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My adopted brother is an American citizen but was born and raised in Kabul Afghanistan. He just spent the last six months in Afghanistan getting his property back and repaired and visiting his relatives. He said that the Afghan people are happier than he has ever seen them and things are better in Afghanistan than they have ever been even under the King. In fact, he said that he felt safer in Afghanistan than he does in Albuquerque NM at night. He said that those people in America that are critical of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan must not...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- The news from Iraq this past week was overshadowed by the flood catastrophe in New Orleans and Louisiana, and that was ironic: Because for the first time in months, trends across the board were largely positive. Compared with the previous week when almost a thousand people were crushed or drowned in a panic stampede on the Aimma Bridge over the Tigris River in Baghdad, almost any news would have sounded good by comparison. But the figures for U.S. troops killed and wounded -- the latter figure in many respects a more statistically broad and revealing...

Here's some GOOD NEWS you may have missed in your daily wire reports.........February 1, 2004Acts of courage, big and small, occur daily in Iraq.  A few recent victories by our military, civilian and allied champions of freedom: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Fairpress: Camp Doha, Kuwait, January 28,  2004 -- 2-17th Cavalry Gets Ready For Movement Back To Fort Campbell The 2-17th Cavalry Regiment, an aerial reconnaissance asset of the 101st Aviation Regiment and the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), is now at Camp Doha, Kuwait, preparing for redeployment. The unit has been in theater since February 2003. Fifteen of the 2-17th Cavalry’s 24...