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15 hours ago ago from Dispatches
My jaw dropped twice when I spoke to the Defense Department's senior health protection official on Monday. The first instance came when Dr. Craig Postlewaite acknowledged that he believes it is quite plausible in fact likely that there are a small number of people that have been affected with longer-term health problems, related to exposure to open-air burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. That admission follows two years of denials on ...
Related contentVeterans Group Calls on Soldiers to Refuse Orders to Deploy
13 hours ago ago from World United
Source: Truthout http://www.truthout.org/1214091 In response to President Barack Obama's announcement on December 1 to deploy 30,000 additional troops to the occupation of Afghanistan, the organization “March Forward!”, comprising both veterans and active-duty members of the US military, has called on all soldiers to refuse their orders to deploy. "March Forward! calls on all service members to refuse orders to deploy to Afghanistan and ...
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18 hours ago ago from Wings Over Iraq
Particularly in this time of massive national debt, some US lawmakers, such as David Obey (D-WI), have proposed a "war tax" to fund the nearly-trillion dollar wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Economist weighs in on the issue with Spencer Ackerman: THERE are a lot of schools of thought on what the lessons of Vietnam were. Some people think the lesson is that America should learn how to fight counterinsurgency wars. Some think ...
Related contentFraud and the service
26 minutes ago ago from Gurney Graphics
It's a long and convoluted list of links that led me to James Montgomery and this page , but I'm glad that I did. Finding out about people who perpetrate this sort of fraud is definitely high on my list of things I'd like to know. Perhaps this comes with having been in cadets as well as growing up with serviceman, but for me, this kind of fraud is beyond disgusting. I utterly abhor this sort of thing. Sure, we're all guilty of ...
Related contentWomen back from combat are not welcomed
21 hours ago ago from American Studies
WASHINGTON – Nobody wants to buy them a beer. In a report that was published in yahoo news, it is noted that women veterans coming back from battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan face cold faces that there is no sense of welcome in them. Some people in America believe that, these veterans coming home have not done anything for their country or even other countries and do not deserve even a glass of beer. But what do these women think? Didn’t ...
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Jonathan Leigh Solomon: Lyndon Johnson's Thoughts on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize
22 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
One of the many already stateable tragedies of President Obama and Afghanistan is that while Lyndon Johnson (the man Obama seems bent on morphing into -- inspirational leaders on the home front, blind about a foreign war) dove into Vietnam driven by two fundamental elements that made his choice almost expected, even forgivable, the same two fundamental elements, to the extent they exist, exist in reverse with Obama. First: Johnson saw his ...
Related contentSome female soldiers find difficult transition at home
6 hours ago ago from Media General - TBO.com
WASHINGTON - Nobody wants to buy them a beer. Even near military bases, female veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan aren't often offered a drink on the house as a welcome home. More than 230,000 American women have fought in those recent wars and at least 120 have died doing so, yet the public still doesn't completely understand their contributions on the modern battlefield. For some, it's a lonely transition as they struggle to ...
Related contentBen Cohen: Tony Blair Must Be Charged With War Crimes
22 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Tony Blair's stunning admission to the BBC that he would have invaded Iraq regardless of whether there had been Weapons of Mass Destruction revealed the true nature of the U.S -U.K military adventure in the Middle East. The ugly truth behind the political charade was that the decision to remove Saddam Hussein had been made behind closed doors before any evidence had been gathered. Blair told Fern Britton that if he had known there were no ...
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