Paramount to Produce A Film About Stop-Loss
Paramount Pictures won a bidding war to produce Kimberly Pierce's next project, Stop-Loss. Here are details (from subscription-only Variety):Story follows a soldier who returns home to Texas from Iraq...
View ArticleBackdoor Draft, Back Again...Who Cares?
Despite signaling that it would no longer tap the Individual Ready Reserve, the Army calls up more troops just in time for the holidays. My father was at the house for Christmas and in the spirit of...
View ArticleStars & Stripes letter: "Stuck in stop-loss"
There have been many letters to Stripes over the past two to three years complaining about stop-loss. "Stuck in stop-loss" is the most recent. Compare the above soldier's letter to earlier Stripes...
View ArticleSoldier I Just Spoke With
He walked into the mini-mart with his Class A uniform on, specialist, with three rows of medals and a mountain division patch. I asked if he was stationed at Fort Drum, he was. Asked if he was...
View ArticleWhat Has Iraq Cost Us?
No diary could possibly cover everything the Iraq War has cost this nation-- the billions of dollars, the thousands upon thousands of lives, the innumerable hours of manpower, America's credibility,...
View ArticleMeanwhile in Non-Saddam News...
Meanwhile, in non-Saddam news out of Iraq...Iraq frees Iranian operatives arrested in raids, angers U.S.Car bomb kills 31, wounds 58 in Iraqi townDecember deadliest yet for US troops in Iraq10 dead in...
View ArticleWhy Does Bush Hate Our Troops? Why Does He Hate America?
Yesterday, I wrote the following diary:We Have Met The Enemy, And He Is Republican Administrations!It was a brief explication of the Reagan and Bush Administrations' ever shifting allegiances, between...
View ArticleENOUGH About Imus (!) Open Thread (what's on your mind?)
Am I the only one who's sick to the teeth of Imus and wants to get back to more down to earth discussions around here?Sure it’s important to get a dialogue going regarding the incredibly sexist and...
View ArticleWHO Doesn't Support The Troops? Bush Ignores The Wounded!
With Bush, Cheney, and McCain once again equating Democratic opposition to the war with lack of support for the troops, Salon's Mark Benjamin has produced yet another bombshell report on the...
View ArticleStop-Loss: Couldn't we wait till after?
So I was watching TV the other day and stumbled across the trailer for the movie Stop-Loss:
View ArticleAnyone else see Stop-Loss?
Iraq war films have been a box-office bust so far, but the previews for Stop-Loss gave the impression that it might end the losing streak of films like "Lions for Lambs,""In the Valley of...
View ArticleAnger and Helplessness
I've been so wholly out of sorts since Sunday night that I could barely enjoy the start of the baseball season. Sure, I basked in the Nationals' fans loud booing of W. The crack of the first pitch as...
View ArticleFive Deployments & Counting, Folks...
I wanted to share this message from a youtube friend who made some supportive comments about my political parody videos. I found this to be a real kick in the ass, as well as extremely moving.
View ArticleStop-loss
In an article in the L.A. Times, Julian Barnes brings an increase in the use of stop-loss orders to our attention. The number of soldiers forced to remain in the Army involuntarily under the military's...
View ArticleTop Stories Relating to Our Servicemembers This Week on the Our Troops...
Here are the top stories this week related to our soldiers here and abroad, taken from the Our Troops Newsladder.USA Today found that the Pentagon knowingly sent 43,000 troops to Iraq and Afghanistan...
View ArticleDems Offer Stop-Loss Payment Bill
Democrats introduce a common-sense bill to compensate service members affected by the President's excessive use of the "stop loss" policy:Service members whose military careers are involuntarily...
View ArticleIs there a new round of stop-loss call-ups going on?
Greetings EveryoneThis is not a report, but a question and call for information.I was in a meeting yesterday afternoon when a colleague took a call. She, a mom, was visibly and verbally upset. She...
View ArticleThe Crushing Burden of Multiple Deployments
AP: A Marine reserve battalion that suffered heavy losses in Iraq in 2005 is sending out members for training before expected assignment in Iraq.
View ArticleSupport the Stop-loss Compensation Act
Veterans for America (VFA) strongly applauds Rep. Betty Sutton (D-OH) for introducing H.R. 6205, the Stop-loss Compensation Act, which requires that U.S. servicemembers whose tours of duty are...
View ArticleJoin freshman Reps. Sutton, Hirono, Shea-Porter, Yarmuth & Cohen in...
Freshman Reps. Betty Sue Sutton (OH-13), Mazie Hirono (HI-02), Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01), John Yarmuth (KY-03), and Steve Cohen (TN-09) have joined 16 other Congressional Democrats in introducing...
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