many of those involved are believed to be battle-experienced former insurgents unable to find legitimate work. They often bring the same brutality to their crimes that they showed in the fighting that nearly pushed the country into a Sunni-Shiite civil war in 2006 and 2007. The result has been a wave of thefts and armed robberies, hitting homes, cars, jewelry stores, currency exchanges, pawn shops and banks. Kidnapping, too, remains terrifyingly common, as it was during the peak of the insurgency. Now, however, the targets are increasingly children, and the kidnappers, rather than having sectarian motives, are seeking ransoms. In southern Baghdad's Saydiyah neighborhood, photos of missing children are pasted on electricity poles and the concrete blast walls that enclose many areas of the bomb-battered capital. There are few statistics tracking the number and kinds of crimes, in part because the government remains focused on the bombings and other insurgent attacks that continue to plague Baghdad and Iraq's north. But in the minds of the public, crime has become at least as consuming as the violence directly related to the war. And like the lack of electricity and other services, crime is now a top complaint of Iraqis. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/A... |
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1 Governor Bush told Houston Journalist: If Elected. "I'm Going to Invade Iraq" http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php... |
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1 Hey, look around. George Bush is sitting in Dallas in a bathrobe and bunny slippers with his feet on the coffee table. This is President Obama's war now. How many American troops have died since Gen. McCrystal asked for reinforcements, 57? Obama doesn't have time to talk to his General but he sure has time to fly off to Europe on the taxpayer's dime to shill for his Chicago cronies. You want to talk about flag draped caskets? How about the ones who are coming home not because they are killed actively engaging the enemy and trying to win the war on terror, but who are now pawns in a political war of attrition. Yep, let a few more die while we waffle over strategy, maybe when the number gets high enough we can just cut and run. Let's show the world our backside. That will sure put us in a strong negotiating position with Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Brazil... Who else wants on the nuclear bandwagon? |
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1 Iraq News 140 killed, 700 wounded in Baghdad bombings Monday, October 26, 2009 09:08 GMT The death toll of Baghdad bombings which occurred on Sunday targeting the Ministry of Justice and Baghdad provincial council increased to 140 dead and more than 700 wounded most of them in critical conditions. Armed Forces General commander Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki headed an urgent meeting for the national security council during which he discussed with council members and Baghdad Operations Command the brutal terrorist bombings targeting Iraqi citizens, ministries and state institutions, Iraqi Cabinet spokesman Ali Al Dabbagh announced. The meeting displayed a detailed briefing on first investigations results and damages inflicted on innocent citizens and main state intuitions, he added. Al Maliki pushed all security chiefs and intelligence officers to cooperate and coordinate in order to uncover these criminal cells aiming the Iraqi people, Al Dabbagh said. In a statement to Alsumaria, the Cabinet spokesman affirmed that an immediate probe will open into the security breach marked in central Baghdad. The two car bombs were targeting the ambassadors’ meeting due to be held at Al Mansour Hotel and the first Iraqi immigrants’ camp, he stated. Al Dabbagh called upon neighboring countries to raise the level of security coordination with Iraqi authorities in order to curb bombings outbreak. http://www.alsumaria.tv/en/Iraq-News/1-39501-... |
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1 13 NOVEMBER 2009 - 19H11 Christian teenager killed in Iraq drive-by shooting Since the US-led invasion of 2003, hundreds of Iraqi Christians have been killed and a string of churches attacked. Around 800,000 Christians lived in Iraq at the time of the invasion, but their number has since shrunk by around a third or more as members of the minority community have fled the country, according to Christian leaders. http://www.france24.com/en/node/4924661 |
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In the Iraq war, Christians pushed to the brink Iraq’s Christians have been targeted for kidnapping and forced to flee their homes. One advocate says that in a generation, Christians could be gone from the land they’ve lived in for 2,000 years. http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1110/p12s01-wog... |
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