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  • Shattered future Fiancées are Iraq’s forgotten survivors
    21 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Katya Cengel kcengel@courier-journal.com
    More than 1,000 men and women from the U.S. military, the majority of them Army, have been killed since the war in Iraq began in March 2003. The wives and husbands, or parents, of the fallen are usually offered flags, medals and counseling.
    Fiancées often aren’t even notified.
    Sometimes the Army doesn’t even know they exist. Unless a soldier has made a point of listing a fiancée on an emergency data card, this loved one is officially (…)

  • N.J. Mom Vows to Keep Protesting Iraq War
    19 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by JOHN P. McALPIN
    HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP, N.J. - When President Bush and the first lady come looking for votes in New Jersey, Sue Niederer vows to be nowhere near them. She doesn’t want to risk finding herself in handcuffs again.
    Last month, police escorted Niederer from a rally after she demanded to know why her son, Army 1st Lt. Seth Dvorin, was killed in Iraq. Dvorin died in February while trying to disarm a bomb.
    Video footage of Niederer holding a sign with the words "President Bush (…)

  • Gen. Vows Review of Iraq Safety Measures
    19 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    U.S. General Vows to Review Protective Measures After Army Reservists Refuse Iraq Mission
    BAGHDAD, Iraq Oct. 17, 2004 - The U.S. Army will study protective measures for supply vehicles and add steel plating to vehicles if necessary, a general said Sunday, after members of a Reserve unit refused to deliver supplies down a dangerous route in Iraq partly because they were concerned their vehicles were in poor shape.
    Brig. Gen. James E. Chambers, commanding general of 13th Corps Support (…)

  • Marine returns from Iraq to emotional ruin, suicide
    19 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Associated Press
    Jeffrey Lucey was just an ordinary kid from small-town America. He grew up loving his parents, his high school sweetheart and backyard whiffle ball games in this quiet, picturesque community bordering the Quabbin Reservoir.
    Even his decision to enlist in the Marine Reserves in 1999 was run-of-the-mill, uncluttered by the anxious sense of patriotism that inspired many others to join the military after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
    ``He just (…)

  • Maimed in Iraq, then mistreated, neglected, and hidden in America
    19 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Frederick Sweet
    Combat veterans wounded in Iraq were left waiting weeks and even months for proper medical attention at military bases. According to an officer, their living conditions were so unacceptable for injured soldiers he said they "were being treated like dogs." Then the Pentagon underreported the number wounded.
    The Bush administration, referring to veterans of the war in Iraq, told a House panel that they would avoid last year’s "mistakes" of leaving sick and injured troops (…)

  • TV Ad Focuses on U.S. Military Wounded in Iraq
    19 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Robert Acosta lost his arm when his Humvee was attacked in Iraq. (NYT Photo/Ruth Fremson)
    WASHINGTON - A new television ad sponsored by U.S. veterans strongly questions President Bush’s case for war in Iraq, but the group behind it said on Wednesday the spot was not meant to benefit either presidential candidate.
    First aired hours before the last presidential debate between Republican Bush and Democratic Sen. John Kerry, the ad shows a U.S. Iraq war veteran talking about the (…)

  • Injured Iraq Vets Come Home to Poverty
    15 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Injured Soldiers Returning from Iraq Struggle for Medical Benefits, Financial Survival
    By BRIAN ROSS, DAVID SCOTT and MADDY SAUER
    Oct. 14, 2004 — Following inquiries by ABC News, the Pentagon has dropped plans to force a severely wounded U.S. soldier to repay his enlistment bonus after injuries had forced him out of the service.
    Army Spc. Tyson Johnson III of Mobile, Ala., who lost a kidney in a mortar attack last year in Iraq, was still recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (…)

  • Bush and Cheney on Iraq intel: FALSE
    13 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bush and Cheney seem to be following Rumsfeld in his creativement faux mea culpa.
    by Michael Berglin
    The administration is trying to pass off a faux mea culpa in telling the US and the world that the intel on Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction was bogus. Layer by layer, the administration’s justifications for the war in Iraq are crumbling. More intel has surfaced to indicate that Iraq’s WDM program had been sunset as early as 1991.
    Even as late as one week ago, both Bush and Cheney (…)

  • REALITY CHECK : John Kerry’s Iraq attack
    12 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by PHILIP GOUREVITCH
    Despite a pre-debate “memorandum of understanding” between the Bush campaign and the Kerry campaign that there would be no televised “cutaways” or reaction shots, more than sixty-two million Americans watched George W. Bush appear to come unglued while hearing, for the first time, John Kerry’s forceful voice of opposition.
    Bush’s face betrayed him on the very first cutaway. He had insisted that the focus of his initial encounter with Kerry, in Coral Gables, Florida, (…)

  • Eggs In One Basket
    11 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What would happen if Americans started to wonder about the roots of the terrorism of Islamic fanatics? Won’t there be some who would argue that America got into the Clash of Civilizations with the Muslim world only because of Israel?
    by URI AVNERY
    About a hundred years ago, the Russian Czar’s secret police cobbled together a document they called the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion". The "authors" were not particularly original - they took a satire, written decades earlier about Napoleon (…)