Iraq War Veteran

Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 06.27.2008 | Media

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Government report links extreme weather to global warming, traffic pollution to childhood allergies, Denver Police stockpiling pepper weapons and Rumsfeld got torture advice from Army psychologists.

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Where War Meets Peace

Robert Koehler | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq War Veteran, Winter Soldier, Iraq, Iraq War Veterans, Iraq War Vets, Politics News

OK, America, let's look through the sights of Goldsmith's rifle for a long, long half-minute or so, draw a bead on the boy's heart, fondle the trigger -- what to do? The soldier's decision is our decision.

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Iraq: The Damage of Falsehoods

John Bruhns | Posted 01.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq War Veteran, Fund for Independence in Journalism, Troops, Center for Public Integrity, 935 Lies, Iraq, Supporting the Troops, Politics News

Anything we can do military for Iraq has long been achieved. There were no weapons of mass destruction to disarm. The Iraqi people are free of Saddam.

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Iraq: Decades Of Recovery for the American People

John Bruhns | Posted 01.18.2008 | Politics

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We seem to have enough money to invade Iraq on a fallacy, while we lack money for American people who go without. How un-American is that?

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Courage of my Convictions

John Bruhns | Posted 11.21.2007 | Politics

Read More: Anti-War Controversy, Iraq War, Iraq War Veteran, Anti-War Democrats, Anti-War Movement, Iraq Troop Withdrawal, Iraq, Anti-War, Politics News

This past Monday the Philadelphia Daily News ran an op-ed that I wrote expressing my frustrations with big money anti-war lobbying organizations. Particularly the groups that I worked side by side with.

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Profile in Courage

John Bruhns | Posted 11.13.2007 | Politics

Kucinich demonstrated last week that he is willing to fight fire with fire when it comes to dealing with Bush and Cheney like no other Democrat has done yet.

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Second Class Even In Death

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 11.01.2007 | Politics

A generation of gay men that died of AIDS in this country have been slapped today; they are citizens not entitled to the same rights as a dead Iraqi war veteran.

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The Lives That Begin and End at Age 21

Alex Cornell du Houx | Posted 09.06.2007 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War Veteran, College Student, Gao, Sectarian Divisions, Soldiers in Iraq, Iraq Casualties, No End in Sight, Fallujah, Politics News

It is part of my duty as an American soldier to learn how our policies reflect on the ground, and whether we are making headway. It was my experiences in Iraq that guided me to where I stand on the war today.

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