Nearly 2,000 US troops have been killed in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, and tens of thousands wounded. But many have found themselves dealing with psychological - as well as physical - trauma. In the second of a five-part series, BBC News talks to soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and related symptoms.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4122602.stm



Retired General Urges Better Vets Benefits:

Speaking on the Veterans Day weekend, the former U.S. military commander in the Middle East said "President Bush has consistently refused to provide enough" money for veterans' health care.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/11/12/national/w080625S57.DTL


From Information Clearing House

Peace activist Cindy Sheehan told University of Massachusetts students in a Veteran's Day speech Friday that government officials who don't have family serving in the Iraq war "have nothing at stake."

http://tinyurl.com/8dg8c



Hero’s survivors rue war: Mom says son ill-equipped:

“When we buried John I promised him I would think of him every day,” said Hart yesterday, her voice breaking. “And I have.”

http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=111620



Video: "I am waiting for his body":

Military families speak out!
http://207.44.245.159/article7382.htm


From Information Clearing House



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

By ERIC SCHMITT

Democrats who had voted previously to prohibit abusive treatment of detainees in American custody provided the margin of victory on Thursday for a Republican-backed measure that would deny prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the right to challenge their detention in federal courts.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10967.htm

House Government Reform Committee Chairman Tom Davis (R-Va.) yesterday threatened to subpoena three members of the Bush Cabinet and White House counsel Harriet Miers if they do not comply with document requests issued by his select committee on Hurricane Katrina response.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111205Y.shtml

Our Mothers (and Thomas Paine) Warned Us about People like the Disciples of Strauss:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10958.htm

Omar Khadr was taken into US custody when he was 15 years old. The US government has said that all detainees are "treated in a manner appropriate to their age and status". If this is true, then the case of Omar Khadr indicates that an "appropriate manner" involves torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment as well as denial of any form of justice.

http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.do?id=ENGAMR511842005


From Information Clearing House

U.S. citizen Jose Padilla, has been indefinitely detained without charge, under lock and key in a Navy brig, since June 2002. When an American can be plucked off the street in Chicago and detained without charge or regular access to a lawyer for more than three years, every citizen has reason for concern.

http://washingtontimes.com/commentary/20051109-100630-9813r.htm


From Information Clearing House

Free expression has become in the US a very scarce commodity… and pluralism is shrinking fast as institutions and people that determine the rules for our American society are no longer held accountable.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10966.htm

Today the President cited another forged document.
http://www2.boomantribune.com/story/2005/11/11/14263/574


From Information Clearing House

President Bush, in the most forceful defense yet of his Iraq war policy, accused critics Friday of trying to rewrite history and charged that they're undercutting America's forces on the front lines.

http://tinyurl.com/7us7y


From Information Clearing House