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“Brazen” attack on Bagram
The Associated Press is reporting that a slew of Taliban fighters attacked Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan this morning; Insurgents launched a brazen pre-dawn assault Wednesday against the giant U.S.-run Bagram Air Field, killing an American contractor and wounding nine service members in the second Taliban strike at NATO forces in and around the capital […]
Thoughts on Blumenthal News Conference
You can watch the news conference on Real Clear Politics here (thanks to TSO for the link). First of all, it is kinda of ironic that Blumenthal was defending himself against allegations that he lied about serving overseas in a combat zone in a VFW hall. Everybody knows that to be a member of the […]
Blumenthal Campaign Denies He Lied About Vietnam Service
From the Atlantic: “The New York Times story is an outrageous distortion of Dick Blumenthal’s record of service,” Blumenthal’s campaign manager, Mindy Myers, said in a statement. “Unlike many of his peers, Dick Blumenthal voluntarily joined the Marine Corps Reserves in 1970 and served for six months in Parris Island, SC and six years in […]
Phony Vietnam Vet In Connecticut Senate Race
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal (D) has made veterans issues and his supposed service in Vietnam a centerpiece of his campaign to replace Senator Chris Dodd as a senator from Connecticut. Quite frequently, Blumenthal speaks before veterans groups and often discusses the problems that he and other Vietnam Vets faced when they returned to civilian […]
New PBS Documentary: A Good Story or Anti-Military Hit Piece?
PBS’s Frontline has an episode tomorrow on the increase in crime around Fort Carson, Colorado since the beginning of the Iraq War. The episode specifically focuses on one platoon which had three soldiers convicted of murder following its Iraq deployment. Here is the trailer for the episode: The episode hasn’t aired yet so I don’t […]
CNN charges US troops used chemicals in Fallujah
Undaunted by the fact that they had been burned in their last attempt to charge the US with using chemical weapons in a war, namely the “Operation Tailwind” story, CNN is charging that US troops used chemical weapons in their Fallujah operations in 2004; Of course, there is no proof, just Fallujah residents complaining of […]
Georgia Legislature Passes Bill to Put PTSD Diagnoses On Drivers Licenses
From Bellavia via Fox News: Veterans groups are blasting Georgia lawmakers for passing legislation that would allow a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder to appear on driver’s licenses. The legislation, which awaits Gov. Sonny Purdue’s signature, would permit servicemembers and veterans to request a PTSD denotation, which would appear on their driver’s licenses as a […]
Seymour Hersh making crap up…again
Zedechek sends us a link to a HuffPo article about Seymour Hersh in which Hersh tells us that our troops are executing prisoners in Afghanistan. His proof? Well, someone told him. “One of the great tragedies of my country is that Mr. Obama is looking the other way, because equally horrible things are happening to […]
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