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Gosh, I know there are a lot of important stories crowding the news right now -- after all, Michael Jackson is still dead and all, but it's amazing that I literally had to go hunt for this story.
It's also amazing to me how the election of Barack Obama sure shut up the the whole "anti-war crowd". (Don't you love being called "anti-war" because you're against illegal, unnecessary war? Right, I'm so anti-war that means I'm a pacifist, right? It's like being called "anti-hamburger" when you're really against hamburger that's tainted with e-coli.)
Anywya, here's a story that you would think would be, should be a rather large and important story: the fact that yesterday, Monday, 7 United States military troops were killed in Obama's new Vietnam.
Obama's now got serious American blood on his hands.
And for what?
General Petraes sorta slipped up and admitted that there's no more Al Queda in Afghanistan. But nobody cares about that, either, "the Taliban" is interchangeable with "Al Queda" now, in the minds of the public and the bought-and-paid-for schills who feed us our "news".
So we're at war with the Taliban. And our sons and daughters are being killed. Great.
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Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 07:09:35 PDT
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Dover 'Old Guard'
Dover 'Old Guard' team shoulders heavy burden
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Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 12:50:41 PDT
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Dover 'Old Guard'
Dover 'Old Guard' team shoulders heavy burden
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Tue May 05, 2009 at 12:58:43 PDT
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 Iraq, Rapidly becoming the Forgotten War!!
There have been 4,603 coalition deaths -- 4,286 Americans, 2 Australians, 1 Azerbaijani, 179 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, 1 Czech, 7 Danes, 2 Dutch, 2 Estonians, 1 Fijian, 5 Georgians, 1 Hungarian, 33 Italians, 1 Kazakh, 1 Korean, 3 Latvian, 22 Poles, 3 Romanians, 5 Salvadoran, 4 Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, 2 Thai and 18 Ukrainians -- in the war in Iraq as of May 5 2009, according to a CNN count. { Graphical breakdown of casualties }. The list below is the names of the soldiers, Marines, airmen, sailors and Coast Guardsmen whose deaths have been reported by their country's governments. The list also includes seven employees of the U.S. Defense Department. At least 31,230 U.S. troops have been wounded in action, according to the Pentagon. View casualties in the war in Afghanistan.
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Mon Apr 06, 2009 at 09:46:03 PDT
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First Photos of Fallen Soldier Ends 18-Year Ban - 4.05.09
An airman stands next to the coffin containing the body of Air Force Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers as it is lowered from a plane upon its return to the U.S. at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware April 5, 2009. Myers, of Hopewell, Virginia, died April 4 near Helmand province, Afghanistan of wounds suffered from an improvised explosive device. For the first time since the Obama administration reversed an 18-year-old ban on news coverage of returning fallen soldiers, the military allowed media to cover to cover the arrival tonight of an airman killed in Afghanistan. Collapse
(Joshua Roberts/REUTERS)
I wish to thank the families who allowed the press photo's showing the respect the fallen receive and the real cost of war!!
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Thu Mar 05, 2009 at 16:07:30 PST
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 Iraq, Rapidly becoming the Forgotten War!!
There have been 4,572 coalition deaths -- 4,255 Americans, 2 Australians, 1 Azerbaijani, 179 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, 1 Czech, 7 Danes, 2 Dutch, 2 Estonians, 1 Fijian, 5 Georgians, 1 Hungarian, 33 Italians, 1 Kazakh, 1 Korean, 3 Latvian, 22 Poles, 3 Romanians, 5 Salvadoran, 4 Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, 2 Thai and 18 Ukrainians -- in the war in Iraq as of January 6, 2008, according to a CNN count. { Graphical breakdown of casualties }. The list below is the names of the soldiers, Marines, airmen, sailors and Coast Guardsmen whose deaths have been reported by their country's governments. The list also includes seven employees of the U.S. Defense Department. At least 31,089 U.S. troops have been wounded in action, according to the Pentagon. View casualties in the war in Afghanistan.
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Sun Feb 22, 2009 at 05:46:44 PST
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Those who Serve the Country Serve the Whole Country and Thus Should Be Given the 'Honor' and 'Respect' Due Them when Returned to this soil after Dying during that Service!!
There are some groups of people who welcome home the returning soldiers in airports and other transportation points.
We organize rallies for the families and communities on the return of locally based Units of the Reserves, National Guard, and on Army and Marine bases.
We have returning men and women soldiers surprising their young children, and school classmates, and we readily show these surprise homecomings while we watch them with the same tears of joy as the kids.
Some will give a "Welcome Home" and a Handshake when meeting soldiers wherever.
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Tue Jan 06, 2009 at 06:23:02 PST
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'GoldStar Moms' Honor Their Fallen, Christmas 2008
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Tue Dec 02, 2008 at 13:40:25 PST
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If you visit any of the lists of the KIA's or Injured in the Iraq Theater one thing you'll notice, the Only Occupation Forces numbers rising, being Killed and Maimed, are American Forces these last number of months!! I find myself wondering how many are on a first tour, or second, or third, or forth..................................., in Both Theaters!!
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Sun Nov 02, 2008 at 06:02:21 PST
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Iraq
If you visit any of the lists of the KIA's or Injured in the Iraq Theater one thing you'll find, the Only Occupation Forces numbers rising, being Killed and Maimed, are American Forces these last number of months!! I find myself wondering how many are on a first tour, or second, or third, or forth..................................., in Both Theaters!!
