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    Lack of health insurance kills 2,000 vets each year
    masbury
    by masbury  11-11-2009    2
     Four times as many as die in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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    Military suicides fuel worry that military personnel too strained for Afghanistan surgern
    masbury
    by masbury  11-3-2009    5
     Wonder what it takes for this to matter enough to foreign policy leaders.
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    Iraq hawks are just as wrong on Afghanistan
    masbury
    by masbury  10-11-2009    1
     Why do we listen to the same arguments that initiated the Iraq invasion, from the same people who made them then?
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    Congress has the votes to pass a public option
    masbury
    by masbury  9-20-2009   
     And passing it with 51 votes in the Senate - a majority - abides by the same rule Republicans used to pass the Bush tax cuts and fund the Iraq war. Any bill passes with 51 votes unless the minority party filibusters it. Bills with significant budgetary impact can be shielded from a filibuster by the reconciliation process
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    Dancing by the waves, Iraqis forget war for a day
    masbury
    by masbury  8-24-2009    1
     No Remarks
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    Chopra: What Britain's Oldest Soldier Said
    masbury
    by masbury  8-10-2009    5
     No Remarks
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    US troops deaths pass 5,000 in Iraq & Afghanistan
    masbury
    by masbury  7-21-2009   
     For it's 1, 2, 3 what are we fighting for?
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    Poverty drives Iraq organ trade
    masbury
    by masbury  7-20-2009   
     Sell a kidney for $3,000; buyer pays $15,000, dealer pockets $12,000.
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    Horton: rape, sodomy, oral sex in Iraq photos
    masbury
    by masbury  5-30-2009    8
     Better get 'em on the table and get it over with.
    23
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    Fox News viewers "more likely ... to have misperceptions"
    masbury
    by masbury  5-2-2009    12
     U of Maryland study: "Those who receive most of their news from Fox News are more likely than average to have misperceptions." Love your Fox News, if you like, but challenge it with other sources if you want to have your facts right. And don't allow yourself the laziness of saying, "Oh, you can't trust studies, you know..." FN either attracts or creates mis-informed citizens.
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    Pentagon forced to release prisoner abuse photos
    masbury
    by masbury  4-24-2009    1
     From a half-dozen prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan; Courts insist on right of public to know
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    "Top 25 Five Censored News Stories"
    cakebelly
    by cakebelly  4-21-2009   
      # # 22 CARE Rejects US Food Aid # # 23 FDA Complicit in Pushing Pharmaceutical Drugs # # 24 Japan Questions 9/11 and the Global War on Terror # # 25 Bush’s Real Problem with Eliot Spitzer
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    Biggest Iraq memories "haven't happened yet"
    masbury
    by masbury  3-21-2009    2
     "the events for which the Iraq war will be remembered probably haven't even happened yet." - Thomas Ricks
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    12,000 US troops in Iraq will not be replaced
    masbury
    by masbury  3-10-2009   
     The drawdown begins - though not because of successes as much as payoffs and ethnic cleansing.
    8
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    Graph: Ending the war in Iraq
    masbury
    by masbury  3-2-2009    3
     No Remarks
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    Iraq graft inquiry focuses on US Officers
    masbury
    by masbury  2-14-2009    2
     How many of these stories will we hear before we learn to keep our armies out of other people's countries?
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    "Reassessment"of Afghanistan deployment under way
    masbury
    by masbury  2-7-2009    3
     a chorus of military strategists and analysts are questioning whether a surge will work in Afghanistan as it did in Iraq
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    "Half our losses" in Iraq from Abu Ghraib and Gitmo
    masbury
    by masbury  1-10-2009    1
     Bush Pentagon official: "the first and second identifiable causes of U.S. combat deaths in Iraq – as judged by their effectiveness in recruiting insurgent fighters into combat – are, respectively the symbols of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo."
