Bush preparing to send more troops to Iraq

Bush preparing to send more troops to Iraq

The only way for peace is too cut Bush’s purse strings and pay these soldiors with his money if he wants to prolong this conflict.

But not at the American taxpayers expense, already this man has done enough to satisfy his personal wishes at the expense of the collectivity.

Sammy

Sure George... that'll work!

NOT! Bring them all home! NOW

"give em hell" Harry had the right idea

All we need is more people like Harry Truman, General McAuthor and General George Patton..

Sammy

Sammy;12359:
The only way for peace is too cut Bush’s purse strings and pay these soldiors with his money if he wants to prolong this conflict.

But not at the American taxpayers expense, already this man has done enough to satisfy his personal wishes at the expense of the collectivity.

Sammy

Geesus, grow up Sammy! Try to make SOME sense. Congress controls the purse strings. / head shaking/ look of disgust

jazzc997

jazzc997;12360:
NOT! Bring them all home! NOW

Yeah, that’ll happen tomorrow. /eyes rolling

Yukon 12-16-06 07:28 AM

Yes, Yukon, we all know that the United States Congress controls the purse strings to Bush’s military GAMES, and it seems that THEY HAVE ENJOYED BUSH’s ADVENTURERS in Iraq, and Afghanistan, otherwise they would have CUT HIS PURSE STRINGS A LONG TIME AGO, AND MANY INNOCENT LIVES COULD HAVE BEEN SAVED.

But then this is a conflict of INTERESTS and as long as the money keeps coming in no one complains except the people who loose their loved ones.

The contractors, the munition factories, the military industrial complex and the multinationals are filling their coffers with profits, so lets keep this slaughter going and who cares who dies and who gets hurt.

We can always justify ourselves that we are going against terrorists, and terrorists are not people.

Sammy

No by their very acts terrorist are less then human

Sammy;12365:
Yes, Yukon, we all know that the United States Congress controls the purse strings to Bush’s military GAMES, and it seems that THEY HAVE ENJOYED BUSH’s ADVENTURERS in Iraq, and Afghanistan, otherwise they would have CUT HIS PURSE STRINGS A LONG TIME AGO, AND MANY INNOCENT LIVES COULD HAVE BEEN SAVED.

But then this is a conflict of INTERESTS and as long as the money keeps coming in no one complains except the people who loose their loved ones.

The contractors, the munition factories, the military industrial complex and the multinationals are filling their coffers with profits, so lets keep this slaughter going and who cares who dies and who gets hurt.

We can always justify ourselves that we are going against terrorists, and terrorists are not people.

Sammy

They are in fact animals fit for nothing but a bulle to the head.
You can justify any behavior of the enemy and yet some how always say Bush and Company are wrong?
How did you come to hate your country its people and its messed up leaders so?

You suffer from a form of insanity if you can justify the head cutters and their ilk.

To: Anonymous 12-16-06 11:01 AM

Terrorists and terrorism cannot ever be justified.

My friend I do not hate my country, but when I in my opinion hear about INNOCENTS being killed in the name of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and YOUNG AMERICAN SOLDIORS BEING SENT TO BE SLAUGHTERED EVERYDAY IN AN ILLEGAL PERSONAL WAR WITHOUT REASON FOR THE UNITED STATES BEING THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE.

IT MAKES MY BLOOD BOIL.

AND HOW THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DECEIVED BY THIS CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION WHO HAS LIED AND IS GRADUALLY TAKING AWAY THE BASIC AMERICAN FREEDOMS AND NOT BEING HELD RESPONSIBLE TO CONGRESS AND THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION FOR THEIR ACTIONS OF WRONG DOINGS.

TERRORISM HAS INCREASED BY THE AMERICAN PRESENSE IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN, YOU CANNOT SHOVE DEMOCRACY DOWN PEOPLE’S THROATS, BECAUSE PEOPLE WILL REBEL ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY ARE INSTIGATED AND HAVING THEIR HOUSES BOMBED AND THEIR CHILDREN BLOWN UP OR RAPED AND THEN KILLED.

LET THESE PEOPLE FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY BY THEMSELVES IF THEY WANT TO HAVE DEMOCRACY, OR CHOOSE THEIR WAY OF LIVING AS THEY PLEASE AND NOT BEING IMPOSED BY OTHERS UPON THEM.

