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Even 1 death a day is not OK

Create reminder of deaths due to an unnecessary war

The deaths of someones child – Information about the death and casualty counts of the Iraq war.

1000 Vet attempted Suicides a month – 04-2008

Bush Family Says Awesome troops dont deserve GI bill..05-2008

Veterans Used To Test Suicide-Linked Drugs 06-2008

25% of troops report hearing loss – 8-06-2008

Civilian deaths and solider suicides increase – 09-04-2008

As the Election Closes We seem to forget people are still dieing – 10-09-2008

Washington Post Undercount Iraq Deaths – Please Go Away Mr.Bush – 11-11-2008
Sad we still need to do this - http://www.iraqmoratorium.com/ 03-17-2009

Some Anniversaries you just dont look forward to – IRAQ WAR 6 YEARS OLD

Bushs 4000

Linked stories about the 4000 troops killed

US Iraq War Deaths toll over 4000: And there are disturbing signs that the overall level of violence in Iraq may again be rising. First were reports that General Petraeus might favor a “pause” in further withdrawals of US troops once troop levels got down to about 140,000 this summer. Perhaps he was just being prudent by giving US commanders time to assure themselves that the progress they had achieved from the surge would continue even as the US drew down its forces.
OOIBC: Out Of Iraq Bloggers Caucus: 4000 US Deaths in Iraq: In our 6th year of military operations in Iraq, we knew this day would come, we knew this number would come. 4000. Any death from Iraq is unacceptable, but to hear the announcement of the 4000th US death in Iraq on Easter, a day of joyous celebration, is an affront, one of those karmic ironies that should not happen.
Blue Jersey – Rutgers U. Commemorates 4000 KIA: Either milestone — 5 years, 4ooo KIA — would be sad enough in its own right. But to have them coincide like this makes it especially painful. And thanks to the Student organizers at Rutgers, folks in Central Jersey have a powerful way to register their discontent. (Details below the fold)
U.S. death toll in Iraq hits 4,000 – Conflict in Iraq – MSNBC.com: The American deaths occurred Sunday, the same day rockets and mortars pounded the U.S.-protected Green Zone in Baghdad and a wave of attacks left at least 61 Iraqis dead nationwide.
N.Y.ers are tired of pointless,sad conflict – NY DAILY NEWS: The 4,000th American death in Iraq marks a sad new milestone there, New Yorkers said Sunday night – and shows how there seems to be no escape from a war of endless misery.
“What’s the point? What are we fighting for? I think it’s a hopeless fight,” said Neil Agaton, 19, of Hell’s Kitchen. “We are just losing people there. We have mothers without sons and young people without siblings.”
OOIBC: Out Of Iraq Bloggers Caucus: Bush & the Mathematics of War: 4000, 1 million, 2 million: And so the great sacrifice of Bush comes full circle to the idealization of a tyrant that his own country put into power, deposed, and now restores to martyrdom. And this “noble” cause, this Iraq War of the Republicans and their Democratic Party enablers, claims its 4000th American corpse. The Iraqi bodies are not even counted by Bush and his government. That sacrifice might overwhelm the flimsy temple Bush is building for his unholy war.
Crooks and Liars » Cheney on 4000 American Dead: -They Volunteered.-: I can only speak for myself here, but I reckon that many of the brave young men and women who volunteered after 9/11 did so with the expectation that they would be hunting down those that actually attacked us that day; not that they would be put in an impossible situation (in a country that had nothing whatsoever to do with the attack on us) where they are expected to mediate a religious civil war that has raged for thousands of years. In fact, it’s a disservice to their heroic sacrifice to expect them to do so.
Nico Pitney: A Mosaic: 4,000 Americans Dead – Politics on The Huffington Post: In remembrance of the 4,000 brave men and women who sacrificed everything for us — and the two men who would continue this great tragedy, despite the cost to our soldiers, our military, and our nation.
OOIBC: Out Of Iraq Bloggers Caucus: Putting a face on ‘4000′: About “Razed”: “This blog is intended to be an adjunct to my self-hosted site “My Buffalo River Home”, consisting of snippets of news about events and people who make the world around us a dangerous, nasty place to live…”
Summary of Findings: Awareness of Iraq War Fatalities Plummets: Public awareness of the number of American military fatalities in Iraq has declined sharply since last August. Today, just 28% of adults are able to say that approximately 4,000 Americans have died in the Iraq war. As of March 10, the Department of Defense had confirmed the deaths of 3,974 U.S. military personnel in Iraq.
Bush Lies to the the Troops Again: Apparently there is no subject on which the President can be honest with the American people, even when talking to US soldiers and their families.
Dana Milbank – What the Family Would Let You See, the Pentagon Obstructs – washingtonpost.com: Lt. Col. Billy Hall, one of the most senior officers to be killed in the Iraq war, was laid to rest yesterday at Arlington National Cemetery. It’s hard to escape the conclusion that the Pentagon doesn’t want you to know that.
OOIBC: Out Of Iraq Bloggers Caucus: Speaking for the Soldiers: In June 2005, Major General John Batiste, commander of the First Infantry Division in Iraq, leader of 22,000 troops fighting in the Sunni Triangle, passed up a third star, and quit the U.S. Army to speak out against the Iraq occupation
VA Secretary To Vets: Suck It Up And Deal: Yeah, I guess being tagged with that PTSD stigma would be pretty rough – almost as rough as, say, having actual PTSD go untreated. But Peake wasn’t done making an ass of himself, nooo.
FOX News Brian Kilmeade: Volunteer troops dont deserve new Webb GI bill: In this particularly egregious example of White House shilling, the entire panel uncritically advances Bush-approved talking points, while Brian Kilmeade argues that this GI Bill is different from the WWII-era one because these troops volunteered, and therefore don’t deserve the same benefits.
Army surgeon general says mental health services ‘not adequate’ — – baltimoresun.com: The number of Army troops suffering from severe combat stress is skyrocketing, rising from just over 1,000 new cases in 2003 to more than 28,000 soldiers today diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, the Army surgeon general said today.
Study: 1 in 4 soldiers at war have hearing loss – Army Times: Dunne yelled orders, but he and his squad were at a disadvantage.
Dunne said he couldn’t hear well enough to tell where the sniper fire was coming from.
“I had no idea,” he wrote in an e-mail to USA Today.
PTSD only we can help Cause Bushie dont care -8-14-2008: For a long time, the existence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was officially denied. Thankfully, those days are gone. But the efforts at preventing, identifying, and treating PTSD remain painfully inadequate. We have to change that. Now.
Stor-E-Tella: Soldiers: Mold infests Okla. barracks for wounded: Twenty soldiers, who spoke to USA TODAY early last week, said their complaints about mold and other problems went unheeded for months. They also said they had been ordered not speak
Bush to Keep Troop Levels the Same – 09-09-2008: So while Bush bragged this morning, and much of the mainstream media lapped it up, that returning troop numbers to pre-surge levels constitutes a “withdrawal,” the math%u2026and the consequences%u2026don’t add up..
EVEN IN DEATH, A JARHEAD CAN’T HARDLY CATCH A BREAK – 09-18-2008: United States Marine Corps Sergeant Rafael Peralta, 25, of San Diego, California, with the Third Marine Regiment, Kaneohe, Hawaii, was denied the nation’s highest honor today by George Dubya Bush, deserter, traitor and coward, and his minions in the Satanic Pentagon.
CorpWatch : One Million Weapons to Iraq; Many Go Missing 09-24-2008: Clandestine gun suppliers, funded by the U.S. and Iraqi governments, have flooded Iraq with a million weapons since 2003, charges a new Amnesty International investigation.
Iraq Suicide Bomber Kills American Soldier 09-25-2008: A statement says the attacker struck a Multi-National Division _ North soldier during operations Wednesday in Diyala province. U.S. and Iraqi forces launched an offensive this summer to try to rout insurgents from the rural area north of Baghdad.
America’s Soldiers Deserve More than Hollow Promises And Sham Support: The veterans suicide rate has increased significantly in the last five years. With PTSD and brain injuries on the rise, with shrinking funding from a collapsing economy for needed research? World of hurt. Estimates are that 30% of returning vets suffer from undiagnosed problems manifesting as increased violence, suicide, homelessness, depression, divorce, substance abuse, and other drastic changes.
OOIBC: SOLDIER, HERO, MUSLIM, AMERICAN -10-25-2008: That choice of tactics alone should forever disqualify them. It dishonors our fallen warriors, like Kareem Khan, and all those of other faiths who died believing that their sacrifice would lead to freedom for Muslims in Iraq and all over the Middle East. Every life we lose over there is lost for Iraqi Freedom, or so we are told.
Iran-made Weapons Less Than 1% Of All Iraq Caches Found 11-17-2008: Even the previously stenographic mainstream press finally noticed there was a lot of smoke and no fire.
That seems to be because, according to a task force of investigators advising the US military in Iraq – known as Task Force Troy – the narrative of Iranian weapons flooding across the border is only hype after all.
Bad Economy, Decreased Services Force More Vets into Homelessness: Between reports of increasingly overloaded mental health services for PTSD and brain injuries through the VA, and the economic downturn making it difficult to find a decent job?
OOIBC: Obama’s Duty To Prosecute Bush For War Crimes: Bush and Cheney have already essentially publicly admitted their roles in authorizing and ordering torture. In Spring 2008, Bush admitted in an ABC interview that he approved “enhanced interrogation” techniques, including waterboarding:

