tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35851142008-12-15T11:42:59.798-08:00War on IraqNews about America's war against IraqLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comBlogger854125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585114.post-62806958811473986192008-12-15T11:32:00.000-08:002008-12-15T11:42:59.816-08:00It's Official: Total Defeat for U.S. in Iraq
(Patrick Cockburn, CounterPunch, December 15, 2008)
On November 27 the Iraqi parliament voted by a large majority in favor of a security agreement with the US under which the 150,000 American troops in Iraq will withdraw from cities, towns and villages by June 30, 2009 and from all of Iraq by December 31, 2011. The Iraqi government will take over Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585114.post-79098037874459928212008-03-25T15:45:00.000-07:002008-03-25T15:51:34.869-07:00Across Iraq, battles erupt with Mahdi Army
(Sam Dagher, The Christian Science Monitor, March 26, 2008)
The Mahdi Army's seven-month-long cease-fire appears to have come undone. . . . Rockets fired from the capital's Shiite district of Sadr City slammed into the Green Zone Tuesday, the second time in three days, and firefights erupted around Baghdad pitting government and US forces against the Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585114.post-4671662029977371912007-12-06T07:53:00.000-08:002007-12-06T07:58:58.794-08:00The Coming and Brutal Reeducation of the Happy Surgers
(p m carpenter's commentary, December 6, 2007)
I'm sure George hasn't been curious enough to make inquiries, so is still in the misty dark, and the NYT story isn't yet a day and a half old, so virtual Republican-front-runner Mike Huckabee could not possibly comment on it, but Iraq, according to the latest from outside analysts and Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585114.post-27329333929195380282007-11-27T17:08:00.000-08:002007-11-27T20:32:56.564-08:00120 War Vets Commit Suicide Each Week
(Penny Coleman, AlterNet, 26 November 2007)
[COMMENT by Lorenzo: As a Viet Nam vet, I have been sensitive to the fact that a great many of my brothers in arms have taken their own lives since returning from that horrible war. Anecdotal accounts have sometimes claimed that there have been more suicides by returning vets than there are names on The Wall. While Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585114.post-77947195691689102942007-06-01T17:05:00.000-07:002007-06-01T17:13:33.267-07:00Bush's Iraq strategy boosts US combat losses
(Gordon Lubold, The Christian Science Monitor, June 1, 2007)
May's spike in the American death toll in Iraq is the result of the administration's new approach in Iraq – as much as it is the enemy's own "surge" of attacks against US forces. . . . analysts warn that if the number of US casualties continues at their current high level through the summer, Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585114.post-52340502877256361312007-06-01T16:47:00.000-07:002007-06-01T17:03:54.573-07:00Marine Corps Wants America's Favorite Marine To Shut Up!
(Wonkett.com, May 31, 2007)
Iraq veteran and honorably discharged Marine Sgt. Adam Kokesh has been the Pentagon's biggest public relations nightmare this year, because he's some kind of magical Cindy Sheehan - people actually like him! . . . And while right-wingers had no problem mocking the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq, they have a Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585114.post-15657654445701047632007-05-30T21:32:00.000-07:002007-05-30T21:46:05.208-07:00A soldier in Iraq asks in despair: Why are we here?
(ClarksvilleOnline, May 29, 2007)
After watching his roommate fatally wounded in a roadside bombing, an Army private wonders why the lives of good men are being lost when the Iraqis pose no threat to us and don’t want us there.
BAGHDAD, May 12 — My name is Donald Hudson Jr. I have been serving our country’s military actively for the last three Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585114.post-35056686628241205562007-02-27T18:20:00.000-08:002007-02-27T18:25:37.194-08:00Military personnel with brain injuries pressured to return quickly to duty
(Robert Bazell, NBC News, Feb 27, 2007)
Last year when I was reporting on the treatment of brain injuries among troops returning from the war, I learned many experts were concerned about low-level brain injuries among the troops. The rehabilitation experts at Veterans Affairs had been shocked to hear that soldiers and Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585114.post-84266359765719709232007-02-26T09:37:00.000-08:002007-02-26T09:44:13.885-08:00200,000 U.S. War Veterans Homeless
(Sarah Childress, Newsweek, Feb 24, 200)
Hundreds of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are ending up homeless. How could this happen? . . . Young, alienated and often living on their own for the first time, Iraq and Afghanistan veterans increasingly are coming home to find that they don't have one. Already, nearly 200,000 veterans—many from the Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585114.post-38835041671704533372007-02-25T15:01:00.000-08:002007-02-25T15:07:14.584-08:00Not ONE Member of the Bush Extended Family Has Served in Iraq!
