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Summary: The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq: Week of August 29

Sat, 08/28/2010 - 09:26 — Dave Culver
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Foreign Affairs

5 New Items including:

  • Task force: Military suicide prevention efforts inadequate
  • The occupation of Iraq isn't over - it's being rebranded

David Culver, ed., Evergreene Digest

Jeff Danziger

Read Huffington Post's Afghanistan Big News Page, Huffington Post
Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Thomas Sklarski
Some News So Big It Needs It's Own Page

US Forces in Iraq Shift to Long-term Occupation, Debra Sweet, The World Can't Wait

  • Adil E. Shamoo, a professor of ethics, writes in What You Will Not Hear About Iraq, "Iraq has between 25 and 50 percent unemployment, a dysfunctional parliament, rampant disease, an epidemic of mental illness, and sprawling slums. The killing of innocent people has become part of daily life. What a havoc the United States has wreaked in Iraq...
  • Iraq: Torture. Corruption. Civil war. America has Certainly Left Its Mark
  • The occupation of Iraq isn't over - it's being rebranded

Iraq: Torture. Corruption. Civil war. America has Certainly Left Its Mark. Robert Fisk, London Independent | UK, in ZCommunications

  • The American soldiers came. They saw. They lost. And now they say they've won. How the Arabs, surviving on six hours of electricity a day in their bleak country, must be hoping for no more victories like this one.
  • The War on Iraq : Five US Presidents, Five British Prime Ministers, Thirty Years of Duplicity, and Counting....

The occupation of Iraq isn't over - it's being rebranded, Debra Sweet, World Can't Wait

  • The occupation of Iraq is only being re-branded, not ended. Despite President Obama's fallacious claims that the war in Iraq is winding down, the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment is deploying!
  • We Are Not Your Soldiers!
  • Collateral Murder: U.S. Soldier Ethan McCord's Eyewitness Story

Task force: Military suicide prevention efforts inadequate, Barbara Barrett, McClatchy Newspapers

  • The task force describes the Defense Department's approach as a safety net riddled with holes.
  • The military must look at mental health and well being as part of an overall approach to fitness — one that includes social, physical, spiritual and psychological wellness.

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