There is still a lot of speculating going on, but the most reasonable sounding thing I have heard so far is this: His cousin said Maj Hasan had been resisting such a deployment. “He hired a military attorney to try to have the issue resolved, pay back the government, to get out of the military. […]
So Sarah Palin is back in Alaska today to see her son, who is off to fight in Iraq. She has been touting this since her debut 13 days ago. We all knew the date, because she told it to us. Why is she letting the whole world know the date of her son’s deployment? […]
Funny that when Biden says something like this, he gets chastised by the wingnuts. It will of course be different when you got a 2008 GOP Presidential hopeful saying it: Republican presidential hopeful Sam Brownback said Thursday that Iraq must achieve a “political equilibrium” even if means partitioning the country along ethnic lines. “I’m saying, […]
In 2003 we heard how we could fight two wars at the same time without putting our country at greater risk. A lot of military experts agreed with that assessment, but the “decider” spoke so here we are 3 years later fighting two wars. Of course our efforts in the war that really matters, Afghanistan, […]
Now this is the most disturbing information we have learned in awhile: A group of national security experts formed by Democratic leadership has reported to Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) that, “there is not a single non-deployed Army Brigade Combat Team in the United States that is ready to deploy,” RAW […]
This morning, Rep. Murtha was on Meet the Press and did an excellent job at keeping the support for his resolution up. Russert questioned him on what the other Republicans have said and he was good at steering clear of making it a political showdown. Even when Russert asked Murtha about Bush lying the country […]
The Republicans are pulling a strictly political stunt tonight in order to try and insult the Democrats. At approximately 7:00 tonight, they will be holding a vote on a plan to pull troops out of Iraq. The full resolution, which can be viewed at Raw Story, is very simple compared to that offered by Rep. […]