Amputee soldiers ponder bitter-sweet price of survival (11/16/03)

Amputee soldiers ponder bitter-sweet price of survival
November 17, 2003
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/11/16/1068917671430.html?from=storyrhs&oneclick=true

Specialist Robert Acosta, 20, of California, lost his hand on July 13 in Baghdad when a grenade was thrown into his Humvee.
Photos: New York Times

Injured soldiers in Iraq are often surviving with missing limbs. Neela Banerjee reports from Washington.


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Some veterans of Vietnam see Iraq parallel (11/7/03)

Some veterans of Vietnam see Iraq parallel
By Dave Moniz, USA TODAY
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-11-06-vets-usat_x.htm

WASHINGTON — Iraq isn't Vietnam, not yet at least. But as criticism of the Bush administration's conduct of the war there intensifies, a number of prominent Vietnam War veterans say they are frequently reminded of the way the White House fumbled away public support for the only major war the United States ever lost.
Many who served in Vietnam — including members of Congress, former Pentagon officials and a small but influential group of retired generals — have begun to say what those now in uniform cannot: The Bush administration, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in particular, have not leveled with the public about the difficulty of winning in Iraq.


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