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	<title>Veterans Today &#187; afghanistan</title>
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		<title>NATO Killed Children in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/02/09/nato-killed-children-in-afghanistan/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=nato-killed-children-in-afghanistan</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hanan Habibzai</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These days, when I watch state-run Afghan TV, which is funded by American money, I am surprised by how openly Afghan experts criticize US military tactics in Afghanistan. This is new. ]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan-Afghanistan, Washington&#8217;s Managed Chaos Backfires</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/02/03/183501/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=183501</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Col. Evgeny Khrushchev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[­Washington's policy of “managed chaos” has backfired in Afghanistan and  Pakistan.  VT Editor, Colonel Eugene Khrushchev says the  US excelled at chaos building but has yet to succeed at managing it.]]></description>
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		<title>Connecting the Military Dots</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/01/20/connecting-the-military-dots/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=connecting-the-military-dots</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[She walked onto the campus of the West LA Veterans Hospital in her Anne Taylor outfit and instantly could feel her throat tighten. "You OK Ma'am?" said one of the VA tour guides, a young male half her age. ]]></description>
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		<title>CIA &#8211; DOD &#8211; Panetta and the Hidden Truth</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/01/16/cia-dod-panetta-and-the-hidden-truth/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=cia-dod-panetta-and-the-hidden-truth</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former CIA Director Panetta condemns Marines peeing on dead Taliban with "utterly deplorable"  comment.   Ain't that the pot calling the kettle black?  .]]></description>
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		<title>Pissed off Marines</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/01/13/pissed-off-marines/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=pissed-off-marines</link>
		<comments>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/01/13/pissed-off-marines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Smith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=178244</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As many of you already know, I volunteer at the "National Veterans Hotline" a few nights per month.  The hotline website can be found at www.Veterans911.com     Last night, I was on duty for close to four hours and during that time I talked to over twenty callers.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Birmingham Medics Face Battle To Help Injured Soldiers Beat Flesh-Eating Bug</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/01/12/birmingham-medics-face-battle-to-help-injured-soldiers-beat-flesh-eating-bug/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=birmingham-medics-face-battle-to-help-injured-soldiers-beat-flesh-eating-bug</link>
		<comments>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/01/12/birmingham-medics-face-battle-to-help-injured-soldiers-beat-flesh-eating-bug/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Veterans Today</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BRITISH troops returning from Afghanistan are being struck down by a dangerous flesh-eating bug that can lead to disfigurement.]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan:  The Urination Video, Time for a Blanket Party</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/01/12/marines-the-urination-video-time-for-a-blanket-party/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=marines-the-urination-video-time-for-a-blanket-party</link>
		<comments>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/01/12/marines-the-urination-video-time-for-a-blanket-party/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Duff</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=177912</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We have receiving a youtube video of people dressed as Marines, the new version, tons of expensive protective gear, urinating on enemy dead.  As one who did this work under unimaginably worse circumstnaces, starving, no body armour and outnumbered, against an enemy our new boys might find a bit daunting, I will give the talk that every real Marine gives young Marines. ]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan: A Non-Kosher U.S. Taliban Deal</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/01/11/afghanistan-a-non-kosher-u-s-taliban-deal/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=afghanistan-a-non-kosher-u-s-taliban-deal</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Khalil Nouri</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=177840</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Taliban and "peace mission" -- these words do not fit together in the minds of Afghans who know the Taliban's history.]]></description>
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		<title>Why Are They Afraid of Jesse Ventura?</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/01/10/why-they-are-afraid-of-jesse-ventura/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=why-they-are-afraid-of-jesse-ventura</link>
		<comments>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/01/10/why-they-are-afraid-of-jesse-ventura/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Duff</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=177458</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is why Jesse is the real hero and why he is feared.  

