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No more troops in Afghanistan!

My son is a Marine, and he just got back from 7 months of pure hell in Iraq. He is set to be deployed to Afghanistan in a year. He became a Marine to serve his country.

Gladiators who no longer salute Caesar
Source: mwcnews.net

In a week, we, the people of this United States, should have a president-elect who will take the reins of the nation on January 20th.

$15 billion in US Iraq spending unaccounted for: reports. Fri May 23, 6:41 PM ET
Source: Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Pentagon cannot account for nearly 15 billion dollars in payments for goods and services in Iraq, according to an internal audit which members of Congress blasted Friday as a "shocking" accountability failure.

In Honor of 4 Marines killed in Anbar Province Iraq 5/2/08

To Pay Respects to 4 U.S. Marines that died in Anbar Province Iraq 5/2/08. May they Rest in Peace and may they never be forgotten. Semper Fi Marines - God Bless you~ Ana A MARINE'S PRAYER ~

Bush Issues Signing Statement On Defense Act, Waiving Ban On Permanent Bases In Iraq
Source: Think Progress

President Bush yesterday signed the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act after initially rejecting Congress's first version because it would have allegedly opened the Iraqi government to "expensive lawsuits."

More Military Deaths in Some Years of Peace Than War
Source: FOXNews.com

More active members of the military died during two years of peacetime in the early 1980s than died during a two-year period of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a government report.

More than 250 soldiers from the 86th Signal Battalion will return home
Source:

More than 250 soldiers from the 86th Signal Battalion of the 11th Signal Brigade will return home from their 15-month deployment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom sometime during the first week of November.

Robert Scheer: Dissent From the Front Lines
Source: AlterNet.org

When will we listen to the troops? I'm not talking about soldiers used as props for a George Bush photo op, telling reporters what Washington wants to hear. The military is disciplined and thus accustomed, from Gen David Petraeus on down, to toeing the official line.

A deafening silence on report of one million Iraqis killed under US occupation
Source: inteldaily.com

When those responsible for the American war in Iraq face a public reckoning for their colossal crimes, the weekend of September 15-16, 2007 will be an important piece of evidence against them.

Who Lost Iraq?
Source: RealClearPolitics

If the current debate over the United States' failure in Iraq is to yield constructive results, it will have to go beyond bumper-sticker conclusions ...

The Great Iraq Swindle
Source: Rolling Stone

Operation Iraqi Freedom, it turns out, was never a war against Saddam ­Hussein's Iraq. It was an invasion of the federal budget, and no occupying force in history has ever been this efficient.

Suicide accounts for 3% of US Deaths in Iraq. Why Isn't the Press on a Suicide Watch?
Source: Iraq Slogger and Editor & Publisher

About 3% of US deaths in Iraq have resulted from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and suicide can create casualties of war months after troops have left the field of battle.

House vote on Iraq – a lethal mistake
Source: WorldNetDaily

Al-Qaida could have only dreamed that, shortly after they used airplanes as missiles to take down the towers of the World Trade Center, prominent American politicians, journalists and bloggers would be arguing that American surrender was the best path to victory.

Embedded Reporters Have Their Minds Changed by U.S. Soldiers
Source: The American Spectator

It doesn't matter how skeptical of the war a journalist might be, according to an Army public affairs officer who spoke with me about it on condition of anonymity.

'Battlefield docs' hone skills in Iraq
Source: Multi-National Force - Iraq

BALAD AIR BASE - More than 40 "battlefield docs" - surgeons and physician assistants from around Iraq - converged at Air Force Theater Hospital May 21 here to hone their already razor-sharp surgical skills at the Tri-Service Extremity War Surgery Symposium.

Iraqi eddies 16 Feb 2007

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Highly Decorated Iraq War Veteran to Speak at UNC-Wilmington

Wilmington, NC - The UNCW College Republicans and Young America's Foundation Present an evening with Lt. Col. Scott Rutter, on Thursday, November 9, 2006, from 6:00pm - 8:00pm in Cameron Hall Room 105 on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

WMD expert quit Iraq search over 'flawed methods' of the CIA
Source: Scotsman.com News

AN expert who took part in the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq said today that he quit because he felt the programme was being used to justifying the United States' decision to go to war.

Saddam Ordered Suicide Attacks on U.S. Targets
Source: NewsMax

"A newly translated document from Saddam Hussein's intelligence files indicates that the Iraqi dictator ordered suicide attacks against U.S. targets six months before the 9/11 attacks."

Myths of Iraq
Source: RealClearPolitics

"During a recent visit to Baghdad, I saw an enormous failure. On the part of our media. The reality in the streets, day after day, bore little resemblance to the sensational claims of civil war and disaster in the headlines."

And the Oscar Goes to...
Source: riverbendblog.blogspot.com

So… not to be outdone by Barbara Walters and Oprah Winfrey - we bring you the Baghdad Burning Oscar Special!! Except, for our award show I suggest we change the name of the little statuette from Oscar to something more local and familiar.

Google's Censoring of the Chinese Internet vs. The United States' War on Iraq

In case you didn't hear, Google has censored the Internet of The People's Republic of China, and of course, the United States of America declared war on Iraq on March 20, 2003.

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