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US Politics & Gov't News tagged with iraq

Study: Over 2,200 US Veterans Died in 2008 Due to Lack of Health Insurance
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: ethics, healthcare, healthcare, war, veterans, iraq, afganistan, single payer, single payer healthcare, HR 676, troops )

Jill
- 8 days ago - democracynow.org
On Veterans Day, a new study estimates four times as many US Army veterans died last year because they lacked health insurance than the total number of US soldiers who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in the same period. A research team at Harvard Medi
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Casualties in Afghanistan & Iraq - Iraqi Civilians Seriously Injured 1,255,541 and More, the Numbers Are Here (Visit Site)
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: The U.S. war OF terror, afghanistan, iraq, body count, murder, crime, abuse, military, lies, terrorism, usa, ethics )

David
- 10 days ago - unknownnews.net
More than 251 times as many people have been killed in Afghanistan and Iraq than in the ghastly attacks of September 11, 2001. More than 108 times as many people have been killed in these wars and occupations than in all terrorist attacks to date.
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First U.S. Official Resigns Over Afghan War
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: USA, Afghanistan, Marine, Iraq, State Department, miltary, Taliban, U.S. official, political resignation, afghan insurgency )

ON VACATI
- 24 days ago - foxnews.com
A former Marine who fought in Iraq, joined the State Department after leaving the military and was a diplomat in a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan has become the first U.S. official to resign in protest of the Afghan war.....
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Are We the Martians of the Twenty First Century, and Is the War in Afghanistan Fun?
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: war, iraq, afghanistan, pakistan, iran, north korea, crime, abuse, lies, money, money money, greed, military, death, media, dishonesty, flying saucers, pigs will fly, propaganda, politics, troops, ethics )

David
- 35 days ago - motherjones.com
After almost eight years of war, only now does the danger that we might "look increasingly like occupiers" rise to the surface. Since "occupier" is a role Americans just can't compehend. Let's agree that we are aliens, intent on destroying the planet?
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Thanks! But What's With the Nobel Peace Prize for a War President?
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: WAR, PEACE, terrorism, government, crime, iraq, afghanistan, pakistan, humanrights, freedoms, nobel prize, ethics what are they? )

David
- 41 days ago - worldcantwait.net
I guess to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee it means presiding over the further destruction of the population of three countries that didn't harm anyone. I guess it means voting for every war-funding bill while one is a Senator and continuing torture?
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Veterans' Promised Tuition Checks AWOL
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: government, USA, troops, military, Iraq, Afghanistan, veterans, tuition checks )

Dee
- 55 days ago - washingtontimes.com
The U.S. government failed to send promised college tuition checks to tens of thousands of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars before they returned to school this fall,
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UNFINISHED BUSINESS: The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder.
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: corruption, bushadministration, usa, war, iraq, lies )

Steve
- 58 days ago - spookyweather.blogspot.com
By deliberately telling lies in order to start the war in Iraq, Bush and his co-conspirators knew they would be sending many US servicemen and women to unnecessary deaths. Hence the Murder charge.
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Vietnam: A Retrospective - Washington and Lee University - a Lesson Never Learned? - Iraq, Afghanistan, Is Pakistan Next?
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: war, vietnam, afghanistan, pakistan, iraq, iran, gaza, russia, Govtfearmongering, government, corruption, dishonesty, lies, military, media, propaganda, terrorism, usa, crime, politics, ethics )

David
- 60 days ago - wlu.edu
Why are such Monday morning reflections important? The answers are obvious. Vietnam is still embedded in America's national psyche. As a people, we have never successfully put the encounter behind us. Is the slaughter in Afganistan and Iraq justified?
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Why I Threw My Shoes At Bush: Iraqi Journalist Released From Prison, Speaks
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: bush, bushadministration, abuse, war, iraq )

BMutiny
- 61 days ago - alternet.org
"And to my beloved country I say: If the night of injustice is prolonged, it will not stop the rising of a sun and it will be the sun of freedom."
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CODEPINK :  Women Say No To War
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: war, politics, military, iraq, pakistan, afghanistan, petition, government, freedoms )

Jelica
- 70 days ago - salsa.democracyinaction.org
End the wrongful and unnecessary occupations of Afghanistan, Pakistan & Iraq! Join Tom Hayden and peace activists around the world in demanding President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid stop the needless killin
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PETITION to President Obama - STOP CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY - Support Ashraf, You Promised You Would
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: iraq, war, terrorism, dishonesty, america, government, crime, ethics )

David
- 77 days ago - gopetition.com
Ashraf residents are protected persons who signed an agreement with the US government according to which the US assumed their protection. However, the agreement was violated by transferring this responsibility to the Iraqi government. Help us?
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Holder Begins Review of Detainee-Abuse Allegations
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: holder, us, attorney general, ag, cia, waterboarding, drowning, rape, abuse, constitution, cheney, iraq, lies, mccain, military, terrorism )

NotSilent
- 87 days ago - usatoday.com
"..........U.S. interrogators threatened terror suspects with handguns and an electric drill"..............."included a 2004 report by the CIA's Office of Inspector General, which noted.........inconsistent with...policy...human rights"
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CIA Report: 'Inhumane' Tactics Used on Detainees
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: cia, torture, inhumane, illegal, unconstitutional, war crimes, thugs, abuse, iraq, cover-up, crime, constitution, terrorism )

NotSilent
- 87 days ago - news.yahoo.com
CIA interrogators threatened to kill the children of one detainee at the height of the Bush administration's war on terror and implied that another's mother would be sexually assaulted..........
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Watch the Tortured Logic Video Now and Send It to Attorney General Eric Holder.
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: torture, waterboarding, fbi, terrorism, lies, iraq, military, propaganda, troops, u.s., constitution, bushadministration, ethics, freedoms )

NotSilent
- 97 days ago - aclu.org
Oliver Stone, Rosie Perez, Philip Glass and a host of talented performers... expose something our government tried to keep secret from the American people. Torture must be investigated and prosecuted. Watch video, sign the letter NOW please.
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Sign Petition: Investigate and Prosecute Those Responsible for Torture
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: usa, americans, government, bush, cheney, iraq, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, waterboarding, torture, cruelty, crime, corruption, cover-up, dishonesty, abuse, lies )

Tom
- 103 days ago - kintera.org
US government officials approved brutal and illegal interrogation methods, including waterboarding which has been prosecuted as a war crime in the United States for more than 100 years. Yet no senior official has been held to account for these crimes.
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