These are all the Blogs posted today: Wednesday, 2, 2008.
Home of the Brave
40 recommendation(s).
+Recommend this blog According to Psychiatric News, 117 members of the Army killed themselves in 2007; 934 unsuccessfully attempted suicide. Those who had served at least once in Iraq or Afghanistan accounted for 61 percent of fatalities and 33 percent of attempts. Forty-four percent of those who committed suicide and 55% of those who attempted it had at least one diagnosed mental disorder, mainly mood or anxiety disorders, or substance abuse. What about those statistics makes you proud?
That’s not the whole story. Editor & Publisher has been examining the “noncombat” deaths in Iraq, “often suicides, which usually come to light only due to the diligence of local newspapers.” The parents of a soldier in Texas were told that their daughter had died of “friendly fire.” Only after the mother became suspicious were they told their daughter had been murdered. It required six months and the help of a congressman to get the 1200-page report that revealed that their daughter had been abused several times by the soldier who killed her and the Army had done little to protect her.
A Washington Times/ABC News investigation revealed that “mentally distressed veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are being recruited for government tests on pharmaceutical drugs linked to suicide and other violent side effects.” It took the VA three months to inform patients of the mental side effects. The Boston Globe reported that hundreds of U.S. soldiers assigned to guard a chemical plant in Iraq were made ill by exposure to a highly toxic chemical after their KBR supervisors told them the chemical was a “mild irritant.” “These soldiers were bleeding from the nose, spitting blood," said Danny Langford, an equipment technician from Texas brought to work at the Qarmat Ali Water treatment plant in 2003.
There is reason to fear because despite so many warnings of an impending attack that intelligence agencies complained of “information fatigue” the Bush administration was unable to defend the country from nineteen hijackers for an hour and a half. The incompetence of the Bush administration that has made the world more dangerous and America less safe is well known; nevertheless, the brave soldier on. Those who served in World War Two, the Cold War, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm and Bush’s war on Iraq have not quailed. They will still honor their oath to defend the Constitution of the United States of America.
Four Supreme Court justices won’t. They profess to be so terrified by the administration’s inability to protect America that they agree with George Bush that the Constitution must be tossed in the trash. Justice Scalia, who has always had a problem determining fact from fiction, included a lie in the minority opinion, stating that “at least 30 of those prisoners released from Guantanamo Bay have returned to the battlefield.” As law professors at Seton Hall and others have stated, “not a single detainee was released by a court.” They were released by the political appointees of George W. Bush, sometimes over the objection of the military. “According to the Department of Defense’s published and unpublished data and reports, not a single released Guantánamo detainee has ever attacked any Americans.” Congressional hearings determined that the recidivism of 30 prisoners was not true two weeks before Justice Scalia wrote his opinion based on that lie.
Does that sound like “the land of the free and the home of the brave” to you? Read more | 0 comments
YOUTUBE MUSICAL VIDEO TO THE TROOPS IN IRAQ AND CHILDREN THEY HAVE HELPED
YOUTUBE MUSICAL VIDEO:
ALIVEINBAGHDAD SITE TELLS THE TRUTH ABOUT BAGHDAD SANS BUSH WH AND U.S. MEDIA
I reply to Shelly's thoughtful remarks
60 recommendation(s).
