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...Iraq is called a war, but for the U.S. it?s really a police action (our official word for the Vietnam involvement). The idea is for the troops to patrol the streets and keep people alive - the civilian population, if possible, but first and foremost themselves. Since there?s no draft, and thus no readily renewable supply of manpower, the goal is to keep U.S. combat deaths down while scoring the maximum number of enemy kills. "It?s peer pressure," says Marine Sean Huze, "group killing." In basic training, the Infantrymen were taught to take this war personally...
...come. Mary Nguyen, an official of the Veterans? Administration in Dallas, quotes a poem: "Yes, the war is over. And over and over and over in my mind." They bring the war home with them, but often they?re not the people they were when they left - once a civilian, now a killing machine. "There?s an old saying," Nguyen adds. "If you?re a good soldier, you?ll be a bad civilian." Sometimes the transition is fatal. When Jeff Lucey came back from Iraq, his loving family noticed the change, his withdrawal inside his troubled skull. Within...
...about domestic affairs than foreign policy. Asked about health insurance at a house party in Middletown, he said he was very interested in the universal plan recently passed in Massachusetts. "If everybody's covered, you'll find fewer people going to sick bay." He stopped, trying to renavigate into civilian lingo. "You don't call it sick bay, it's ..." The crowd shouted in unison, "The emergency room!" He began to laugh and said, "Well, it's been 31 years...
...defenses. U.S. submarines and ships could launch cruise missiles as well, but their warheads are generally too small to do much damage to reinforced concrete--and might be used for secondary targets. An operation of that size would hardly be surgical. Many sites are in highly populated areas, so civilian casualties would be a certainty...
...While a change in your Iraq policy will best advance our chances for success, we do not believe the current civilian leadership at the Department of Defense is suited to implement and oversee such a change in policy." LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUSH, signed by a dozen congressional Democrats, urging him to replace Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld "Creating Don Rumsfeld as a bogeyman may make for good politics but would make for very lousy strategy at this time." TONY SNOW, White House press secretary, in rebuttal "Our educational system has been affected by 150 years of secular thought and has raised...