Iraq War: A Retrospective

By: Lionel Hitchens The Iraq War officially ended 12/15/2011, and with the end of the War in Afghanistan on the horizon as the military projects pulling out 1/3 of its troops by the end of 2012. It will more than likely be a decade since either war's inception before…

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This is Where We Take Our Stand; PBS Broadcast

Dear Friends, I have good news and bad news. The good news: is that This is Where We Take Our Stand, a film about the Iraq Veterans Against the War Winter Soldier/Iraq & Afghanistan Investigation, has now been distributed to every PBS station in the country for broadcast in…

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Gettysburg Twisted

By OcJim Our troops will come home from Iraq by the end of this year. Will they too join the ranks of the homeless, the unemployed, and the walking wounded – many without hope or help. One could well believe that Jim DeMint, Republican Senator from South Carolina, who…

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Just a Waste of Time, Money & Lives; The End of the Iraq War

After almost nine years, 4,479 fatalities, 33,169 soldiers wounded, 12,000 Iraqi civilian deaths and an almost a trillion dollars spent, the Iraq war is finally over. In a press conference Friday, President Obama announced that U.S. troops will be pulled out of Iraq by the end of the year,…

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Lessons to be Taken out of bin Laden’s Death

By: Thomas Reyour While many are perhaps overzealously reveling and celebrating the death of Osama bin Laden, I propose that rather than throwing up our hands, screaming, "Ding, Dong, bin Laden's dead!" that we rather take this moment in history in silent reflection. Thousands upon thousands dead, civil liberties…

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