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    Iraqi al-Sadr: Carry out Gaza revenge on US troops in Iraq
    masbury
    by masbury  1-8-2009    3
     Looks like Israel's actions - and US support of them - will result in American loss of life.
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    FBI email: Bush authorized detainee abuse
    masbury
    by masbury  1-2-2009    2
     FBI senior agent wrote in '04 in internal email that Bush had signed an executive order authorizing abuse
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    Bush Vindicated: Iraq Had Shoes All Along
    masbury
    by masbury  1-1-2009   
     The real WMDs.
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    Bush admits AlQaeda wasn't in Iraq at first
    masbury
    by masbury  12-27-2008    15
     And says, "So what?" The Guardian comments: "it is still surprising that so many reporters can be polite and deferential with someone who has turned the US Federal Reserve into a giant Ponzi scheme and broken the world's strongest economy. They defer humbly to someone who has contrived the deaths of 4,200 US servicemen and women in Iraq"
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    Troubled teen joins Army, gets killed
    masbury
    by masbury  12-12-2008    20
     No Remarks
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    Brits' thousands to leave Iraq; most out by June
    masbury
    by masbury  12-10-2008   
     Likely will not immediately recommit them to Afghanistan
    6
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    Bush: Iraq intel "the biggest regret of my presidency"
    masbury
    by masbury  12-2-2008    5
     "I was unprepared for war."
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    Security pact passes Iraq parliament
    masbury
    by masbury  11-27-2008    1
     Known there as "the withdrawal agreement"
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    McClatchy: Bush concealing English version of SOFA
    masbury
    by masbury  11-26-2008    6
     Neither the American public nor the Congress have been allowed to see it, though the fate of American troops is tied to it.
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    Iraq security pact means releasing detainees
    masbury
    by masbury  11-23-2008   
     US loses right to hold detainees in Iraq without charge
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    Soldier, now war objector, gets 14 months
    masbury
    by masbury  11-21-2008   
     This guy has guts - it would not be an easy route to take - and military "confinement" won't be, either.
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    Iraqi PM quietly firing fraud inspectors
    masbury
    by masbury  11-18-2008    6
     While estimates of corruption soar.
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    Blackwater hid smuggled weapons in dogfood bags
    masbury
    by masbury  11-16-2008    2
     Including silencers, used for assassinations. May they lose megabucks and their freedom.
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    Don't have your wedding in Afghanistan
    masbury
    by masbury  11-14-2008    2
     American planes have taken out two brides in the last seven months
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    Blackwater to be fined millions
    masbury
    by masbury  11-13-2008    4
     For illegally shipping weapons to Iraq
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    US done with SOFA talks
    masbury
    by masbury  11-9-2008   
     Iraqis seek more talks
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    US's Syria raid sets Iraq on fire
    masbury
    by masbury  11-1-2008   
     Iraqi gov't not informed that a neighboring country would be attacked from its own territory. Positions harden on SOFA. Nation outraged.
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    US blackmails Iraq
    masbury
    by masbury  10-30-2008    12
     Give in on the security agreement, or we pull services you can't function without
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    Docs struggle to turnaround Iraq's mental health care
    masbury
    by masbury  10-28-2008   
     And they may just do it, according to British psychiatrist
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    Iraq demands all troops out by 2011
    masbury
    by masbury  10-28-2008   
     "Conditions" talk removed from agreement; re-named “agreement around the temporary presence of US forces in Iraq, its activities and its withdrawal timeline.” Can be less than 3 years, but cannot be more.
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    Iraqi PM won't sign security agreement
    masbury
    by masbury  10-25-2008   
     May seek UN mandate extension instead; Odierno warns of possible cessation of US troop activities
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    Enough of Joe; Here's to Kareem the Soldier
    masbury
    by masbury  10-22-2008   
     "He was an American soldier first," said his father, Feroze Khan. "But he also looked at fighting in this war as fighting for his faith. He was fighting radicalism."
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