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The longer any human being does anything under stress, the more prone they are to errors of judgment. I don’t give a damn who you are, how sharp you are, you are not as sharp after working a time under stress as you were when you were fresh. And patrolling Iraq might be the very definition of “stressful.”
Read more ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Read more 4,000 or 250,000 Casualties from Iraq and Afghanistan Wars? Our 4,077 U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are the worst possible consequence of military service. Yet what about our 250,000 wounded, injured, and ill combat survivors and their families who suffer for a lifetime? Read more Reality Check: You Can't Handle the Truth . . . so why bother looking. Covering their tails for agreeing to go into Iraq with too few troops and no coherent plan, the generals tried to cover their tails, according to the Iraq Study Group, by “significant underreporting of the violence. On one day in July 2006 there were 93 attacks or significant acts of violence reported” while the ISG noted how there were in fact at least 1,100 acts of violence. Read more MESSY DIAPERS & BUSH'S IRAQ POLICY It is such a mess. I have two sons, 19 and 22. I remember well the years of diaper changing; the sometimes near fluid yuck and the horrible, horrible odor. That’s about the only thing I am able to analogize with what George Bush, Dick Cheney, the entire White House crew, the neo-con pundits and think tanks and the supine GOP have led us to in the mid-East and all its ramifications; fiscally, militarily, morally, ethically: a total disaster with no out!
Read more This Memorial Day Make the Press Cover Veterans' Issues Full Time Share your views with the press. Veterans and war are often reduced to two holidays, in the eyes of civilians and reporters: Veterans Day and Memorial Day. There are no reporters covering the Department of Veterans Affairs and veterans' issues full time. The failure to cover the human and financial consequences of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars must change now. Read more VA Corruption, Cronyism, and Incompetence My blog today points fingers at the specific people at VA responsible for VA’s crisis, and it offers some quick steps VCS supporters can take to fix these problems. Read more Moyers, McGovern and Machiavelli Sound off. Should Bush, Cheney and Rove use VA for partisan political purposes? Read more |
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