Casualties

Our Children Will Finally Learn That Wars Can and Do End

Ryan McDermott | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Iraq War, Army, Military, Casualties, Iraq War Veterans, Military Families, Veterans, Impact News

While waiting in the Kuwaiti desert, I wrote letters to my son as if they might serve as a way for him of understanding why I went to war. For me, writing the letters was a coping mechanism for dealing with the separation.

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Contratistas Desaparecidos

David Isenberg | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Morality, Fatalities, Private Military Security Contractors, Casualties, Business News

You will never see the PBS NewsHour listing any contractor among the periodic listings of those killed in Iraq or Afghanistan. Regardless of what you think of the utility of using PMSC such an attitude is just plain morally wrong.

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WATCH: Cost Of Wars In Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan To Reach $3.7 Trillion

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: Cost of War, US Defense Spending, Afghanistan, Pakistan, War, US Military Spending, Veterans, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, Health Care Veterans, Video, Military Spending, War Costs, Pakistan War, Defense Spending, Iraq, Casualties, World News

WASHINGTON -- The United States will have spent a total of $3.7 trillion on wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, costing 225,000 lives and creating...

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Central Park: A Performance in Four Seasons (Summer)

Jack Schimmelman | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Belvedere Castle, Waterfall, Jack and Jill, Central Park, War, Spring, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Victor Herbert, Swans, Loss, Peace, New York City, Apollo, Urban, John Lennon, Summer, Spiritual, Imagine, Ghosts, Casualties, Love, The Ramble, William Shakespeare, Summer Solstice, New York News

Central Park lights the stage in all her glory, for summer has arrived, voluptuous and steady. No longer do the denizens of the city fear nature's vacillating affection.

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Memorial Day: Remembering Those Who Didn't Have To Die in Afghanistan

Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe | Posted 07.30.2011

Read More: Troops, Memorial Day, Rethink Afghanistan, Osama Bin Laden, Al-Qaeda, Afghanistan, Casualties, War in Afghanistan, Brave New Foundation, Afghanistan War, Politics News

Memorial Day is a national holiday dedicated to remembering Americans killed in wartime. This year, unfortunately, we remember war dead who didn't have to die, and unless Congress and the president act, we'll remember more needless deaths next year.

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1,500 Broken Promises from Afghanistan War Backers

Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe | Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: War in Afghanistan, Memorial Day, Brave New Foundation, Rethink Afghanistan, Jim McGovern, Afghanistan Exit and Accountability Act, Walter Jones, Afghanistan War, Mullen, Icasualties, Afghanistan, Obama, Casualties, Politics News

With Memorial Day coming up, we should take a moment to consider something that's gone largely unremarked in the mainstream media: more than 1,500 troops have now died in a war the American people oppose.

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1,501 Good Reasons To End the Afghanistan War

Derrick Crowe | Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Afghanistan, Troop Deaths, Rethink Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Casualties, Osama Bin Laden, Afghanistan War, Brave New Foundation, Video, World News

The number of troops killed in connection with the Afghanistan war now exceeds 1,500. How many more troop deaths and civilian killings will we tolerate before Washington acts to end this war?

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Tell Joe Klein It's Stupid NOT to Get Out of Afghanistan

Robert Greenwald | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ed Schultz, Reliable Sources, Cnn, Rethink Afghanistan, Economy, Joe Klein, Afghanistan, War Spending, Casualties, Robert Greenwald, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, World News

While 68 percent of Americans worry that the war's costs affect our ability to fix problems here at home, we're wasting $2 billion a week on a war that's not making us safer. That sounds pretty stupid to me.

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Afghan War's 9th Anniversary: U.S. Nears Decade Of Fighting

AP | DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghanistan, Terrorism, Pakistan, Kabul, Taliban, Hamid Karzai, Osama Bin Laden, Afghan War, Cost, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Spending, Nato, George W. Bush, Casualties, World News

KABUL, Afghanistan — It's make-or-break time in Afghanistan. The war enters its 10th year Thursday, and this is no ordinary anniversary....

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Bush At War

Nigel Hamilton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congress, Richard Clarke, Ronald Reagan, Memoirs, Decision Points, Ron Susskind, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Media, Dick Cheney, Hubris, Condoleezza Rice, Fdr, Self-Portraiture, Blood Money, American Caesars, Philip Roth, The Constitution, Karl Rove, Afghanistan, The Plot Against America, Robert Byrd, Bart Gellman, Al Qaeda, Biography, Lee Atwater, Dwight Eisenhower, Book Royalties, Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson, Iraq, Jfk, Casualties, The Vulcans, Harrytruman, Books News

What happens when a great nation -- and this is a great nation -- elects a ruler who is not up to the task of being president? The answer is to be found in George W. Bush's memoirs, Decision Points.

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VA Made Secret Deal With Prudential Over Soldiers' Life Insurance Payouts

Bloomberg | David Evans | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Benefits, Dead Soldiers, Profits, Va, Afghanistan, Veterans Administration, Payouts, Iraq, Prudential, Life Insurance, Casualties, Veterans, Politics News

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs failed to inform 6 million soldiers and their families of an agreement enabling Prudential Financial Inc. to w...

