15 Sep
United States Wars, News and Casualties

In the Vietnam era, stories like this and television reporting on the war contributed to the end of the Vietnam War in a time frame of much less than 17 years.
As deployment of the last 17 years only came to a sub set of young people, and TV and news rarely covered the searing violence of war, eschewing such content for minor content (Kardashians, Tweets, outrageous behavior), the daily violence and futility went “off stage”.
One is invited to read the daily post, “United States Wars, News and Casualties” and then watch the daily news on the U.S. TV Media.
The absence of U.S. War News is atrocious.
We need this daily report of our wars in our face………..Daily.
The McGlynn



Damn The War Criminals,Bush,Cheney,Rice,Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Powell and Blair from England.
How many Iraqis have died as a result of the invasion 15 years ago? Some credible estimates put the number at more than one million. You can read that sentence again.
The invasion of Iraq is often spoken of in our country as a “blunder,” or even a “colossal mistake.” It was a crime.
Those who perpetrated it are still at large. Some of them have even been rehabilitated thanks to the horrors of a mostly amnesiac citizenry.
We condemned children to death, some after many days of writhing in pain on bloodstained mats, without pain relievers. Some died quickly, wasted by missing arms and legs, crushed heads. As the fluids ran out of their bodies, they appeared like withered, spoiled fruits. They could have lived, certainly should have lived – and laughed and danced, and run and played- but instead they were brutally murdered. Yes, murdered!
The war ended for those children, but it has never ended for survivors who carry memories of them. Likewise, the effects of the U.S. bombings continue, immeasurably and indefensibly.
The McGlynn