Art On the War

Artists fight back

Joseph DeLappe www.delappe.ws: View documentation of this in-progress, online gaming performance/protest.
I am currently in the process of logging into the America’s Army online game to input all of the names of each of the over 3000 American service persons who have been killed in the Iraq conflict, utilizing the game’s instant texting feature
Kandahar Journal: Richard Johnson’s sketch blog as he travels in and around Kandhar, Afghanistan
Artists Against The War : Society of Illustrators: Artists Against The War
Illustration and design courtesy of Brian Stauffer
Peace Bomb, 2005, Digital and mixed media Marshall Arisman the Nation Castration 2006 Pen and Ink, spray paint on Rye Board begi
Aaron Hughes | News and Information: I will be participating with other members of Iraq Veterans Against the War in Operation First Casualty (OFC) a series of street theatre events strategically place around the DC metro area in order to shine a clear light to congress that the war is REAL and it must end NOW! This is a serious event and will put veterans war experiences front and center to the nations representatives.
Iraqi Memorial – Commemorating Civilian Deaths: Iraqimemorial.org is an online exhibition of and ongoing call for participation
to artists, designers, architectsor other interested creative individuals or collaborators to propose concepts for the creation of memorials to the many thousands of Iraqi civilians killed in the War in Iraq.
Anti-War Poetry- Bring The Troops Home Poem- Stop The Iraq War Poems Veterans Poems & Music.Help For Iraq War Veterans PTSD- Veterans Rights: A resource of hand-picked poems, links, and resources: stop the iraq war poems, anti-war poetry, Iraq War veteran’s issues, & anti-war activism to stop the escalation and the latest news and links on how we can care for the troops when they return home.
100 Faces of War Experience 06-27-2008: 100 Faces is a work in progress. On completion it will consist of 100 Portraits of Americans who have been to the theaters of war in Iraq or Afghanistan (OEF,OIF). Each portrait is accompanied by a placard which features a statement written by the person pictured and a brief biography of the person pictured. The biographical information and the statement reflect the person at the time of the creation of the portrait.