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Obama White House To Start Publicly Walking Away From 2011 Afghan Withdraw Date

McClatchy | Nancy A. Youssef | McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pentagon, Afghan War Cost, Afghan War, White House, Withdraw Date, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Barak Obama, Kabul, Taliban, Casualties, Hamid Karzai, World News

The Obama administration has decided to begin publicly walking away from what it once touted as key deadlines in the war in Afghanistan in an effort t...

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October 2010 SIGIR Quarterly Report

David Isenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fraud, Private Military Security Contractors, Iraq, Casualties, Sigir, Business News

The latest quarterly report from the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR), released October 30, has not received much attention. ...

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Generation War: Children During 9/11 Becoming Soldiers In Afghanistan

AP | TODD PITMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghan War, Soldiers, Military, Millenials, Children, Afghanistan, 9/11, Generation Y, School, Casualties, World News

MARJAH, Afghanistan — Lance Cpl. Jacob Adams was in 5th grade math class when hijacked jetliners slammed into the World Trade Center and the Pen...

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Afghan War Casualties: U.S. Military Deaths Hit 1,260

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghan War, Marines, US Casualties, Army, Deaths, Military, Afghanistan, Air Force, Navy, Casualties, Pentagon, Barack Obama, Surge, George W. Bush, World News

As of Thursday, Nov. 4, 2010, at least 1,260 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in l...

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Contractor Deaths Exceed Military Deaths In Iraq, Afghan Wars

ProPublica | T. Christian Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghan War, Pentagon, Costs, Contractors, Military, US Military, Afghanistan, Spending, Iraq War, Defense Contractors, Iraq, Casualties, World News

More private contractors than soldiers were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in recent months, the first time in history that corporate casualties have ...

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Frank Rich: General McChrystal And The 36 Hours That Shook Washington

New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 05.25.2011

Once made the top commander in Afghanistan, the general was kept on long past his expiration date. He should have been cashiered after he took his fir...

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Stryker Brigade Murder Charges: 5 Soldiers Killed Afghan Civilians, Military Says

AP | GEORGE TIBBITS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stryker Brigade, Calvin Gibbs, US Military, Army, Fort Lewis, Adam Winfield, Afghanistan, Michael Wagnon, Jeremy Morlock, Afghan, Andrew Holmes, Taliban, Casualties, Afghan Civilian Deaths, World News

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Hiroshima at Sixty-Five

Stanley Kutler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Truman's Decision, Atomic Bomb, Casualties, "Conventional" Bombing, Hiroshima, Naval Blockade, Politics News

Discussions of the dropping of the bomb rarely raise the effects and potential of the bombing and naval blockade. Today, it is common wisdom that Truman had only two simple, stark choices.

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The Hidden Costs of Warfare and the Prophet Jeremiah

Gary Hart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Warfare, Casualties, Politics News

Why cannot political leaders level with the American people on the costs of warfare? It is obvious if they did so, the appetite for voluntary invasions especially would be greatly diminished.

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Afghanistan Is A Catastrophe, But We Will Have To Wait For Post-War Inquiry To Admit It

The Guardian | Simon Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: UK, Britain, British Soldiers, Afghanistan, David Cameron, General David Richards, Helmand, Afghan War, Gordon Brown, Insurgency, Chilcot Inquiry, Nation Building, Iraq, General Petraeus, Casualties, World News

American congressmen tear their generals apart when fighting stupid wars. The British prefer to avoid embarrassment....

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Pfc. Ryan Grady Killed In Afghanistan: Vermont National Guardsman's Body Brought Back To U.S.

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghan War, Ryan Grady, Afghanistan, Ied, Vermont National Guard, Dover Air Force Base, Vermont, Oklahoma, Purple Heart, Casualties, Home News

Army Pfc. Ryan J. Grady's body was brought to U.S. soil Sunday when the aircraft carrying the slain soldier, father, brother, and husband landed at Do...

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The Oklahoma City Bombing Anniversary and Home-Grown Terrorism

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Political Spectrum, Civil, 9/11, Anniversary, Movement, America, Government, Middle East, Terror, Domestic Terrorism, Victim, Violence, Shame, Attack, Militia, Bomb, Politics, Terrorist, Role of Government, Interview, Timothy McVeigh, Democratic Discourse, Anger, Mother, Border, Documentary, Confession, Bombing, Terrorism, Casualties, Discourse, Law Enforcement, Rhetoric, Politics News

Are we as concerned about potential terrorists who are home-grown Americans with white skin as we are sometimes obsessed with darker-skinned suspects of Middle Eastern descent?

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Contractor Deaths Surge In Afghanistan As They Outnumber US Soldiers

ProPublica | T. Christian Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pentagon, Afghan War, Congressional Research Analysis, US Military, Afghanistan, Defense Contractors, Contractor Deaths, US, Casualties, Bodyguards, Politics News

A recent Congressional Research Service analysis obtained by ProPublica looked at the number of civilian contractors killed in Afghanistan in recent m...

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Seven Years Later, Family of Man Killed in Iraq Soldiers On

Aaron Glantz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War Anniversary, Obama Iraq War, Flag-Draped-Coffins, Iraq, Casualties, Mfso, Iraq War, World News

It is estimated that the 5,398 U.S military deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan had left 3,779 children without a parent, while 2,669 spouses had been widowed.

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