Is family a Gulf War casualty?

FOCUS | William Rivers Pitt: It Wasn't About the War

William Rivers Pitt writes that it wasn't just the war. It was a long, slow slide that eventually tipped Lieberman's applecart. It was a process of insinuation into the cash-and-carry culture of Washington, DC. It was a series of astonishingly bad votes on incredibly important issues. It was, above all, political cowardice; Lieberman attached himself to Bush while Bush was riding high, and was unable to extract himself as Bush's popularity collapsed.

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William Fisher | Birth Pangs of What?

"President Bush sees the Israel-Hezbollah conflict as 'an opportunity.' Condoleezza Rice calls it 'the birth pangs of a new Middle East.' These statements are likely to be remembered by history as even more iconically absurd than Vice President's Cheney's description of the Iraqi insurgency as being 'in its last throes,'" writes William Fisher, who suggests that "the real winner in this game of smoke and mirrors will be neither Israel nor Hezbollah."

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Is family a Gulf War casualty?

Ruling lets ill widower propel lawsuit
SWARTZ CREEK --Nobody can say U.S. Army veteran Arvid Brown's Gulf War illness is all in his head. Brown's late wife, Janyce, caught leishmaniasis -- a sometimes deadly parasitic disease borne by sand flies that can attack the body's cells and internal organs -- a malady he brought home from Operation Desert Storm. So did the Swartz Creek couple's two young children.

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Republicans Cut Budget of Center for War-Related Brain Injuries

Congress appears ready to slash funding for the research and treatment of brain injuries caused by bomb blasts, an injury that military scientists describe as a signature wound of the Iraq war ... "I find it basically unpardonable that Congress is not going to provide funds to take care of our soldiers and sailors who put their lives on the line for their country," says Martin Foil, a member of the center's board of directors. "It blows my imagination."

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Greenwood chase looked familiar

Expert says Iraq vet's actions typical of post-traumatic stress. A combat veteran called it "Death by Cop."

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101st soldiers among victims of war stress

Mental health issues often go unreported because of stigma

Iraqis routinely pelted Army National Guard Sgt. Dave Durman's truck with urine, feces and rocks. Mortar fire rained down on his camp on a regular basis.

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'The closest thing to hell?

Mother copes with soldier-son’s suicide
“I have seen the closest thing to hell ... With everyday things such as death, destruction, fear and the nagging thought of ‘Is this the day I’m going to die?’ it’s hard for anyone back home to imagine what I’m talking about ...