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Sun Oct 05, 2008 at 05:12:53 PDT
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Iraq
  There have been 4,491 coalition deaths -- 4,177 Americans, 2 Australians, 1 Azerbaijani, 176 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, 1 Czech, 7 Danes, 2 Dutch, 2 Estonians, 1 Fijian, 5 Georgians, 1 Hungarian, 33 Italians, 1 Kazakh, 1 Korean, 3 Latvian, 22 Poles, 3 Romanians, 5 Salvadoran, 4 Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, 2 Thai and 18 Ukrainians -- in the war in Iraq as of October 3, 2008, according to a CNN count. { Graphical breakdown of casualties }. The list below is the names of the soldiers, Marines, airmen, sailors and Coast Guardsmen whose deaths have been reported by their country's governments. The list also includes seven employees of the U.S. Defense Department. At least 30,680 U.S. troops have been wounded in action, according to the Pentagon. View casualties in the war in Afghanistan.
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Sun Sep 07, 2008 at 04:30:50 PDT
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 Iraq
There have been 4,468 coalition deaths -- 4,154 Americans, 2 Australians, 1 Azerbaijani, 176 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, 1 Czech, 7 Danes, 2 Dutch, 2 Estonians, 1 Fijian, 5 Georgians, 1 Hungarian, 33 Italians, 1 Kazakh, 1 Korean, 3 Latvian, 22 Poles, 3 Romanians, 5 Salvadoran, 4 Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, 2 Thai and 18 Ukrainians -- in the war in Iraq as of September 5, 2008, according to a CNN count. { Graphical breakdown of casualties }. The list below is the names of the soldiers, Marines, airmen, sailors and Coast Guardsmen whose deaths have been reported by their country's governments. The list also includes seven employees of the U.S. Defense Department. At least 30,568 U.S. troops have been wounded in action, according to the Pentagon. View casualties in the war in Afghanistan.
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Sat Aug 23, 2008 at 06:58:27 PDT
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Back a few years ago I went Absolutely Livid, have many many.................... times from the first beat of the War Drums, this time while watching the CBS 'Face the Nation' sunday show. While the blood had rushed to my head I waited, impatiently, for the transcript to come up on their site. When it finally did, I quickly copied and pasted it to an e-mail and sent it out, but that didn't quell the Absolute Rage. I wanted more who hadn't seen it to get as Pissed as myself so I tried thinking of online News outlets, some just coming into being, to further trying to get this report out to as many eyes and minds as possible, one was a fairly new outlet, the Huffington Post. A few hours later, to my surprise, and still Royally Pissed at what was reported, I receive an E from the Huffington Post that they were going to run with it, saw very little that day and ensuing days from the MSM about this incident as told by Senator Biden to Bob Schieffer.
Huffington posted it on June 20, 2005 at 10:11 PM {you gotta love google, I didn't keep the story, but a quick search and there it was}
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Sun Aug 03, 2008 at 06:59:08 PDT
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Staff Sgt. Alex Jimenez comes home for funeral
A hearse bearing the remains of 25-year-old Staff Sgt. Alex Jimenez came to a halt in front of his father's house in Lawrence, the scene of a 14-month vigil as the family awaited word of his fate. A memorial shrine with floral arrangements and half-burned votive candles was on the sidewalk. (7-25-08)
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Thu Jul 03, 2008 at 09:21:22 PDT
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A Nation that sends its Sons and Daughters into Occupations?
 A C-17 Airforce Transport plane arrives in Kandahar, Afghanistan to receive the bodies of five U.S. service members killed. Though more than 1,000 US and coalition forces were on hand to participate in the "ramp ceremony," a Los Angeles Times reporter and photographer were asked to leave the area by a military public affairs officer. A Pentagon policy banning coverage of this particular event was cited as the reason. [Photo: Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times]
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Wed Jun 04, 2008 at 14:00:47 PDT
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Arlington South Memorial -Memorial Day Weekend '08
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Fri May 30, 2008 at 12:34:43 PDT
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On the 26th of this month, Memorial Day, at 12:21 AM, Mia Farrow posted the following on her blog. The 'What For?' is her subject title, and one many of us have been asking for these 5plus years.
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Sat May 03, 2008 at 05:19:04 PDT
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 There have been 4,373 coalition deaths -- 4,065 Americans, two Australians, 176 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, one Czech, seven Danes, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Fijian, one Hungarian, 33 Italians, one Kazakh, one Korean, three Latvian, 22 Poles, three Romanians, five Salvadoran, four Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians -- in the war in Iraq as of May 2, 2008, according to a CNN count. { Graphical breakdown of casualties }. The list below is the names of the soldiers, Marines, airmen, sailors and Coast Guardsmen whose deaths have been reported by their country's governments. The list also includes seven employees of the U.S. Defense Department. At least 29,911 U.S. troops have been wounded in action, according to the Pentagon. View casualties in the war in Afghanistan.
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Sat Apr 05, 2008 at 04:07:54 PDT
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Arlington West - March 2008 - Honoring The Fallen
The Video was produced for the New York Times and can be also seen At Their Site
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Reform Immigration -
March for America
Sunday, March 21
March on Washington
Saturday, March 20
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