Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
Maddow blames “right wing” for Peters
Rachel Maddow, whose show on MSNBC is viewed by fewer people than live in my house, took the time the other day to blame LTC Ralph Peters’s stupid rant on Fox News on Sunday over imprisoned Bowe Berdahl’s video on the entire right. IAVA’s Paul Reickhoff is interviewed and, to his credit, doesn’t engage in […]
Buying the veteran vote
Everybody is slobbering all over themselves because President Obama has finally kept two campaign promises to veterans. You can just hear the lust in Paul Reickhoff’s words as he praises the President for his new plan veteran health care in the Huffington Post this morning; Today, President Obama has taken action on two key campaign […]
Here it comes
My regular readers might remember that back in January, I wrote that the Democrats were coming for veterans’ earned benefits at this post; A new report from the Congressional Budget Office shows why some military retirees and veterans could face higher out-of-pocket costs if the Obama administration and Congress take bold moves to reform the […]
IAVA’s leadership is not nonpartisan [Jonn]
![IAVA’s leadership is not nonpartisan [Jonn]](https://valorguardians.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/rieckhoff-webb-300x199.jpg "IAVA’s leadership is not nonpartisan [Jonn]")
You may have noticed that we’ve had a hard-on for the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Association in the past few weeks. I guess I started it this time when I emailed the Executive Director, Paul Reickhoff and asked him where I could find a written copy of his criticism of the Obama Administration’s and Congress’s […]
Supporting the troops, IAVA style!
Those of us who served overseas during Operation Enduring Freedom and/or Operation Iraqi Freedom come from all across the political and socio-economic spectrum. But, if there is one thing that binds all of us, besides our service in GWOT, it is certainly our ability and desire to plunk down $250 for an evening of cocktails […]
Raising the ban on the Dover Photos
By now you all have heard. Would it surprise you to learn that the Gold Star Mom that started all this is with Code Pink? From CNN: One of the family members who favors lifting the ban is Karen Meredith of San Francisco, California, who wrote Obama urging him to order the change. Lt. Ken […]
Wasting VA money
TSO sent a link to Uncle Jimbo from Blackfive who now posts at Ace of Spades as well. We figured Jimbo would be able to do a better job with the link than we could, so stop by AoSHQ and read what IAVA and IVAW mean by “fully funding the VA”. And, oh, stop by […]
Still think they support the troops?
The People’s Worker World recounts some testimony from some anti-war dorks speaking in support of the Maoist-founded organization that calls itself Military Families Speak Out. here’s screen shot of the page instead of a link; The testimony does nothing but impugn the character of people who join the US military; Eugene Cherry joined the army […]
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