Support the Troops: Bring Them Home
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Viewpoint: Congressional opponents of the surge are supporting our troops in the best possible way, says Michael Kinsley: trying to get them home to safety
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I want to thank Lynne Joiner [letters, Nov. 29] for taking the time to help wounded soldiers. My brother fought for a year in Iraq with the 101st Airborne, and my cousin, a Navy pilot, flew in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Add long working days in 110 degree heat with the threat of death at the hands of insurgents. Subtract families, friends and spouses the troops are separated from by thousands of miles. Multiply by a yearlong tour. The result, sometimes, is battle fatigue.
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CAMP ISTIQLAAL, Iraq -- Even when you're a soldier far from home, a few of your buddies have died, and there's a chance you'll never return, Christmas must go on.
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Our position is: The president&#39;s plan to shift troops from Europe recognizes the reality that threats against the nation have changed.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush's plan to call tens of thousands of U.S. troops home from Europe and Asia could gain him election-year applause from military families, but won't ease the strain on soldiers still battling violent factions in Iraq and Afghanistan...
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Union flag-bedecked Land Rovers of the Black Watch regiment stand ready for deployment. Photograph: Warrant Officer Giles Penfound/PA.
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Our position is: US troops need equipment redesigned from the ground up for fighting a new kind of warfare. Spc. Thomas Wilson was blunt with Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld this week during an open forum involving US troops in Iraq.
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With a son-in-law in Iraq and a son who served in Afghanistan, Kathy Johnston says she wants to make sure her five grandchildren know that it's important to support U.S. troops, no matter how they feel about the war.
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The idea has been floated as a way to relieve our overburdened troops. But a new report points out the downside
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Republican support for the Iraq war is slipping by the day. After four years of combat and more than 3,560 U.S. deaths, two Republican senators previously reluctant to challenge President Bush on the war announced they could no longer support the deployment of 157,000 troops and asked the president to begin bringing them home.
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For relatives and friends of U.S. troops serving in Iraq, "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" was the place to be.
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SOLDIER Paul Lowe (right) e-mailed his family from the bleak desert base of Camp Dogwood last week saying: âI just want to get home.
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The "five Army brigade combat teams, a Marine expeditionary unit and two Marine battalions" designated for withdrawal from Iraq by July "represent a very significant force. They are the force, in fact, that have helped us substantially in achieving some of the recent gains that our troopers have...
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House Democratic leaders have coalesced around legislation that would require troops to come home from Iraq within six months if that country's leaders fail to meet promises to help reduce violence there, party officials said
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President Bush drew great applause during his State of the Union address last month when he called on Congress to allow U.S. troops to transfer their unused education benefits to family members. "Our military families serve our nation, they inspire our nation, and tonight our nation honors them,"...
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Officials fear that an infiltrator may have tipped insurgents that the unarmed soldiers were heading home on leave. BY ROBERT H. REID.