iraq

Why you should listen to Michael Graham this morning

adamg — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:10:22 +0000

Radiothon to support construction of a place for wounded veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan in West Roxbury.

A boy's death

adamg — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:20:38 +0000

Kevin Cullen says this story was hard to write. But even though you know how it ends, you'll read it to the end.

Stephen Lynch votes to end Iraq war funding

adamg — Sun, 18 May 2008 03:21:02 +0000

Change of heart for previously hawkish congressman?

Anti-war protest photos

adamg — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:19:30 +0000

Boston Common and Harvard.

Cambridge to Boy Scouts: Get your stinkin' collection boxes out of our polling places

adamg — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:29:56 +0000

City elections officials ordered a local troop's collection boxes for soldiers in Iraq removed from polling places last week because of complaints they were pro-war.

Protesters arrested at Veterans Day ceremony

adamg — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:08:55 +0000

Boston Police report arresting 18 people at City Hall around 2 p.m. today on charges of "disturbing a lawful assembly of people:"

The protestors, a group from an organization called Veterans for Peace, created a disturbance throughout the proceedings. On several occasions, police officers warned the group that if they continued to deliberately interrupt and disrupt the assembly they would face arrest. When offered an alternative location from which to protest from, the protestors refused.

Veterans for Peace.

Photos from the anti-war protest on the Common

adamg — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:29:31 +0000

Here, here and here.

Media blows it on Paul Revere

adamg — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:35:46 +0000

You may have seen the stories (Globe, WBZ) about the deployment to Iraq of a certain Massachusetts Army unit that dates to before the Revolution and that was commanded by Paul Revere at the battles of Lexington and Concord back in the day.

J.L. Bell agrees it dates back to pre-Revolution days, but writes what any school kid (but not, apparently, local editors) should know: Revere

didn't lead any troops on Lexington Green. He was busy moving a trunk of papers that John Hancock had left behind. Revere never reached Concord at all that night. And he held no military rank or command in April 1775. ...

Not just a soldier, a friend

adamg — Wed, 16 May 2007 13:54:23 +0000

Jeff Egnaczyk was good friends with Andrew Bacevich, killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq on Sunday. He mourns him:

... Carol and I invited him to our wedding but he was off in basic training at the time (he bought a pot that we use quite often, woot). I'd see him every several months after that as he had time off. I last saw him a couple of months ago when he was home on leave. I pumped him for information about what life was like over there. I had planned to do that for years. It's not that this is unbelievable. He was in a dangerous place. It's just that it's so unexpected. And god damnit it's sad to see him go. I am weeping thinking about his life cut short. I will miss you, Andy. Rest in peace.

On another death in Iraq

adamg — Wed, 16 May 2007 00:21:21 +0000

Jules Crittenden ponders the death of Andrew Bacevich, an Army lieutenant whose father, a BU professor, was critical of the war:

... I'm going to my 11-year-old sonâ€™s baseball games and band concerts these days, only wondering where life will take him. It breaks my heart to think of a father's dreams shattered and it is all I can do not to sob at the thought of it. ...

If so many people in Massachusetts are against the war, how come hardly anybody shows up at an anti-war rally?

adamg — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:38:04 +0000

John Daley suspects it's because the local anti-war movement has been hijacked by the loonie left:

... With speakers flinging four-letter words from the bandstand, advocating dismantling the state and later, upon seeing police bikes along Tremont Street, exclaim over the PA, "I didn't know pigs could ride bikes," it's no wonder that mainstream (or in this case, all) politicians and most working people stayed away.

Photos from the anti-war protest

adamg — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 21:21:45 +0000

AP Donovan posts photos. Mario posts photos as well.

Caroline Roberts was there, too.

The human peace symbol in Copley Square

adamg — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:41:40 +0000

Plans call for joining hands to create a 100-foot-diameter peace symbol in the square on March 10 between 1 and 2 p.m.

Via David Bernstein.

His son is now in Iraq

adamg — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:22:19 +0000

David Stephenson writes:

I just got an e-mail from my son that he and his unit landed in Iraq yesterday. Absent a cut-off in funding, he'll be there for a year. I ask for your thoughts and prayers on behalf of him and all the other young men and women from all the different factions who are the pawns of these miserable old men and their delusions.

Should the state have an Iraq policy?

adamg — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:00:05 +0000

At least two state representatives think so.