War Death Count Links

Casualties in Iraq – 2007: Highlights
Have We Forgotten 2003 Already?:
Iraq Coalition Casualties: Many stats availble
Iraq War Coalition Fatalities: The Iraq War Coalition Fatalities Project is an interactive animated chart of US and coalition military fatalities that have occured in the war in Iraq since the onset, mapped across the dimensions of time and space.
IRAQI WAR CASUALTIES Civilians.info: IRAQI CIVILIAN WAR CASUALTIES
Covering the period of March 21 – July 31, 2003
data collection by CIVIC
Worldwide -Raed Jarrar, Director of Iraq Survey
Iraq Body Count .org: Civilians reported killed by military intervention in Iraq. The worldwide update of reported civilian
deaths in the Iraq war and occupation.
The Iraq Page – Remembering Those Who Lost Their Lives in the Iraq War of 2003-2007: This website is dedicated to the Coalition servicemen and women who have lost their lives during the War in Iraq started by George Bush on March 19, 2003
The Iraq Page Remembering Those who Lost Their Lives in the Iraq War of 2003 – 2006
Calendar of US Military Dead during Iraq-Afghanistan Wars: Calendar of US Military Dead during Iraq War
One Pissed Off Veteran: Friday by the Numbers: Friday, January 18, 2008
Friday by the Numbers
Total American dead in the Iraq Illegal Occupation: 3926
Farnsworth is a disabled Vietnam Veteran with a bad attitude and too much time on his hands.
iraq war dead – Google Image Search: One of several web image searchs i do every few days
How Dead Do They Have to Be, NYT?: clearer picture of the implications of the July death toll reworking emerge from Foreign Policy Magazine’s blog, which compare July troop death tolls year-over-year since the beginning of the war:
July 2003: 48
July 2004: 54
July 2005: 54
July 2006: 43
July 2007: 80
Talking Points Memo | Iraq – The Contractors: 1001 of them had been killed as of the end of June
Iraqi Civilian Casualties: 2007 More Deadly Than 2006: By Spencer Ackerman – September 10, 2007, 11:49 AM
It took some time and effort, but, with the aid of TPM readers, we’ve obtained two complete lists of monthly Iraqi civilian casualties from January 2006 forward. Taking these numbers on their own terms, they do not bear out the claims made by the Bush administration
The Associated Press: US Military Deaths in Iraq at 3,910: Go to Google NewsUS Military Deaths in Iraq at 3,910 -By The Associated Press
As of Sunday, Jan. 6, 2008, at least 3,910 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight mil
6 Deaths A day is Ok by Bush: Six U.S. soldiers were killed in a house rigged with explosives on Wednesday in Diyala province, where U.S. and Iraqi forces have launched a major operation against al Qaeda, the U.S. military said.
iCasualties: OIF US Fatalities by month: omg surge is not working
January 2008 – Update on Iraqi Casualty Data / ORB – Opinion Business Research: Further survey work undertaken by ORB, in association with its research partner IIACSS, confirms our earlier estimate that over 1,000,000 Iraqi citizens have died as a result of the conflict which started in 2003

