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...Corpus Christi,” gets its title and setting from your hometown of Corpus Christi, Texas. What do you find so distinct and compelling about the city?BJ: It’s a city that’s interestingly situated. It’s right on the Gulf of Mexico, so it’s consistently vulnerable to hurricanes and all sorts of weather. It’s also a city that doesn’t know what it is; there’s a military contingent, there’s a farming and ranching contingent, there?...
...estimate is not without its critics, including University of Chicago economist Steven J. Davis. In an interview, he rejected the claim that the war caused a five to ten dollar per barrel increase in oil prices, citing evidence to the contrary from historical price shocks such as the first Gulf War and the Iran-Iraq...
...troops who have returned from Iraq have applied for disability benefits. This is a cost that continues for years—the peak year for paying World War II benefits was 1993. The federal government spends $4.3 billion a year in disability compensation for veterans of the first Gulf War, even though that conflict lasted only a month. Given the intensity of combat and the high injury rates in Iraq and Afghanistan, we expect close to 50 percent of current troops to qualify for long-term disability compensation...
...Iraq Before 2003 We've been through 13 years of sanctions. We've been through two gulf wars. We had a traditional war with Iran - a lot of casualties. We were barely trying to survive. Being an Iraqi woman, actually trying to have a family - I have three daughters. Just surviving the sanctions...
...they get a baseline mental and physical health check-up and evaluation, so when they come back later and say they don't feel well, it isn't "Well that couldn't be from your war experience." This has been a problem with regard to Agent Orange from Vietnam, Gulf War Syndrome from the first Gulf War. We've been involved, frankly, in a huge range of issues concerning veterans making sure they don't get overcharged on their cellphones, and making sure that there's some protection from their jobs while they're serving. Most important is health care...