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Red Buses Bring New Hope To Iraqis

2012-05-30T15:25:17Z

BAGHDAD -- Iraqis welcomed the return of red double-decker buses to Baghdad's streets this week, a colorful sign that the country is moving toward nor...

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Dorian de Wind: I Will Always Call Our Fighting Men and Women 'Heroes'

2012-05-30T11:01:55Z

I categorically reject the opinions of those who say that creating such a class or league of "heroes" would play down the brutalizing effects of war, would justify, even glorify war and would desensitize us to the cruelties and atrocities of war.

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Jon Soltz: Republicans Put Oil Money Above Troops' Lives

2012-05-29T12:40:20Z

While we all love the environment and want to be good stewards of the earth, the military isn't on some kind of ecological mission when it comes to renewables. They're trying to help ensure men and women come home to their loved ones.

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James Peron: I Support People, Not Troops

2012-05-28T22:55:05Z

I love watching a child seeing his father's face for the first time in a year, rushing to daddy's arms, crying. I cry with him. I want to see this scene thousands of times over. I want them all home, unharmed. If that is what you mean by "support," then count me in.

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PHOTOS: Americans Honor Troops On Memorial Day Weekend

2012-05-27T23:22:02Z

The Associated Press

(AP) -- Boy Scouts carry a large American flag through the Memphis National Cemetery in Tennessee, where scouts also placed fl...

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Iraq, Afghanistan Veterans Filing For Disability Benefits At Historic Rate

2012-05-27T18:00:00Z

-- America's newest veterans are filing for disability benefits at a historic rate, claiming to be the most medically and mentally troubled generatio...

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Rep. Charles Rangel: The One Percent Deserving Our Thanks

2012-05-25T18:29:11Z

We should use this Memorial Day as an opportunity to remember the sacrifices that American soldiers of all social and political stripes have made in defense of our country.

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Mark C. Russell, Ph.D., ABPP: Who Cares? Part I: Veterans Denied Access to Top PTSD Treatments

2012-05-25T08:00:29Z

There has never been an investigation, ceremonial firings, media outrage, or congressional hearings as to "why" the nation has failed again to meet the mental health needs of the warrior class.

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Logan Nakyanzi Pollard: Identi-lifting ? -- Talking About Veterans' Courts Memorial Day Weekend

2012-05-25T16:41:16Z

It's not about carving out specialty justice for veterans, but rather about putting similar systems in place that help divert vulnerable populations who require services rather than incarceration.

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Christopher Holshek: Standing Up for All the Fallen

2012-05-25T13:34:39Z

We should respect each other's commitment to community and country. There is no reason why we cannot stand up for all the fallen, so that Memorial Day will honor all those who gave their lives in the service of their neighbors as well as their nation.

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Dorian de Wind: Memorial Day 2012: Putting a Face to the Sacrifices of So Many

2012-05-25T09:31:38Z

As we once again observe Memorial Day we remember and honor the more than one million American men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice in all our wars, including more than 6,800 from our two most recent wars -- and counting.

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Gunmen Open Fire On Bus

2012-05-23T08:30:41Z

BAGHDAD — A pair of attacks killed five people in Iraq on Wednesday, including three Lebanese Shiite pilgrims, officials said.

A bus carrying L...

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5 Doctors Kidnapped In Afghanistan

2012-05-23T07:27:41Z

KABUL, Afghanistan — Two foreign doctors and their three Afghan colleagues have been kidnapped in a remote area in northeast Afghanistan, offici...

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Richard Z. Santos: Review: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

2012-05-22T16:21:21Z

A day at Texas Stadium is more than enough time for 19-year-old, Silver Star-winning Billy Lynn to see all that's wonderful and troubling about America.

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Monica Westin: Theater for NATO: Dramatizing Protest, Representing War

2012-05-22T09:46:34Z

Two theater pieces reminded me that the perennial "crisis of theater" as no longer relevant for art audiences -- let alone politics -- is once again easily defied. Sometimes being a theater audience is the only way to get at the truth of the "real" thing.

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Rep. Dennis Kucinich: NATO Talks a Sham: War in Afghanistan Is Not Ending

2012-05-21T14:59:31Z

NATO's founding purpose no longer exists, but NATO continues to circumvent the authority of the United Nations and to provoke other nations. Instead of trying to bolster the organization, we should begin serious discussions to dismantle it.

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Robert Naiman: In Chicago, Afghanistan and Iraq Veterans Put NATO's Endless War on Trial

2012-05-21T12:09:07Z

More than two million Americans have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. CNN and Fox can focus on what they want, but you can't hide the life experiences of two million people indefinitely.

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Claude Salhani: Why Stability in Syria Matters

2012-05-21T12:06:12Z

The 14-month long spate of internal violence in Syria has friends and foes equally worried over the fate of the country's future, the stability of the region and the ever-present danger of the violence spreading from Syria to its neighbors.

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Jon Soltz: Is the President About to Announce a Quicker End to Afghan War?

2012-05-20T19:12:23Z

There have been plenty of men -- from Lyndon Johnson to George W. Bush -- who were too stubborn to face facts, and sent more and more troops into a situation that called for fewer. We often confuse that bravado with leadership. It's not.

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Michael Winship: At a Military Hospital, Warriors Are Not the Only Wounded

2012-05-16T00:16:58Z

Wounded Warrior had asked some of us to come to Landstuhl to meet with the medical staff there. Some 3,000 strong, military and civilian, they work ceaselessly in what has become one of the busiest trauma centers in the world.

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Jonathan Schwarz: Colin Powell Gets Mad at Me

2012-05-15T14:24:32Z

The evidence is overwhelming that Colin Powell knew much of what he said in front of the Security Council was false.

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Secret Prison Still Open In Baghdad, Human Rights Group Claims

2012-05-15T03:19:46Z

By Barry Malone BAGHDAD, May 15 (Reuters) - Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday Iraqi authorities were still running a jail they said ...

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Darcie Maranich: All The Time In The World

2012-05-14T19:17:48Z

Four and a half months after his sudden deployment, Jeff was sent home. The girls and I made T-shirts with catchy slogans: Welcome Home Baghdaddy; Glad You're Back from Iraq.

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Unseen: Trailblazing Military Women Forced To Fight For Recognition, Equal Treatment

2012-05-14T08:00:00Z

After a rocket-propelled grenade sent the Black Hawk helicopter tumbling out of the sky over Iraq, the medics got to work fast on the co-pilot, Capt. ...

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Policy And Practice For Women At War: A Timeline

2012-05-14T08:00:00Z

A timeline of the history of women in the military highlights how official policy restrictions have lagged behind their service. Layer on the lives of...

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