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The War Against Veterans
Toledo Blade Editorial Board Toledo Blade (Ohio) June 30, 2005
Scandal: "For several years now, the Bush bean counters have been slashing funds for veterans’ medical care. Playing cheap with those who have put their lives on the line would be a concern any time. Coming as the shortfall does as soldiers return home daily from war in Afghanistan and Iraq with horrific injuries, it’s a scandal."
War? What war?
Gary Kamiya Salon June 30, 2005
Sober words from Gary Kamiya: "As the Iraq nightmare deepens, Fox News and its cable competitors wallow in shark attacks and Natalee Holloway. If you don't cover a war, does it exist? But every GI who dies in Iraq, and every dead Iraqi civilian we don't count, is a human being like you or me, and as worthy of memorializing as the people who died in the World Trade Center -- certainly as Natalee Holloway. It's time, long past time, for the media to get real about war."
Secular Shiites in Iraq Seek Autonomy in Oil-Rich South
Edward Wong The New York Times June 30, 2005
With the Aug. 15 deadline for writing a new constitution bearing down, a cadre of powerful, mostly secular Shiite politicians is pushing for the creation of an autonomous region in the oil-rich south of Iraq, posing a direct challenge to the nation's central authority.
At Fort Hood, Rearranging the First Cavalry Division
Thom Shanker The New York Times June 30, 2005
The whole Army is rapidly reshaping its brigades - three or four in each division - into stand-alone combat units that can be sent into battle more quickly. At the same time, it is struggling to scrape together enough soldiers to fulfill the Army's day-to-day responsibilities, especially in Iraq, and to replenish and retrain quickly the units coming home exhausted from that fight.
Italy Denies Knowledge of CIA Rendition
Craig Whitlock The Washington Post June 30, 2005
The Italian government denied on Thursday that it knew in advance about the 2003 abduction of a radical Egyptian cleric whom investigators in Milan have charged was kidnapped by a crew of CIA operatives. Government officials also summoned the U.S. ambassador to meet with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to answer questions about the case.
The High Cost of a Rush to Security
Scott Higham and Robert O'Harrow Jr. The Washington Post June 30, 2005
A federal audit calls into question $303 million of the $741 million spent to assess and hire airport passenger screeners for the newly created Transportation Security Administration after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The audit, along with interviews with people involved in the passenger-screener contract, paints a rare and detailed portrait of how officials at the fledgling agency lost control of the spending in the pell-mell rush to hire 60,000 screeners to meet a one-year congressional deadline.
The True Cost of War
Editorial The New York Times June 30, 2005
In anger and embarrassment, Congressional Republicans are scrambling to repair a budget shortfall in veterans' medical care now that the Bush administration has admitted it vastly underestimated the number of returning Iraq and Afghanistan personnel needing treatment. The $1 billion-plus gaffe is considerable, with the original budget estimate of 23,553 returned veterans needing care this year now ballooning to 103,000. American taxpayers should be even more furious than Congress.
Washington's Do-Nothing Patriots
Margaret Carlson The LA Times June 30, 2005
It will soon be the Fourth of July again. Do you know where your flag is?
Why there it is, inside the Capitol, being waved around by members delighted to solve a problem that doesn't exist while ignoring ones that do. Last week, your House of Representatives voted, 286 to 130, to amend the Constitution to save the flag from being burned. The measure now goes to the Senate.
For First Time in Months, Army Meets Its Recruiting Goal
Eric Schmitt The New York Times June 30, 2005
For the first time since January, the Army met its recruiting goal this month, but it still faces what some senior Army officials say is a nearly insurmountable hurdle to meet the service's annual quota.
Troops' Silence at Fort Bragg Starts a Debate All Its Own
David E. Sanger The New York Times June 30, 2005
When President Bush visits military bases, he invariably receives a foot-stomping, loud ovation at every applause line. At bases like Fort Bragg - the backdrop for his Tuesday night speech on Iraq - the clapping is often interspersed with calls of "Hoo-ah," the military's all-purpose, spirited response to, well, almost anything.
US dead found after Afghan crash
BBC World News June 30, 2005
Another seven soldiers are unaccounted for, some of them soldiers who were fighting on the ground.
Torture Fatigue
Silja J.A. Talvi In These Times June 30, 2005
"The Christian in me says it's wrong," Army Specialist Charles A. Graner Jr. said of torturing prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. "But the corrections officer in me says I love to make a grown man piss himself." Photos taken of him demeaning captives at Abu Ghraib exposed Graner as the sadist that his surroundings allowed him to be. But are the differences between brutal correctional officers like Graner and other Americans as stark as we would like to think?
Fear of death inspires twice-daily rite
James Hider and Ali al-Khafaji Timesonline June 30, 2005
QASSEM MOHAMMED recites the Shahada, the Muslim prayer for those about to die, twice a day: once when he leaves home for his first job at a cooking oil factory, and again after lunch when he leaves for his second job in a barber’s shop.
Washington now faces a no-win situation in Iraq
Patrick Seale Dailystar June 30, 2005
America is facing the real possibility of defeat in Iraq. The insurgency is as robust and as lethal as ever. U.S. troops are overstretched and thin on the ground, while Iraqi troops are far from ready to replace them. Sectarian violence is on the rise, suggesting that civil war is just round the corner. Every day brings its terrible tale of carnage. There seems to be no safety anywhere - and certainly not in Baghdad. Iraq under American occupation is slipping into uncontrollable chaos.
For U.S. troops, the question is ‘Who can you trust?’
Kevin Dougherty Stars and Stripes June 30, 2005
GIs find it hard to predict which Iraqi soldiers will turn against them
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