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Infomaniac: WeBlog
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
How's that war going?
Following up on some topics we've discussed here in the past:
Newsweek has now done a story on children who lost a parent in the war in Iraq; the number is now up to 1,043. Seven of those children lost mothers. Stars & Stripes writes about injuries to older soldiers: turns out many military doctors are having to treat patients in their 40s and 50s for things like hernias and chest pains. "'We've never gone to war with guys as old as this before,' (one doctor)said." Last week, Knight-Ridder's Joe Galloway wrote about the arguments for going to war in the first place, two years later: "This war that was supposed to be a cakewalk has taken the lives of 1,510 American troops and sent thousands more home, maimed by improvised explosive devices that tear off arms and legs... Now the administration tells us that we had to attack not because Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and ties to al-Qaeda, but because he wasn't a democrat.". Oh, and let's not forget about that Knight Ridder investigation on how returning veterans are being treated: "Tens of thousands of veterans find winning the disability payments they're owed is often doomed by lengthy delays, hurt by inconsistent rulings and failed by the veterans reps who try to help them." Chalmers Johnson writes about the book on a little-known CIA operation to fund the mujahadeen rebels in Afghanistan, Charlie Wilson's War: "Meanwhile, the United States lost interest in Afghanistan, which descended into a civil war that the Taliban ultimately won. In the autumn of 2001, the United States returned in force after Al Qaeda retaliated against its former weapon supplier by attacking New York and Washington. The president of the United States went around asking, "Why do they hate us?"" posted by liz at 9:33 AM 
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