A soldier shoots a bunch of people on a military base where the people are allowed to carry guns. It took a civilian police officer to finally take him down. Does that mean the argument of allowing teachers and anyone else to carry guns would reduce the number of school shootings or casualties?
Earlier today Michelle Malkin wanted everyone to not talk about Dr. Tiller’s assassination and just give time for the family to grieve. Now news has broken about a army recruiter being shot dead and another wounded at a Army recruiting center in Arkansas, and guess what? I wonder if the Justice Department will send marshals […]
When Obama mentioned the bracelet he was wearing, which bears the name Ryan Jopek, a soldier lost in the Iraq War, the right wing was in a frenzy. Quickly they started decrying the mention of Jopek and said that Jopek’s mother didn’t want him to do that (see here, here, here, here and here). Now […]
Thursday night Obama brought up this story: “You know, I’ve heard from an Army captain who was the head of a rifle platoon — supposed to have 39 men in a rifle platoon,” he said. “Ended up being sent to Afghanistan with 24 because 15 of those soldiers had been sent to Iraq. And as […]
Yesterday when I blogged about the Marine being convicted of killing an Iraqi citizen, I also talked about the problems out troops are facing by being forced into these extended stays. To further that point, here is an article, published today, about a soldier being released from medical care earlier and sent back to Iraq: […]
It’s good to see justice done, but there is still a major injustice going on. These soldiers have been deployed for an extremely long time and their mental capacity has to start being judged. So yes this person deserves to be convicted, but we need to get these soldiers out of this war and start […]
It looks like Bush’s surprise visit to Iraq is not yielding the results he would have hoped for. One interesting article shows how the administration is receiving the news that U.K. forces have pulled out of Basara: The American response to the pull out has so far been muted, despite its crucial timing. Bush administration […]
That is an article in Today’s Washington Post, which describes sheets our troops are given to describe lawmakers visiting: The sheets of paper seemed to be everywhere the lawmakers went in the Green Zone, distributed to Iraqi officials, U.S. officials and uniformed military of no particular rank. So when Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.) […]
This one will get you: While the U.S. military searches for a soldier missing in Iraq, kidnapped by insurgents possibly allied with al Qaeda, his wife back home in Massachusetts may be deported by the U.S. government. Army Spec. Alex Jimenez, who has been missing since his unit was attacked by insurgents in Iraq on […]
Well let’s check in on our monthly track of the surge and see how it is working out. First here is the updated comparison of Iraqi deaths. The Iraqi deaths are still well over the number they were last year and rose in May. But how about the U.S. soldier deaths? That picture is even […]