http://soldiers.web2announcer.com/ Web 2.0 announcer top stories for soldiers en Fri, 15 Jun 2007 05:03:47 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2047037 unknown@Netscape.com Vanity keeps people from admitting they've been wrong. Pride will not let them believe they have been. The President & his team, most in Congress, and some common people suffer from this refusal to be honest with themselves. This is how they protect their egos - and that is all those who ignore the truth have left at the end of the day. Fri, 15 Jun 2007 05:03:47 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2047037soldiersiraqwarcasualtiesdeathNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2038408 unknown@Netscape.com "As I sit here in DFW international airport and wait to return from leave, I am struck by the willful ignorance of those who support this war. These men and women, generally meaning the best, choose to ignore and discard any negative news coming from Iraq as biased against anything from the military, the war, or the President." Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:53:40 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2038408bushiraqsoldierswarNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2020777 unknown@Netscape.com The Pentagon has a disturbing pattern of withholding information on the impact of chemical/biological weapons and other toxins on US service members. As a result, veterans are often told that their debilitating symptoms are "in their head" and can go decades without receiving medical help. That's not supporting our troops. Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:08:04 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2020777toxinsgulfwarsyndromevaccinessoldiersBraindamageNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2015624 unknown@Netscape.com What are we doing here? Why are we still here?' " said (Staff Sergeant David) Safstrom, a member of Delta Company of the 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry, 82nd Airborne Division. "We're helping guys that are trying to kill us. We help them in the day. They turn around at night and try to kill us." Tue, 29 May 2007 23:46:40 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2015624iraqwarsoldiersNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2015765 unknown@Netscape.com So let me get this straight. Sessions, McConnell, and other Republicans have "no problem" using our soldiers as "pawns" in their chess game of war funding, just as long as Bush gets these "pawns" out of Iraq early enough before the next election. That's outrageous! Tue, 29 May 2007 20:49:21 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2015765wariraqsoldierscollateraldamagecasualtiesNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2013499 unknown@Netscape.com A tribute to U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mon, 28 May 2007 22:58:10 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2013499soldierswariraqAfghanistanhonorNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2012302 unknown@Netscape.com Let us give pause and reflect, that we might carry out our lives in such a way that love and tolerance might overbalance hatred and bigotry in the scales of life, and the dream of peace might become a reality, so those we remember today did not die in vain. Mon, 28 May 2007 05:01:41 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2012302memorialdaywarsoldiersrememberpeaceNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2008959 unknown@Netscape.com The brass bell tolled 37 times - once for each of the Special Operations soldiers who died in Iraq during the past year - after their names were added to a memorial wall at Fort Bragg. Fri, 25 May 2007 06:00:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/200895942namessoldiersspecialOpsmemorialNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2004731 unknown@Netscape.com The half-naked body of one of three missing U.S. soldiers was found on Wednesday in the Euphrates River in the town of Mussayab south of Baghdad, police said. The U.S. military said it was investigating reports that a body had been found in a canal in the area. Wed, 23 May 2007 12:37:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2004731MissingsoldiersiraqNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2005070 unknown@Netscape.com The Zionist soldiers and settlers committed serious human rights abuses against the Palestinians in 2006, mostly with impunity, Amnesty International said on Wednesday in its annual report. Wed, 23 May 2007 09:52:52 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2005070IsraelisoldierscrimesabusespalestiniansNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1977960 unknown@Netscape.com The U.S. military added on Sunday more U.S. soldiers to the list of those who died in attacks on Saturday, bringing the number of American soldiers killed since Friday to 15. Sun, 20 May 2007 22:15:52 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1977960iraqU.S.soldierswarmilitaryNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1915900 unknown@Netscape.com U.S. aircraft dropped leaflets seeking information about three U.S. soldiers feared captured by al-Qaida, as troops intensified the search Tuesday despite a warning from the terror group that the hunt will endanger the captives' lives. Wed, 16 May 2007 04:54:14 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1915900searchMissingsoldiersIntensifiesNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1904384 