(BuzzFlash, 2-24-07)
Not one -- not one -- of any of Bush's children or his nieces and nephews have volunteered for service in any branch of the military or volunteered to serve in any capacity in Iraq. Not one of them has felt the cause was noble enough to put his or her life on the line. . . . If Iraq is such an "honorable" cause, Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585114.post-34908596182626688102007-02-13T07:00:00.000-08:002007-02-07T05:40:55.814-08:00As Badly Wounded US Troops Overwhelm System, Bush Seeks Cuts To VA
(Andrew Taylor, Associated Press, February 12, 2007)
The Bush administration plans to cut funding for veterans' health care two years from now - even as badly wounded troops returning from Iraq could overwhelm the system. . . . Bush is using the cuts, critics say, to help fulfill his pledge to balance the budget by 2012. . . . Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585114.post-59712189208210678152007-02-07T05:27:00.000-08:002007-02-07T05:40:50.771-08:00Death toll of U.S. troops in Iraq rising
(Robert Burns, Associated Press, February 7, 2007)
More American troops were killed in combat in
Iraq over the past four months — at least 334 through Jan. 31 — than in any comparable stretch since the war began, according to an Associated Press analysis of casualty records. . . . Not since the bloody battle for Fallujah in 2004 has the death toll [in Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585114.post-8808611958676333362007-01-31T06:36:00.000-08:002007-01-31T06:41:08.203-08:00DoD Audit: Pentagon has failed to properly equip soldiers in Iraq
(Dawn Kopecki, Business Week, January 30, 2007)
The Inspector General for the Defense Dept. is concerned that the U.S. military has failed to adequately equip soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, especially for nontraditional duties such as training Iraqi security forces and handling detainees, according to a summary of a new audit Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585114.post-39011217544639393362007-01-11T10:47:00.000-08:002007-01-11T11:03:23.913-08:00Still crazy after all these years
(Attytood, January 10, 2007)
January 10, 1967: The big news story that night? President Lyndon B. Johnson's State of the Union address. . . . The topic that dominated all others: Vietnam. . . . I'm going to guide you to some excerpts of that address -- exactly 40 years ago tonight. See how it compares to some of the excerpts from President Bush's speech that wereLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585114.post-1165008141064898682006-12-01T13:17:00.000-08:002006-12-01T13:22:21.123-08:00Bush talks nonsense about situation in Iraq
(Editorial, Minneapolis StarTribune, December 1, 2006)
When President Bush pronounced Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki "the right guy for Iraq" Thursday, it recalled Bush's infamous "heck of a job" comment about FEMA Director Michael Brown's incompetent response to Hurricane Katrina. Both comments say more about Bush than Brown or Al-Maliki: On Iraq, as onLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585114.post-1164857218329631412006-11-29T19:22:00.000-08:002006-11-29T19:28:15.443-08:00Powell says world should recognize Iraq at civil war
(Diala Saadeh, Reuters, November 29, 2006)
Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Wednesday Iraq had descended into civil war and urged world leaders to accept that "reality". . . . Powell's remarks came ahead of a meeting between Bush and Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Maliki in the Jordanian capital to discuss the security Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585114.post-1164728963767269702006-11-28T07:40:00.000-08:002006-11-28T07:49:23.926-08:00Marine Corps Admits Defeat in Anbar Province
(Dafna Linzer and Thomas E. Ricks, Washington Post, November 28, 2006)
The U.S. military is no longer able to defeat a bloody insurgency in western Iraq or counter al-Qaeda's rising popularity there, according to newly disclosed details from a classified Marine Corps intelligence report that set off debate in recent months about the military's mission Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585114.post-1164574139019637112006-11-26T12:38:00.000-08:002006-11-26T12:48:59.063-08:00Iraq War Longer Than U.S. Invlovement in World War II