THE MOST POWERFUL SINGLE PIECE OF JOURNALISM IN AMERICAN HISTORY 
]]></description>
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		<title>New Online Group for Out of Work Veterans</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/01/05/new-online-group-for-out-of-work-veterans/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=new-online-group-for-out-of-work-veterans</link>
		<comments>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/01/05/new-online-group-for-out-of-work-veterans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Smith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=176460</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was sent an email by a veteran who had lost his job last summer, and has been searching hard for a place to find work.]]></description>
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		<title>Sons of the Fallen from Iraq and Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/01/03/sons-of-the-fallen-from-iraq-and-afghanistan/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=sons-of-the-fallen-from-iraq-and-afghanistan</link>
		<comments>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/01/03/sons-of-the-fallen-from-iraq-and-afghanistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I seldom get moved about a movie, or a cause, beyond the confines of my own home, where I take time for my own kids every day, day after day, week after week.]]></description>
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		<title>Charity?  You kidding me?</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/01/02/charity-you-kidding-me/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=charity-you-kidding-me</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The season of giving has come and gone, and like a lot of you, I walked by the bell ringers of the Salvation Army every day during my shopping and the requests for my charity dollars came pouring in from the United Way, the American Red Cross and even UNICEF.]]></description>
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		<title>Homeless Veterans, Cable TV and the FBI</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/12/28/homeless-veterans-cable-tv-and-the-fbi/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=homeless-veterans-cable-tv-and-the-fbi</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, I ran the largest shelter for Homeless Veterans in the USA, located in Boston Massachusetts.  Here is a story that I remember with a smile:]]></description>
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		<title>Muslim Christian Jew, Extremism is Extremism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I  recently read a story online about a little 8-year old girl from Israel and the trouble she encounters just going to her local elementary school everyday because some ultra-orthodox Jews living in a city called Beit Shemesh take offense to the way she dresses . ]]></description>
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		<title>Homeless Veterans need to Stand Up &#8211; Not Stand Down</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/12/19/homeless-veterans-need-to-stand-up-not-stand-down/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=homeless-veterans-need-to-stand-up-not-stand-down</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost 20 years ago I met a combat Vietnam Veteran named Robert Van Keuren and his partner in crime Dr. Jon Nachison both advocates like me doing work for homeless veterans in San Diego.  ]]></description>
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		<title>The Assassination of Cpl. Pat Tillman, USA</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/12/18/the-assassination-of-cpl-pat-tillman-usa/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-assassination-of-cpl-pat-tillman-usa</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Fetzer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Lt. Col. Bailey, Lt. Uthlaut, Cpl. Tillman’s platoon commander, had misunderstood his order to have boots on the ground “by dusk”, which Lt. Uthlaut had misheard as boots on the ground “by dawn”]]></description>
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		<title>The Wars &#8211; We Paid The Price, They Reaped The Benefits</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/12/15/the-wars-we-paid-the-price-they-reaped-the-benefits/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-wars-we-paid-the-price-they-reaped-the-benefits</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sami Jamil Jadallah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have paid an obscene price for the so-called war on terror, which has benefited none other than 1) Israel and 2) American energy corporations. ]]></description>
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		<title>Syrian Dissidents Reach Out. Yes, Assad is Killing Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Yes, Children are being Killed the dissidents say&#8221; &#160; NOTICE:  GRAPHIC VIDEOS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS STORY.  &#160; by Ken Smith &#160; I admitted upfront in an earlier post that I know even less than you do (the reader), about the twisted and fragmented history of Israel and it&#8217;s interactions with Arab and non-Arab neighbors in the middle east especially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking:  VT Intel Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Duff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Veterans Today is the continual recipient of intelligence, much of which is quite unreportable.  There is enough chaos without us making it worse.  Thus, we are censors, though unlike Wikileaks, we don't take direction from the New York Times or the Israeli ambassador.]]></description>
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		<title>Prosthetic&#8217;s for Peace. The costs of Land Mines and War.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine called and said: We should try to find ways to advance ourselves with our allies and even our perceived enemies by sharing our knowledge of prosthetics.]]></description>
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