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The terrible human cost
of Bush and Blair's military adventure:
10,000 civilian deaths _______________________

LAST RESORT
A TRIP TO CANADA TO FIND REFUGE FOR THOSE WHO REFUSE TO KILL _______________________

Volunteer military isn't so voluntary _______________________

ARMY TROOPS IN IRAQ:                 NEW NUMBERS SHOW ALARMING
           INCREASE IN SUICIDE RATE,
          MENTAL HEALTH EVACUATIONS _______________________

The GI's weapon of choice in Iraq: dollars Congress recently allocated $180,000,000.00 for aid

to be disbursed directly by US soldiers.

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Army Faults Its Treatment of Reserve Troops _______________________

Army Expansion Could Last 5 Years

Ranks Will Swell During Restructuring

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I am an Army Nurse Corps Captain stationed at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington D.C. I feel compelled to share with anyone who will listen what I have seen. _______________________

Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy
by Arundhati Roy _______________________

February 9, 2004 issue The Nation. The New American Century
by ARUNDHATI ROY _______________________

Workshop Aims to Train Lawyers To
Counsel Reluctant Soldiers _______________________

GOING AWOL
As the Iraq war escalates, so does the desertion rate : now reservists are rebelling.

Can the draft be far behind?

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Ruth Bader-Ginsburg JUSTICE WARNS AGAINST CIVIL RIGHTS APATHY _______________________

B u s h' s B e t r a y a l o f O u r T r o o p s _______________________

Body Bags Make the Reality of War Set In "It's visions like that which remind me
that war is not glamorous, that war is not a video game" _______________________

Few Americans see caskets come home
A news media blackout instituted to ensure privacy for soldiers' families also
protects policymakers as war casualties mount. _______________________

The Death of Sgt. Van Dale Todd:
Remembering an antiwar Vietnam veteran _______________________

Their Photos Tell The Story
In introducing the pictures, under the headline "Faces of the Fallen," the Army Times said: "More than 500 service members died in operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom in 2003, a group that represents the full, rich face of American diversity... _______________________

Text Of The President's blahblahblahblah Address May 1, 2003 6:18 pm US/Mountain Remarks by President Bush blahblahblahblah the end of major combat operations in Iraq Thursday evening from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln:blauhblauhblalahblahblah _______________________

Bush's fuzzy thinking be afraid.......be very afraid.....be afraidbeafraid _______________________

Vietnam-era deserter sympathizes
A Vietnam War-era deserter is supporting an American paratrooper who fled for Canada rather than ship out for Iraq. _______________________

"How fucking orwellian," she thought. She didn't realize that she has spoken it aloud. "Well, it has to come out some time, and so now is the better time as later, or future, for we mustn't put things off too awfully long, or they will become short little memories that die in the dust line old eyelashes and bits of sweaters washed too often." And so, she did. and nothing was ever washed too often again, as the colors were finally exposed to the sunlight and they bounced off truth like jelly beans! ( '? canadacanadacanadacaanadacanada_______________

THE CASUALTY An American soldier comes home from Iraq. _______________________

Soldier's wife is taking on Army

Path to pension an uphill battle

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Coming Home
Robert Shrode can't sleep. _______________________

Family trying to cope with GI's death Coming Home

Only when his son's casket has made the 8,000-mile trip from Iraq to Phoenix
will the horrifying news of Matthew's death be real.

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Maimed in Iraq, then mistreated, Coming Home
neglected, and hidden in America
Combat veterans wounded in Iraq were left waiting weeks and even months for proper medical attention at military bases _______________________

We face those decisions again today. There is no question of my action, there could never be. I have no choice. I cannot choose to turn away, to not act. My meditation toward peace include this act of passion against that machine that continues to churn out more and more hatred, racism, sick patriotism and stealth conscription.

I choose to be a worker of conscience. I am a pacifist, with "FIST" in the air.

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Flags Give Silent Testament to Growing U.S. Death Toll

'Loyal Opposition' aims to illustrate nation's loss

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Though he flick my shoulders with his whip,
I will not tell him which way the fox ran.
With his hoof on my breast, I will not tell him where
the black boy hides in the swamp.
I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death;
I am not on his pay-roll.

I will not tell him the whereabout of my friends
nor of my enemies either.
Though he promise me much,
I will not map him the route to any man's door.

Am I a spy in the land of the living,
that I should deliver men to Death?
Brother, the password and the plans of our city
are safe with me; never through me Shall you be overcome.

Conscientious Objector
by Edna St. Vincent Millay _______________________

Bush Reform of Immigration Policy has a Hidden Agenda _______________________

L o s t i n C r e d i b i l i t y G u l c h _______________________

One Veteran's Outrage:

Bush, Iraq and the Dead Pile Up

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Press Release: DAV Urges Defense Secretary to Get the Facts to War Wounded; Allow DAV rep to visit the wounded, stop holding back info... _______________________

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