The Texas women are part of a growing number of military family members who find themselves dealing with what psychologists are beginning to recognize as Secondary Traumatic Stress Disorder. Just like PTSD, Secondary TSD can clearly be debilitating. And while the military and the Department of Veterans Affairs are having major problems dealing with the unusual caseload of PTSD among those who’ve served in Iraq, there’s no system at all set up to deal with their families’ emotional disabilities.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2844

A judge in Washington has warned Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld he could face contempt for ignoring a ruling on Pentagon anthrax vaccinations.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2843

Five veterans groups, including the American Legion, denounced a proposal in Mr. Bush's budget that would double the co-payment charged to many veterans for prescription drugs and require some to pay a new fee of $250 a year for the privilege of using government health care.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2841

A veteran was forced to call 911 for emergency assistance when his pleas for help in a Department of Veterans Affairs medical center were ignored.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2839

In a very anti-veteran policy that ignores the Geneva Conventions, the LA Times reports that, "Gulf War pilots tortured by Iraqis fight the Bush administration in trying to collect compensation."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2838

Another 'Mission Accomplished'

Tom Engelhardt and Dilip Hiro on the new fault lines in Iraq, and America: http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt46.html

On the tape she said: "Everyone must withdraw from Iraq. No one should come to Iraq any longer because all foreigners, all Italians are considered enemies. Please do something for me.

http://tinyurl.com/6qkjm


From Information Clearing House

Video: Shocking and Awful:

What is life like for a U.S. Soldier In Occupied Iraq.

The American military in Iraq: Lambs led to slaughter or centurions for the Empire? Soldiers and their families speak out against the war and their lost loved ones.

http://207.44.245.159/article8074.htm

by Jack Lessenberry

“The United States needs to lose the war in Iraq as soon as possible. Even more urgently, the whole world needs the United States to lose the war in Iraq. What is at stake now is the way we run the world for the next generation or more, and really bad things will happen if we get it wrong.”

http://207.44.245.159/article8077.htm