+Recommend this blog Shelly wrote: "I agree in this day and age with all the technology available there should be no reason for people to blindly follow where others lead. We also need to understand there are people and I'm sure it isn't a few as we would like to think, who either have no computer or have never learned how to use one. Factors to consider are are, background and financial situations as well as others, there are many who don't even use cell phone features let alone attempt to learn a computer. I understand wanting to encourage people to stand up for themselves, investigate, learn, but we also need to learn tolerance and not cut someone off at the knees just because they aren't at the same level we are." Shelly: Ever seen the movie Network? If you haven’t, I definitely recommend it; an hour+ well spent. You may have observed, certainly should have, that cutting anyone slack on matters where slack is highly dangerous to our national health just ain’t my style; I'm more a chainsaw to the knees. In this day of mangled policies, mangled strategies, mangled truths, mangled fiscal responsibility, and mangled limbs and psyches . . . ALL 100% the consequence of folks either too lazy or too timid or too stupid to use the only tool that would ostensibly differentiate them from the hairy ape . . . I want folks angry. I want folks pissed off. I don’t want folks too damned frightened of what someone else might think of them to ask a question or posit a possible alternate conclusion. I am reviled by those too feint to tell a best friend or a parent or sibling, "You're really full of S**T!" That's not getting along with others, that's outright, damnable, yellow-bellied cowardice. And Jim Peterman, when confronted by associates that Barack Obama was "a Muslim," did not counter as I suggest any stand-up person would, he fell back with "I don't know who to believe. These are good people." They are not "good people." They are the simple-minded, subhuman dregs whose attitudes accomodate lynchings, bigotry, and wars of preemption that get hundreds of thousands murdered and mutilated. Continuing to accept them and their attitudes makes of Mr. Peterman their equal, in every way. One doesn't need a computer or the Internet to smell dung, and avoid stepping in it. As a vet who has bled, I am in adamant opposition to the National Anthem, and most particularly to the last word that gets sung: “brave.” We are not the “home of the brave,” we are a land of simpering, wimpish, intellectually lazy lemmings, and I will neither attempt tolerance for them nor cut such ilk the first thread of slack. Those who feel they have to go to church for inspiration are, to me, the sorriest of execrable excuses. That fellow, and once in a while woman, in the pulpit knows not a breath more of life than the sponges in the pews. What’s wrong with taking inspiration in the miracle of a flower, or sunrise, or a child’s laugh? Religion does not teach morality, by definition it demands subservience and a closed-mindedness that makes every atrocity against man or planet doable. It’s as if, whether by god or by evolution, all the effort and millions of years spent on behalf of developing the most magnificent machine was a total waste. Open the mind. Do not merely throw the doors of unfettered exploration open, rip them from their hinges that they may never, ever close again. Tolerance, slack . . . only when my last breath has slipped from my lungs, only when the last beat of my heart has sounded. I beg folks to get off their knees, and to stand tall, if just for once in their lives, with full conviction shout for all the world to hear, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any longer!” The Elephant Man, Joseph Merrick, was greater than all who fall in supplication and sycophantry when, being taunted and cursed for his physical deformities, he replied, “I am a MAN!” Slack? Tolerance? Not in this life, and not from me. Ed Tubbs Read more | 0 comments
BUSH MAY SEND MORE TROOPS TO AFGHANISTAN AS TALIBAN GETS STRONGER
TALIBAN IS GETTING STRONGER IN AFGHANISTAN. U.S. DEATHS RISE IN AFGHANISTAN
WASHINGTON POST: U.S. DEATHS RISE IN AFGHANISTAN
WASHINGTON POST: SUNNI BLOC TO REJOIN IRAQI GOVERNMENT
BBC REPORTS: BAGHDAD SHOWS SIGNS OF REBIRTH
REUTERS: LAST U.S.
|
View other days blogs
Most popular bloggers
The Latest Posts!
28-Aug-2008
Conservatives vs Liberals 28-Aug-2008 VIDEO: DEMOCRAT DEBRA DUPED BY REPUBLICANS 28-Aug-2008 Remarks of Two OEF and OIF Veterans, DNC 2008, and Success! 28-Aug-2008 WHAT McCAIN VICTORY COULD MEAN: NO MONEY FOR HEALTH CARE END OF VOLUNTEER ARMY 28-Aug-2008 VIOLENCE RIPS THROUGH IRAQ 27-Aug-2008 An open and urgent question Most Recommended Posts
27-Aug-2008
The ONLY ones who will vote for John McCain 27-Aug-2008 Why I'm a Democrat 24-Aug-2008 VA REFUSES TO ALLOW WOUNDED VETS TO REGISTER TO VOTE 22-Aug-2008 Hayden Warns Netroots to "RECOGNIZE THE GEORGIA CONSPIRACY" 25-Aug-2008 CAN LIBERALS ACTUALLY LEARN TO BE CIVIL?? Archives
2008
August July June May April March February January 2007 December November October September August July June May April March 2006 February January 2005 December November October September August July March January 2004 December November October Bookmarks
wounded Times
Paratrooper Prayers
Veterans Prayers
Exotic Warfare against Vets and US citizens
Chemtrails are this
Truth
My Campaign Homepage
Doug Denneny Web Blog
Screaming In An Empty Room
Wounded Times
Rodney J Owen Blog
Lawrence A. Kelley III
You Served
OpEdNews
Women in Combat
Tribute to the M1 Garand
Tribute to the Army's Truck Driver
Sgt Scorpion's misadventures in Iraq
OEF Vets Resource
Fast Cash Online
Iraq War Veteran Resources
Iraq from the Window
Desert Veterans
Search
Looking for something specific?
Try a simple search of the key word.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||