YES THIS IS WHAT AMERICA WANTS, BUT WHAT AMERICA WANTS IS NOT WHAT THESE PEOPLE WANT, AND THIS WILL LEAD TO TERRORISM TOWARDS THE INVADORS WHO WANT TO IMPOSE THEIR WAY OF LIFE UPON THEM.

IF THESE PEOPLE WANT TO KEEP THEIR WOMEN COVERED UP IN A SACK, THAT IS THEIR OWN PROBLEM, AND NOT AMERICA’S PROBLEM.

YOU JUST CANNOT GO INTO A PERSON’S HOUSE AND THROW YOUR WEIGHT AROUND, AND THIS IS WHAT AMERICA IS DOING IN THESE COUNTRIES AND IN THE WORLD.

THEY WANT TO AMERICANIZE THESE PEOPLE, DID YOU EVER THINK THAT MAYBE THESE PEOPLE DO NOT WANT TO BE AMERICANIZED AND THEY RESORT TO TERRORISM AS A DEFENSIVE ACTION?

AMERICA CAN SET GOOD EXAMPLES BY PRACTICING DEMOCRACY AT HOME BUT NOT TO IMPOSE IT UPON OTHERS, BECAUSE PEOPLE HAVE FREEDOM OF CHOICE,(AND IF THEY DO NOT HAVE IT THEY MUST FIGHT FOR IT ON THEIR OWN) AND AMERICAN SOLDIORS ARE INTROUDERS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN, AND OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD.

AMERICA IN THE EYES OF FOREIGNERS ARE LOOKED UPON AS GANGSTERS AND KILLERS, TRY AND TRAVEL AND SEE THAT THERE IS A LOT OF HATE TOWARDS AMERICANS.

WE CAN THANK THIS BUSH ADMINISTRATION FOR LOSING ALL OF AMERICA’S FRIENDS,( THE FRIENDS THAT WE HAVE AT THE MOMENT ARE ALL BOUGHT AND PAID FOR OTHERWISE THEY WOULD NOT BE FRIENDS OF OURS) AND CREATING ALL OF THESE HARDSHIPS UPON US, OUR US DOLLAR IS WORTHLESS IN REGARDS TO OTHER CURRENCIES OUR NATIONAL DEBT IS SO HUGE THAT IT CANNOT BE WRITTEN IN SHAME.

THE ONLY SOLUTION IS TO IMPEACH MR: BUSH AND HAVE CONGRESS BRING THE US FORCES HOME AND APOLOGIZE TO THE IRAQI AND AFGHANISTAN PEOPLE FOR THE INTROUSION OF THEIR PEACEFUL TERRITORY AND PAY WAR DAMAGES.

SAMMY.

Sammy...

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THE INTROUSION OF THEIR PEACEFUL TERRITORY

ROTFLOL Sammy...the naive, the gullible, the immature!

Yukon 12-17-06 05:05 PM

They say that laughter is the best medicine, and I am trying to cure you. But do not forget that the meek shall inherit the Earth.

Sorry for the typographical error (it should have been INTRUSION, and not introusion) this goes to show how narrow minded you are. Ha. ha, ha,

Do not forget that “he that laughs the last laughs the heartiest” So in this case I am having the last laugh on your ignorance, HA, HA, HA,...

Sammy

Sammy;12378:
They say that laughter is the best medicine, and I am trying to cure you. But do not forget that the meek shall inherit the Earth.

Sorry for the typographical error (it should have been INTRUSION, and not introusion) this goes to show how narrow minded you are. Ha. ha, ha,

Do not forget that “he that laughs the last laughs the heartiest” So in this case I am having the last laugh on your ignorance, HA, HA, HA,...

Sammy

It wasn’t about the spelling error Sammy. Wrong again as usual. It was your claim of peaceful territory. ROTFLOL Last laugh!

Granny’s confused... A couple of years back, on that aircraft carrier, didn’t Fearless W say We Won?

