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Robert Kaplan often refers to the “Iron Majors,” the mid-career officers who have chosen the Army as a career and serve in its key staff positions.  Ann Scott Tyson reports that we’re running low. The Army’s growth plans and the demands of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are contributing to a shortfall of thousands of majors, critical mid-level officers whose ranks are...

Patrick Donahue (Bloomberg News) reports AP is stating -- but the DoD has not confirmed -- that Alex Jimenez and Byron Fouty's corpses have been discovered. David Aguila (AP) cites Fouty's step-father as confirmation that the corpses of both were "found in the Iraqi village of Jurf as Sakhr." O'Ryan

On Tuesday, June 3rd, at 3 p.m., Canada's Parliament will vote on an historic motion to support U.S. Iraq War Resisters in Canada. The motion calls on the Government of Canada to stop removal orders against those who refuse to fight in Bush's illegal war in Iraq, and has the support of all three opposition parties.

I had two e-mails I wanted to respond to and I hope it is okay to do it here. We are all so busy right now (South Dakota to turn out the vote for Hillary) and if I do not answer them here, I will not have time to. I will let the visitor go first. I will call him "Joe" and he has written before probably starting around two years ago.

UPDATE BELOW The headline on today's MSNBC website clearly states "Woman awarded for 'illegal' combat". The woman in question is Spc. Monica Brown and by "illegal combat", they mean that she was a woman fighting in a war.

Thursday! We just got done with the roundtable for the gina & krista round-robin and you can read the decision tomorrow in the round-robin. I have no problem sharing my thoughts. Let me back up, Cynthia McKinney is running for the Green Party nomination.

Tuesday, Tuesday! Let's hope the predictions hold for Hillary. Today is also Equal Pay Day and that's another reason I wanted to highlight the piece Dolores Huerta wrote last week: When I look to the strength of our country, I look to the mothers who built homes and raised families, and to the working women who were and are this nation's lifeline.

Behind the bar, in the corner, hangs a Communist Party flag that Sam and Kieran bought on their trip to Russia the summer after sophomore year. Starting with campaign news. "Sam" hanging the Communist Party flag is Sam Graham-Felsen and the above is from Daniela J.

Hump day, hump day, it takes us half the way! :D So a funny e-mail today. It wasn't meant to be funny. At least I don't think so. But a Bambi groupie wrote me to say that Bambi was going to win "because Allah wants him to win." My reply? "Put it on a t-shirt and bumper sticker.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008. Chaos and violence continue, the US Congress holds some hearings, a journalist dies in Iraq, the Turkish invasion continues in northern Iraq and more. Starting with war resisters. Earlier this month, Paul Boers (The Goshen College Record) reported on war resister Rob Weiss.