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	<title>sicsal-usa.org &#187; Iraq &amp; Afghanistan War</title>
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		<title>Suicide Rates Surged Among U.S. Veterans</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  By Eli Clifton WASHINGTON, Jan 13, 2010 (IPS) &#8211; Suicides among United States military veterans ballooned by 26 percent from 2005 to 2007, according to new statistics released by the Veterans Affairs (VA) department. &#8220;Of the more than 30,000 suicides in this country each year, fully 20 percent of them are acts by veterans,&#8221; said VA Secretary Eric Shinseki at a VA-sponsored suicide prevention conference on Monday. &#8220;That means on average 18 veterans commit suicide each day. Five of those veterans are under our care at VA.&#8221; The spike in the suicide rate can most clearly be attributed to the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the high number of veterans returning to the U.S. with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). &#8221;We have now nearly two million vets of Iraq and Afghanistan and we still haven&#8217;t seen the type of mobilisation of resources necessary to handle an epidemic of veteran suicides,&#8221; Aaron Glantz, an editor at New America Media editor and author of &#8220;The War Comes Home&#8221;, told IPS. &#8221;With [President Barack] Obama surging in Afghanistan coupled with his unwillingness to withdraw speedily from Iraq, it means we have more veterans who have served more and more tours and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Changing President Obama&#8217;s War Mindset</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  By Howard Zinn May 16, 2009, The Progressive We are citizens, and Obama is a politician. You might not like that word. But the fact is he&#8217;s a politician. He&#8217;s other things, too &#8211; he&#8217;s a very sensitive and intelligent and thoughtful and promising person. But he&#8217;s a politician. If you&#8217;re a citizen, you have to know the difference between them and you &#8211; the difference between what they have to do and what you have to do. And there are things they don&#8217;t have to do, if you make it clear to them they don&#8217;t have to do it&#8230; Obama was and is a politician. So we must not be swept away into an unthinking and unquestioning acceptance of what Obama does. Our job is not to give him a blank check or simply be cheerleaders. It was good that we were cheerleaders while he was running for office, but it&#8217;s not good to be cheerleaders now. Because we want the country to go beyond where it has been in the past. We want to make a clean break from what it has been in the past. I had a teacher at Columbia University named Richard Hofstadter, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The War Abroad, The War at Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Marie Dennis Pax Christi International, July 10, 2008  The War Abroad He&#8217;s leaning against a tree The wood has been sold The land leased The water poisoned The rain kills the birds Somebody takes aim at him He raises his arms against the black wood It is not finished   (Dorothy Soelle) For many hours I sat trying to get my head around what I might say to you about the &#8220;war abroad&#8221; &#8211; to you, who know the facts, the statistics, the costs of war, especially of the war in Iraq. Dorothy Soelle&#8217;s brief poem, &#8220;Peace: He&#8217;s leaning against a tree,&#8221; finally helped me focus. Its quiet truth bellows into a world engulfed in multiple wars &#8211; and positions in the crosshairs of war&#8217;s insanely destructive violence the One we follow who raised his arms on the Cross to overcome all evil. It is not finished. It is clearly not finished.  He&#8217;s leaning against a tree The wood has been sold &#8212; the rainforests depleted, no holds have been barred in pursuit of global markets The land leased &#8212; the oil and coal and gold and diamonds and coltan beneath it exploited The water poisoned &#8212; or stolen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Soldier Says No to the War in Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Claire Schaeffer-Duffy This article was reprinted from the Fall 2004 issue of The Albany Catholic Worker. Claire Schaeffer-Duffy also writes for The National Catholic Reporter.       After twenty minutes of deliberation, a military jury found staff sergeant Camilo Mejia guilty of deserting his unit. On May 21, 2004, he was sentenced to a year in military prison and received a bad conduct discharge. Even before his sentence was issued, the 28-year-old Catholic soldier knew prison could be in his future. After six months of combat in the treacherous Sunni Triangle and five months AWOL, he held a press conference on March 15 and declared his refusal to fight, making him the first Iraq war veteran to publicly disobey an order to return to duty. His no-to-war declaration was immediately followed by his surrender to military authorities and a submission of his application for conscientious objector (CO) status. The 53-page document is a detailed indictment of military incompetence and war&#8217;s brutality. It is also the autobiography of a conscience that paradoxically came to life in a time of much killing. The soft-spoken young man with Jesuit schooling, Mejia comes from upper middle-class households in Nicaragua and Costa Rica. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Soldier Investigation into the Iraq War</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Aaron Glantz Silver Spring, MD (IPS), 2008 I would like to share with you how one goes about becoming a concentration camp guard without having made many decisions,&#8221; 24-year-old former Guantanamo prison guard Christopher Arent told a crowd of hundreds at last weekend&#8217;s Winter Soldier gathering outside Washington, DC. &#8220;I was 17 years old when I joined the Army National Guard,&#8221; he said. &#8220;My family had just been displaced and I was living with friends. My family was poor, I was poor and I wanted to go to school. They promised me a significant amount of money toward that goal &#8212; funds I have yet to receive.&#8221; Arent explained that he was initially happy with the Guard, but that his mood changed when he was deployed to the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in 2003. There, he served in the detention operations centre of the prison, where he managed the movement of inmates from one part of the facility to another. &#8220;I would get into the office at 4:30 in the morning and sometimes there would be an interrogation occurring in the interrogation room,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Inside the interrogation room, it would be 10 to 20 degrees [...]]]></description>
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