Bush: 'We’re not winning' in Iraq
12/20/2006 — President Bush said Tuesday that the war in Iraq is in a stalemate and that he wants to increase the size of the Army and Marine Corps to help ease problems caused by wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

]“We’re not winning; we’re not losing," Bush said in an interview with The Washington Post posted online Tuesday. It was the first time Bush said the U.S. was not winning, as he borrowed the phrase from Gen. Peter Pace. In November, before the elections, Bush had said, “Absolutely, we’re winning."

A news conference with Bush was scheduled for Wednesday in the Indian Treaty Room in the Old Executive Office Building next to the White House. He will open with a 10-minute statement discussing his decision to expand the military, the White House said. Bush also planned to stress the importance of working in a bipartisan way next year when Democrats take control of Congress heading into the final two years of his administration.

The White House also said Bush would talk about the need to keep the U.S. economy strong. The president told the Post that the military needs to grow because “this ideological war we’re in is going to last awhile." New troops, Bush said, would not be added specifically to fight in either Iraq or Afghanistan but would be available for military needs worldwide.

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Shame on you!

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“We’re not winning; we’re not losing," Bush said in an interview with The Washington Post posted online Tuesday.

Your headline Bush: 'We’re not winning' in Iraq is taken out of context and is misleading.

Higher long-term medical costs...

Study links post-traumatic stress to heart disease
Jan 1, 2007 - A study of military veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder found the more severe their anxiety, the greater their risk of heart disease, researchers said on Monday.

]The link between stress and heart disease has long been recognized, and researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston found that relationship existed among nearly 2,000 Boston-area veterans. Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, once dismissed as “combat fatigue," can also afflict people who experience traumatic events. It is characterized by anxiety, reexperiences of the event and avoidance of stimuli related to the experience.

Based on commonly-used measures of stress disorder symptoms used in the Harvard study, each step up in symptom severity increased the risk of a heart attack by 26 percent, the report said. “This pattern of effects suggests that individuals with higher levels of (post-traumatic stress disorder) symptoms are not simply prone to reporting higher levels of chest pain or other physical symptoms but may well be at higher risk for developing coronary heart disease," wrote study author Laura Kubzansky in the Archives of General Psychiatry.

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The lasting effects of war...

Extended Iraq tours took a toll on soldiers' families
In September, soldiers with the 1st Combat Brigade, 1st Armored Division, learned that their tour of duty in Iraq would be extended about six weeks. Some of their families agreed to keep track of their experiences during the extension for USA TODAY. The scenes, thoughts and quotes in this story are based on those interviews and on diaries and blogs kept in recent months by the families.

]12 Mar. 2007 — They expected the soldiers would be heading home by early January. Instead, fear still tormented families of the Army’s 1st Combat Brigade, 1st Armored Division based here: The troops had been ordered to fight on for another six weeks. Of the roughly 1,300 soldiers in the brigade who fought in frontline positions, about 250 had been wounded and 29 killed during their year at war.

The soldiers were in Ramadi, one of the most dangerous cities in Iraq, and some families worried their loved ones were pushing their luck. A normal Army tour of duty was supposed to last only 12 months. As the Pentagon works to implement President Bush’s plan to raise troop levels in Iraq by 21,500 and fight another war in Afghanistan, more troops — and more families — face the same painful reality.

The Army and Marine Corps say that about 11,000 troops are under orders to remain in combat beyond their initial deadlines for coming home, some for as long as four months. The soldiers of the 1st Combat Brigade understand their predicament. This is the story of the families who waited and worried about them — of Kelly Zickafoose, who poured her frustrations into a blog she called My Heart is in Iraq.

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25% of war vets have mental disorder
March 13, 2007 - A QUARTER of the Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans treated with US government-funded health care have been diagnosed with a mental disorder, a study published today found.

]And when psycho-social disorders such as domestic violence were included, the number of war veterans suffering from mental illnesses rose to 31 per cent. The instances of mental illness among recently discharged troops and members of the National Guard are significantly higher than those of a study published last year that examined active duty troops, the lead researcher said.

That study found a third of returning troops were accessing mental health services, but only 12 per cent were diagnosed with a mental illness or psychosocial disorder. “That’s a big difference," said Karen Seal, a physician and researcher at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Centre.

Of significant concern was the finding that 56 per cent of those diagnosed had more than one mental illness, Ms Seal said. “When people have more than one diagnosis they become more challenging to diagnose and, more importantly, we believe are more challenging to treat," she said.

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