Tuesday, June 17, 2008
War on Terror Update!
Haven't done on of these in a while. Thanks to my dude Patrick for calling me out on it! First off, Prison Break!
"Hundreds of Taliban fighters have swarmed into a strategically important district just outside Kandahar, the biggest city in southern Afghanistan, apparently in a push for control just days after 400 Taliban members escaped in a spectacular breakout from the Kandahar prison, officials said." [Click here for more from the NYT]
"His lifelong dream of becoming a soldier had, in the end, come to this for Isaac Stevens: 28, penniless, in a wheelchair, fending off the sexual advances of another man in a homeless shelter." [Click here for more from amNY.com]
Army suicides up 20 percent in 2007, report says. [CNN.com]
More on this tragedy:
"Suicides in Iraq; It's Worse Than You Thought." [American Chronicle]
CBS News' report on the rising number of Army suicides. [YouTube video]
Meanwhile Bush and McCain opposed the expanded GI Bill but it's the Democrats who hate the troops??
Tweet
"Hundreds of Taliban fighters have swarmed into a strategically important district just outside Kandahar, the biggest city in southern Afghanistan, apparently in a push for control just days after 400 Taliban members escaped in a spectacular breakout from the Kandahar prison, officials said." [Click here for more from the NYT]
"His lifelong dream of becoming a soldier had, in the end, come to this for Isaac Stevens: 28, penniless, in a wheelchair, fending off the sexual advances of another man in a homeless shelter." [Click here for more from amNY.com]
Army suicides up 20 percent in 2007, report says. [CNN.com]
More on this tragedy:
"Suicides in Iraq; It's Worse Than You Thought." [American Chronicle]
CBS News' report on the rising number of Army suicides. [YouTube video]
Meanwhile Bush and McCain opposed the expanded GI Bill but it's the Democrats who hate the troops??
Labels: Afghanistan, GOP incompetence, taliban, War on Terror
