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Pain Management Is for Sissies

Hal Donahue | Posted 07.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pain, Wounded Warrior, US Soldiers, David Chu, Department of Defense, Bethesda, New York Times, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Iraq, Dod, Veterans, Politics News
Hal Donahue

The Department of Defense "lost" their only pain management center AND one of the few pain management fellowships in the world. The incompetence of the Bush regime knows no bounds.

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A Time to Ask. A Time to Tell

Richard Klass | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gays in the Military, Homosexuality, Dod, Bill Clinton, Dadt, Homophobia, Civil Rights, Politics News
Richard Klass

What is often overlooked is that the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy was supposed to be a way station on the road to full acceptance of homosexuals in the military.

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The F Word: No Solar and No Clean-up

Laura Flanders | Posted 07.01.2008 | Green

Read More: Renewable Energy, Grittv, Flanders, Dod, Solar Energy, Superfund, Epa, Green News
Laura Flanders

I say it's time for some departmental renaming. What do you call a Defense Department that makes you sicker and an environmental protection agency that can't?

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Nickels and Dimes: Why the White House Opposes the GI Bill

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 05.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: GI Bill, Contractors, Pentagon, Senator Webb, Retention, Veterans, Dod, Iava, 21st Century GI Bill, Iraq Contractors, Defense Spending, Politics News
Paul Rieckhoff

The administration's argument is that if a GI Bill benefit is too good, it'll reward veterans too richly for their service and draw them away from re-enlisting.

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Do We Value Service to Our Country? Why We MUST Support the 2008 GI Bill

Sean Gilfillan | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: GI Bill, To the Fallen Records, Army, Iava, Sean Gilfillan, Military, Congress, Marine Corps, Air Force, Dod, Navy, Politics News
Sean Gilfillan

We servicemen depend on Congress to be our union, to fight for us, to set the standard for the rest of the country as to how we are perceived, how we are respected within society, and how we are valued.

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Recognizing the Hidden Wounds of War

Ray Kimball | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Stigma, Leadership, Mental Health, Ptsd, Purple Heart, Dod, War, Politics News
Ray Kimball

It was a groundbreaking week for the way the Department of Defense handles PTSD among its ranks.

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Contractor Self Arrest: How Realistic Is This?

Dina Rasor | Posted 04.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Congressional Oversight, Oversight, Dod, Iraq Contractors, Iraq War Funding, Private Contractors, Politics News
Dina Rasor

The whole notion of contractor self policing is absurd at best. The self-reporting process is a useful mechanism for major contractors to limit their liability by settling with the government for pennies on the dollar.

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My Pet Goat II: President Sticks To His Story Even As Military Crumbles Around Him

Bobby Muller | Posted 01.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Dod, Iraq Veterans, Department of Defense, State of the Union George Bush, State of the Union Address, Iraq, Bush State of the Union, Veterans, Politics News
Bobby Muller

Simple morality, and sense of decency, demands a change. We cannot continue taking such gross advantage of those who have offered themselves in service to our country.

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Investigate the Pentagon's Strait of Hormuz Scandal

Gareth Porter | Posted 01.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Navy, Filipino Monkey, Robert M. Gates, Pentagon, Bryan Whitman, Strait of Hormuz, Dick Cheney, Dod, Gates, Department of Defense, Iran Filipino Monkey, Iran, Iran Boats, Politics News
Gareth Porter

Could the White House have been taken in by reports from overeager commanders in the Gulf who sent panicky reports with an exaggerated sense of threat from Iranian boats?

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For Pete's Sake

Marvin Kitman | Posted 12.12.2007 | Media

Read More: Dod, Howard Kurtz, Matthew Dowd Bush, Matthew Dowd, Pete Williams, Media News
Marvin Kitman

Snakes molt their skins, but does a skunk change his stripes? Time alone will tell what kind of a job a press agent will do given a chance to become an honest journalist.

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Lesson II: Checks on Beef and Pork Abuses

Major R. Owens | Posted 12.12.2007 | Politics

Read More: Pork Barrel, Earmarks, Dod, Politics News
Major R. Owens

Earmarks can be good for democracy. This is the first lesson we must not forget. But our second lesson must focus on the need to check routine abuses.

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Leaving Friends to Die: Abandoning Our Iraqi Interpreters

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 10.03.2007 | Politics

Read More: Jordan, President, United Nations, Interpreters, Iraq, Refugee, Iraq War, Soldier, Fallujah, Saddam Hussein, Iava, Visa, Todd Bowers, Baghdad, Esam Pasha, Dod, Counterinsurgency, Soho, Politics News
Paul Rieckhoff

We are failing to keep our most precious allies safe from harm. The endless bureaucratic hurdles imposed upon them by the United States are literally a matter of life and death.

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A New Truman Commission: The Time is Now but Will the Senate Have the Guts to Do It?

Dina Rasor | Posted 09.21.2007 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq Reconstruction, KBR, Contractors, Truman Commission, Commission on Wartime Contracting, Gao, Spending Two Billion Dollars a Week, Truman Committee, Iraq Contractors, DOD, Troops Not Getting the Equipment That They Need, Politics News
Dina Rasor

It will take the Congress to establish a commission to start peel back the layers of fraud, fat and waste in this war and find out why the troops are still not getting what they need.

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