House panel plans hearings on misinformation surrounding Tillman, Lynch cases A U.S. House committee announced Tuesday it would hold hearings on misleading military statements that followed the friendly fire death of Pat Tillman in Afghanistan and the rescue of Pfc. Jessica Lynch in Iraq. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said an April […]
John Boehner said it would only take 60-90 days to know if the surge is working. Last week, we past that 60 day mark and are on the way to the 90 day mark. So does this article indicate success in Iraq? The U.S. military death toll in March, the first full month of the […]
That is is from the Army Times: Soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s Medical Hold Unit say they have been told they will wake up at 6 a.m. every morning and have their rooms ready for inspection at 7 a.m., and that they must not speak to the media. “Some soldiers believe this is […]
Here is one bombing for today Laura: U.S. and Iraqi forces staged raids in Baghdad’s main Shiite militant stronghold Tuesday as part of politically sensitive forays into areas loyal to the radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Southwest of the capital, three American soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb. Meanwhile, police said a car bomb exploded […]
Remember a couple of years ago when Rumsfeld was asked by a active soldier in Iraq how come they didn’t have armor? How about all the times we have heard parents of troops saying they have to send money to our troops to buy armor and the Pentagon not wanting to reimburse them, or even […]
How many heard of this one? NEW YORK A young woman met a sudden and tragic end, it was reported on Thursday, leaving her family and people who knew her in great distress. No, it’s not Anna Nicole Smith. Her name is Jennifer Parcell, and she died in Iraq. But you’d be lucky if you […]
John has this: Imus: Here’s what a disgrace O’Reilly is. Olbermann can’t kill him enough. Here’s what O’Reilly’s doing. You are not going to believe this. This sonofabitch actually went on that falafel thing of his and he said–if you’ll buy a copy of his book-for every copy of his stupid book, he’ll send a […]
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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 […]
John Mark Karr, Katrina, new hurricanes, Tom Cruise, and now Warren Jeffs. Wow with all that going on in the world, it is no wonder why little stories like this get buried: Police found more than two dozen bodies across the capital Tuesday and the government said 73 people had died in fighting in the […]