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Reid is Right


Like Juan Williams said:

NPR's Juan Williams told Kristol, "Most Americans think we should have never gone in [to Iraq], so he's speaking in a voice that represents the majority of the American people."

As Sen. Reid said himself, because that's what a Representative, Of The People, is supposed to do!

Party affiliation, especially in the Peoples House and Senate, that's why states are divided into districts and each district Hires someone to Represent them in the House and we have Senators, is pushed down the line.

Is A Magical Cure For PTSD On The Horizon?


When Memories Are Scars
By Matt Bean, Men's Health

The report, in a section about mens health, should have been written to cover all human beings. For Tramatic Experiances that bring about PTSD is not unique to Man but also to Women and, in my oppinion, Women can and do have a greater veriaty of tramatic experiances that can alter the brain brought on them by who else but Men.
The lead in to this report is just below.

Supplemetal For Troops OIF and OEF?


But what is it covering really?

The Bloated Department of Defense Budget is supposed to be what is needed, in part, for All of the Military Troops needs as well as Operations, you start a War those costs are figured in for the next fiscal year, along with the Military Industrial Complex contracts and anything needed by Defense.

But what have we here:

Reenlistment budgets soaring after four years of Iraq war

SUICIDE, Veteran, Under U.S. Flag, VA Medical Center


I'm One Pissed Off 'Nam Vet!
I posted this Suicide at VA Hospital Fayetteville NC up at ePluribus Media on the 5th of this month, the incident happened apparently on the 3rd.

Below is part of that ePluribus posting with Finally an Update and some comment.

After Four Long Bloody Years


Why do we Not Honor our Fallen?

‘That’s not going to happen with my son’

Honor guards replace forklifts for fallen troops after father takes up cause

In an about-face by the U.S. government four years into the war in Iraq, America's fallen troops are being brought back to their families aboard charter jets instead of ordinary commercial flights, and the caskets are being met by honor guards in white gloves instead of baggage handlers with forklifts.

America At A Crossroads


I was able to catch this, on the NPR Diane Rehm Show this morning.

This sounds like a series that many will find extremely interesting.

It will be on PBS and called, what I titled with, America At A Crossroads. It will cover several nights with Two Hour Documentaries each night.

Robert McNeil is back on PBS but not on the 'News Hour'.

You can listen to McNeil and Rehm discuss this upcoming PBS series:

HONORING THE FALLEN: US Military KIA, Iraq - March 2007


There have been 3,504 coalition deaths -- 3,246 Americans, two Australians, 134 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, six Danes, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Fijian, one Hungarian, 32 Italians, one Kazakh, three Latvian, 19 Poles, two Romanians, five Salvadoran, four Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians -- in the war in Iraq as of March 30, 2007
Numbers and Names received from the CNN Iraq Casulties Site

Asheville, Salisbury NC VA Facilities


And probably one near you.

Asheville VA Hospital
had Severe Care Issues

After inquiry, federal officials told center to stop admitting patients to its nursing home

Federal officials told the Asheville veterans hospital to stop admitting patients to its nursing home in late 2004 after investigators found serious care problems.

Ilona Meagher - In The News - PTSD


"Operation First Casualty"


Far From Iraq, A Demonstration Of a War Zone

By David Montgomery
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 20, 2007; Page C01

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