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Dispatches (Matthew D. LaPlante) - May 8, 2008
You can look at this morning's USA Today cover piece -- which reveals that more than 43,000 "medically unfit" troops were sent to war since 2003 -- in two ways. 1) The numbers reveal, as reporter Gregg Zoroya writes …
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Dispatches (Matthew D. LaPlante) - May 1, 2008
More U.S. service members died in Operation Iraqi Freedom in April than at any time since last September. Whether this signals the end to a period of waning violence across Iraq is debatable, but the U.S. body count is …
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Dispatches (Matthew D. LaPlante) - Mar 13, 2008
I've heard it increasingly from service members home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It usually takes a few days for it to hit them. And then it does. Hard. The military may be at war, but the rest of the …
Dispatches (Matthew D. LaPlante) - Mar 11, 2008
A few key paragraphs from today's news roundup. Iraq is growing less peaceful and tranquil by the day. The past several weeks have seen a return to the kind of horrifying, spectacular violence that the administration's …
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Dispatches (Matthew D. LaPlante) - Dec 13, 2007
File this under "tertiary consequences of war". . . Illiteracy Is On The Rise As Iraqi Refugees Can't Afford School Illiteracy is spreading among refugee children from Iraq, with at least 300,000 young Iraqis not …
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Dispatches (Matthew D. LaPlante) - Nov 1, 2007
Iraq's civilian body count fell to 758 in October -- a sharp decline from earliers this year. U.S. troop deaths also were down, with 38 fatalities acknowledged so far by the military last month, the lowest figure since …
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