War Deaths : Related News

UpDated links on War Deaths

Blog entries i come across

The Other War: Iraq Vets Bear Witness: In a special investigation of the impact of the war on Iraqi civilians, interviews with fifty combat veterans reveals disturbing patterns of behavior by US troops in Iraq–brutal acts that often go unreported and almost always go unpunished.
Crooks and Liars » Iraqd – Another Deadliest Quarter For U.S. Casualties: -The toll for the past three months – 329 – made it the deadliest quarter for U.S. troops in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion. That surpasses the 316 soldiers killed during November 2004 to January 2005.-
Soiled Diaper Wearers Unite: l. johnson | TPMCafe
Remembering Garden State Souls: It was a perfect day in Cherry Hill for some sober reflection, Iraq war style. I can think of 3632 reasons why Iraq has been on my mind lately. How about you?
INSTAPUTZ: Wingnut Psychology: [T]he legal principle of who cares?: Monday, July 23, 2007
Wingnut Psychology: “[T]he legal principle of who cares?”
Child Maltreatment Rises in Homes of Soldiers Sent to War – Forbes.com: Stress on spouse left behind cited by U.S. Army-sponsored study
Stor-E-Tella: Pollack is war critic – he told Bush war is Critical: Seems the acceptable violence for Iraqis is different then acceptable violence for American Soldiers
Back From IRAQ and Lose your Job: To give an example of the scale of the problem, between 2004 and 2006, there were 16,000 complaints filed by returning troops who are supposed to be protected under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA):
Asbury Park Press : Blast kills Stafford GI in Baqouba: Spurred by the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, Khan, a 2005 graduate of Southern Regional High School, wanted to show that not all Muslims were fanatics.
Sajad Haidar Kadim | Gorillas Guides: He and his father live in east Baghdad. There was a bombing in their neighbourhood – Obeidi is mostly Shia. The bombers were targeting American soldiers who are in Irak trying to violently subjugate Irak to America’s will.
Crooks and Liars » 175 killed in north Iraq bombings: Hows that Surge going again-
At least 175 people were killed when three suicide bombers driving fuel tankers attacked a town, home to an ancient minority sect, in northern Iraq on Tuesday in one of the worst single incidents in the four-year-old war
Five U.S. personnel killed in Iraq helicopter crash: Five U.S. service personnel were killed when a military transport helicopter crashed during a routine flight west of Baghdad on Tuesday.
Crooks and Liars » A little less support for the troops: The Pentagon will fall far short of its goal of sending 3,500 lifesaving armored vehicles to Iraq by the end of the year. Instead, officials expect to send about 1,500.
Crooks and Liars » Daily Show: How Closely Does Iraq Resemble Indiana?: Daily Show correspondent (and Marine reservist) Rob Riggle reports from Baghdad and asks American soldiers what they think about Rep. Mike Pence’s bone-headed comparison of Baghdad to “any open-air market in Indiana in the summertime.”
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Please -Stop Thanking Me for My Service: It’s one thing for an ordinary American to thank me for my service; I appreciate the wishes. It’s another thing entirely for the people I helped elect to office to offer those words, and simply leave it at that.Too many times, that’s all we’ve gotten: “so long, and thanks for all the service!” We can do better–we must do better. We’re not asking for much; we’re asking that, having laid down our weapons, we receive the care we’ve so dearly earned.
Stor-E-Tella: Congress and American people fooled again: This Does Bother me- our government (BUSHco and the main in the pentagon ) is using parsed and out of context quotes to define a congressman’s stance to military personal.
This is outrageous, with insurgents and Al Queda to worry about 24/7
Bush thinks our troops need to know and study personal facts about a senator?
Bushs Living Zombies: Transcripts | The War Comes Home, A Project of KPFA Radio 94.1fm Berkeley, CA
A Multimedia Project. Breaking the Silence About The Consequences Of The Iraq War On America. -The real way that Bush Supports the troops
9 Soldiers Killed in Iraq – TIME: Nine American soldiers were killed in Iraq on Monday, including eight who died in vehicle accidents
Report: VA distorts record on wait times – Yahoo! News: The Department of Veterans Affairs repeatedly understated wait times for injured veterans seeking medical care and in many serious cases forced them to wait more than 30 days, counter to department policy, an internal investigation shows.
Cholera Update 2: September 11th 2007 | Gorilla’s Guides: Twelve districts of Northern Iraq have reported laboratory-confirmed cases of cholera putting over 2.8 million people exposed to public health risk from this current outbreak.
MoxieGrrrl.com: Civilian Death Toll in Iraq May Top 1 Million: Friday, September 14, 2007 Civilian Death Toll in Iraq May Top 1 Million
Remember the fun times when representatives could try and compare Iraqi rates of violence with select US cities? Ahhh the memories.Poll: Civilian death toll in Iraq may top 1 millionA car bomb blew up in the capital’s
Lie By Lie: How our leaders used fear and falsehood to dupe us into a mideast quagmire
In this Interactive timeline (Requires Flash) , we’ve assembled the history of the Iraq War to create a resource we hope will help resolve open questions of the Bush era.
IRAQ: Ethnic violence forces more Arabs to flee Kirkuk: “The attacks on our community have worsened since February 2007. We are being forced to leave the city almost empty-handed and the government isn’t taking any action to support us,” said Ali Akram Mahmoud, a spokesperson for Kirkuk’s Arabs Association
Crooks and Liars » BREAKING: Jim Webb explains why we must Support the Webb Amendment and the Troops!: Jim Webb made an exclusive video to explain why Congress must support the troops and pass the “Webb Amendment,” on Wednesday. He asks us to call our elected officials and tell them to support this very simple, but important measure.
Unknown: Jackson soldier killed in Iraq
But Marciante, who joined in 2004, also recognized the duty that came with his Army uniform, said his brother-in-law, Richard Jacobowitz, 37, a former Marine.Marciante, 25, was killed Thursday in Muqdadiyah, about 50 miles northeast of Baghdad, when an improvised explosive device blew up near his vehicle, the U.S. Department of Defense said.
2 Shhot Dead – Reuters: By Mohammed AbbasMANAMA (Reuters) – Two female American sailors were shot dead and a male sailor was critically wounded at the U.S. navy base in Bahrain on Monday in events the navy said were not linked to terrorism.The shootings
Recent Troop Deaths Make 2007 Deadliest Year of Iraq War for U.S. – Free Article – WSJ.com: BAGHDAD — The U.S. military on Tuesday announced the deaths of five more soldiers, making 2007 the deadliest year for U.S. troops despite a recent downturn, according to an Associated Press count.
Michael Yon Online Magazine: Michael Yon – Combat Journalist, Author, Blogger, Photographer
