Turkey which is our main route to resupply the troops in Iraq is one of out main allies in the Muslim world, they have been for decades now.
The Democrats, afraid that we might be winning in Iraq have come up with a new and improved way of undermining the war effort.
The Ottoman empire which went defunct in 1917, committed a horrible atrocity against the Armenian people, genocide if you must use the word, needless to say the Turks are real touchy about this word "GENOCIDE" there has been t...
The US military has fielded a series of UAV's (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) that makes one think of futuristic wars and years in the future. But they are here and now.
The Army is training with and beginning to use a new UAV called the "Raven".
You have to love the high tech launch system !!
The Raven is a small lightweight UAV. While the Raven looks deceptively like a remote-controlled hobby plane it is actually a high-tech device that can provide real-time footage or still images ...
Over the past few days I am sure you have seen the usual far left rhetoric about comments Gen. Sanchez made about Iraq. One of the funny things about this story is that these people were also the one's who called Gen. Sanchez quite a few names during the Abu Ghraib "scandal". However, since he was critical of Bush nothing else matters.
But something you haven't seen reported too much in the media (except for Fox News, go figure) is that Gen. Sanchez ripped the media during this sa...
We need another Joe McCarthy to shine the light on the Communist that have disguised themselves as Democrats and are bent on destroying America from within. While Joe was a little crazed in his hunt for Communists, right now he would have a field day, there are so many Liberals out there with Communist ideals, Karl Marx would be proud of them. We need to impanel the house of UNAmerican activities again to stop the Mainstream media from their continued distortion of what is really happening in Ir...
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torture[1,noun]torture[2,transitive verb]
Main Entry: 1tor·ture
Pronunciation: 'tor-ch&r
Function: noun
Etymology: French, from Late Latin tortura, from Latin tortus, past participle of torquEre to twist; probably akin to Old High German drAhsil turner, Greek atraktos spindle
1 a : anguish of body or mind : AGONY b : something that causes agony or pain
2 : the infliction of inte...
Recently the discussion about US torturing people at Guantanamo Bay has made its way into the media.
A campaign led by Hillary Clinton and other heavy left leaning politicians are taking a more 'Politically Correct' view of torture saying it should be banned.
Let me begin with the definition from dictionary.com
political correctness
noun:
avoidance of expressions or actions that can be perceived to exclude or marginalize or insult people who are socially disadvantaged or discriminat...
Why do we treat our soldiers like crap? It would be one thing if I believed that this was an accident but I've been a military dependent long enough to know that someone is specifically making these decisions based on $$$$. Saving money is great. Saving money screwing our soldiers is bullshit.
So what is the latest. 2,600 Minnesota National Guard soldiers just ended a 22 month tour in Iraq. YES, 22 months. The longest deployment of any ground troop u...
I just read a very moving article by Christopher Hitchens from Vanity Fair magazine. I have included a few excerpts but I encourage you to follow the link at the bottom and read the entire article.
"Yet what, and how, should we feel? People are not on their oath when speaking of the dead, but I have now talked to a good number of those who knew Mark Daily or were related to him, and it's clear that the country lost an exceptional young citizen, whom I shall always wish I had had ...
Conspiracy theory? Maybe it is, but I can't find another explanation. Maybe someone else can school me (and while schooling, please remember, I am in the military)
Joke, maybe it is. Since you are in are were part of the military you may think I am talking down to you but that is not the case I am only bringing everyone else up to speed so bare with me while I give you the long answer.
The US military is a force on force fighting group. Meaning it is designed to fight armies of other na...
I bet you can ask almost anyone on the street or in your immediate friends group "How many soldiers have we lost in Iraq?" and they will probably be able to tell you at least 3000 or 4000 soldiers. Why because you are told the number every day in papers and on the news and radio repeatedly throughout the day.
Ask them "How many terrorist have we killed in Iraq?" and they will not be able to tell you. Why?
Because of the lopsided reporting on this war. For the first time the numbers are com...
Well on the news last night I heard that the US Military might have had Bin Idiot in their sights and missed him. He was supposedly spotted in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan and Pakistan and the US Military sent in Special Forces to try and find him and capture or kill him, they did not find him of course, or you would have seen it plastered all over the news.What you did not hear on the nightly news was that the Afghanistan Army advised and supported by coalition forces, killed more t...
With all the negative comments about the surge working or not working in Iraq and the childish, and hate filled comments and ads about the Commander of the Troops in Iraq or "progress" in Iraq beng not made I wondered, what would be acceptable by most people as progress? What would have to happen in order for most people to say that things are "better" in Iraq than they have been? Not withstanding a retreat or why we went in the first place.
I think most people would say t...
HUSSEINIYAH, Iraq – A noticeable change has taken place on the streets of Husseiniyah that benefits Soldiers and civilians. Civil service impact projects are changing the city’s appearance, smell and attitude.
Formerly an extremely hostile area, Husseiniyah is an ever-changing front, where Soldiers now meet with Iraqi leaders in the street.
The violence in and around Husseiniyah made world news earlier this summer. What was once a relatively safe and secure area of operations had turned ...
This is an interview of Cpt. Tilman about the changes in the Baqubah area of Iraq he has seen and his daily duites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgOQ76yDvqQ
This war has lasted longer than we were at war in WWII. This is not true! The war in Iraq only lasted six weeks. We are now in the war on terrorist.
Do you expect us to be in Iraq forever? No, just until things are stable.
Keep in mind that we are currently fighting a war in Korea that started around 1950 we have had troops in Korea for over fifty years! No complaints over that because it was a UN war and we got stuck with the check. WWII ended in Europe in 1945 yet we kept almost half a...