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Operation Iraqi Freedom

Abandoning America's Soldiers: The Decay of The US Military

R. B. Stuart | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Operation Desert Fix, Operation Desert Storm, Tallil Air Force Base, Amarillo VA, Burn Pits, Camp Lejeune NC, Army SSG. Gregory Wilson, Va, Iraq, Depleted Uranium, Agent Orange, Operation Desert Shield, Ft. Bragg NC, Marine Corps, Ptsd, Veteran's Day, War Wound, Albuquerque VA, Male Breast Cancer, Pyridostigmine Bromide, 82nd Airborne, Soldiers With Cancer, Ft. Campbell Kentucky, Veteran's Hospital, Permethrin, Ft. Hood Texas, Gulf War, CNN. R. B. Stuart, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Cancerous Tumors, Dod, IED's, Living News
R. B. Stuart

The inadequacy of the VA and a majority of military doctors in theater that fail to diagnose or misdiagnose is at the crux of the soldiers diagnosed with rare, advanced cancers.

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General Petraeus Joins Troops Diagnosed With Cancer

R. B. Stuart | Posted 11.05.2009 | World

Read More: 101st Airborne, Battalion, Troops, Burn Pits, Depleted Uranium, Iraq, 526 FSB, Baghdad, Cancer, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Mosul, Walter Reed, Al Jazeera News, Babil Cancer Centre, Christopher Busby, Operation Purple Heart, Sharif Al-Alwachi, General David Petraeus, Shock and Awe, Kbr, Charles Lewis, Fran E. Stuart, Kellogg Brown & Root, World News
R. B. Stuart

In 2003 General Petraeus led the troops into the massive battle of "shock and awe" in Operation Iraqi Freedom. The 101st Airborne was the first to pav...

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Does the Afghanistan War Represent Graveyard Thinking?

John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Operation Iraqi Freedom, Taliban, Defense Budget, Pakistan, Afghanistan War, Hamid Karzai, Obama-War-in-Afghanistan, Taliban-Pakistan, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Camillo Bica, Afghanistan Road Building, Gerald Warner, Tom Engelhardt, Politics News
John W. Whitehead

Why is America becoming so deeply involved in the mess that is Afghanistan?

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Iraqi Interior Minister: Iraqis Ready And Eager To Be Free Of US Control

AJC | Jawad al-Bolani | Posted 04.26.2009 | World

Read More: Interior Minister Iraq, US Military, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Middle East, Iraq Us Troops, Jawad-Al-Bolani, Iraqi Freedom, US in Iraq, Iraq, Us Iraq Withdrawal, Iraq Security Forces, World News

When America launched "Operation Iraqi Freedom" in 2003, there was an explicit promise made to Iraqis that they would in fact one day be free. Free fr...

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Success in Iraq? Think Again.

Rick Horowitz | Posted 04.24.2009 | World

Read More: George Bush, Ray Odierno, Weapons of Mass Destruction, David Petraeus, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Nucler Weapons, Iraq, Al Qaeda, Dick Cheney, Iraq War, Iran, Ryan Crocker, Saddam Hussein, Bush Administration, Condoleezza Rice, Middle East, Taliban, Foreign Affairs, Operation Iraqi Freedom, North Korea, Afghanistran, World News
Rick Horowitz

See, in a world where things aren't connected to other things -- where you get to handle one thing at a time, in a vacuum, at the pace you choose -- maybe you could consider the war in Iraq a success.

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Fit For Duty: Proceed With Caution - Part II

R. B. Stuart | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Soldiers, Chemotherapy, Iraq, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Cancer, Chaplain, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Depleted Uranium, Health, Politics News
R. B. Stuart

My sister's cancer brought a roulette of abandonment and fears. The chemo compounded it by stripping away not only the cancer cells, but every living cell and organism that made up who she was.

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Class Warfare with a TARP

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 12.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Tarp, American Express, Goldman Sachs, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Bailout, General Motors, Chrysler, Clean Skies, No Child Left Behind, Henry Paulson, Financial Crisis, Aig, Ford, Business News
Michael B. Laskoff

It stands for Troubled Asset Relief Program, but the first word should really be Troubling. The haste with which it was created... is the best evidence of its flawed nature.

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Prosecuting U.S. Troops Under Iraqi Law .. ?

John Bruhns | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq Status of Forces Agreement, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Iraqi Death Toll, Iraq Veterans, Iraq Violence, United Nations, Iraqi Government, Iraqi Army, Politics News
John Bruhns

For all those who will accept nothing short of "victory" in Iraq, please get on the same page as the rest of us: sending others into an immoral situation and expecting them to behave morally is absurd.

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