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PATH: BS | Government | Military US Government Now Arming Iraqi Insurgency Posted by Pile (9968 views) [E-Mail link] Some days you ask yourself if you're living in bizzaro land... Today's news is that to help stabilize Iraq, the military has now begun giving weapons to the insurgent militia -- the Sunnis who have been blowing up U.S. troops, on the premise they will use these weapons to fight Al-Qaeda and not blow up Americans. Ok, that sounds like a good idea... right? READ MORE | 1 comment since 2007-07-09 06:31:36 | Comment on this Article Fox News: Pay No Attention To That War Posted by Pile (9120 views) [E-Mail link] [News Media] On a winter day when bomb blasts at an Iraqi university killed dozens and the United Nations estimated that 34,000 civilians in Iraq had died in 2006, MSNBC spent nearly nine minutes on the stories during the 1 p.m. hour. A Cable News Network correspondent in Iraq did a three-minute report about the bombings. Neither story merited a mention on Fox News Channel that hour. That wasn't unusual. Fox spent half as much time covering the Iraq war than MSNBC during the first three months of the year, and considerably less than CNN, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism. READ MORE Retired General George Washington Criticizes Iraq War Posted by Pile (10036 views) [E-Mail link] [Humor] Breaking a 211-year media silence, retired Army Gen. George Washington appeared on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday to speak out against many aspects of the way the Iraq war has been waged. READ MORE U.S. Government "Super-Sizes" Soldiers' Funerals Posted by Pile (11331 views) [E-Mail link] Two years ago today, Vice President Dick Cheney appeared on Larry King live to tell the American people that the Iraqi insurgency is "in its last throes" and that military activity in Iraq will decline. So it's pretty sad and ironic that in light of the ever-increasing number of American servicemen getting killed by these "last throes" of militants, Fort Lewis has announced it will no longer hold individual memorial ceremonies for soldiers, instead holding larger, "super-sized" monthly memorials for all the dead servicemen each month. But hey, good thing this Iraq issue is winding down... READ MORE Cindy Sheehan Retires From Activism Amid Disgust & Dem. Betrayal Posted by Pile (12206 views) [E-Mail link] [Activists] In 2005 she made the invisible visible. The bereaved mom of a US soldier killed in Iraq, Sheehan cried in public, cursed in public and gave public voice to what for many was until then a private question. Why did my son die, she asked the president: "What is the noble cause?" Two years later, activist Cindy Sheehan pushed another question into the public glare. Quitting the Democratic Party and resigning from the front ranks of the US anti-war movement, Sheehan said out loud what hundreds of Democratic voters have been muttering: Democrats in Congress -who do you think you're working for? READ MORE | 3 comments since 2008-03-07 00:59:41 | Comment on this Article Bush Administration Nixes Army Pay Raises Posted by Pile (11924 views) [E-Mail link] [Employment] Troops don’t need bigger pay raises, White House budget officials said Wednesday in a statement of administration policy laying out objections to the House version of the 2008 defense authorization bill. Bush also threatened to veto the bill because of provisions in it which required the military to buy American products, citing such a process as "arduous". READ MORE Veterans Turn On Commander-In-Chief Posted by Pile (9748 views) [E-Mail link] If you're the President and your generals are so upset with you that they're quitting service so they can go public with how badly you've screwed up the military, Mr. George W. Bush, you might be having a bad day... READ MORE 1. Join Army 2. Get STD 3. Profit! ...wait... what? Posted by Pile (13259 views) [E-Mail link] [Sex] Scores of veterans across the country are getting lifetime checks from the government for gonorrhea, genital herpes and other venereal diseases they caught while in the ranks. The disability payments are made under a little-known provision from three decades ago that entitles vets to monthly benefits for sexually transmitted diseases they contracted, or simply aggravated, while in the service -- even if they became infected on their own time years ago. READ MORE Pelosi Responds To Presidential Veto Of Troop Funding Bill Posted by Pile (8576 views) [E-Mail link] After Congress had the audacity to suggest to the President that he didn't have a blank check in Iraq and must "support the troops" by something other than making them targets, Bush vetoes the spending/withdrawal bill. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaks before Congress and gives quite a poignant outline of what's going on.. check out the video. READ MORE Army Bans Soldiers From Posting/Talking Online Posted by Pile (14074 views) [E-Mail link] The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer. The directive, issued April 19, is the sharpest restriction on troops' online activities since the start of the Iraq war. And it could mean the end of military blogs, observers say. The administration is fond of saying everything is going great in Iraq and it's just the media who is distorting the truth. Well, I guess not letting the people who are over there report to the rest of the world would also be distorting the truth? READ MORE 10 Articles displayed. Show More Articles.

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