Iraqi Dinar – Iraqi Dinar Value, Iraqi Dinar Exchange Rate, Buying Iraqi Dinar, Iraqi Dinar Buying Guide

Soldiers who survive wars without injuries may not have all the reason to rejoice as they may unconsciously have developed other ailments. In a recent study, it showed that almost 20 percent of U.S. soldiers from Iraq or one out of five were diagnosed with migraines.

Although some perceive migraine as a relatively not serious condition, doctors would say otherwise. Migraine may be “unserious” to some but may result to more complicated health conditions or even fatal.

The study results also showed that there is a link between migraine and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In the development of his conclusion, the researcher conducted interviews on almost 2,200 U.S. Army soldiers within 90 days of their return from a year of combat duty in Iraq. Most of the veterans did have significant exposure to combat situations while serving in the war-torn country.

Half of the soldiers who suffered from migraines were also clinically depressed, compared to just 27 percent of those without the painful headaches, the researchers reported.

And 39 percent of migraine sufferers were also deemed to have PTSD, compared to just 18 percent of soldiers without migraines. Anxiety disorders were also higher among migraine-prone veterans (22 percent) compared to those without the headaches (10 percent).

However, the researcher found difficulty in assessing whether the pain of migraine helps trigger depression and anxiety in returning soldiers, or whether these types of psychological ills help spur migraines.

Generally, migraine begins as a dull ache and then develops into a constant throbbing and pulsating pain that you may feel at the temples, as well as the front or back of one or both sides of the head.

Usually the pain is accompanied by a combination of nausea, vomiting, and sensitivity to light and noise. Some people experience an aura before an attack.

Latest statistics show that more than 29.5 million Americans suffer from migraine, with women being affected three times more often than men. This vascular headache is most commonly experienced between the ages of 15 and 55, and 70% to 80% of sufferers have a family history of migraine.

Less than half of all migraine sufferers, however, have received a diagnosis of migraine from their healthcare provider. Migraine is often misdiagnosed as sinus headache or tension-type headache.

Experts say many factors can trigger migraine attacks, such as alteration of sleep-wake cycle; missing or delaying a meal. Sunlight, fluorescent lights, TV and movie viewing; certain foods and excessive noise are also known triggers. Stress and/or underlying depression are important trigger factors that can be diagnosed and treated adequately.

Treatment for migraine may include over-the-counter or prescription medications like Fioricet. Fioricet is available online through drugstoretm.com. It has been proven to be a safe and effective relief for migraine and other types of headaches.

Self-help techniques such as relaxation training and biofeedback likewise ease the pain. Yet sufferers are advised to immediately consult a doctor if the pain persists as this may be a symptom of a more complicated condition.

If migraines are not controlled properly, experts said, they would most likely bring on depression. On the other hand, anxiety is a frequent trigger for migraine.

But good news to sufferers is that whatever their cause, most migraines can be curbed or controlled. Yet doctors lament there are so many sufferers who haven’t had proper treatment.

Researchers believe the recent study on the war veterans will be a wake-up call to military and civilian doctors to look a bit further whenever they spot migraines in a patient, because those headaches could point to psychological troubles, as well.



By: Jennifer Alinio

About the Author:

“Victory” is when you have successfully achieved your mission.

In 2002, we were told that Saddam Hussein had amassed stockpiles of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs), that were a “Growing and gathering threat to our safety and security”. If we did not act, “We would awake to see the mushroom cloud on the horizon”. On October 2, 2002, the United States Congress passed resolution H.J.Res.114 which required that Saddam dispose of his stockpile of Weapons of Mass Destruction and authorized military action if needed to force him to do so. The Congress enacted this resolution as a necessary step before requesting that the United Nations Security Council pass a similar resolution. On November 8, 2002 the U.N. enacted resolution 1441 offering Iraq “a final opportunity to comply with its disarmament obligations”. To ensure that Iraq would dispose of its stockpiles of WMDs the U.N. required that Saddam furnish a listing of all weapons currently on hand, and an accounting for what had become of all weapons that he had had when inspectors had previously been in Iraq. The U.N. also required that Saddam allow new teams of inspectors to come to Iraq to look everywhere and talk to everyone who might know about weapons, to verify the list, and to oversee the disposal of the stockpiles of WMDs. Saddam complied, and claimed that he had no WMDs.

Our mission was to rid the world of the menace of Saddam’s stockpiles of Weapons of Mass Destruction. The inspectors never found any WMDs nor any indication that there had been any since the last time inspectors were there. In all the years since, all evidence indicates that there were no WMDs. Mission Accomplished, we had achieved Victory in Iraq before we began.

But wait! As we began to drop bombs on Iraqis, it was announced that “Operation Iraqi Freedom” had begun. There was a new mission. We would free the Iraqis from the clutches of an evil dictator, and they would thank us with chocolates and flowers. A few weeks later, after our campaign of “Shock and Awe”, we toppled the giant statue of Saddam. The evil dictator was gone. If we had left the army in tact, left the national, regional and local governments in tact, installed an Iraqi to be in charge, we could have left. Mission Accomplished, we had achieved Victory in Iraq.

But wait! But when the Iraqis actually thanked us with ******* bombers and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) we had another new mission. Iraq would become a Democracy – a shining beacon that all countries of the Middle East would want to emulate. We launched a campaign to rid the government of members of the Baath Party, which included everyone who had had any position of power or authority. We developed a cute “deck of cards” with pictures of all of the most powerful people, and arrested them. We held an Election and proudly took pictures of people holding up their purple dyed fingers. We turned out the Sunni ruling class, and put the majority Shia in charge. We created a Democracy. Mission Accomplished, we had achieved Victory in Iraq.

But wait! We had upset the social order. The rich and powerful didn’t like it, and they had hundreds of thousands of unemployed young men that we had dismissed from the army to form into tools of violence. As the country descended into civil war, and instead of a shining beacon, Baghdad became a city of darkness, violence, and rotting sewage, we had a new mission. We would “Stay the Course”, we would not “Cut and Run”, which would dishonor all the brave efforts of our troops. If we did not “Fight them There” we would have to “Fight them Here” – we must not “Embolden” the enemy. “They” would follow us home. And so we have stayed.

And then came “The Surge!” Which sounds like an overpowering show of strength to overwhelm the “enemy”, but in fact was just building the number of troops back to its former level, and changing tactics. Instead of trying to kill everyone who opposed us, we began to talk with them, negotiate, buy their cooperation, and form alliances–recommendations from the “Iraq Study Group” proposed years ago, but rejected at that time. Our new mission is to have Iraqis kill us and kill each other more slowly than they did before “The Surge”. Mission Accomplished, we have achieved Victory in Iraq.



By: David Rosenak

About the Author:

bigdoutta_007 asked:


do you think the dinar will go up to mabe 3.00 usa

chocolatechimp asked:

turkey shoot on insurgents

McCain on Victory in Iraq

 

            In 2002 Senator John McCain told us that the impending Iraq invasion was a “well-planned effort. . .not very difficult. . . fairly easy. . .[with] victory in a short period of time.”

            “Well planned”?  “Not very difficult?”

            It was somewhere between the invasion, the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s statue and his capture that the insurgency became a real problem and some like Senator McCain began to say we didn’t have enough troops and listed all of the mistakes made in the prosecution of this war.  Would that some had listened to Colin Powell and General Shinseki earlier!

            Now, at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention this past Monday Senator McCain described the Iraq operation as similar to driving a bus into a ditch, “and then after five years and a trillion dollars and 4,000 lives lost, you are getting the bus halfway out of the ditch. . .” 

He went on to note that both he and Senator Obama want to bring troops home from this war.  “The great difference,” he told the veterans, “is that I intend to win it.”

            Senator McCain is often claiming that he will never put politics and voting for him ahead of winning this war. Indeed, he often claims that those who disagree with this stance on winning in Iraq are placing personal ambition ahead of doing what’s right or best for America.  He and his surrogates are often heard saying “We will put America first.”

            It seems as if those who disagree with him are un-American, unpatriotic.

            But, just two days prior to this Florida address on Saturday evening Senator McCain told Rick Warren at the Saddleback Civil Forum that  General David Petraeus is “one of the great military leaders in American history, who took us from  defeat to victory in Iraq.”

            Now, Senator McCain did not say, General Petraeus is in the process of taking us to victory.”  Nor did he claim that Petraeus “is taking us toward victory.”

            No, the claim was that Petraeus “took us from defeat to victory in Iraq.” 

            We’ve won!  We’ve achieved his goal of winning, defeating al Qaeda, and stabilizing Iraq!

            Maybe the Senator mis-spoke.  Perhaps he confused his verb tenses and meant to use the so-called “present continuous” (“is taking us”) rather than the simple past (“took”).

            This is an understandable mix-up in a complex language like English.

            So, what if he meant that Petraeus has indeed achieved victory?  What do we do now?  What is our strategy?  To continue the draw-down of Surge forces, those 30,000 troops that have helped stabilize the country—together with the Sunni Awakening and the standing down of the Shia militias controlled by Muqtada al-Sadr?  Accelerate our withdrawal along a time-table approved by Prime Minister Maliki?

            But what if Senator McCain did in fact get his verb tenses confused? What if he meant Petraeus is taking us toward victory?

            What is our definition of this term victory?  Some have said, “A stable Iraq that can defend itself.”  But what does this look like?

 What would be the conditions on the ground that would indicate such a status? 

                        Reduction in violence for all.

                        Sustainable political agreements amongst the Sunni, Shia and Kurds about elections, oil revenues and who serves in the government.

                        The full “standing up” of the Iraqi forces to defend their country and its borders.

                        Functioning civic processes and organizations: a free press; an equitable legal system; schools open continuously.

                        Resources available to all citizens; fuel oil, electricity, sewage, goods and services in open, risk-free markets.

                        Support from neighbors in the region

            And a government that supports the United States?

            Victory involves some or all of these, but if we never define our goal, we will work toward it indefinitely.

And if we are still striving toward victory, what is our strategy for achieving it? 

Just doing more of the same is an unreflective way of never achieving our goals.

            Any strategy should keep in mind that General Petraeus has also told members of Congress earlier this year that our success in Iraq will not be primarily military.  We will have to use a combination of military force and skilled diplomacy—more the latter than the former.

            Let’s hear more straight talk about how to achieve stability amongst all the factions in Iraq and with neighbors in the region , not just about “winning.”

            In an era of terrorism the terms “victory” and “defeat” are  outdated and mislead  us toward over-reliance on military means of attaining our goals. There will be no surrender ceremony on the decks of the USS Missouri or anywhere in this world.

We need other ways of achieving the desired goal of stability, and new concepts of what security means and looks like within an age of constant threats to our safety.

We are in  a continuous, arduous struggle to maintain our freedom, one requiring that we maintain a vigilant inquisitiveness about all policies, performances and philosophies.

 

 

John Barell

Author of Quest for Antarctica—A Journey of Wonder and Discovery (2007)

www.morecuriousminds.com

           

           

           

            



By: John Barell

About the Author:

The JZA asked:


I bought about 500,000 of the new government Iraqi dinar when I was in Iraq, and I was wondering how much they are worth now. I understand it might not be a lot considering the current political situation, but I was wondering if anyone had any idea what they are worth, or where I could look to find out. Also, where would I go to exchange them for American dollars?