National Guardsmen and reservists who are injured on active duty face daunting and sometimes insurmountable hurdles to get medical care

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-02-17-guard-sick-usat_x.htm


From Information Clearing House

No doubt instances like these help explain why 82 percent of Sunnis and 69 percent of Shiites want US troops to leave Iraq immediately.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/outrage?bid=13&pid=2201


From Information Clearing House

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0218-09.htm

Major protests against the U.S. - Iraq War are planned for next month. Here is a rare article in the Washington Post giving the organizers wide publicity.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2857

http://www.sobran.com/wanderer/w2004/w041230.shtml


Informant: Lew Rockwell

http://commonwealmagazine.org/article.php?id_article=1032


Informant: Lew Rockwell

Expose on Very Serious Problems at Walter Reed: Behind the Walls of Ward 54

The facts surrounding the case of Army Master Sgt. James Curtis Coons are very shocking. The full story shown below describes how poorly our Nation's wounded, injured, and ill are treated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The bottom line is that WRAMC medical care represents a national disgrace at any time, and it is far worse during wartime.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2852

Disturbing: Activated Reservists Injured in Iraq War Cut from Active Duty to Save Money

This is how the Bush administration shows their supports for our troops -- "Hundreds and perhaps thousands of injured Army National Guard and Reserve soldiers -- including many severely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan -- have either lost or risked losing medical care and thousands of dollars in pay for months because a 'convoluted' personnel system dropped them from active-duty status, according to a Government Accountability Office report released yesterday."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2851

From a young boy running with school books, to the first time he held a woman's hand, to his marriage to a loving wife, to the birth of his children. Everything pushed him to this: bleeding out on a filthy street in the slums of Baghdad. Did he suspect anything when he woke that morning and left his house, perhaps giving his wife a lingering hug? Did he think he was doing the right thing when he attacked us?

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2848