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Charles Sheehan-Miles and Robert K. Musil The little-told toll of combat is in the minds of the soldiers who fight. Every war, we forget the ordeal inflicted on soldiers, even those uninjured. After the war…
CNN WOLF BLITZER REPORTS Civilians Working for U.S. Military Gunned Down in Kuwait; Skiers Killed in Avalanche in British Columbia Aired January 21, 2003 – 17:00 ET THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY…
This article ran on Antiwar.com on January 24, 2003. In a development that probably shouldn’t shock me, but does, Israel has publicly announced plans to murder people on U.S. soil. The story initially surfaced in…
Twelve years ago, at roughly two a.m. local time on January 17, I was ready to go off guard duty when the call came down from the command post: wake up the platoon leaders ASAP.…
This article ran on Alternet on December 30, 2002. Soon George Bush will deliver his second State of the Union address. As we all know, it’s been a tough couple of years, so as we…
Or so says Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfield, who says that if the inspectors give Iraq a clean bill-of-health, “What it would prove would be that the inspection process had been successfully defeated by the…
“Are you okay?” My wife asked the question after we learned that Robert Stewart Flores, who killed three professors at the University of Arizona before shooting himself, was a Gulf War veteran. She asked me…
Yesterday I spoke at the October 26 anti-war rally in Washington, DC. I was very pleasantly surprised – it was a huge crowd, covering the western half of the mall, from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial…
If you haven’t yet read General Anthony Zinni’s interview on Salon.com, I have to urge you to take a look at it. General Zinni – a Vietnam and Gulf War veteran and former commander of…
Despite overwhelming calls opposing the war, the Democrats abandoned their constituents today in favor of the oil company dominated administration. Now we have to wait for the blood to flow. Luckily for our so-called representatives,…