Shoot First And Ask Questions Later: Media Coverage of the 2003 Iraq War (Media and Culture)
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
The British military has reported 179 deaths; Italy, 33; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 21; Bulgaria, 13; Spain, 11; Denmark, seven; El Salvador, five; Slovakia, four; Latvia and Georgia, three each; Estonia, Netherlands, Thailand and Romania, two each; and Australia, Hungary, Kazakhstan and South Korea, one death each.
New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
“The Messenger” portrays conflict on the home front: the struggles of those who tell the next of kin their loved ones are dead.
Martin Eisenstadt's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
As an early advocate for war against Iraq and an original member of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq (CLI), I’d be the first to admit that President Bush may have unveiled the “Mission Accomplished” banner a bit prematurely. There was still a lot of work to be done. But now that work is [...]
Valleywag (Free subscription) | yesterday
As a kind of addendum to the Nidal Hasan documents trawl of last night, here's an anti-war petition [PDF] signed by someone named... Nidal Hasan. The evidence this is him is circumstantial: the...
The Existentialist Cowboy (Free subscription) | yesterday
by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy Wars reduce the GDP, destroy jobs, reduce productivity, and increase the trade deficit! If wars are 'bad' for the economy, then how are they sold so easily? The quick response: they are sold with focus group tested bullshit! There's a 'living' in killing, we are told! There is a more opulent living in the commission mass murder which requires the construction...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Washington - The US Army psychiatrist who killed 12 people in a shooting rampage on a Texas military base is a devout Muslim who opposed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to media reports Friday. The shootings on Thursday at Fort Hood, Texa...
Soc 202 - Current Events (Free subscription) | yesterday
Matthew Henderson 11/06/2009 The wars in Iraq and AfPak, or Afghanistan/Pakistan, are completely different. The U.S. and president Obama are poised to exit Iraq by December 31st 2011. This does not mean in any way that we will be getting out of the middle-east. Obama is in the process of determining how big of a surge to put into AfPak now that we are finally exiting Iraq. It is looking like we will...
Sify (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
. 6, 2009, at least 4,359 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
When George W. Bush took office in 2001, the war with Iraq was already in progress, because Saddam Hussein was ignoring 17 U. N. Resolutions from the 1991 Gulf War. This lack of cooperation meant that the war in which the U.S. and coalition forces had engaged to liberate Kuwait was not concluded.
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Frances Barrios, who was brought to the U.S. illegally as a child, receives humanitarian parole and can stay in Los Angeles and apply for a green card. Her husband suffers from post-traumatic stress. The U.S. government has cleared a pathway to citizenship for the illegal immigrant wife of an Iraq war veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress, the family's attorney said Thursday.
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The faces are all that's Changed... and Hope? Forget that "For too long, our budget process in Washington has been an exercise in deception; a series of accounting tricks to hide the expense of our spending and the shortfalls in our revenue and hope that the American people won't notice. Budgeting certain expenditures for just one year, when we know we'll incur them every year for five or 10;...
Jumping in Pools (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
With Senator Jim Bunning (R) retiring after this present term, the Republican primary and general election in Kentucky should be quite interesting. With the Secretary of State, Trey Grayson and the son of Congressman Ron Paul, Dr. Rand Paul going at it for the Republican nomination, not only will the Republican candidate be selected, but the Republican party could once again be defined. Republican...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
We're told at the beginning of The Men Who Stare at Goats that "more of this is true than you would believe." But the story of the U.S. Army's attempts to harness psychic powers to create super-soldiers is so bizarre it almost HAS to be true, in accordance with the "how could anyone make this up?" principle. In fact, I believe more of this admittedly fictionalized story than I...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
The killing of at least 13 people in the heart of America's military network in Fort Hood, Texas, is very hard to bear. Losses in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, now surpassing 5,000, are deaths also, endured and grieved by families, friends and citizens. But Thursday's events, occurring in what passes for home for hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops and their families, is sharply inflicted pain....
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burgess67h67 | 09/29/2009
MIAMI – Tim James apologized for being late. A rough day at work, said the Miami Heat's 1999 first-round draft pick. Vehicles broke down, problems flared up, and he simply fell behind. "It happens," James said. "Even here." Even on the front line of the Iraq war. A former NBA player who often wondered about his true calling, Tim James is now a U.S. Army soldier, a transformation that even many of the...
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