There is one inequity that the federal government should address: the pay disparities for reservists and National Guard members.

http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/03/11/opinion/edpay.html
http://tinyurl.com/63bw7


From Information Clearing House

The aspiring historian of the current U.S. war in Iraq can draw upon earlier narratives to ease the burden, merely substituting a word here and there in order to make the text accord with the specific names and places that are now pertinent.

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1474


From Information Clearing House

A group of top public-health physicians has branded the official toll of civilian dead from the Iraqi war as a serious underestimate and demanded an independent probe to establish the full casualty figures.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050311/wl_mideast_afp/iraqtollcivilians_050311001143
http://tinyurl.com/5cxnj


From Information Clearing House

"I was in a controlled environment for 12 years," Staff Sgt. Jimmy Massey, 33, said. He said unethical recruiting techniques and the shooting of civilians in Iraq have prompted him to speak out against the U.S. government.

http://www.thedailystar.com/news/stories/2005/03/10/speaker8.html


From Information Clearing House

' Why did you do this? Why did you kill my brother? We're not terrorists.'

http://tinyurl.com/6g3jv


From Information Clearing House

Former Intel Officer: The US Considered Her a Military Target
http://www.counterpunch.org/fresia03112005.html

From Information Clearing House

Massey claims, he and his men had killed 30 Iraqi civilians. He says he and the others are guilty of war crimes.

http://207.44.245.159/article8250.htm

What the corporate news won't print that you will find at Veterans for Common Sense: "Critical of the U.S. media and Bush administration, a veteran of the war in Iraq spoke Thursday night about the realities of the conflict, saying that U.S. soldiers there were ill-equipped, poorly trained and largely unsupportive of the war."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2973

Montana is at such high risk for a wildfire "blow up" this summer that Gov. Brian Schweitzer (Democrat) wants at least some of the 1,500 National Guard soldiers in Iraq and elsewhere to return home for the wildfire season.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2972

Halliburton a company much like the law practice in John Grisham's novel The Firm: a rogue operation, with corrupt management, cynically conning the federal government as it rakes in billions of ill-earned taxpayer dollars.

Michael Shnayerson

Halliburton subsidiary KBR got $12 billion worth of exclusive contracts for work in Iraq. But even more shocking is how KBR spent some of the money. Former U.S. Army Corps of Engineers official Bunnatine Greenhouse is blowing the whistle on the Dick Cheney–linked company's profits of war.

http://207.44.245.159/article8247.htm