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The US Military is 'Exhausted'
10 hours ago ago from War Is Literal Hell
http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2009/12/200912883024475217.html December 26, 2009 by Al-Jazeera The US Military is 'Exhausted' by Sarah Lazare The call for over 30,000 more troops to be sent to Afghanistan is a travesty for the people of that country who have already suffered eight brutal years of occupation. It is also a harsh blow to the US soldiers facing imminent deployment. As Barack Obama, the US president, gears up for a ...
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23 hours ago ago from The Common Ills
Howard Jenkins is the local veterans employment representative for the Heartland Workforce in charge of the Veterans Work Study Program. He said he didn't know the number of students other programs have, but it is a big problem. He's spoken with his counterparts in similar programs in Florida and they are having problems, too, he said. "I have one that's affected also," said Jenkins. "He hasn't gotten paid for the hours he's been working ...
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23 hours ago ago from One Penny Sheet
OPS_admin | Dec 26, 2009 | Comments 0 It's been a good decade for the Pentagon. The most recent numbers from Capitol Hill indicate that Pentagon spending (counting Iraq and Afghanistan) will reach over $630 billion in 2010. And that doesn’t even include the billions set aside for building new military facilities and sustaining the U.S. nuclear arsenal. But even without counting the costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the ...
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