Category: Pentagon
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Jan 25, 2010 in Bamboozling, Campaign promises, Congress (House & Senate), Current Affairs, Defense, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Flip Flopping, Hoodwinking, Pandering, President Barack Obama, Soldiers/Veterans | Comments
As we all know, Obama will be making his first SOTU address this week, though thankfully, the time will not conflict with the season premiere of “Lost.” I’m not kidding. That’s for real (and if you want to see a funny video on the whole “Lost” fan thing, click for an Onion [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Dec 21, 2009 in Afghanistan, Congress (House & Senate), Current Affairs, Defense, Health Care, Humor, Iraq, President Barack Obama, Satire | Comments
One major bit of news that went largely unnoticed this weekend was the passage of this rather significant bill,Defense Appropriations Bill Passes Senate 88-10, Clears Way For Health Bill. Yes, this pesky little bill needed to be take care of before the Democrats could begin to ram the Health “Care” bill (and its attendant [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Dec 7, 2009 in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Current Affairs, Flag officers, Foreign Policy, Gen. David Petraeus, George Bush, Germany, Pandering, President Barack Obama, Qualifications, Soldiers/Veterans, United Kingdom | Comments
^ ^ ^ bumped up ^ ^ ^
So the other night, Obama had his big Afghanistan speech. Finally, after months of waiting for a decision regarding the request by General McChrystal, Obama laid out his plan, pretty much what had been telegraphed to us before the speech (yet, he still had to get in [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Dec 2, 2009 in 9/11, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Campaign promises, Code Pink, Commander in Chief, Current Affairs, Defense, DoD, Flag officers, Foreign Policy, Pakistan, Pentagon, President Barack Obama, Soldiers/Veterans | Comments
* Bumped up from Tuesday *
The contents of which we pretty much already know at this point (thus raising the question why we still have to listen to Obama), a whole bunch of people are protesting the expected surge. One group is Code Pink:
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Another person who thinks we [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Nov 10, 2009 in Bamboozling, Campaign promises, Commander in Chief, Current Affairs, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Flip Flopping, Hoodwinking, Obama's Broken Promises, Soldiers/Veterans | Comments
On the eve of Veteran’s Day, 500 service people have been discharged from the military under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” A policy Campaigner in Chief, Barack Obama, claimed he would end once he became Waffler In Chief. In the first actual interview with the GLBT media The Advocate during the campaign, he said:
I reasonably [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Nov 6, 2009 in Commander in Chief, Current Affairs, Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama, Soldiers/Veterans | Comments
More and more has come out about Nidal Malik Hasan and what appears to be a cold-blooded assassination of 13 people at Fort Hood, 12 military, one civilian, and 28 wounded. The biggest piece of news for me this morning was finding out that Hasan was still alive, and one of the wounded. [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Oct 7, 2009 in Afghanistan, Armed Services Committee, Commander in Chief, Congress (House & Senate), Current Affairs, Flip Flopping, Foreign Affairs, John McCain, President Barack Obama | Comments
Wednesday, October 7, 2009, marks the 8th Anniversary of the US War in Afghanistan. And, at this point, President Obama is trying to decide how he wants to go forward in Afghanistan:
On the eighth anniversary of the beginning of the war in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama is gathering his national security team for another [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Aug 6, 2009 in Afghanistan, Blackwater, Campaign promises, Crime, Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Islam, Muslim, Muslims & Arabs, President Barack Obama, Presidential Candidates, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton | Comments
Many of us were up in arms that Blackwater, a private “security” force was sent to Iraq, and New Orleans, while being paid handsomely with our tax dollars. There were a number of concerns with Blackwater, particularly how they were operating in Iraq with impunity, accused of being a bunch of cowboys shooting up [...]
By Ani on Jul 19, 2009 in Commander in Chief, Foreign Aid, Hillary Clinton, Obama Administration, Obamaisms, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, State Department, Tim Geithner | Comments
Hillary Clinton has been working diligently for months to appoint a new administrator of USAID. Now Jill Dougherty of CNN reports that “Secretary of State Hillary Clinton showed a rare flash of frustration Monday:
– calling the vetting process for Obama administration nominees “ridiculous” and “a nightmare.”
At a question-and-answer session with staff from the [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Jun 10, 2009 in Civil Liberties & Rights, Commander in Chief, Democrats, Don't Ask Don't Tell, GLBT, Gay Rights, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Obama's Broken Promises, Soldiers/Veterans, Speaker Nancy Pelosi | Comments
“This Guy” being President Obama, and the ones making excuses for him are people in the LGBT community. In this particular instance, I mean over “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Yes, the Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to “DADT” in the case of Infantryman, and JAG officer, James Pietrangelo II (H/T to Soldier4Hillary [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Jun 4, 2009 in Commander in Chief, Current Affairs, Muslim, President Barack Obama, Religion, Soldiers/Veterans, Terrorism | Comments
As it turns out, the domestic terrorist, Abdulhakim Muhammad, who targeted Army soldiers outside of a recruiting station in Little Rock, Arkansas may not be acting independently after all. This is disturbing, to say the least. Here’s the latest on what has been discovered about him, some more details about Private Long, and [...]
By SusanUnPC on Apr 30, 2009 in Asia, Defense, Middle East, Pentagon, Southeast Asia | Comments
You’ve been reading Pat’s posts and you’ve seen the advertisement for his new Civil War book, along with that great video of his superb testimony on behalf of Valerie Plame Wilson and the egregious conduct of the Bush operatives in exposing her and her undercover work. Here’s a favorite Pat Lang story, told by [...]
By John Batchelor on Apr 24, 2009 in Bush/Cheney, Dick Cheney, DoD, President Barack Obama, Torture | Comments
The Wall Street Journal Inquires Re The Torture Memos.
“So the CIA requests a legal review … – and, seven years later, Mr. Obama says only the legal advisers who are no longer in government should be investigated…Is this President going to put his predecessor in the dock too?”
By Mel Goodman on Apr 14, 2009 in Defense, John McCain, Middle East, National Defense, Obama Administration, Pentagon, Robert Gates | Comments
Editor’s Note: Originally published at The Public Record.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has learned very little from the military trials and tribulations of the United States over the past 50 years. During that period, the United States has lost three costly and avoidable wars in Southeast Asia, Southwest Asia, and the Middle East. These wars [...]
By SusanUnPC on Apr 13, 2009 in Commander in Chief, Larry Johnson, National Security, Piracy, President Barack Obama, Somalia | Comments
(bumped up from afternoon)
For today’s A.P. story, “Obama draws praise, but piracy escalation feared,” Larry Johnson was telephoned and interviewed extensively by London-based A.P. reporter Gregory Katz:
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Some military strategists believe it may ultimately be necessary to attack the pirates’ base in Somalia, much as the British used to do two centuries ago. But few have [...]