No recidivism on Iraq.
Kurds Seize Iraq Land Past Borders in Blow to U.S. Pullout Plan (click title to entry - thank you)
By Daniel Williams
March 5 (Bloomberg) -- Just north of Mosul, Iraq’s second- biggest city, an ornamental metal gate spans the highway. Beyond it, the sunburst-on-tricolors of the Kurdistan flag proliferate in this region 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of the Kurds’ agreed-to autonomous zone in the country’s far northeast.
Neither Iraqi police nor soldiers venture beyond the gate....
We don't belong in Iraq.
We never did.
Wartime troop brain injures could reach 360,000 (click here)By PAULINE JELINEK – 10 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of U.S. troops who have suffered wartime brain injuries may be as high as 360,000 and could cast more attention on such injuries among civilians, Defense Department doctors said Wednesday.
The estimate of the number injured — the vast majority of them suffering concussions — represents 20 percent of the roughly 1.8 million men and women who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, where blast injuries are common from roadside bombs and other explosives, the doctors said.
The estimate came in a Pentagon news conference on activities planned this month to bring attention to brain injuries. The doctors said the number could be as low as 180,000, based on estimates that between 10 percent and 20 percent of troops might have received such injuries.
The previous high estimate offered publicly was 320,000 in a study released a year ago by the private Rand Corp. It was based on about 1.6 million who had done tours of duty in the wars from late 2001....
General Assembly President Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann
Crises threaten attainment of rights by world’s poorest – Assembly President (click here)
...General Assembly President Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann4 March 2009 – The twin economic and financial crises threatens poorer nations’ ability to attain basic human rights, such as the right to food and access to water and sanitation, the head of the General Assembly declared today.
“Developing countries suffer the most” from the economic turmoil, Miguel D’Escoto told the United Nations Human Rights Council today in Geneva.
“It would be profoundly unjust to expect them to postpone the realization of basic rights,” he added.
The 63rd session of the Assembly has endeavoured to ensure that the poorest nations do not bear the largest brunt of a crisis for which they are not responsible, the body’s President said....
Who is looking for justice, besides me? No backing down ! None ! I promise you, it is OVER for The Republican Party in the USA. They might have a safe haven in China, so the Rights Council might have to ask the cooperation of other countries in their search for justice.
Rights Council urged to investigate massive violations in Iraq (click here)
Source: United Nations Radio
Date: 04 Mar 2009
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UN General Assembly President, Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann on Wednesday urged the Human Rights Council to investigate "massive human rights violations" in Iraq.
The Nicaraguan diplomat describes Iraq as "a contemporary and on-going example of how the illegal use of force leads inexorably to human suffering and disregard for human rights."
He says "it sets a number of precedents that we cannot allow to stand."...