Government Documents Report 72,000 Battlefield Casualties and 264,000 New Patients from Iraq and Afghanistan Wars: * 100 PTSD claims were approved every day. VA can expect tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands more PTSD claims from our new war veterans as more service members deploy to the war zone and then begin to return home.
Crooks and Liars » Homeless veterans bringing their fight to Bill O: Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly recently told his television audience recently that John Edwards was wrong to assert that there are 200,000 homeless U.S. military veterans. He told his viewers ?there’s not many of them out there
Surprise! Helmets for Troops substandard, so Bush admin orders more: FROM the page – At a time when a new acronym, TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury), has entered the American lexicon because of injuries sustained to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, the New York Times reports that not only are many combat helmets being given to our troops substandard……
More Dead Americans as Bush Relives 9-11: BAGHDAD, Feb 9 (Reuters) – Five U.S. soldiers were killed in attacks in Iraq on Friday, the U.S. military said on Saturday. Four of the soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb while on patrol northwest
UNICEF – Iraq – UNICEF appeals for $37 million to save vulnerable Iraqi children: For many Iraqi young people, the story of their childhood is one of struggle and loss. This is one of a series of reports in which UNICEF examines what is being done to ensure at least a semblance of normalcy for children caught in the ongoing conflict in Iraq.
Fort Drum – tip of iceberg: After months of investigative work, talking to our troops and veterans, we released a report on the situation at Fort Drum in Watertown, New York. Since 9/11, the 2nd Brigade Combat Team has been deployed for more than forty months, more than any other brigade in the Army, and we are seeing what is nothing short of a cry for help from the men and women on the base; a cry we will answer
Reuters Alertnet Surge report feb 20 2008: BAGHDAD – A roadside bomb killed three U.S. soldiers when it struck their vehicle in northwestern Baghdad, the U.S. military said
Military Families Speak Out : Index: Military Families Speak Out is an organization of people opposed to the war in Iraq who have relatives or loved ones currently in the military or who have served in the military since the buildup to the Iraq war in fall of 2002
Bush Family kills more troops: BAGHDAD, March 10 (Reuters) – Five U.S. soldiers were killed and three others wounded in a bomb blast in central Baghdad on Monday, the U.S. military said, in the worst single attack on U.S. forces in Baghdad in months.
Gorillas Guides – Not One Left: Today in Basrah Khalid Nasir al Miyahi was buried. He was kidnapped as he made his way home from his post at Sadr Educational Hospital yesterday Sunday March 9th 2008.The photo to the right is his funeral. If you read the report from Aswat Al Iraq to the right you will see that it says that his body was dumped at the side of the road just south of the city.
Gorillas Guide – IRAQ: Childhood Is Dying: Not One Left
IRAQ: Childhood Is Dying
It is estimated that one in eight children in Iraq dies before the fifth birthday: 122,000 children died in 2005 alone. I
The Associated Press: 3 US Soldiers Die in Iraq Rocket Attack 3-12-08: With the overall U.S. military death toll in Iraq nearing 4,000, the latest killings mark a significant rise in deadly attacks against Americans.
Cheney-Bush Delusional: From Firedoglake weblog
Yeah, it’s working so well that the market St. McCain used as the set for his photo-op last year is now controlled by the Mahdi army. It’s working so well that Gen. Petraeus admits it’s failed.My question is — when does “working” or “winning” or “successful” mean “no more Americans getting killed”?
missing links: News items from the Arabic-language press to help fill in the gaps
GorillaGuides » Blog Archive » Caught In A Whirlwind With Fire Baghdad March 27th 2008: Basra “Surge” update
Caught In A Whirlwind With Fire Baghdad March 27th 2008
REMEMBER NEVER FORGET ;Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq: After Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, the United Nations (backed strongly by the US and UK) imposed harsh sanctions on Iraq that lasted for 10 years (1991-2001); the harsh restrictions on imports of everything, including access to key medicines, resulted in over a million deaths, more than half a million of which were women and children. That’s more deaths than the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan and 9/11 combined
3 US soldiers killed in Baghdad – Yahoo! News: Three American soldiers were killed in separate attacks Monday in Baghdad, the U.S. military said. That pushed the two-day American death toll to at least 10 nationwide.
Why dont the troops support the troops: One thing wingnuts really hate is objective evidence that actual, real-life soldiers support Democrats. So they’re running around accusing ABC of cherry-picking
Stor-E-Tella: 5 deaths a Day Again is Not OK AGAIN 04-09: Five U.S. soldiers died in Iraq, including three killed in roadside bombings in Baghdad and north of the capital, the military said Wednesday.
Crooks and Liars » 60 Minutes: Corruption in Iraq Killing US Troops With US Dollars: and how one such former official, Aiham Alsammarae, who had already been convicted and was set to face even more charges for billions of missing funds while he was the Minister of Electricity, brazenly escaped a Green Zone jail with the help of U.S. contractors (twice) and is currently living large in a Chicago suburb.
OOIBC: Out Of Iraq Bloggers Caucus: The Invisible Cost of War: It appears, according to a RAND study as reported in Raw Story, that we can look forward to over 600,000 military personnel suffering TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) or PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) or both, as a result of the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Supporting the Troops?: From the Post at FDL
And has Bush given them a tax-write off on “Douchbag Related Expenses”?
1,000 suicide attempts a month amongst vets?!!! How much reporting will this get? I suppose one-hundredth of the time “Did Obama flip Clinton off?” received.
Gorilla;s Guides » Blog Archive » Scenes From An Iraki Childhood April 28th 2008: His brother’s name was Ahmed Fayad.
Ahmed was one of the civilians massacred by American troops in their assault on Sadr city on the night of Sunday 27th April 2008.
Surge in Iraq violence kills more US troops – Times Online: Four US soldiers have been killed along with scores of militants following two
days of fighting in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City and rocket fire elsewhere
in the capital.
Deadliest Month Of 2008 In Iraq Gets Worse: And here is the insanity of the occupation. Americans are fighting and dying in a conflict over which sect of Islam will rule Iraq, and in the process, are killing innocent Iraqis, whose shattered family members then retaliate against Americans, thus making the endless, vicious, violent pointless cycle complete.
100-Years McCain and the GOP know they can’t win on the war. They can’t win on the economy. They can’t win on health care. Their agenda sucks ass. And they know it.
