Hidden Costs of War:

Long-Term Price of Providing Veterans Medical Care Could Reach $660 Billion

Over 200,000 soldiers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan have been treated at
Veterans Affairs medical facilities thus far, with 900,000 still deployed on
active duty. A new study from Harvard University predicts that the cost of
medical care and compensation benefits for returning veterans will skyrocket
once those troops return home.

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Peace Activists Launch The Occupation Project: A Campaign of Sustained
Nonviolent Civil Disobedience to End the Iraq War

Kathy Kelly joins us hours after being released from jail. She was one of
ten people arrested in Sen. McCain's office in Washington. Eight more were
arrested in the Illinois offices of Senators Obama and Durbin. Kelly just
returned from two months living and working with Iraqi refugees in Amman,
Jordan.

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