unknown@Netscape.com The attack near Mahmoudiya, in a Sunni stronghold 20 miles south of Baghdad , left four U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi translator dead, and three other soldiers missing. Tue, 15 May 2007 19:16:04 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1904384MissingsoldiersFortdrumNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1883533 unknown@Netscape.com BAGHDAD - An al-Qaida front group that claims it has captured American soldiers warned the United States on Monday to stop searching for them and suggested it attacked the U.S. convoy as revenge for the rape and murder of a local teenager last year. Mon, 14 May 2007 19:12:01 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1883533iraqAlAaidabaghdadkidnappedussoldiersNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1799345 unknown@Netscape.com The Pentagon said on Tuesday it told another 35,000 U.S. soldiers they were in line to go to Iraq, a move that gives commanders enough forces to maintain a security crackdown there through at least the end of the year. Tue, 08 May 2007 18:11:18 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1799345iraqussoldiersNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1793377 unknown@Netscape.com Six people were arrested on Monday in connection with an alleged plot to murder soldiers at Fort Dix, the U.S. attorney's office said. Tue, 08 May 2007 15:30:37 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1793377FortdixnewjerseymurderterrorsoldiersNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1795571 unknown@Netscape.com Queen Elizabeth II is paying tribute to American soldiers with a trip to the National World War II memorial before capping her six-day U.S. visit with a dinner for President Bush . Tue, 08 May 2007 15:16:24 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1795571QueenElizabethhonorU.S.soldiersNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1778721 unknown@Netscape.com Roadside bombs killed eight American soldiers in separate attacks Sunday in Diyala province and Baghdad , and a car bomb claimed 30 more lives in a wholesale food market in a part of the Iraqi capital where sectarian tensions are on the rise. Mon, 07 May 2007 05:58:22 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1778721Roadsidebombskill8americansoldiersiraqwarNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1768682 unknown@Netscape.com BAGHDAD - A roadside explosion outside the Iraqi capital on Sunday killed six American soldiers and a civilian journalist, the military said, among 12 U.S. troop deaths reported on a day when two car bombs killed at least 44 Iraqis at a Baghdad market and a police headquarters. Sun, 06 May 2007 22:22:11 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1768682iraqwarbaghdadamericansoldiersusTroopsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1771785 unknown@Netscape.com As many as nine foreign peacekeepers, including up to eight French soldiers, were killed Sunday when a French plane attached to the Sinai's multinational peacekeeping force crashed in a remote, mountainous area of the desert, the force's spokesman said. Sun, 06 May 2007 12:22:32 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1771785crashdisastermiddleeastegyptsoldiersNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1754446 unknown@Netscape.com The authors of a new Army study say "the strains placed on troops in Iraq are in some ways more severe than those borne by the combat forces of World War II. Sat, 05 May 2007 20:06:24 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1754446warsoldiersStrainNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1749894 unknown@Netscape.com Only 40 percent of Marines and 55 percent of U.S. Army soldiers deployed in Iraq say they would report a fellow serviceman for killing or injuring an innocent Iraqi, a Pentagon report released on Friday shows. Fri, 04 May 2007 22:51:21 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1749894iraqwarMarinesarmyussoldiersNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1719393 unknown@Netscape.com We call our enlisted men and women serving in the military, soldiers; or we could, and often do, refer to them as grunts. ready to become human cannon fodder. Wed, 02 May 2007 23:25:39 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1719393militarysoldierswarcasualtiescannonfodderNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1701935 unknown@Netscape.com Aguayo, a 35-year-old Mexican-American from Los Angeles, joined the Army in 2003 yet soon realized he couldn't take part in violence. He applied for conscientious objector (CO) status in February 2004 but was sent to Iraq anyway, where he refused to load his weapon even while on guard duty. Wed, 02 May 2007 04:13:13 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1701935wariraqsoldiersaguayoresistanceNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1673698 unknown@Netscape.com Four U.S. soldiers were killed in Baghdad over the weekend, the military said on Monday, taking the number of American soldiers killed in Iraq this month to more than 100. Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:15:18 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1673698ussoldiersiraqbaghdadNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1529591 unknown@Netscape.com A U.S. military brigade is constructing a three-mile-long concrete wall to cut off one of the capital's most restive Sunni Arab districts from the Shiite Muslim neighborhoods that surround it, raising concern about the further Balkanization of Iraq's most populous and violent city. Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:11:20 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1529591iraqsoldierssunnishiiteNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1427438 unknown@Netscape.com Leading Democratic proponents of setting a timetable for pulling troops out of Iraq have refused to meet with the father of a dead soldier who believes a withdrawal would mean his son's life was "wasted." Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:22:32 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1427438democratsantiwarFamilysoldierscasualtiesNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1412778 unknown@Netscape.com The way the government rates service members' disabilities is inconsistent, and the Army might be shortchanging injured soldiers, the chairman of a special commission said Thursday. Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:11:18 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1412778FlawedSysremmayHurtdisabledsoldiersNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1358632 unknown@Netscape.com Roadside bombs in southern Afghanistan on Sunday left seven NATO soldiers dead, the alliance said, as its forces continued an anti-Taliban offensive in the world's most fertile opium-producing region. Sun, 08 Apr 2007 23:43:54 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/13586327NATOsoldierskilledafghanBlastsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1350702 unknown@Netscape.com Two months before Mario Alberto Echeverri administered a sleep disorder test to an Army corporal at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the medical technician had been arrested for fondling the groin of a U.S. Park Police officer. 17 months before that, Echeverrri had been observed touching another patient inappropriately and was warned. Sun, 08 Apr 2007 00:40:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1350702warWalterReediraqveteranswoundedsoldiersEcheverriNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1331273 unknown@Netscape.com Reliable figures are not available for the mental stress put on soldiers in the 11 Army brigades that have served three or more yearlong tours in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001. However, according to a Pentagon health study released in January, the rate of binge drinking in the Army ballooned by 30 percent between 2002 and 2005, and the increase i Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:00:40 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1331273armywariraqsoldiersNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1159478 unknown@Netscape.com Iraqi security forces clashed Sunday in a Sunni area in central Baghdad, and police said at least two people were killed in fighting in the neighborhood's narrow streets and alleys. Roadside bombings, meanwhile, killed five U.S. soldiers, including four in a single strike in a volatile province northeast of the capital. Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:21:48 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1159478iraqsunniussoldiersBombingsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1149086 unknown@Netscape.com U.S. female soldiers in Iraq were assaulted or raped by male soldiers in the women's latrines, and an alarming number committed suicide, Col. Janis Karpinski reportedly testified before an international human rights commission of inquiry last month. Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:25:23 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1149086womenrapeiraqsoldierssuicideNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1147238 unknown@Netscape.com Fifteen British sailors and marines arrested by Iran's Revolutionary Guards off the coast of Iraq may be charged with spying. A website run by associates of Iranian President Ahmadinejad reported that the Britons would be put before a court and indicted. Sun, 25 Mar 2007 04:17:30 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1147238iranbritishsoldiersahmadinejadNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1131158 unknown@Netscape.com The Iranian military has questioned 15 detained British soldiers and said they confessed to illegally entering the country's territorial waters. Sat, 24 Mar 2007 15:32:25 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1131158IranianmilitarybritishsoldiersiranNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1094450 unknown@Netscape.com Somali insurgents dragged soldiers' bodies through the streets of Mogadishu before burning them on Wednesday in heavy fighting that killed at least 13 people and injured scores more, witnesses said. The corpses of five soldiers--either from the Somali government army or their Ethiopian allies--were desecrated during some of the worst clashes in Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:57:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1094450soldiersbodiesinsurgentsSomaliaDraggingDesecrationNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1088562 unknown@Netscape.com A Texas baby born two years after his father died in Iraq is one of at least three children conceived using the sperm of dead military personnel. Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:00:04 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1088562deadsoldiersNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1001226 unknown@Netscape.com Americans were dismayed to learn that soldiers wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq--"fallen heroes," as network news calls them--were being warehoused in Building 18, a rat- and roach-infested satellite of the Army's Walter Reed Medical Center. Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:39:10 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1001226soldiersWalterReedveteransNews http://web2announcer.com/go/958976 unknown@Netscape.com Early in the morning on the 1st of May 1943, a fisherman on a beach in Spain discovered a waterlogged corpse which had washed ashore during the night. The dead man was clothed in British military attire and a life preserver, and he had a briefcase chained to his lifeless body... Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:29:01 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/958976militarymysteryspainsoldiersNews http://web2announcer.com/go/944823 unknown@Netscape.com Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sought on Sunday to contain fallout from his remarks about women forced to act as wartime sex slaves for Japanese soldiers as the furor threatened to cloud summits with Chinese and U.S. leaders. Sun, 11 Mar 2007 06:35:37 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/944823japanSexSlavesworldwar2ww2soldiersNews http://web2announcer.com/go/911447 unknown@Netscape.com Watch as these soldiers launch a missile...not too far. Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:00:16 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/911447soldierslaunchmissilefireantitankNews http://web2announcer.com/go/890965 unknown@Netscape.com Many female soldiers say they are sexually assaulted by their male comrades and can't trust the military to protect them. "The knife wasn't for the Iraqis," says one woman. "It was for the guys on my own side." Wed, 07 Mar 2007 13:33:23 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/890965soldierswomenwarNews http://web2announcer.com/go/869032 unknown@Netscape.com At least nine U.S. soldiers were killed Monday in a pair of deadly attacks north of Baghdad, U.S. military statements released Tuesday said. Three other soldiers were wounded and taken to military treatment facilities. Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:05:23 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/869032iraqU.S.soldierskilledwarNews http://web2announcer.com/go/796782 unknown@Netscape.com Four Mexican soldiers were arrested and accused of raping and murdering a 73-year-old woman in a case that has outraged Indian groups in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz. Thu, 01 Mar 2007 07:49:33 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/796782mexicansoldiersaccusedofrapemurderNews http://web2announcer.com/go/783097 unknown@Netscape.com As criticism of the Iraq war grows at home, some US soldiers abroad are rejecting Bush's mission. On military bases across Germany, many are now seeking a way out through desertion or early discharge. Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:27:11 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/783097iraqwarsoldiersdesertionearlydischargeGermanyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/742188 unknown@Netscape.com Soldiers who were paralyzed, suffered brain damage and lost limbs owe the government enlistment bonus money. They must pay the money back because they didn't fulfill their tour of duty. Bob Truska, who was in the Navy, got an honorable discharge for what the Navy calls a personality disorder. One year later, he got a bill for more than $3, Sun, 25 Feb 2007 02:41:01 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/742188soldiersbackfromwarfightdifferentbattleNews http://web2announcer.com/go/700860 unknown@Netscape.com One in three homeless Americans are military vets, and that figure is compounding. One in four vets with PTSD who sought medical care from the VA, regularly experienced a two to three month wait just to see a doctor as the ratio of doctors to patients is one doctor for every 500 patients. Over 53,000 soldiers are permanently wounded... Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:19:53 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/700860soldiersmilitarywarpopulistiraqNews http://web2announcer.com/go/597147 unknown@Netscape.com Charges have been dropped against five out of seven soldiers on trial for abusing Iraqi civilians. Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:51:14 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/597147iraqtorturesoldiersNews http://web2announcer.com/go/560949 unknown@YahooMyWeb.com No description for this story Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:45:24 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/560949consumer affairsAffairscomplaintbbbconsumersmall claimsrecallsScamconsumeraffairssoldiersIraq WarUSAwarMagazinesanctity of life http://web2announcer.com/go/275735 unknown@Netscape.com An American GI assigned to one of the harshest posts in Iraq had a simple request last week for a Wisconsin mattress company: send some floor mats to help ease the hardship of sleeping on the cold, bug-infested ground. Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:04:01 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/275735iraqsoldiersinsultsmattresscompanyNews