Labels: Afghanistan, Bush, Guantanamo Bay, Iraq, Military, Obama, Pakistan, Syria, terrorism, Veterans
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Coalition Airstrike Kills 9 Afghan Soldiers, Officials Say [Wash Po]Labels: ACLU, Afghanistan, Iraq, Military
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According to a report by the Associated Press Saturday, veteran group Vets for Freedom is launching a national ad campaign this week touting the troop buildup in Afghanistan and Iraq.Labels: advertising, Afghanistan, Iraq, Veterans, warfare
The Glen and Helen Show recently interviewed military blogger and author Michael Yon. They discuss his new book, Moment of Truth in Iraq: How a New 'Greatest Generation' of American Soldiers is Turning Defeat and Disaster into Victory and Hope. Michael also gives some interesting advice to the presidential candidates about what to say and do concerning the situation in Iraq.
In short this is a hollow political announcement.-DippoldThis announcement will do nothing to help the troops currently deployed for 15 months right now, some of whom will not return to the United States until summer 2009. Almost half of the active-duty Army’s frontline units are currently deployed for 15 months, HALF, and of those units, three are on their fourth tour and almost all have been deployed at least twice. We need to reduce everyone’s current tours to 12 months, right now.
From now to the end of this president’s term in office, the overwhelming majority of frontline troops scheduled to deploy are Army National Guard, and their scheduled tours are already 12 months, so again, the President’s announcement does nothing to help them even though many of these troops are scheduled for their second deployment, leaving jobs and families behind again, for a full year.
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The Democrats in the Senate Armed Services Committee are using this latest opportunity provided by the presence of General Petraeus with his official update report, to display something one wouldn’t necessarily expect: their utter contempt for General Petraeus and the war he—and ostensibly his country—is engaged in to win, in Iraq.The liberals refuse to accept a general set of standards: the surge has proven to bear much success, and this thing has a shot at succeeding in the end, whenever that is.
James Joiner of An Average American Patriot:
If you realize the real role of the surge or of attacking iraq and staying the course it is all success as is the allowed degradation of our America. Observing China's persecution of Tibetan's and being ignored by Bush it increasingly is looking like a case of you ignore my indiscretions and I'll ignore yours as the ignored world unrest will climax in a total world breakdown! Anyway you look at it once again I am going to update and reiterate the total failure Bush guaranteed the day he ignored all advice to the contrary and attacked Iraq so he could set us up to go after Iran and implement what he thinks will be his and Israel's idea of a new middle east order.Link to C-Span video of the hearing [Real Media]
According to what lawmakers said Tuesday, the Federal Reserve sent more that $4 billion in cash to Baghdad on large pallets aboard military planes a short time before the U.S. gave governmental control back to the Iraqis.The fact is, BILLIONS of tax dollars are missing in “The Desert”, and this guy was left in charge of them. When pressed on the wherabouts of those THREE HUNDRED, THIRTY-SIX TONS of tax dollars under his care, he counters by whining about how “tough” and “chaotic” it was at the time, and how it made more sense to just keep on doing whatever he FELT like at the time with those BILLIONS of dollars of our tax money. Just because the man worked for the United States Government doesn’t give him a pass, should this man ever stand trial for losing BILLIONS of dollars of other people’s money.Brent at A Dakota Democrat calls for more oversight:
Somehow according to a report by the special Inspector General for Iraq, $8.8 Billion of reconstruction funds have been mysteriously lost. So, our government shipped pallet loads of US money into Iraq, dispersed it by stuffing it in duffel bags in the back of pickup trucks, and now is saying we don't know where it is. Boy, I am glad that there has been oversight over the money that we have sank into this war. Nothing like having over 10% of the money spent by congress on this war being missing.Significant time on Technorati provided no defense for this act. Bloggers appear to overwhelmingly condemn sending 363 tons of cold hard cash into a war zone. Maybe they needed the money instantly and an efficient way to distribute it was in the form of greenbacks? Who knows?
