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The Department of Defense announced Monday that Staff Sgt. Nathan M. Cox, 32, was killed Sept. 20 in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan, when his vehicle encountered an improvised explosive device. Cox, a native of Walcott, was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas, which [...]

Members of the Iowa National Guard have been ordered to active duty to combat the recent surge of violence and Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan.

Sister Simone Campbell, who will visit Iowa on Tuesday, met with Iraqi refugees earlier this year with a delegation of women religious. For 10 days in January, on a visit sponsored by Catholic Relief Services, she heard stories from families in Syria and Lebanon. The trip was her second to the region; in 2002, she [...]

Air Force veteran and conscientious objector Jason Munford talked about his experience during a panel on Wednesday at the University of Iowa. He became a conscientious objector before being deployed to Iraq and shared some details from his struggle to become a military CO. Video interview below the fold.

The University of Iowa Anti-War Committee hosted a local version of the Winter Soldier hearings Wednesday.
More videos are below the fold.

Videos from Karl Rove’s appearance at the University of Iowa are below the fold, including part of Rove’s talk.

More photos from the event are below the fold.

For the past 37 years, Garry Trudeau has communicated primarily through his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic strip, “Doonesbury.” However, the war in Iraq has indirectly prompted him to speak out on related issues, bringing the war home to readers through the experiences and perspective of B.D., a veteran of the wars in Vietnam, Gulf War I [...]

Sen. Barack Obama gave a 30-minute speech in Vinton, Iowa, on Thursday before a crowd of about 300. During the speech he said that some had questioned his experience.  Without naming them, he called out his opponents in the presidential race on the subject of experience and Washington beltway “seasoning”:
“You can have the right kind [...]

Xavier Koch hasn’t officially entered his name into consideration for any elected position yet, but he already has his eye on the nation’s highest office.  The ambitious young man is ten years old and wants to be president of the United States.

With his mother, Karen Koch, he traveled a half-hour to see Illinois Sen. Barack [...]