Feces, Urine, Blood, Smoke, and Something Indescribable
The smell was unlike anything I've smelled before, a mixture of feces, urine, blood, smoke, and something else indescribable. That day started out much like many days in Iraq. We were woken up about 2:30 am to prepare for a mission, one of many that seemed pointless. Our Battalion commander ...
Mesquite soldier killed in Afghanistan only ever wanted to serve
By Michael E. Young / Dallas Morning News Raymond Munden never talked about being a doctor or a lawyer. All he ever wanted to do was join the Army. Over 17 years, he completed five tours of duty overseas, including two in Iraq. On Monday, three weeks shy of completing ...
Newest US troops in dangerous region near Kabul
By Jason Straziuso / Associated Press LOGAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Close to 3,000 American soldiers who recently arrived in Afghanistan to secure two violent provinces near Kabul have begun operations in the field and already are seeing combat, the unit's spokesman said Monday. The new troops are the first wave ...
Afghan president: US forces killed 16 civilians
By Jason Straziuso and Rahim Faiez KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - President Hamid Karzai condemned a U.S. operation he said killed 16 Afghan civilians, while hundreds of villagers denounced the American military during an angry demonstration Sunday. Karzai said the killing of innocent Afghans during U.S. military operations "is strengthening the ...
Funeral arrangements set for fallen Kansas soldier
NBC 3 WICHITA, Kansas, Feb. 26, 2008 – Funeral arrangements have been made for Kansas soldier killed in Iraq. Services with Military Honors will be held for SSG Bryant Wayne Mackey at 10 a.m. Friday, February 29 at Countryside Funeral Home at 420 S. 20th Street in Fredonia. Internment will ...
ER in Iraq: `Awful lot' of casualties
By Thomas Wagner / Associated Press BAGHDAD - The nurse was surprised the two soldiers were still alive. The day before, the men were carried into the emergency room at Ibn Sina Hospital in Baghdad's fortress-like Green Zone. Both Americans had been badly injured when their Humvee was hit by ...
Iraqi leader warns Iran of terror threat
By Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press BAGHDAD — Iran agreed Sunday to join the U.S. and other countries at a conference on Iraq this week, raising hopes the government in Tehran would help stabilize its violent neighbor and stem the flow of guns and bombs over the border. In an ...
Iraqi leader warns Iran of terror threat
By Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press BAGHDAD - Iran agreed Sunday to join the U.S. and other countries at a conference on Iraq this week, raising hopes the government in Tehran would help stabilize its violent neighbor and stem the flow of guns and bombs over the border. In an ...
Army shuns system to combat RPGs
Experts agree it might help save lives, so why isn’t it in the field? By Adam Ciralsky & Lisa Myers / NBC News WASHINGTON - Rocket-propelled grenades, or RPGs, are a favorite weapon of insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are cheap, easy to use and deadly. RPGs have killed ...
Shooting of Reuters soundman unlawful: report
By Michael Georgy / Reuters U.S. soldiers who shot dead a Reuters television soundman in Iraq last year breached their rules of engagement and the killing was "unlawful," an independent investigation commissioned by Reuters has found. Waleed Khaled died and cameraman Haider Kadhem was wounded on August 28 when the ...
Military: Rebels shot down chopper in Afghanistan
RENO, Nevada (AP) -- Military investigators have determined that a helicopter crash that killed five Army National Guardsmen in Afghanistan last month was the result of hostile fire, not an accident. Militants claimed they shot down the aircraft on September 25, but Army investigators initially believed the crash was the ...
Body of U.S. Commando Found in Afghanistan
By Daniel Cooney / Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan - The body of a missing U.S. commando has been located in eastern Afghanistan, the military said Monday, bringing an end to the desperate search for the last member of an ill-fated, four-man special forces unit that disappeared last month. One of ...
From Iraq, a soldier/father's perspective on the war
By Joseph L. Galloway / Knight Ridder WASHINGTON - The Internet has brought us another remarkable soldier's story from Iraq worth reading and thinking about. The story below is told by Sgt. Zachary Scott-Singley, 24, who grew up in Washington state and is an Arabic language translator serving in Iraq ...
Camilo Mejia’s Long Journey of Conscience From Nicaragua, to Iraq, to Military Prison
By Ron Smith / Narco News Today events are occurring around the United States as part of the National Day of Action for GI Resisters. On March 19 of this year, my wife, and associate producer, Cindy Sousa and I had the opportunity to travel to Fayetteville, North Carolina, home ...
New wave of insurgent attacks strikes Iraq
An Iraqi police commandostands guard Monday overJordan's embassy in Baghdad. BAGHDAD (AP) — Insurgent attacks across Iraq on Monday left seven civilians and three Iraqi soldiers dead, a day after U.S. troops killed 26 militants in a clash — the highest, single-incident insurgent death toll reported in four months, the ...
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January 17th, 2012
STOP SOPA: Why MichaelMoore.com Will Be Blacked Out Wednesday, January 18th
My websites MichaelMoore.com and Mike's High School Newspaper will both be going dark for 24 hours starting at midnight tonight in protest of the Stop ...
December 30th, 2011
75 Years Ago Today, the First Occupy
On this day, December 30th, in 1936 -- 75 years ago today -- hundreds of workers at the General Motors factories in Flint, Michigan, took ...
December 28th, 2011
Click here to donate to the congressional campaign of Flint's own Dan Kildee I have many things I'm planning to do in the New Year ...
December 24th, 2011
A Little Christmas Gift for You to Download
Thanks for all the wonderful comments regarding the short story about my mom from HERE COMES TROUBLE that I sent you a few days ago. ...
December 20th, 2011
Here's a New Free Chapter from HERE COMES TROUBLE
Thank you to the tens of thousands of you who have read HERE COMES TROUBLE and helped to make it a New York Times bestseller ...
December 18th, 2011
LAST CALL: Signed First Editions Will Be Gone by Tomorrow! ORDER TODAY, RECEIVE BY XMAS
My publisher has informed me that they are down to their last crate of the first printing/first editions of HERE COMES TROUBLE -- the ones ...
December 17th, 2011
A Man in Tunisia, a Movement on Wall Street, and the Soldier Who Ignited the Fuse
It's Saturday night and I didn't want the day to end before I sent out this note to you. One year ago today (December 17th), ...
September 11th, 2010
If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America
OpenMike 9/11/10 Michael Moore's daily blog I am opposed to the building of the "mosque" two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on ...
December 14th, 2010
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that ...
May 12th, 2011
Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
"The Nazis killed tens of MILLIONS. They got a trial. Why? Because we're not like them. We're Americans. We roll different." – Michael Moore in ...
November 22nd, 2011
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and ...
September 22nd, 2011
A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia. I will ask ...
December 16th, 2010
Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
Home Front: Portraits from Sheikh Jarrah
Mike, was the triple overtime Outback Bowl come-from-behind win the greatest Spartans game ever?
Yes -- or at least it will be until their appearance in next year's Rose Bowl, a game which... Continue Reading
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