Rob Diamond, a Navy veteran and Fellow with the Truman National Security Project, noticed something interesting with the Republican response to the State of the Union address: Notice who is sitting directly behind McDonnell on his right side? You have an Army Staff Sergeant in full dress uniform. As Rob points out: Slight problem, you […]
Astonishing! As many as 20 percent of U.S. troops are coming home from war with signs they may have had a concussion, some of whom do not know they have symptoms that could be treated, Army officials said Thursday. Concussion is a common term for mild traumatic brain injury. While the Army is doing a […]
Looks like Rudy may be breaking Pentagon rules by using Petraeus’ image in his ads: Images of Gen. David Petraeus appeared in an ad the Giuliani campaign began running yesterday attacking Hillary Clinton. The Pentagon says the use of the Petraeus images was done without Petraeus’ consent. Military personnel are barred by Pentagon regulations from […]
I no longer get done posting my last article and look at what pops up: A hacker breached the Agriculture Department’s computer system and may have taken personal information on 26,000 employees, retirees and contractors, the department said, making it the latest federal agency to have had personal data compromised. The potential loss is less […]
We know the polls are bad for Bush here in the states, but how do they fair in the military world? Pretty much the same – bad news. Support for President George W. Bush’s Iraq policy has fallen among the US armed forces to just 54 percent from 63 percent a year ago, according to […]
Crooks and Liars has the video up of vice-President Cheney’s comments to the AEI today. He supported opposing views while still slamming Senators who feel the country was mislead into war. Mr. Cheney should realize that those Senators are in the company of a majority of this country. He continued to say that Saddam would […]
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 […]