Tag Archives: afghanistan

One More

May 25, 2012 – 10:00 am

Monday. Qal-ah-ye Mirza Jal, Afghanistan. Enemy combatants attacked a PATROL of the Indiana National Guard with RPGs. Circumstances unknown, but Arronn Fields of Terre Haute died his his wounds suffered in this engagement in a town that even I can’t pronounce and Goggle maps couldn’t find in its search engine. The 27 year-old was the […]

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Forgotten

May 23, 2012 – 12:48 pm

Three names; tobias alexander, jesse ozbat, samuel watts. 3 names added to 1,934 already on the list No mention of these soldiers from Oklahoma, Virginia, and Illinois on CNN, Fox News, or NBC. Only the NY Times is keeping count and no Americans know the names of the Afghani dead, but they can tell you […]

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Peace In Our Time

September 1, 2011 – 7:11 am

GW Bush and his White House convinced the American people that Saddam and Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction or WMDs. A pre-emptive invasion was successful beyond the wildest dreams of the neo-conservatives seeking to transform the status quo of the Middle East. The president landed on on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln […]

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Peace Versus War In Kabul

September 1, 2011 – 6:28 am

Millions of Americans voted for Barack Obama with the hope that the new president would get our troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Withdrawal from the former has been an easier task than the latter. The hawks in the Pentagon have remained committed to total victory and any talk of downsizing the troop levels smacked […]

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Thanks But No Thanks

May 5, 2011 – 6:57 pm

The American media has been slicing and dicing the Osama Bin Laden raid faster than a Benihana chef’s flashing steel knives. America’s joy over the murder of the purported mastermind of 9/11 has come under criticism by the foreign press assailing the operation’s coup de grace to an unarmed man. The hardcore GOP are demanding […]

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