Post-War Suicides May Exceed Combat Deaths, U.S. Says (Update1): May 5 (Bloomberg) — The number of suicides among veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may exceed the combat death toll because of inadequate mental health care, the U.S. government’s top psychiatric researcher said.
No Surge in Justice for Iraq’s Children – 5-26-2008: Along with the Air Surge we have been reporting for months ? a Surge that caused more civilian casualties this week when ?at least eight civilians, including a child, were killed by U.S. chopper fire near Baiji city? we learned of a Child Detainee surge this week.
IRAQ: Through Occupation, The Very Dreams Change: After more than five years of U.S. occupation, the very dreams of the people of Baquba have changed. For a start, they are no longer about the future.Today, a shower is a dream. Or that the electricity supply continues just that little bit longer.
“These needs are very trivial for people of other countries,” 43-year-old political leader Saad Tahir told IPS. “But in Iraq, people dream more of these things than of some ambition or success.”
2 grieving moms seek how their sons died working for Blackwater in Iraq- cleveland.com: He was the reason she was here, sitting under the vaulted ceilings of a congressional hearing room, not in the cramped office of her body shop in a banged-up section of Cleveland. He was the reason she wasn’t home, charming customers and wrangling with insurance adjusters.
I Am TRex — Hard Time to be a Woman in Iraq: These ?honor? killings are such a sign of disrespect for women. Very frequent among Palestinians, but I don’t know where else. As if things weren’t hard enough for Iraqi women, I didn’t realize that they also cope with this. Killed for being in love? Killed for divorcing a man who murders your child?
Democrats Give White House Another Blank-Check For Iraq 06-2008: A Democratic engineered emergency supplemental bill to continue funding the occupation of Iraq and the war in Afghanistan to the tune of $162 billion is expected to win bipartisan support, aides to leaders in the House said late Wednesday.
IRAQ: Home to Too Many Widows 06-19-2008: Just about everyone in Iraq is a loser as a result of the occupation, but none more than women. One of the more obvious signs of that is the very large number of widows.
CHANTIX POISONING OF VETERANS TO CONTINUE – 06-2008: OOIBC: Out Of Iraq Bloggers Caucus:
.BUSH VA SEES NO PROBLEMS WITH INDUCED SUICIDE OF TERROR-WAR VETS…
OBAMA CRITICIZES VETERANS AFFAIRS CHIEF…MCCAIN SAYS NOTHING
Medical Ethicists & Vets Advocates Horrified: “No Informed Consent”
The Neocons Solution to Our Dependency on Foreign Oil – The 51st State: Imagine a group of neocons gathered together brainstorming about our dependency on foreign oil. During this meeting, they write down a set of questions for which they discuss the possible answers.
Stor-E-Tella: LEAVE IRAQIS ALONE -Say REPUBLICANS: These Republicans would have made the Fuhrer so proud! They have cleverly infiltrated the press with agents pretending to be objective,
Stor-E-Tella: 3 Dead A day is not OK jun 25 2008: Wednesday, June 25, 20083 Dead A day is not OK jun 25 2008Oh McCrackHead says we are winning* Bomb kills 3 U.S. soldiers, interpreter * New military operations promised against al Qaeda * June U.S. m
U.S. company: crash lawsuit governed by Islamic law 6-25-2008: To defend itself against a lawsuit by the widows of three American soldiers who died on one of its planes in Afghanistan, a sister company of the private military firm Blackwater has asked a federal court to decide the case using the Islamic law known as Shari’a.
Scenes from an Iraki Childhood – Incident at Samra 6-25-2008: Today Wednesday June 25th 2006 the Americans bombed his uncle’s house ? those are the ruins you can see Khalid sitting on and crying. The American killed, Khalid’s uncle, his aunt, and four of their children who were aged between four and 11, 3 other children are seriously wounded.
OOIBC: Out Of Iraq Bloggers Caucus: Disturbing Trend in Iraq 07-2008: The U.S. Military is arming and funding militias and civil military groups across the country. After a discussion with a soldier about the Sons of Iraq, what is now called a “neighborhood guard” by the US military, the soldier said, “We are basically paying these guys off with money and weapons to not kill us.
IRAQ: Unrest Surfaces in Fallujah Again 07-0=16-2008: Local militias supported by U.S. forces claim to have ?cleansed? the city, 70 km to the west of Baghdad, of all insurgency. But the sudden resignation of the city’s chief of police, Colonel Fayssal al-Zoba’i, has appeared as one recent sign of growing unrest.
US Troops Distroy town to save it? 08-10-2008: A U.S. army soldier from Fox Troop, Sabre Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, sets a mud hut on fire in a deserted village on the outskirts of Balad Ruz, in Diyala province, some 75 kilometers ( 46.6 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008. Soldiers from Fox Troop burned down a deserted village in the area, in order to deny safe haven to possible terrorists in their area of operation.
Army: soldier suicide rate may set record again – 09-04-2008: Soldier suicides this year could surpass the record rate of last year, Army officials said Thursday, urging military leaders at all levels to redouble prevention efforts for a force strained by two wars.
Should the Americans leave now 09-12-2008: Since the Americans came to Iraq we have had nothing but trouble. It is better that they go and just leave us alone. They’ve been here for five years and we had no security – so what is the point in them staying? And before they go they could release all those Iraqi men they picked up and are still keeping in their prisons.?
1,000 feared dead of Cholera in Iraq – 09-15-2008: MPs spoke of at least 1,000 deaths so far.
The outbreak of cholera, a bacterial infection causing severe diarrhea and vomiting, was initially said to have been confined to Babil Province where at least six people had died.
IRAQ: Cholera deaths rise to eight as disease spreads – 10-15-2008: About 500 confirmed cholera cases have been registered in Iraq since the latest outbreak of the disease on 20 August. Eight people have died, a government spokesman said on 14 October.
Scenes From An Iraki Childhood – Hold My Hand Edition 10-26-2008: One of the 15 people wounded in the market bombing in Baqubah on October 23rd.
Gaffney: 4,000 Americans Had To Die In Iraq: Host Chris Matthews was appalled that Gaffney seemed to feel no guilt or remorse than 4,000 Americans died because of the right wing’s mistakes. Gaffney replied that while it was “regrettable” anyone had to die, they “did have to die”:
Iraq’s Shocking Human Toll: About 1 Million Killed, 4.5 Million Displaced, 1-2 Million Widows, 5 Million Orphans: We are now able to estimate the number of Iraqis who have died in the war instigated by the Bush administration. Looking at the empirical evidence of Bush’s war legacy will put his claims of victory in perspective. Of course, even by his standards — “stability” — the jury is out.
Congress members: Lobby us to get out of Iraq 02-2009: This is not exactly a man-bites-dog story, but at least three members of Congress have expressed their support for a campaign to contact members of Congress and urge them to end the occupation of Iraq.

