Taking stock of the war in Iraq
By GREG COOK | March 12, 2008
NOT A SILENT NIGHT: Baghdad Nativity Scene. |
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- Reignite your rage
It’s tempting, five years into the Iraq War, to regard that conflict with fatalistic resignation.
- Iraq + surge = ???
Certain that the newly elected Democratic Congress will not end American involvement in the Iraq War, Rhode Island peace movement leaders are calling for additional demonstrations to bring US troops home.
- Resolution of the Maine Democratic State Committee
Whereas, the Maine Democratic State Committee strongly supports the brave men and women serving in the United States Armed Forces in Iraq and recognizes the sacrifices that each of them is making; the Democratic State Committee stands ready to help these servicemen and women in any way it can.
- Getting out
- Criminalizing the war
Lieutenant Ehren Watada seems to know his chances are slim.
- Bacevich’s war
Eight days after 9/11, NPR broadcast a commentary by Andrew J. Bacevich, a Vietnam War veteran, former Army colonel, and professor of international relations at BU.
- Pop goes to war
Next time you put on the new Spoon single to make that subway ride go by a little faster, consider what musical escapism means to troops in Iraq.
- Sex, Iraq, and pop culture
How many times a day do you think about sex? How many times a day do you think about the war in Iraq?
- Enough already of ‘support our troops’
Although enthusiasm for the Iraq war has gone south, most people still claim to “Support Our Troops.”
- Peace movement renews activism in support of withdrawal
In perhaps the greatest critique of the war in Iraq, US intelligence agencies — confirming what many critics have recognized for some time — say that the conflict is increasing the threat of anti-American terrorism.
- Soldiers committing suicide
On July 22, 2004, unable to handle the intensity anymore — the daily vomiting, the feeling that he was a murderer — Lucey wrapped a garden hose around his neck and hanged himself.
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