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Common Dreams
by Tina Richards

03/11/07

I’ve come to Washington, DC because my son Cloy, who has been honorably discharged from the Marines with the presidential unit citation, is now facing a possible third deployment. Cloy is suffering from undiagnosed traumatic brain injury and post traumatic stress disorder. As Cloy says in one of his poems, every time I look in the mirror I see a casualty of the war...

https://www.commondreams.org/views07/0311-23.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=post+traumatic+stress+disorder
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tina+Richards

MSNBC

03/10/07

Military leaders are struggling to choose Army units to stay in Iraq and Afghanistan longer or go there earlier than planned, but five years of war have made fresh troops harder to find. Faced with a military buildup in Iraq that could drag into next year, Pentagon officials are trying to identify enough units to keep up to 20 brigade combat teams in Iraq. A brigade usually has about 3,500 troops...

https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17550827/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

"The first and most critical step is to recognize that fighting on now simply prolongs our losses and blocks the way to a new strategy."

https://snipurl.com/1cp4l


From Information Clearing House

Representative Jerry Nadler was the only lawmaker at a meeting of all House Democrats on Thursday to stand up and declare that he could not support a compromise plan to fund the Iraq war with a timeline to end the conflict. So some party leaders had written him off even as he joined House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for a private meeting.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031107F.shtml

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/washington/11cong.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1173635443-BpyScbD0xVw1wl+29/sLVA


Informant: bigraccoon



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pelosi

VIDEO

Women soldiers face more than just the "typical" horrors of war, they have to contend with harassment, assault, and sometimes rape -- from those in uniform. The military, many say, is unhelpful when women attempt to report their experiences.

https://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/48992/


From Information Clearing House

“They killed the father of my children! The Americans killed my daughters!” she sobbed, sitting crumpled on the floor of Imam Ali Hospital in Sadr City where rescuers had taken the victims, including her daughters, 9 and 11, and her son, 7.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17276.htm

"Anyone who wanted to believe that all Mr. Bush was seeking was a short-term security push - as part of a larger strategy to extricate American troops from this unwinnable war - now needs to face up to a far less palatable reality. What is under way is a significant and long-term escalation," says the New York Times.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031007A.shtml

https://www.commondreams.org/views07/0309-21.htm



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Nichols