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Veteran's Day Special: Coming Down to Earth with "Occupation: Dreamland"

Carol Smaldino | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

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Carol Smaldino

The massacre at Fort Hood is a stark reminder of the need to guard against becoming numb against the horrors our soldiers face in war. Fortunately, the film "Occupation: Dreamland" fills that void.

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Military Report On Iraq Stress Clinic Killing Spree: Soldier Showed Obvious Signs Of Unraveling

AP | REBECCA SANTANA and CHELSEA J. CARTER | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD — The soldier at the center of the military's worst soldier-on-soldier violence in six years had gone to four counseling sessions. His r...

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Interrupting Unfriendly Persuasion

Carol Smaldino | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Psychological Association, Torture, The Fog of War, 9/11, CIA Torture, Psychologists, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Iraq, Psychology, Persuasion, Iraq War, Robert S. McNamara, Bush Administration Torture, American Soldiers, Vietnam, Bush Enhanced Interrogations, Vietnam Veterans, New York Times, Enhanced Interrogations, Psychologists-Torture, Politics News
Carol Smaldino

When persuasion is used without regard for the other person, when it becomes sadistic and reckless endangerment, it is what we have come to know as torture.

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US Army Reduces Soldiers' Sentences For Iraqi Murders

AP | GEORGE FREY | Posted 09.14.2009 | World

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FRANKFURT — The U.S. Army said Friday it had reduced the sentences of three soldiers convicted of murder in the execution-style slayings of four...

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Taliban Video Shows Captive US soldier: AP sources

AP | PAMELA HESS and LOLITA BALDOR | Posted 08.18.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — The American soldier who went missing June 30 from his base in eastern Afghanistan and was later confirmed to have been captured, a...

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U.S. Troop Withdrawal From Iraq: Share Your Stories

Huffington Post | Morgan Korn | Posted 07.16.2009 | World

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On June 30, 2009, thousands of American troops will withdraw from Iraqi cities. The U.S. and Iraqi governments agreed last year to a security plan whi...

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