War Deaths – Media Outlets

Newspapers TVNews magazines

Faces of the Fallen: Iraq and Afghanistan Casualties | washingtonpost.com: A collection of information about each U.S. service member who died in Iraq and Afghanistan.
CNN.com – Special Reports: There have been 3,826 coalition deaths — 3,545 Americans, two Australians, 152 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, one Czech, seven Danes, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Fijian, one Hungarian, 33 Italians, one Kazakh, one Korean, three Latvian, 20 Poles, two Romanians, five Salvadoran, four Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians — in the war in Iraq as of June 21, 2007, according to a CNN count.
Abad – Allen – CBS News: Here are some of those who have died in service to their country.Note SITE HAS funky browser resize –
Troops Denied Benefits After Longest Deployment Of Iraq War: Anderson’s orders, and the orders of 1,161 other Minnesota guard members, were written for 729 days.Had they been written for 730 days, just one day more, the soldiers would receive those benefits to pay for school.“Which would be allowing the soldiers an extra $500 to $800 a month,” Anderson said.
Pictures of Destruction and Civilian Victims of the Anglo-American Aggression in Iraq (March / April 2003): Pictures of Destruction and Civilian Victims of
the Anglo-American Aggression in Iraq
(March / April 2003)
A Sobering Look At The Iraq War’s Toll – News Story | Music, Celebrity, Artist News | MTV News: Although the average U.S. soldier in Iraq is older than average Vietnam soldier, those being killed and injured are disproportionately young.
Crooks and Liars » Living a Republican War: Just to be perfectly clear here, I did ask them are you following any of the republican candidates?%u2026Do you want to talk about John McCain? Within that whole group, not one wanted a republican in the US presidential seat. They were all for a democrat. They were all for that type of change because they said they were living a republican war
FRONTLINE: bush’s war | PBS: On the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, this definitive two-part series draws on FRONTLINE’s more than 40 reports on Iraq and the war on terror, as well as fresh reporting and interviews, to examine the lasting legacy of the Bush administration.
Erotic Art Culture Kinbaku | The Jade Gate: From Reuters, -Bearing Witness-: There has been much debate about propaganda and the use of photos and video from Iraq by many sides in this War. Photos of US troops, Iraqi children, US mercenary forces, foreign fighters and many, many others have all been used by many factions to support or defame.
The Washington Post Undercounts Iraq Deaths: The Washington Post’s weekly Saturday feature on “Iraq War Casualties” has consistently listed a “maximum count” of Iraqi civilian deaths that is dramatically lower than the likely civilian death tolls assessed through surveys of the Iraqi public.
In the most recent edition of this feature (10/25/08) which the Post has been publishing as a chart in the Saturday newspaper since August 2, the Post offers a “maximum count” of 96,719 Iraqi civilian deaths. Yet as the Post itself acknowledged in a footnote to its chart on June 15, 2007, there are studies that put the Iraqi death toll much higher: A 2006 survey by Iraqi physicians and overseen by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health estimated over 600,000 killed at the time.
New friendly fire coverup: Army shreds files on dead soldiers | Salon News: Hours after Salon revealed evidence that two Americans were killed by a U.S. tank, not enemy fire, military officials destroyed papers on the men.

