by Levees Not War | Dec 31, 2011 | Politics/Economy, War and Peace
500,000 vets may suffer from PTSD, depression, or traumatic brain injury Dan Froomkin, senior Washington correspondent for Huffington Post, reports at Nieman Watchdog that the Pentagon’s figure of 32,226 wounded seriously undercounts the true casualty rate. Possibly...
by Levees Not War | Oct 30, 2011 | Politics/Economy, War and Peace
* [ cross-posted @ Daily Kos ] * “In August [2002] a British official close to the Bush team told Newsweek: ‘Everyone wants to go to Baghdad. Real men want to go to Tehran.’ ” —Paul Krugman, “Things to Come,” March 18, 2003 * Where’s That “Mission Accomplished”...
by Levees Not War | Oct 26, 2011 | War and Peace
* Police Use Tear Gas, Flash Bang Grenades on Occupy Oakland Protesters Scott Olsen, a Marine Corps veteran of two tours of duty in Iraq who is now involved in Veterans for Peace, was critically wounded by Oakland police during a crackdown of the Occupy Oakland...
by Levees Not War | Aug 19, 2010 | Politics/Economy, War and Peace
Out of Iraq, on to Afghanistan The last combat troops have left Iraq, as a convoy of the 4th Stryker Brigade rumbled in the wee hours of August 19, 2010, from Iraq toward U.S. bases in Kuwait. At the end of August, Operation Iraqi Freedom will end and 50,000 advisory...
by Levees Not War | Jul 3, 2008 | Politics/Economy, War and Peace
Let next year’s 4th of July be a celebration of America’s independence from war and Iraqi Freedom from American occupation We are confident that despite the media reports and rumors that Barack Obama is thinking of ‘refining’ his plan to end the war in Iraq, this does...
