afghanistan

Oh, Bomb a Country, Part II
by Saab Lofton

"The Senate approved $91 billion in funding for the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan yesterday [May 21st, 2009] ... The no-strings-attached legislation comes as a deep disappointment to progressive members of Congress, as well as to anti-war voters, many of whom hoped the Obama administration would mark a significant break with Bush-style war funding."
--Maya Schenwar, truthout.org, May 22nd, 2009

Well, it's official: I hate Obama ...

Brain Trauma the "Signature Injury" For Iraq Vets

Aaron Glantz
IPS News

WASHINGTON, Sep 26 (IPS) - On Mar. 19, 2004 Corporal Justin Bunce was on patrol in the Iraqi city of Husayba on the Syrian border when a bomb exploded in the wall of a cemetery.

The blast sent shrapnel into nearly every part of his body and knocked Bunce into a coma for four days. When he was airlifted to Landschtul military hospital in Germany, doctors found that some of the shrapnel had lodged in the left frontal lobe of his brain.

"Because of my injury, making new memories is hard as hell," Bunce, now 25, told a recent gathering on war and brain damage in Washington. "I've been leaving myself a dozen voice mails every day."