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Tag: Iraq War
Air America Radio RIP
The liberal national radio network, Air America Radio, signs off for the last time next Monday. The company is filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy, just a few weeks shy of its sixth anniversary….
Should Obama follow Eisenhower example
Jean Edward Smith, the John Marshall professor of Political Science at Marshall University, wrote in today’s NY Times http://100days.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/11/how-to-end-a-war-eisenhowers-way/. Smith tells how Pres. Dwight Eisenhower was willing to go against his own…
Post-traumatic stress disorders rise
The South Florida Sun Sentinel reports: The number of troops with new cases of post-traumatic stress disorder jumped by roughly 50 percent in 2007 amid the military buildup in Iraq and increased…
Radio : Oliver North
Oliver North will be in Pensacola to promote his new book, “American Heroes” and I will talk to him Wednesday at 1:15 on IN Your Head Radio. North is a Vietnam veteran…
Radio: Wounds that Don’t Heal
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are bringing a new generation face to face with the horrors of battle and its painful aftermath when they return home. It is the subject of…
Faces of American War deaths
USA Today has statistical breakdown in the U.S. death toll in the five-year Iraq War. The total deaths is 3983 serviceman, plus eight Defense Department civilians. 77% are under age 30. Army…
Cost of Iraq War
The Washington Post reports that: President Bush plans to ask Congress next month for up to $50 billion in additional funding for the war in Iraq, a White House official said yesterday,…
Surprise, surprise. Miller says we are winning war
Our Congressman Jeff Miller and five other members of a U.S. congressional delegation spent Monday meeting with the U.S. commander in Iraq, Army Gen. David Petraeus at the home of Ryan Crocker,…
Cindy Sheehan resigns
Sheehan is the mother of Casey Sheehan who died fighting in Iraq. She has been an outspoken critic of the Iraq War and got attention for the peace effort by camping outside…
Twain’s War Prayer
I’m a big Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) fan. Disgusted by the Spanish-American War, Clemens wrote a short anti-war prose poem called “The War Prayer.” His family, friends and his publisher thought…
Mainstream media indicted
Bill Moyers tackles the media and its role in the Iraq War next week on his PBS show. Northwest Florida makes the show: Moyers also asserts that editors at the Panama City…
What’s an Iraq War victory?
The other point I pondered while in bed was the Iraq War. Re-read the book “Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq: Books” by Thomas E. Ricks. How do we define “victory”…
More blood shed
What started as war to find weapons of mass destruction, topple a dictator and end the war on terrorism as descended into in religious civil war between Sunni and Shiites. Our soldiers…
Vets Protest
Press Release: VETERANS FOR PEACE MARCH IN SUPPORT OF MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE’S TRUTH TO POWER RALLY On Saturday, April 7, 2007, Veterans for Peace, Northwest Florida, will march shoulder to shoulder with…
Miller votes agst Dem War Bill
Press release: MILLER VOTES AGAINST DEMOCRAT “EMERGENCY†IRAQ WAR BILL MILLER: DEMOCRATS SHOULD FUND TROOPS WITHOUT PORK PROJECTS Washington, D.C. – Congressman Jeff Miller (R-Fl-01) today voted against the Democrats’ Emergency Iraq…
Iraqi Blogs
I wanted to gain a better perspective on the Iraqi view on the war so I searched for Iraqi blogs. Here are a few I found: From http://baghdadtreasure.blogspot.com/ Compared to the current…
Replace Hussein with what
NY Times reports today that the Iraqi government is cracking down on torture in its prison system. (Click here to read: Iraqi Interior Ministry Accuses 55 Employees of Rights Abuses at Prison)…
Military papers say Dump Rumsfeld
In an unprecedented move, all our military papers (Army Times, Navy Times, Air Force Times, and Marine Corps Times) are publishing an editorial calling for Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to be…
Soldier commits suicide over interrogation techniques
I read this story yesterday and it has bothered me ever since. An Arizona public radio station has uncovered that one of the first female military casualities of the Iraq War committed…