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‘Mr. President, you did not listen, you continue to pursue a failed strategy that is breaking our great Army and Marine Corps’
General discontent ABC News by Jack Tapper 05/09/07 In an act of defiance perhaps not seen since President Truman fired Gen. Douglas MacArthur, today the anti-war veterans group VoteVets.org, which... ...
Iraq War General: "Mr. President, You Did Not Listen"
The anti-war veterans group, VoteVets.org, which has been influential with Capitol Hill Democrats, is launching a half-million-dollar TV ad campaign featuring Major General John Batiste (Ret.), former... ...
A Crusade and a Holy War in the US Military
An Orthodox Jew and former petty officer in the US Navy said his civil rights were violated after a chaplain and officials at a Veterans Administration hospital in Iowa City, Iowa, tried to convert him... ...
Lawmakers Want VA to Explain Bonuses
Congressional leaders demanded that the veterans affairs secretary explain hefty bonuses for senior department officials involved in crafting a budget that came up $1 billion short and jeopardized veterans'... ...
Senior VA Officials Get Big Bonuses
Months after a politically embarrassing $1 billion shortfall that put veterans' health care in peril, Veterans Affairs officials involved in the foul-up got hefty bonuses up to $33,000. http://www.truth out.org/docs_2006/050307D. shtml ...
Generals to President: You've Failed Us
Today, Generals Eaton and Batiste, who led troops in Iraq, expressed outrage at the president's veto of the US Troop Readiness, Veterans' Health and Iraq Accountability Act. http://www.truthout. org/docs_2006/050207B.shtm l ...
By his aggressive veto, Bush proves he cannot admit, much less fix, his Iraq blunder
Sealing His Eyes And Ears by Robert C. Byrd, TomPaine.com http://ga3.org/ct/Cd20pgF 1dXTI/ -------- A Veto Inked in Blood William Rivers Pitt writes: "Four years after a humiliating strut across the... ...
Getting Iraq war funding wrong again
Hawaii Reporter by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) 04/30/07 This week, Congress finalized the controversial $124 billion Iraq emergency supplemental spending bill, with the House and Senate both voting in favor... ...
Last refuge of the scoundrel
Salon by Gary Kamiya 05/01/07 Bush supporters have been labeling war critics defeatists, appeasers and surrender monkeys ever since 9/11. Chickenhawk conservatives discovered they could attack even decorated... ...
Echoes of past as Algeria probes Iraq bomb link
"Islamist" fighters returning from Iraq pose a serious threat in Algeria, security sources say, recalling how mass bloodshed in the 1990s was fuelled by veterans of the war in Afghanistan. http://www.t urkishpress.com/news.asp?i d=173049 From... ...