Veterans Views

Many veterans and vet groups realize the true tole of the war

Vet Voice .com: 18 U.S. Troops Killed in Iraq this Week
by: Brandon Friedman
Thu Apr 10, 2008 at 03:37:17 AM EDT
When 18 Americans are killed in Iraq during a four-day span, we are experiencing something other than progress.
VoteVets.org | The Voice of Americas 21st Century Patriots: VoteVets Political Action Committee
Veterans working for political change
Veterans For America: Veterans for America’s Wounded Warrior Outreach Program is pleased to announce the release of two first-of-their-kind reports that examine the toll that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken on the frontline units of our active-Army and our National Guard.
Gen. Petraeus Tapped for CENTCOM Post: My thoughts. . . .
(0.00 / 0) As Ambassador Crocker told us recently that
it would be more appropriate for the Bush administration to appoint a recent Afghanistan commander to lead CENTCOM. Remember, while General Petraeus will now be responsible for the fight in Afghanistan, he has never served in Afghanistan.
Stor-E-Tella: What the Family Would Let You See, the Pentagon Obstructs: Lt. Col. Billy Hall, one of the most senior officers to be killed in the Iraq war, was laid to rest yesterday at Arlington National Cemetery. It’s hard to escape the conclusion that the Pentagon doesn’t want you to know that.
USA KIA/DOW Family Foundation (USAKIA): Helping family of U.S. Armed forces with KIA by remembering the patriotism,
VA e-mail-Save money, do not diagnose PTSD: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
15 May 2008 – Two veterans advocacy groups have asked for copies of all documents relating to the Veterans Affairs Department’s post-traumatic stress disorder policies after an e-mail surfaced asking VA doctors to keep costs down by giving diagnoses of adjustment disorder instead.
Annals of Psychology: Virtual Iraq: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker: When Travis Boyd agreed to become a subject in the Virtual Iraq clinical trial, in the spring of 2007, he became one of about thirty-five active-duty and former members of the military to use the program to treat their psychological wounds. Currently, the Department of Defense is testing Virtual Iraq-one of three virtual-reality programs it has funded for P.T.S.D. treatment, and the only one aimed at “ground pounders” like Boyd-in six locations, including the Naval Medical Center San Diego, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, in Washington, D.C., and Weill Cornell Medical College, in New York.
GRITtv- Iraq Vets Against The War: By: Laura Flanders Monday May 26, 2008 1:06 pm
This is a show from our first week. We think it’s the right one to watch today, as we remember the service members who have given their lives in all American wars. Our Memorial Day offering includes a powerful discussion with Iraq Vets Against the War and the War Resister’s League about what supporting the troops really means. We also show part of a documentary film that needs your help, IRAQ PAPER SCISSORS, about Iraq War Veteran Drew Cameron who runs a paper-making studio.
Gold Star Mom Speaks Out -June 23- 2008: As a Gold Star mother, (my son, Lt Ken Ballard, was KIA in May 2004) I have no sympathy for the likes of Feith (or Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rice, Perle et al). Feith’s efforts to rewrite history are an insult to the country, but mostly to the military; the boots on the ground who acted on the orders of their commander-in chief.
Union Vets Speak Out Against McSame: He wants us to keep spending $10 billion a month in Iraq, just like Bush. We could use that money to build schools, and roads, and create jobs with livable wages and benefits and insurance.
Suicide hot line got calls from 22,000 veterans – Yahoo! News 07-28-2008: More than 22,000 veterans have sought help from a special suicide hot line in its first year, and 1,221 suicides have been averted, the government says.
Soldier Swayed By Bush’s Performance at OlympicsAug 10, 2008: by HercegovacSun I went over to a neighbors last night to play Wii (for the first time. Freakin great console). He was in the military and served this country with pride in Afghanistan between 2001-2003. Anyways, we watched Phelps win the gold and started talking about how awesome the opening ceremony was. I asked if he saw clips of President Bush at the opening ceremony.
He said that he has been embarrassed by our president multiple times, but that Friday night took the cake. He became livid while talking about Bush checking his watch, looking bored, and the now infamous, tapping the American flag on his knee.t
Duty, Honor, Country ? and Undermining the Chain of Command 9-10-2008: Even so, I have to say that Keane’s remarks to Gates go against everything I have ever heard and ever learned from these veterans about the military and what makes it work.
Here’s why, and it’s pretty simple: there is nothing more sacred in the military culture than the chain of command. Nothing.
I heard this from high school classmates, home briefly after finishing basic training, and I heard it from flag officers after they returned from the Persian Gulf War in the 1990s. The military runs because the chain of command works.
Duty, Honor, Country — that’s the short version of the importance of the Chain of Command.
American Solider – We Blew Her to Pieces: ?I remember one woman walking by,? said Jason Washburn, a corporal in the U.S. Marines who served three tours in Iraq. ?She was carrying a huge bag, and she looked like she was heading toward us, so we lit her up with the Mark 19, which is an automatic grenade launcher, and when the dust settled, we realised that the bag was full of groceries. She had been trying to bring us food and we blew her to pieces.?
When youre wounded and left on Afghanistans plains: Ah yes ? the inimitable Steve Bell is at it again. This time his cartoon is quoting Kipling’s The Young British Soldier on President Obama’s Afghanistan “surge”
Hey Rick, Are These Those the Losers You Were Talking About? 02-25-2009: The housing crisis is hitting military families particularly hard, according to real estate agents and service member advocacy groups. Many who bought during the boom and must now relocate because of fresh orders are faced with selling their homes at a big loss.

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