In a time of chimpanzees, I was a penguin.
The religious right is motivated by the suspicion that someone, somewhere,
is having fun -- and that this must be stopped.
Homeless Iraq/Afghanistan vets a growing problem.
U.S. Army sends wounded soldiers back to Iraq.
Violence kills dozens of innocents in Iraq.
I don't know what to say. The mess in Mesopotamia is destroying so many lives...
-- Badtux the Saddened Penguin
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My head hangs in shame on a daily basis.
ReplyDeletei'm an only slightly more serious pengophile new to blogging. i join in your claim to my spot in this world.
ReplyDeletemy daily life is given to defending indians and others accused of crimes. so i wrote this morning to my friends about the times articles on iraqi vets who kill at home after being sent where they should never have been sent: this is a followup to a thing i sent around last week. its a link to an article so if you don't want to r ead it you don't have to. the times is still doing this series on one dramatic effect of the war on systems some of us work with every day - crimes and the courts.
this long article is all to real and a bit hard to read but i think you/we should - and i suspect gw and others aren't no matter how much they claim to be backing american soldiers
barry
| January 20, 2008
An Iraq Veteran's Descent; a Prosecutor's Choice
By DEBORAH SONTAG
Walter R. Smith’s identity as a psychologically injured veteran shaped how a murder he committed was handled.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/us/20vets.html?ex=1201496400&en=b3d9f5e6dc364515&ei=5070&emc=eta1