172nd Betrayed Again

Stryker families grapple with emotions
RECALL TO IRAQ: Troops who came home are being sent to rejoin their brigade.
By LISA DEMER
Anchorage Daily News
Published: August 15, 2006

More than 300 soldiers from the 172nd Stryker Brigade who returned to Alaska earlier this summer after a year of war duty are being shipped back to Iraq, this time to the dangerous capital of Baghdad.

The above came after this already known Pentagon Action:

Army brigade from Alaska absorbs news that many soldiers may not be going home soon

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) Staff Sgt. Brian Bock learned a mere two hours before boarding a flight for home that his tour in Iraq had been extended at least four months.
He may not have made it back to Alaska, but many of his belongings did. The boxes the 172nd Stryker Brigade officer had mailed home in advance kept showing up at the Fort Wainwright post office.
``We got one of his big black trunks two days after getting the news and my daughter said, 'I wish daddy was in there,''' his wife, Jennifer Bock, said Monday.

Combat stress is a normal response NOT a disorder (PTSD) says Col. Terry Washam
Posted By Posted By Robert Hanafin
Retired Major Hanafin takes this little Col. to the 'Woodshed, letting all know just where, and why, this is coming from!



Governors Oppose Federal Control of Guard

The nation's governors, protesting what they call an unprecedented shift in authority from the states to the federal government, will urge Congress today to block legislation that would allow the president to take control of National Guard forces in the event of a natural disaster or a threat to homeland security.

Fight mental illness stigma

A debate has emerged as to whether military personnel returning from Iraq suffering from post-traumatic stress are getting the treatment they need for their emotional and psychological problems.

Fort Lewis Army Rangers Arrested for Robbery of Bank America

Three Fort Lewis, Wash., soldiers have been charged in a south Tacoma bank robbery earlier this week. Two soldiers have been arrested and the third was sought on a warrant, the FBI said Thursday. The trio are members of the Army’s elite Rangers unit at Fort Lewis, The Seattle Times reported, adding the bank lost $54,000.

Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America's War? As Many As 250,000

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In Bush's War 2597

The War in Iraq Costs $305,969,558,884 See the cost in your community



Fear and Smear
By William Greider

An evil symbiosis does exist between Muslim terrorists and American politicians, but it is not the one Republicans describe. The jihadists need George W. Bush to sustain their cause. His bloody crusade in the Middle East bolsters their accusation that America is out to destroy Islam. The president has unwittingly made himself the lead recruiter of willing young martyrs.

Gullible Americans
Paul Craig Roberts

The two co-chairmen of the 9/11 Commission Report, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, have just released a new book, "Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission." Kean and Hamilton reveal that the commission suppressed the fact that Muslim ire toward the US is due to US support for Israel's persecution and dispossession of the Palestinians, not to our "freedom and democracy" as Bush propagandistically claims.

Bernard Weiner |
John Dean Book Review: The Fast Lane to Fascism

"'How does the Bush administration get away with it?' And: 'How come, no matter what scandal or embarrassment or disaster Bush&Co. get enmeshed in, one third of the population still supports them?' ... With the publication of former White House counsel John W. Dean's compelling new book, 'Conservatives Without Conscience,' we now have more of a framework for understanding what drives the Busheviks, and why so many continue to stand behind them," writes Bernard Weiner.