(Untitled)- February 28, 2007 Military personnel with brain injuries pressured to return quickly to duty (Robert Bazell, NBC News, Feb 27, 2007) Last year when I was reporting on the treatment of brain injuries among troops returning from the war, I learned many experts were concerned about low-level brain injuries among the troops. The rehabilitation experts at Veterans Affairs had been shocked to hear that soldiers andhttp://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2007/02/military-personnel-with-brain-injuries.html (Untitled)- February 26, 2007 200,000 U.S. War Veterans Homeless (Sarah Childress, Newsweek, Feb 24, 200) Hundreds of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are ending up homeless. How could this happen . . . Young, alienated and often living on their own for the first time, Iraq and Afghanistan veterans increasingly are coming home to find that they don't have one. Already, nearly 200,000 veteransmany from thehttp://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2007/02/200000-u.html (Untitled)- February 25, 2007 Not ONE Member of the Bush Extended Family Has Served in Iraq! (BuzzFlash, 2-24-07) Not one -- not one -- of any of Bush's children or his nieces and nephews have volunteered for service in any branch of the military or volunteered to serve in any capacity in Iraq. Not one of them has felt the cause was noble enough to put his or her life on the line. . . . If Iraq is such an "honorable" cause,http://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2007/02/not-one-member-of-bush-extended-family.html (Untitled)- February 13, 2007 As Badly Wounded US Troops Overwhelm System, Bush Seeks Cuts To VA (Andrew Taylor, Associated Press, February 12, 2007) The Bush administration plans to cut funding for veterans' health care two years from now - even as badly wounded troops returning from Iraq could overwhelm the system. . . . Bush is using the cuts, critics say, to help fulfill his pledge to balance the budget by 2012. . . .http://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2007/02/as-badly-wounded-us-troops-overwhelm.html (Untitled)- February 7, 2007 Death toll of U.S. troops in Iraq rising (Robert Burns, Associated Press, February 7, 2007) More American troops were killed in combat in Iraq over the past four months at least 334 through Jan. 31 than in any comparable stretch since the war began, according to an Associated Press analysis of casualty records. . . . Not since the bloody battle for Fallujah in 2004 has the death toll inhttp://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2007/02/death-toll-of-u.html |