4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Pets In Iraq – Excerpt from Mama & Boris. So when Peter calls and excitedly tells us stories about a small pack of five dogs that has started coming around the base—a mother and her four pups—I laugh and think, of course he has pets in Iraq. Peter’s news about the pups continues to grow darker, shadowed by a cruel reality.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 10, 2010

In early 2009, in recognition of the increasing number of “Wounded Warriors” that were returning from conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, FSD made the decision to concentrate its efforts on identifying deserving disabled veterans and matching them with a trained service dog companion. Tags: news people helping animals.

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Critter News

JULY 21, 2009

Al Franken (suck on that Bill O'Reilly) has introduced a bill to increase the number of service dogs for vets returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. My bill will help train a statistically significant number of dogs to measure the benefits to veterans with physical and emotional wounds.

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Critter News

APRIL 7, 2009

troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. For an 11-month period that ended in December, researchers subjected pigs and rats to about 200 blasts, according to Pentagon documents and interviews. The explosions have ranged in intensity, wounding some of the pigs and killing others. Roadside bombs are the top killer of U.S. Did you know this?

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Here's the good news: This is a very readable explanation of how animals in the Hundred Heartbeat Club (there are 100 or fewer individuals in the wild today) got to be in the club. Consider this: Every month, it takes $12 billion to fund America's involvement in the Iraq War. This is all very unveganly, but I went for it nevertheless.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Tags: zoos iraq.

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Critter News

MARCH 6, 2009

I am no fan of zoos, especially in an unstable country like Iraq. Unlike rhesus monkeys, patas are not considered desirable for research, and there has been little demand for either from zoos — until now. So, I actually agree with PETA in this case. "In

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

I am no supporter of the Iraq War. There is a crisis and the UN and the EU do the proverbial "fiddling while Rome burns." What is the point of having UN peacekeepers when they are incapable of keeping the peace? How far can diplomacy really go? I think we should have NEVER entered that country and we have bungled the post-invasion period.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2014

During the decades that preceded the Iraq war there were two schools of view on how to deal with that country and its troublesome leader. The first most readers have probably been aware of, the cheerleader hunter who has been in the news for, well, hunting game animals and being attractive and blonde. she’s Texan.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

It's just like what the Republicans did to the Democrats in the US before going into Iraq. If you didn't support the war in Iraq, or president w, then you were a traitor to your country. Another tactic is to make opponents out to be traitors to our own species. Very effective means of trying to shut people up.

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