Graphic pictures of injured soldiers. These pohto's were taken by doctors - George E. Peoples, M.D., James R. Jezior, M.D., and Craig D. Shriver, M.D.

Caring for the Wounded in Iraq — A Photo Essay

He lost his arm serving his country in Iraq.

Now this wounded soldier is being discharged from his company in Fort Hood, Texas, without enough gas money to get home. In fact, the Army says 27-year-old Spc. Robert Loria owes it close to $2,000, and confiscated his last paycheck.

He lost an arm in Iraq; the Army wants money

Well, uh, shrapnel down the back, shrapnel that came in and hit my head, punctured my lungs. I broke both of my arms. I lost a kidney. My intestines was messed up. They took an artery out of my left leg and put it into this right arm. They pretty much took my life. Pretty much.

I got a bonus in the National Guards for joining the Army. Now I've got to pay the bonus back and it's $2999. If I would have continued and finished my contract I wouldn't have to pay it back. The Guard wants it back. It's on my credit that I owe them that. I'm burning on the inside. I'm burning."

The Story of a Iraq War Vet Cpl Tyson Johnson III

Muqtada al-Sadr: "Over here you have America shelling cities for the sake of security and the elections, and over there you have the parties that are alleging that elections will help establish security and stability, forgetting the existence of the Occupation."

Sadrists not participating in the elections

This is maybe old and you've seen it but the CIA seems to be more on the ball re. Iraq than the "The Ole Bull and Bush Club"

"Iraq watcher Toby Dodge of Queen Mary College at the University of London -- who correctly predicted that the interim government would not make things better -- said: "The CIA has called it correctly. It has been less swayed than the politically driven Pentagon.

"To stand up a police force in the middle of an insurgency and expect it to work was optimism to the point of recklessness.

"With Iraqi forces too weak and US forces too resented there is a continuing security vacuum.

"The policy has been naive and simplistic from the start and the elections will not solve it.

"This is a decade long thing at least, if the Americans even stay the course."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4075359.stm

PHILADELPHIA - Police have arrested a soldier they say had his cousin shoot him so he wouldn't have to return to Iraq

Soldier Charged With Having Himself Shot

An Iraqi boy looks at the bodies of men laying next to their burning car after they were attacked by gunmen in the northern Iraq city of Mosul December 17, 2004. Insurgents attacked the car carrying at least three Westerners, killing them and their Iraqi driver, and chopping off the head of one victim, local witnesses said. (Namir Noor-Eldeen/Reuters)

Video of an attack on a tank (takes a couple minutes to download)