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July 26, Book Review: Bitter Homecoming – Marty Schram’s New Book Sharply Criticizes VA Bungling
Marty Schram notes one anecdotal but perhaps telling incident. In an upscale bar near the White House, a VA administrator bragged that he’d spent the afternoon immersed in medical books, extracting enough information to cast doubt on the validity of … Continue reading
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Assault Victims in Military Face Tough Recovery
July 22, 2008, York, PA – It took Diane Pickel Plappert six months to tell a counselor that she had been raped while on duty in Iraq. While time passed, the former Navy nurse disconnected from her children and her … Continue reading
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Rep. Ackerman Defends Iran Sanctions Measure, But Critics Call it An Act of War
July 21, 2008 – Two weeks ago, Rep. Gary Ackerman, the Democrat from New York, delivered an impassioned speech on the House floor defending a controversial resolution he co-sponsored calling on President George W. Bush “to increase economic, political and … Continue reading
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July 21, Book Review: Martin Schram Asks Us to Remember the Bonus Army
Martin Schram: Remember the Bonus Army On July 22, 1932, Republican President Herbert Hoover ordered active duty U.S. Army soldiers to violently smash a peaceful encampment of more than 17,000 World War I veterans who had marched upon Washington for benefits. … Continue reading
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Treating Wounds You Can’t See
June 29, 2008 – On the wall in my office at Fort Dix, N.J., hung a row of nature photos and some historical documents for my patients to look at: a land grant signed by James Madison, another signed by … Continue reading
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Anti-War Soldier Jonathan Hutto: People, Not Politicians, Will End the War in Iraq
June 25, 2008 – Active-duty sailor Jonathan Hutto signed up to join the Navy in December 2003, at the age of 26. Previously a college activist fighting police brutality in Washington, D.C., and later an organizer with the ACLU, he … Continue reading
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How Boris Johnson Became a War Criminal
June 24, 2008 – Well, I suppose we should be grateful for one thing. It seems that a Western politician is finally going to pay the price for his involvement in the Iraq war. After five years of disaster and … Continue reading
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Fixing the First War: As US-Pakistani Tensions Mount, General Petraeus Steps In
June 18, 2008 – They seem an odd couple: the general who engineered President Bush’s surge in Iraq, and the presidential candidate who has promised to undo it. But look again. Gen. David Petraeus’s broad new agenda as the likely … Continue reading
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After a Feud and Two Deaths, Iraq War Soldiers’ Families Torn
June 16, 2008 – Capt. Phillip Esposito and Staff Sgt. Alberto Martinez went to war together, two very different soldiers from the same New York National Guard unit. After five months in Iraq, a bombing sent both men back home, … Continue reading
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Editorial Column: Investigate This – The Propaganda Leading to Iraq War
June 9, 2008 – “I think the questions were asked. I think we pushed. I think we prodded. I think we challenged the president. I think not only those of us in the White House press corps did that, but … Continue reading
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