Amputee Iraq veteran runs for office
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When he lost both of his legs in a roadside bomb attack in Iraq, Robbie Doughty was no longer able to serve his country on the battlefield. But if things go his way this fall, he hopes to serve his community as an elected official.
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Senator Barack Obama is running for president as one of the few candidates who opposed the Iraq war from the beginning.
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WASHINGTON, Aug 29  - The controversial group of veterans, whose television advertisements attacking Democratic White House hopeful John Kerry sparked a national debate, vowed Sunday to keep up their campaign until the November 2 election.
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The U.S. ambassador to Iraq acknowledged serious problems ahead of next weekend's election but gave assurance Sunday that "great efforts" were being made so every Iraqi can vote. In an audiotape posted on the Web, a speaker claiming to be Iraq's most feared terrorist declared "fierce war" on democracy, raising the stakes in the vote.
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After years of fighting in vain for what he believed disabled war veterans deserved, David W. Gorman is on the verge of getting more than he asked for.
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A few candidates for governor are venturing beyond domestic issues like schools and taxes to take stances on the war in Iraq and terrorism, with a California Democrat vowing he'll try to withdraw his state's Guard troops from Iraq and an Arizona Republican blasting a Sept. 11 memorial for being unpatriotic.
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Veterans of Al Gore's past are quietly assembling a campaign to draft the former vice president into the 2008 presidential race &#151; despite his repeated statements that he's not running.
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The only senator from President   George W. Bush's Republican party to vote against the Iraq War   battled for political survival on Tuesday as voters in nine   states chose candidates for an election that could shift   control of the U.S. Congress to the Democrats.
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By Alex Breitler, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Sep. 15--STOCKTON -- Army 1st Sgt. Ray Wheat still has the prosthetic leg that one of his ROTC students plucked out of a dry ditch in Old Mormon Slough last year.
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A s an ambitious congressman running for the Senate in 2004, Georgia Republican Johnny Isakson strongly supported the Iraq mission as "the ultimate war between good and evil," while his Democratic rival Denise Majette demanded "a plan to get out."
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With the US presidential race taking a decidedly bitter turn over John Kerry&#39;s Vietnam war record, US veterans in Hanoi are selling T-shirts supporting his run for the White House.
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George Perez lost his leg to a roadside bomb in Iraq more than a year ago, but despite the phantom pains that haunt him, he says he is determined to prove to the Army that he is no less of a man &#151; and no less of a soldier.
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William G. Halicks, who is stationed in Hillah, Iraq, was runner No. 1 the 2007 Peachtree Road Race, a race normally run a world away.
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The former senator plans to officially kick off his presidential bid Thursday.
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The American Legion opened its national convention in Salt Lake City this week with high hopes the gathering would help "unite America" behind the war in Iraq. Instead, the veterans have found themselves in a fight with the city's anti-war mayor.
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Ever since Army Staff Sgt. Ryan Kelly lost his right leg to a roadside bomb near Baghdad more than a year ago, he has been on a mission. It was more than just learning how to walk again on a prosthetic limb or figuring out what to do with his life after 13 months at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. Kelly, 24, of Prescott, Ariz., saw a need to help other wounded soldiers and their families cope with the financial struggles that come with months of rehabilitation.
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Staff Sgt. Joshua Olson called it his "Alive Day," the one-year anniversary of the day he lost his leg in Iraq. He marked the date by traveling from Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington back to the Fort Campbell woods where he once instructed men as a squad leader. Instead of camouflage, he wore jeans and a T-shirt, and used crutches to get around on one leg.