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Disabled Soldier Returning to War, Facing "Stop Loss"
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, americans, bush, bushadministration, candidates, cheney, cia, congress, constitution, corruption, cover-up, crime, democrats, dishonesty, economy, elections, ethics, freedoms, government, Govtfearmongering, healthcare, housing, iraq, lies, media, m )

Kathleen
- 1796 days ago - truthout.org
WE MUST SHOW SINCERE COMPASSION FOR OUR TROOPS AND BRING THEM HOME!!! Besides, our own nation is in dire need of MUCH infrastructure & disaster assistance!!!
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Even the Insured Feel the Strain of Health Costs
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, americans, bush, bushadministration, candidates, cheney, cia, congress, constitution, corruption, cover-up, crime, dishonesty, economy, elections, ethics, freedoms, government, Govtfearmongering, healthcare, HillaryClinton, iraq, lies, media, milit )

Kathleen
- 1844 days ago - truthout.org
"The economic slowdown has swelled the ranks of people without health insurance...and now also threatening millions of people who have insurance but find that the coverage is too limited or that they cannot afford their own share of medical costs."
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Soldiers Show Mental Strain From Combat Tours
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, ethics, iraq, war, environment )

Cal
- 1902 days ago - reuters.com
More than a quarter of U.S. soldiers on their third or fourth tours in Iraq suffer mental health problems partly because troops are not getting enough time at home between deployments, the Army said on Thursday.
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Army Battles Traumatic Brain Injuries
Health & Wellness  (tags: army, soldiers, health, brain, injuries, Marines, Iraq, Afghanistan, traumatic, explosion )

Robin
- 1950 days ago - news14.com
FAYETTEVILLE -- The Army is mobilizing its resources to fight a serious threat to soldiers' health. They estimate that as many as 10-20 percent of soldiers and Marines returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from a traumatic brain injury caused by a...
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120 Veterans Commit Suicide Each Week!
Health & Wellness  (tags: veterans, suicide, Pentagon, Iraq, war, deaths, statistics )

Green Roa
- 2005 days ago - care2.com
Pentagon says this is no problem, because they are doing this not due to the war, but because they are having "personal problems".
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DEPLETED URANIUM - Chronic Illness, Severe Deformanties, Gulf WarSyndrome, Environment,
Health & Wellness  (tags: depleted uranium, birth defects, chronically ill, enviornmental hazard, usa, iraq, canada. severe deformities )

Cheryl
- 2025 days ago - canadianactionparty.ca
THE RADIOACTIVITY PERSISTS FOR OVER 4,500,000,000 YEARS KILLING MILLIONS OF EVERY AGE FOR CENTURIES TO COME .THIS IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY WHICH MAY RANK WITH THE WORST ATROCITIES OF ALL TIME
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What the Government Isn't Publicizing - The Opportunistic Pathogens Coming Home With Out Veterans
Health & Wellness  (tags: patghogens, opportunistic infections, mosquitos, Leishmaniasis, Acinetobacter baumanni, deadly disease, troops, soldiers, Iraq, Afghanistan )

RC
- 2042 days ago - iraqinfections.org
Now this is something I've never seen onthe news. Our troops are picking up deadly pathogens & diseases while serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. and bringing them home. The government has kept this a pretty big secret, thus creating the danger of spread.
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Revamp Urged for Care of Veterans
Health & Wellness  (tags: US, Veterans, Iraq, Iraq war, Congress, legislation, healthcare, disability, US troops, Afghanistan, injured, wounded, soldiers, family-assistance, long-term rehab )

Summer Lu
- 2045 days ago - washingtonpost.com
President Bush sent legislation to Congress yesterday to revamp the health-care and disability system for U.S troops wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan by eliminating duplicative bureaucracy and providing more assistance to families dealing with the long-term
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Cholera Outbreak in Iraq Spreading - Infectious Diseases - MSNBC.Com
Health & Wellness  (tags: iraq, war, destabalization, 'warcrimes', disease )

Brenda
- 2061 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
GENEVA - An outbreak of cholera in Iraq has spread, with new cases confirmed in Baghdad, Basra and, for the first time, the northern districts of Tikrit, Mosul and Dahuk, "What kind of help did this war bring to the iraqiis, death and disease?"
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Cholera Spreads to Southern Iraq
Health & Wellness  (tags: cholera, iraq, north and south, illness, humans, health, disease )

Ali
- 2069 days ago - news.com.au
A CASE of cholera has been confirmed in southern Iraq, a senior health official said today, raising fears the virulent water-borne disease is spreading through the country.
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Demons in the White House: Bush Linked to a Theocratic Cult
Health & Wellness  (tags: abuse, politics, iraq, culture, religion, rights, disease )

Robert
- 2070 days ago - cannonfire.blogspot.com
Have you wondered, as I often have, if Dubya's embrace of fundamentalist Christianity is fake or genuine? In other words, is this man a cynic or a zealot?
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A History Of US Secret Human Experimentation
Health & Wellness  (tags: usa, war, Human Experimentation, iraq, bushadministration, abuse, crime, humans, death, doctors, drugs )

Madalena
- 2073 days ago - informationclearinghouse.info
1931 Dr. Cornelius Rhoads, under the auspices of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Investigations, infects human subjects with cancer cells. ......................
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IRAQ: Hospitals in North Struggle to Contain Cholera Outbreak
Health & Wellness  (tags: middle-east, iraq, children, cholerarisks, health, disease, doctors )

Madalena
- 2092 days ago - irinnews.org
Doctors in the northern city of Sulaimaniyah have asked for more help to cope with the rapidly increasing number of cholera cases. "We need urgent medical support as the disease is spreading. We didn't expect an outbreak in this area," said Dr Dirar Iyad
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Iraq Vets: Unusual, Fast-Growing Lethal Cancers Afflicting Many, Young and Old
Health & Wellness  (tags: Iraq, Iraq veterans, cancer, depleted uranium, US Army )

RC
- 2095 days ago - azstarnet.com
Iraq troops are exposed to toxins both on site and carried by desert winds. The Walter Reed cancer wards are full or very young troops suffering from cancer. Older troops suffer as well. Is depleted uranium the culprit? The Army says there's no evidence.
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Dead Soldier's Family Gets Pup He Held
Health & Wellness  (tags: GoodNews, dog, companionanimals, pets, rescue, iraq, death, war, world )

Kate
- 2190 days ago - wusa9.com
A female Army Spc. Justin Rollins nuzzled the night before his death in a Iraq roadside bombing frolicked Friday in New Hampshire, after a 6,000-mile journey that his family and girlfriend pushed for after seeing photos of him with a newborn litter.
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