19 hours ago by rosaalba

RIP Thomas Doerflinger, 11th November 2004 (Mosul, Iraq, aged 20) RIP Shelly McKinney, 6th November 2009 Today my son and I heard the pipes as we were rummelling around the house after breakfast. We rushed through the courtyard to see the men and women of the Universtiy “Corps” marching up the stree ...

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1 day ago by SkeptikOne

We sent them in not enough numbers.... We sent them under false pretenses... We sent them without body armor, those who had it...bought it on their own... We sent them without the right equipment and wrong training into a death zone again and again... We discharge the ones who can speak the language ...

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1 day ago by Sage

Kucinich asks a question that I would love to have the answer to. Why is it our monetary priorities are for war instead of the things we need here at home? What will it take for the government to say enough and pull troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan? Did the previous administration really stop to c ...

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1 day ago by Dan Kenitz

I usually identify myself as a conservative, and indeed I am pro-life, pro-limited government, pro- the-marriageness-of-marriage, pro-military, pro-Carrie Prejean, pro-personal responsibility, and pro-business. But that doesn’t mean you can look down the line of every political opinion I hold and ch ...

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1 day ago by Christina Long

We can’t ignore it any longer… The Fort Hood Shooting and the Soldier’s Burden.

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1 day ago by Jane Wangersky

Forty-three people at Fort Hood, Texas, were shot on Thursday by an officer of their own army. Eleven of them were killed. The officer, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, is a psychiatrist (mental health doctor). He was scheduled to go overseas soon. He attacked at a building where many soldiers were seeing d ...

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4 days ago by Rachel Sklar

The big story to come out of Meet The Press this week has been author Jon Krakauer’s assertion that General Stanley McChrystal, commander of the U.S. forces in Afghanistan, was implicated in the cover-up about the death of Pat Tillman, the football-star-turned-Army Ranger who was killed in Afghanist ...

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5 days ago by James T. Conklin, P.E.

In the novel 1984, world peace was not the objective. World population control was the objective. In fact, even the enemy of Oceania kept changing. Nobody in 1984 could remember what Oceania was fighting for, or against, or about. The USA is now heading toward “1984 think” in Iraq and Afghanistan. I ...

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5 days ago by Glynnis MacNicol

Talk about inconvenient timing. Pat Tillman is a figure that continues to haunt both the Bush administration and the U.S. military. Tillman, a former professional football player famously left a promising and career in the NFL shortly after 9/11 to join the army and died while on tour in Afghanistan ...

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6 days ago by debtmansteve

Recently the economy has pretty much balanced out and has not been sinking at quite a mind boggling rate like it was this past year. With the slump in the NASDAQ and the war in Iraq were starving pretty badly here in the United States. This is forcing people to rack up credit card debt, to help thes ...

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