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 […]
And there is a major silver lining for Bush with all this. That is the fact that the news is not covering Iraq as much now, and things are going very bad over there. Today is October 3rd, and we have already lost 13 soldiers in Iraq this month. That is almost 5 soldiers per […]
Our military presence in Iraq is a major problem – period. People try to argue the “stay the course” line over and over again, but look at these stories from today alone: Four more U.S. soldiers have been charged with rape and murder and a fifth with dereliction of duty in the alleged rape-slaying of […]
This outcome is not shocking to any of us who have been patriotic enough to question this war: A U.S. military report passed to the commander in Iraq on Friday found Marine officers failed to respond properly to conflicting reports of the killings of up to 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha last year, an official […]
ABC News has published this disturbing report: New evidence may suggest cover-ups in two separate incidents at the center of a simmering scandal over Iraqi civilian deaths at the hands of American forces. Iraqi anger is percolating over the incidents, and over an investigation that cleared U.S. forces in a third case. A brother of […]
How many more of these are we going to hear about? The BBC has uncovered new video evidence that US forces may have been responsible for the deliberate killing of 11 innocent Iraqi civilians. The video appears to challenge the US military’s account of events that took place in the town of Ishaqi in March. […]
The numbers of causalities in Iraq keeps growing. First we wake up to news of 12 soldiers killed in a Blackhawk helicopter crash in northern Iraq. Nothing has been released yet on what caused the crash but the military is working to get to the crash site. Three marines were killed today in a small […]
There was a segment on our local evening news about Jean Schmidt’s comments regarding Rep. Murtha. Turns out Schmidt wasn’t very truthful before the House last week. This from WKRC 12: Ohio Representative Responds To Use Of His Quote Ohio Congresswoman Jean Schmidt refused to say more Monday night about her comments that ignited a […]
The Government Accounting Office (GAO) released a report today showing that the recruitment levels of our military are worse than we had actually been told. The following is a highlight of the shortfalls as described in this New York Times article. Army, National Guard, Marines – Signed up 1/3 of special forces, translators and intelligence […]
ViaReuters: Army dumps general for ‘personal misconduct’ The four-star general who headed the U.S. Army’s training program has been relieved of his duties for unspecified “personal misconduct” after a probe by criminal investigators, the Army said on Tuesday. Gen. Kevin Byrnes was fired from his position as commanding general of the Army Training and Doctrine […]