The harsh reality of a failed war hits veterans: "With a subsequent decline in VA services and benefits, as indicated in President Bush's budget proposal, one wonders if the VA is prepared for the potential onslaught of veterans with PTSD. One government therapist recently confided that part of the problem is that there is no federal money to pay disability claims for veterans emotionally crippled with PTSD -- therefore, a reluctance to make such a diagnosis, let alone treat it."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2946

Read the article below for an example of the poor planning and management of the Iraq War. Even though more than 1,500 are dead and more than 11,000 are wounded in action, no one is held accountable.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2944

Two years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and for the first time in its 229-year existence as an independent nation, America is fighting a war with a military machine that is dependent on women.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2943

P.T.S.D. is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ~ and atleast one out of every six American soldiers in Iraq has it or will experience it.

http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2005/03/06.html#a677


From Information Clearing House

When the banners of "freedom" and "democracy" are hoisted over a crusade by an avaricious and irresponsible superpower, the results can be catastrophic.

http://www.redress.btinternet.co.uk/uavnery116.htm

US President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair deserve life sentences, with the possibility of parole after 25 years, for the war crimes and genocide in Iraq, according to a lawyers' panel.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/D8C1C363-308C-41F7-8B32-935312621768.htm
http://tinyurl.com/4jytm


From Information Clearing House

The former Italian hostage who saw her rescuer shot dead at a US checkpoint in Baghdad said yesterday they might have been targeted because of US objections to Italy's policy of negotiating with kidnappers.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1432040,00.html


Italy honours officer slain by US
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/558592/


From Information Clearing House

by Alan Bock

Orange County Register

03/06/05

The war in Iraq occurred and it still commands widespread though diminishing emotional support. Thus there is still a place for a book like 'America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order,' a critique of foreign policy under Bush -- and much more -- from a principled conservative perspective. The authors are both veteran cold warriors with long-term diplomatic experience. Stefan Halper, now a fellow of Magdalene College at Cambridge, was a White House and State Department official in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan administrations, and is a contributing editor at the American Spectator. Jonathan Clarke, now at the Cato Institute, served in the British foreign service, with assignments in Germany, Zimbabwe and the United States...

http://tinyurl.com/5vr39


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp