While all the news agencies is busy comparing the recent friendly fire deaths in Iraq to the death of Pat Tillman, Editor and Publisher has the scoop on something even more disturbing regarding the incident: One of the soldiers died just hours after arriving in Iraq — and was one of those troops rushed to […]
A press conference today with the Army’s top brass said that their is no lack of funds causing the problems at Walter Reed, but rather it was a “failure of leadership”. This is something I had pointed out here , however the right-wing darling blogger, Michelle Malkin, decided to not talk about the actual “failure […]
From the White House that is. They are spinning as hard as they can on the Walter Reed fiasco. Tony Snow showed this spin during the first part of today’s presser: The problem is that this spin isn’t going to work. Basically Snow is saying they don’t want to talk about it. They are trying […]
Starting with a tour of the run down building 18 and then followed up with a one on one with Jon Soltz of VoteVets.org, Keith exposed the problems I have been talking about at Walter Reed this week. This has become a national disgrace, one that points directly at the administration. As Jon points out, […]
Wolf Blitzer just got done with a White House briefing. They are saying that Army and Marines will have their tours extended 3-6 months. Also additional National Guard will be called up as well as reserves. The financial side of this is “well into the billions”. This will throw a renewed voice into the debate […]
Generally it is FOX’s Neil Cavuto and his use of the right-wing propaganda style questions that make the news, but today MSNBC has followed suit. Their question today “Did Britain drop the ball in helping shape policy?”. Of course they were talking about Iraq. I guess MSNBC wants to leave their viewers believing that it […]
This is a very scary scenario and could result in the neo-cons getting their dream of World War 3: Turkish officials signaled Tuesday they are prepared to send the army into northern Iraq if U.S. and Iraqi forces do not take steps to combat Turkish Kurdish guerrillas there – a move that could put Turkey […]
Operation Yellow Elephant now has their own blog. Be sure to check them out and drop a comment while there! If you haven’t heard about Operation Yellow Elephant, their goal is to help our Army out in this time of falling recuitment levels by recruiting the young republicans who are so supportive of this war. […]
Phillip Carter and Owen West of Slate reported a story on Thursday regarding a new directive issued by the Army. This new directive, now takes the process of dealing with certain “separation”, or discharging issues, from the battalion commander, and puts it in the hands of a special court marshal, there by delaying the process. […]