William Rivers Pitt | Meanwhile, in Iraq ...
"It has become something of a challenge to stay abreast of the continuing carnage in Iraq," writes William Rivers Pitt. "We still have tens of thousands of soldiers there. Nineteen of them have died since the beginning of July, and 2,553 have died since the whole thing started. 150 Iraqi civilians have been killed in the last three days, adding to the 6,000 civilians who have been killed in the last two months, adding to the tens of thousands who have been killed over the last three years."
Tracking coalition military deaths in Iraq, one day at a time, across the map. Click HERE to see the Flash-animated map.
So 'Cutting and Running' Is Weak{?}, NOT! This Should NEVER Have Happened!!!
Cutting and Running
Joe Galloway | July 13, 2006
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was in Iraq this week, and he heard some good news and some bad news.
The good news is that the number of American soldiers who've been killed in Iraq in recent weeks has fallen from two or three a day to an average of only one a day.
The bad news is that the reason for the good news is that Iraqis are, for the time being, more interested in killing one another than they are in killing Americans.
And the real news in Iraq is that the number of American troops who are fighting and dying in that place has fallen to 127,000 from a high of more than 160,000 late in 2005.
Despite Bush administration's "stay the course" rhetoric and Rumsfeld's refusal to discuss any withdrawal timetable on his trip, the truth is that the administration is rushing to disentangle itself from Iraq as fast as possible.
As of July 20 '06, There Are 63 Pages w/5 'Silent Honor Rolls' Each, Number of KIA's Varies With Each 'Silent Honor Roll';
In Honor - In Memory
Bush's Double Game on an Iraq Withdrawal Timetable
Analysis by Gareth Porter
WASHINGTON, Jul 18 (IPS) - Caught between the need to explore a possible diplomatic way out of an otherwise hopeless mess in Iraq and the domestic political need to keep the Democrats on the defensive, U.S. President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are playing a double game on the issue of timetable for withdrawal.
Mother of Iraq War Vet Who Committed Suicide Flies Flag Upside Down
By Matthew Rothschild
July 18, 2006
Terri Jones lost her son Jason Cooper just over a year ago.
He was an Army Reservist in the Iraq War.
On July 14, 2005, four months after returning home to Iowa, he hanged himself.
He was 23.
Since then, Jones has been flying her American flag upside down, though someone came on her property once and turned it right side up, and another person stole it.
Turkey Considers Invading Iraqi Kurdistan
Turkish officials signaled Tuesday they are prepared to send the army into northern Iraq if US and Iraqi forces do not take steps to combat Turkish Kurdish guerrillas there - a move that could put Turkey on a collision course with the United States.
Civil war spreads across Iraq
By Patrick Cockburn in Iraq
In the past 10 days, while the world has been absorbed by the war in Lebanon, sectarian massacres have started to take place on an almost daily basis, leading observers to fear a level of killing approaching that of Rwanda immediately before the genocide of 1994.
Marine death shows Latino sacrifice in Iraq
The Iraq War has taken a toll on Mexican-American families. Take Kristian Menchaca. He was born in Houston but grew up in Brownsville, Texas. The son of immigrants, he often visited his many cousins on the Mexican side. On June 16, insurgents in Iraq abducted Pfc. Menchaca, 23, and fellow soldier Tommy Tucker, 25, at a checkpoint somewhere along the Euphrates River, 10 miles south of Baghdad. Their bodies were found a few days later.
Iraq Coalition Casualty Count and Much More
GI SPECIAL 4G20: 'Estoy En Contra De La Guerra'.pdf
GI SPECIAL 4G19: 'Nation Breaking'.pdf
GI SPECIAL 4G18: 'Straws In The Wind'.pdf
GI SPECIAL 4G17: 'Allies'.pdf
Oh and there's So Much More. But if you don't receive the many NewsLetters, in your e-box, or pay Attention to the Quick Scrolls, at the bottom of your TV screens, or Listen 'Very Carefully to the Quick couple of second mentions, from the Talking Heads, the News of Iraq is Quickly going the way of that given on Afganistan, Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind!!
Although many, in this country, have readily put it out of mind Long Ago!
Here's Two More
Sectarian Violence Out of Control in Iraq
The new unity government of Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds was supposed to bring Iraqis together. Instead, sectarian bloodletting is spiraling out of control. In the last two days alone, more than 120 people were killed in two spectacular examples of Sunni-Shiite violence - 53 in the suicide van bombing Tuesday in Kufa and 50 in the massacre Monday in the market in Mahmoudiya.
A home-away-from-home for injured vets' families
Laird Harris, president and chief executive of Harris & Smith Public Affairs in Seattle, is a Vietnam-era Navy veteran whose brother undergoes treatment in a Florida veterans hospital. Seattle lawyer Dan Shea lost his brother, Marine Lt. Col. Kevin Shea, in Iraq on Sept. 14, 2004. Both experiences motivated the two men to join several other local community leaders in building a Fisher House, a home-away-from-home in Seattle to diminish the emotional and financial hardships on the families of severely injured veterans.
Read some of the back issues of G.I. Special HERE at MilitaryProject.org . Thomas gives snippits of Articles and Reports on Afganistan as well as Iraq
The links above, to the recent ones, are to an online service I use to post them on my site 10 deep. Thomas had the site shut down, apparently by whomever it was that controlled the servers, awhile back, so a few of us picked up on hosting. the site is now recently back up, with No Explaination given to him on why it was taken down.
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