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[In These New Times] Barring photographs of fallen soldiers returning to the U.S. has always been the way proponents of the war in Iraq shielded its full cost from public view. That ought to change with a rescinding of the Pentagon policy.

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[News from theworldlink.com] The World Link : 74 and marching off to war, again: John Burson leaves a building at Fort Benning in Columbus, Ga., Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009. Burson, 74, a retired ear nose and throat specialist for Carrolton, Ga., was at Fort Benning finishing a weeklong training course before being deployed for a 90-day rotation with the 101st Airborne Division.

[Rugrats from Creators Syndicate] Flag-Draped Coffins Don't Show Us What War Is by Norman Solomon on ...: In his enthusiasm for maintaining some kind of U.S. occupation force in Iraq and escalating the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan, the secretary of defense has no reason to fear photos of those flag-draped caskets. Unless the mindset and context of how the public sees that photography undergo a major shift, war will go on.

[Kansas City Star: Nation] At 74, doctor soldiers on to Afghanistan - Kansas City Star: Burson won the debate and was declared fit. The ear, nose and throat specialist from Georgia wrapped up a weeklong training course this week before his scheduled deployment Friday for a 90-day rotation with a unit of the 101st Airborne Division.

[World News | The Bryan College Station Eagle] 4 US soldiers die in suicide attack in Iraq | Bryan/College ...: However, fighting continues in Mosul and elsewhere in northern Iraq -- a conflict which U.S. officials say is driven in part by ethnic rivalries between Sunni Arabs and Kurds. Many Sunni extremists are believed to have fled north after being driven from longtime strongholds in Baghdad and central Iraq.

[Cedric's Big Mix] "Iraq snapshot" (The Common Ills) « Cedric's Big Mix: Critics of the Pentagon policy view it as a means for blocking images that underscore the human cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as preventing coverage that honors those killed. Obama was asked about the issue in Monday's news conference and said, "We are in the process of reviewing those policies in conversations with the Department of Defense, so I don't want to give you an answer now before I've evaluated that review and understand all the implications involved."

[Pak Alert Press] Pentagon/Zionist Press Targets Pakistan As Next ”˜Iraq’ « Pak Alert ...: Pakistan , convulsed by a growing al Qaida -backed insurgency, hamstrung by a ruinous economy and run by an unpopular government that’s paralyzed by infighting and indecision, is critical to U.S. efforts to stabilize Afghanistan , thwart the spread of nuclear weapons and prevent tensions with neighboring

[VetVoice - Front Page] VetVoice:: HONORING THE FALLEN: US Military KIA, Iraq ...: The Iraq Election: Democratic Conditions? (

[Veterans for Common Sense] Salon Magazine Part 4: "That Young Man Never Should Have Come Into ...: Eastridge recounts the episode from a gray plastic table inside Kit Carson Correctional Center, an island of concrete and razor wire in eastern Colorado's flat ocean of wheat. Now 25, he admits that by the time of his arrest in 2006 for felony menacing, he was already a "runaway train."

[The Hanscom Family Weblog] Army Doc, 74, Off to Afghan War » The Hanscom Family Weblog: Burson won the debate and was declared fit for duty. The ear, nose and throat specialist from northwest Georgia wrapped up a weeklong training course this week at Fort Benning before his scheduled deployment Friday for a 90-day rotation with a unit of the 101st Airborne Division.

[Milblogging.com : The World's Largest Index of Military Blogs (Milblogs)] Milblogging.com : The World's Largest Index of Military Blogs ...: Ross Hedlund is a University student and one of 96 Red Bulls who had to put their college plans on hold while they were deployed to Iraq. Hedlund was on a long weekend exercise with another unit when he found out he was being transferred to the Rosemount , Minn., portion of the 34th Infantry Division because they were being deployed.

[BlogCatalog Social Search Feed: soldiers] Banned Photos of Fallen Soldiers? // General Discussion // BlogCatalog: "Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered a review Tuesday of a Pentagon policy banning media from taking pictures of flag-draped coffins of military dead, signaling he was open to overturning the policy to better honor fallen soldiers."

[The Captain's Journal] The Captain’s Journal » NATO and Poppy: The War Over Revenue Part 2: Egon Ramms, a German who heads the NATO command center responsible for Afghanistan, General Craddock said that “it was no longer necessary to produce intelligence or other evidence that each particular drug trafficker or narcotics facility in Afghanistan meets the criteria of being a military objective.”

[NO QUARTER] Ricks on Iraq: “This war is far from over” * Open Thread : NO QUARTER: (Call it a gut feeling, but I got the impression from Ricks that he has doubts about Obama’s abilities to comprehend and handle the truly serious decisions he will have to make about troop numbers and withdrawals, and that Ricks sees that a precipitous pull-out could endanger any stability Iraq may be enjoying at this point, what with all the “little Saddams” and the forces trained and armed by the U.S. Ricks is as far from an ideologue as one could hope for in a journalist, best I can tell.

[ePluribus Media] HONORING THE FALLEN: US Military KIA, Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan ...: It's no exaggeration to say that at least half of our losses and casualties in that country have come at the hands of foreigners who joined the fray because of our program of detainee abuse. The number of U.S. soldiers who have died because of our torture policy will never be definitively known, but it is fair to say that it is close to the number of lives lost on Sept.

[Newshoggers.com] Newshoggers.com: More thousands of missing US weapons - this time ...: A Truth Commission Now, War Crime Prosecutions To Follow | Main ... Which is to say the Pentagon didn't figure that much out after the first time this happened. Haven't we heard this tune before, in Iraq while General Pet was in charge of keeping track of US arms shipments and 110000 AK47s and 80000 Glock pistols walked out the door? That came out in a GAO report in 2007. Indeed, Iraq was awash in "missing" weapons. ... View blog authority ...

[Cedric's Big Mix] "Iraq snapshot" (The Common Ills) « Cedric's Big Mix: To that end, Iraq Veterans Against the War will be joining a national coalition which is being mobilized to march on the Pentagon, March 21st, to demand the immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan and further our mission and goals in solidarity with the national anti-war movement. This demonstration will be the first opportunity to show President Obama and the new administration that our struggle was not only against the Bush administration - and that we will not sit around and hope that troops are removed under his rule, but that we will demand they be removed immediately.

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