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When my oldest son, a Marine, left for war and crossed the border from Kuwait into Iraq in March 2003 I started writing my conscience. After two tours that young combat veteran, my first born son, is now permanently disabled suffering from post traumatic stress disorder and his mother is now an ardent peace activist. Today I am active with Veterans for Peace, Military Families Speak Out and on the board of Rural Organizing Project Also, I am CEO of Rogue River Wind, Ltd and the inventor of a low profile wind turbine incorporating a high bandwidth relativistic generator

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4,000 Gis killed in Iraq

March 24th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

We have met yet another grim milestone as the 4000th soldier has been killed in Iraq. As I have written before, nothing is more demoralizing to the troops than public complacency and the Iraq war has faded from view in the news.

Coverage has declined sharply, according to a Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism study, falling from an average of 15% of news output last August to just 3% in February this year.

As John Kerry was once famously quoted, “…who wants to be the last man to die for a lie?” one can only asks who wants to die for a country that does not give a damn?

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