Click here for the video of the recent ABC undercover investigation showing the kinds of things army recruiters are telling potential recruits these days. To check out the President's outlook on this issue, check out this article by Tim Grive of salon.com. Here are statements made by President Bush today at…
This is part of the stinging verdict announced in the November 20, 2006 edition of The American Conservative: Faced on Sept. 11, 2001 with a great challenge, President Bush made little effort to understand who had attacked us and why—thus ignoring the prerequisite for crafting an effective response. He seemingly did…
Check out this article and video posted on Think Progress. Don't forget to read the citations to "stay the course" and the comments. Hey! Somehow, this man is still in charge of our country. Really, time kick this fratboy out of the oval office before he accidentally (or intentionally) launches a nuke.
Paul Rieckhoff hits the mark again with this comment on Huffpo:
As a veteran of this war in Iraq, I am sickened by the consistently flip nature of the President in the face of deadly serious issues. His ridiculous banter reflects poorly upon all Americans . . .
[W]ith nukes in North Korea, perverts in Congress and 140,000 of my brothers and sisters in uniform bound to serve another four years in Iraq, I’d rather have a statesman than a frat boy.
Rieckhoff is the Founder and Executive Director of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA). He is also the author of a book I’ve struggled to read for the past two months: Chasing Ghosts (2006). Would you like to know what it would be like to be a soldier during the early months of the Iraq occupation? Rieckhoff’s book is the place to start.
Rieckhoff is not your typical soldier. After graduating from an Ivy League college, he signed up for the Army reserves in 1998. While serving in the reserves, he took a high-paying job on Wall Street. After the attacks of 9/11, he volunteered for active duty and he volunteered for the invasion of Iraq, to the dismay of his father. “I wanted to fight the good fight. I wanted to be a hero.”
Rieckhoff had heard Dick Cheney assure everyone that we would be “greeted as liberators.” Cheney told the country “all we had to do was take out Saddam and his regime …
A site called “The Invisible American” contains links to four disturbing slideshows (about 8 to 10 minutes long each) documenting “the other side of the American Military in Iraq.” As indicated by The Invisible American, these images tell a dark and troubling story. I sat down to watch one of…