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Retiring Tennessee Republican looks back on another time he thought his career was over
The five decade-long tradition of Duncan family dominance in Tennessee’s 2nd District will end with the 115th Congress. With an ethics probe clouding his legacy and retirement closing in, Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. looked back to another time he thought his career might be ending.
In 2002, as fear and speculation swirled, Duncan sided with just a handful of other House Republicans, including Amo Houghton of New York, in voting against the Iraq War. He knew it could be political suicide.
“I just became convinced that these wars were more about money and power than they were about any real threat to the U.S.,” he said.
Duncan’s skepticism of intervention had begun 10 years earlier with the Persian Gulf War.
While he’d heard all the top officials at that time talk of the urgent threat posed by Saddam Hussein, what Duncan witnessed didn’t align with that narrative. He saw droves of Hussein’s elite troops surrendering to CNN camera crews in empty tanks. He realized then that officials had greatly exaggerated the danger.
The White House summoned Duncan in efforts to sway his opinion. Duncan told national security chief Condoleezza Rice that Lawrence Lindsey, head economic adviser, estimated that war with Iraq would cost $200 billion. Rice responded that it would not be nearly that much, maybe $50 or $60 billion. They could also get some of that back from their allies, she said.
He was not convinced.
“Since you’re going against every traditional conservative value with huge deficit spending, massive foreign aid and the U.S. being policemen of the world, and you’re going there to enforce U.N. resolutions and conservatives have been the biggest critics of the U.N., do you have any evidence of any imminent threat?” he asked.
Evidence was scant, a fact George Tenet confirmed in a speech at Georgetown after resigning from the CIA, Duncan said.
The night before the vote, 9 percent of Duncan’s constituents opposed the war. The first three to four years after that were difficult. A Baptist church disinvited Duncan from a speaking engagement; a candidate ran against him solely on the war. But then things started to turn around.
“Slowly what had been by far my most unpopular vote started to become my most popular vote,” Duncan said.
Since then, he has spoken out against continued American occupation in the Middle East.
“I think it’s just very sad that we’ve spent trillions now in Iraq and Afghanistan,” Duncan said. “I was speaking out long before Trump was saying we need to start putting our own country and our own people first.”
Duncan says he is especially proud to be consistently ranked one of the most fiscally conservative members of Congress.
But that fiscal conservatism might not translate to campaign finance for Duncan. The House Ethics Committee has probed whether he misused tens of thousands of dollars on personal expenses, including for membership to a private club in Knoxville and for private events such as showers, engagement parties and dinners, according to the Wall Street Journal.
SANAA, Yemen — A recent bout of fighting between Yemeni government forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition and Shiite rebels around the Red Sea port city of Hodeida could jeopardize shipments of 46,000 tons of wheat expected to arrive within the next ten days, the World Food Program said on Friday.
The latest offensive began last week following the failure of what was hoped to be renewed peace talks to resume in Geneva. It was concentrated in the eastern and southern entrances to the city, which is considered the lifeline of Yemen.
WFP spokesman Herve Verhoosel said humanitarian workers, infrastructure and food supplies have been targeted in recent days as clashes are still ongoing near the Red Sea Mill Silos, a critical facility for WFP operations.
The fighting could impact WFP’s ability to supply up to 3.5 million people in dire need in northern and central Yemen for one month, he said.
He said a mortar shell launched by an unidentified armed group also hit a WFP warehouse in Hodeida city holding enough food to assist 19,200 people, wounding a guard at the warehouse.
U.N. Human Coordinator for Yemen Lise Grande said on Thursday that the situation in Hodeida has deteriorated dramatically in the past few days.
“People are struggling to survive,” said Grande. “More than 25 percent of children are malnourished; 900,000 people in the governorate are desperate for food and 90,000 pregnant women are at enormous risk.”
The fighting for Hodeida has also effectively shut down the main artery linking the port city to the rest of the country, the Save the Children charity said Thursday.
Tamer Kirolos of Save the Children said “it’s quite literally a matter of life and death” for the main road linking Hodeida to the capital Sanaa to remain open.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Syria is sharply criticizing an upcoming event on the U.N. investigative body that is assisting in documenting serious crimes committed during the seven-year Syrian conflict, including possible war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Syria’s U.N. ambassador, Bashar Ja’afari, said in a letter to General Assembly President Miroslav Lajcak circulated Friday that the Sept. 27 event is another “destructive” action by its sponsors, Qatar and Liechtenstein.
The event will take place on the sidelines of the 193-member assembly’s annual gathering of world leaders.
The U.N. missions of Qatar and Liechtenstein did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Ja’afari reiterated Syria’s claim that the investigative body established by the General Assembly in December 2016 is illegal and violates the U.N. Charter. He said any evidence it collects “will be ineligible for future criminal proceedings.”
The resolution adopted by the assembly said the body, known as the “International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism,” would help collect and analyze evidence of violations of human rights and international humanitarian law “to facilitate and expedite fair and independent criminal proceedings.”
It called for the body “to closely coordinate” with the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, which was established by the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council. The commission has alleged that Syrian government and rebel forces committed war crimes and it accused the government of using chemical weapons.
Qatar’s U.N. Mission called the resolution, which was co-sponsored by 58 countries and approved by a large majority, “a decisive step to ensure accountability for war crimes and crimes against humanity.” It said Syrian civilians “continue to be subjected to heinous violations.”
KABUL — A helicopter carrying security forces crashed in western Afghanistan, killing all five people on board, including the pilot, officials said on Saturday, but ruled out a militant attack.
A wave of assaults by Taliban militants in recent weeks has forced Afghan and foreign forces to make far greater use of air transport to move troops and supplies, but inadequate training and poor planning have led to frequent crashes.
The latest crash was caused by technical difficulties rather than a militant attack, said Naser Mehri, a spokesman for the governor of Farah province, site of the accident.
“The helicopter crashed due to a technical issue, not due to Taliban fire,” Mehri said.
The cause of the crash is being investigated, said a defense ministry official in Kabul, the capital, adding that the helicopter had been transporting Afghan security forces.
By Khaama Press on 15 Sep 2018 12:35pm .
An explosion targeted the Afghan intelligence forces in northern Parwan province of Afghanistan, leaving at least eight of them dead or wounded.
Provincial spokesperson Wahida Shahkar confirmed the incident and said at least four personnel of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) lost their lives in the explosion.
She said the incident took place earlier today in the vicinity of Khalazai area of the province and as a result four NDS personnel also sustained injuries.
According to Shahkar the explosion was triggered by an improvised explosive device planted on a roadside.
No individual or group has so far claimed responsibility behind the incident.
The anti-government armed militants including Taliban frequently use improvised explosive device to target the security forces but in majority of such attacks the ordinary civilians are also targeted.
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The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Freedom’s Sentinel.
Command Sgt. Maj. Timothy A. Bolyard, 42, from Thornton, West Virginia, died Sept. 3, 2018, of wounds sustained from small arms fire in Logar Province, Afghanistan. The incident is under investigation.
Bolyard was assigned to 3rd Squadron, 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade, Fort Benning, Georgia.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Inherent Resolve.
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Taylor J. Galvin, 34, from Spokane, Washington, died Aug. 20, 2018, in Baghdad, Iraq, as a result of injuries sustained when his helicopter crashed in Sinjar, Ninevah Province, Iraq. The incident is under investigation.
Galvin was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR), Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
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