(Michael Moore, 26 November 2006)
Tomorrow marks the day that we will have been in Iraq longer than we were in all of World War II. . . . That's right. We were able to defeat all of Nazi Germany, Mussolini, and the entire Japanese empire in LESS time than it's taken the world's only superpower to secure the road from the airport to downtown Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585114.post-1164287830956844512006-11-23T05:10:00.000-08:002006-11-23T05:17:10.996-08:00Monthly Iraqi civilian deaths exceed 3 Year U.S. military death total
(Ameer N. Yacoub, ABC News, 22 November 2006)
The United Nations said Wednesday that 3,709 Iraqi civilians were killed in October, the highest monthly toll since the March 2003 U.S. invasion and another sign of the severity of Iraq's sectarian bloodbath. . . . The U.N. tally was more than three times higher than the total The Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585114.post-1162669276152361712006-11-04T11:31:00.000-08:002006-11-04T11:41:16.183-08:00Iraq Descending To Chaos. Military Times Calls For Rumsfeld To Go
(Brent Budowsky, BuzzFlash, 4 November 2006)
This past week something extraordinariny and ominous happened. An American soldier was kidnapped. Going all out to leave no one behind, our mlitary established checkpoints. What happened next? The government in Iraq, under the control of pro-Iranian Shi'ite leaders, surrending to the Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585114.post-1162667464260192712006-11-04T11:01:00.000-08:002006-11-04T11:11:04.300-08:00U.S. Soldier Killed Herself After Objecting to Interrogation Techniques
(Greg Mitchell, Editor and Publisher, 4 November 2006)
[The true stories of how American troops, killed in Iraq, actually died keep spilling out this week. Now we learn, thanks to a reporter's FOIA request, that one of the first women to die in Iraq shot and killed herself after objecting to harsh "interrogation techniques."]Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585114.post-1162573777907528662006-11-03T08:48:00.000-08:002006-11-03T09:17:47.380-08:00Bush tells Rush he's 'deeply concerned' about the US leaving the Middle East
(RAW STORY, November 1, 2006)
During an interview with conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh, US President George Bush expressed deep concerns about the possibility of the United States leaving the Middle East, raising fears that extremists could topple governments to "control oil resources." "Give me a second here, Rush, An Old Curmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00468339733863179942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585114.post-1161701522532305072006-10-24T07:42:00.000-07:002006-10-24T14:49:47.193-07:00Camp Falcon Attacked, Hundreds of Casualties
(GlobalResearch.ca, 22 October 2006)
The first live reports were aired live on US network TV: We're getting some amazing pictures, some very dramatic pictures coming out of Iraq to us from Baghdad. You can read the lower third there. "Explosions rock Camp Falcon just outside of Baghdad." It is 11:28 p.m. there right now. . . . MSNBC News bureau in Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585114.post-1160690105602916552006-10-12T14:47:00.000-07:002006-10-12T19:44:40.883-07:00Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield, and Rice guilty of 655,000 murders
(BBC, 11 October 2006)
An estimated 655,000 Iraqis have died since 2003 who might still be alive but for the US-led invasion, according to a survey by a U.S. university. . . . Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health estimate that the mortality rates have more than doubled since the invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein, causing anLorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585114.post-1160411596384885382006-10-09T09:22:00.000-07:002006-10-09T09:33:16.503-07:00Bush Calls Iraq War Insignificant
(The Japan Times, 8 October 2006)
[COMMENT by Lorenzo: As a combat veteran of the American war in Viet Nam, I find it appalling that Bush thinks that the sacrifices of our troops are insignificant. He thinks the American war on Iraq will take up only a single comma in the history books of the future. Is this what our brave troops are dying for? Is this the kind Lorenzohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16598377696238546062noreply@blogger.com