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March 09, 2008 12:47 PM EDT -- U.S. troops in Iraq fell sick at bases using "unmonitored and unsafe" water supplied by the military and Halliburton a Pentagon's internal watchdog reported. A report obtained . . . more
May 11, 2007 10:58 AM EDT -- This happened a while ago.  I still think about it and it bothers me.  Maybe I'm just unfair because I'm a liberal who thinks Iraq is a stupid mess, so it colors my thinking about . . . more
October 15, 2007 09:14 AM EDT -- Sometimes we get "hero stories" - and often with the response, "Why didn't the liberal media tell that nice story?  See?  There's nice stories coming out of Iraq!"  . . . more
October 21, 2007 05:52 PM EDT -- Most the "U.S." troops in Iraq are Blackwater mercenaries.  They don't get counted.   also The mercenaries that the U.S. sends to Iraq make tons more money . . . more
October 20, 2007 11:47 AM EDT -- Just as few folks in America would seriously consider Islam a religion of peace, The message in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount also has had no influence on Christianity in history.   . . . more
May 26, 2008 09:40 AM EDT -- I'm not talking about the ridiculous expense of it.  I'm talking about WAR being such an old fashioned thing that it doesn't work in the modern world for "nation states".  A . . . more
June 11, 2008 11:49 AM EDT -- Ha ha, it's funny actually, because the person just didn't see eye to eye with me.  Here's a bit of it, and totally out of context. "I've always suspected it, but now I know . . . more
November 07, 2007 07:27 PM EST -- Veterans make up one in four homeless people in the United States, though they are only 11 percent of the general adult population, according to a report to be released Thursday. And homelessness is . . . more
December 02, 2007 09:52 AM EST -- The Bush administration intends to slash counterterrorism funding for police, firefighters and rescue departments across the country by more than half next year, according to budget documents obtained . . . more
November 22, 2008 06:47 PM EST -- Here is the original music video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epby91_o3TU&feature=related   I had the single to this one, also, in a huge album sized record.  The flip side . . . more
September 01, 2007 02:13 PM EDT --   Last night PBS news (Jim Lehrer) did a story about the effects of combat stress.   They followed some troops for awhile with video cameras to show the stress they are always . . . more
January 20, 2008 10:31 AM EST -- With the war in Afghanistan in its 7th year and the war in Iraq in its 5th, the Department of Defense says about 1,500 veterans of the conflicts are homeless so far -- and many more will be in the . . . more
November 19, 2008 01:36 PM EST --   17 years since that war ended, a NEW report now finds that at least one in four veterans of that conflict have been suffering ever since from a REAL ailment, The Gulf War Syndrome. The two . . . more
August 16, 2007 05:10 PM EDT -- This morning I posted a little thingy about a report that army suicide rates have gone up.  One comment to that said it was at the suicide rate of the rest of the population, so it's just . . . more
September 29, 2007 12:33 PM EDT -- The first thing a war does is crush all the moderates.    The middle class is gone from Iraq.  They are all refugees.  The adults of them don't plan on returning in their . . . more
February 06, 2008 09:48 AM EST -- Israel launched air strikes against militants that are firing rockets from the Gaza Strip and said they will maintain a war "on all fronts" until the territory's Hamas rulers halt . . . more
July 28, 2007 10:29 AM EDT -- He is throwing gasoline on the fire.   What can be more provocative to the Muslim world then for us to attack and occupy Iraq.  He is giving them the best propaganda for their . . . more
August 25, 2007 08:24 PM EDT -- The U.S. war can't go on and on - we've exhausted our military resources.  The troops are very finite, very redeployed, and very pooped out.    Now . . . more
August 07, 2007 03:00 PM EDT -- I did an article a few days ago called "Bush is aiding terrorists" (by being so provocative to Muslims as to occupy such an Islamic center as Iraq).   But now it's all over . . . more
August 16, 2007 09:02 AM EDT -- Soldiers killed themselves last year at the highest rate in 26 years, and more than a quarter did so while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan This is according to a new military report. Iraq . . . more
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