Tag: Foreign Policy & Military & War

A MARINE FROM THE FIRST GULF WAR RESPONDS TO A MARINE IN IRAQ A new letter, presumably written by a Marine in Iraq, found it's way to me today.  As […]

I've been following the faux outrage of the GOP following Senator Kerry's remarks on intellectual laziness.  Let's clear the air here folks. The snippet of audio being pimped about by […]

Gene Healy summed up Jonah Goldberg's recent admission of error on the Iraq War:  "So we carried out a countrywide Waco. At least we don't stink of patchouli."   Given […]

 Ampersand (at Alas! A Blog), on Why The Lancet Study Matters: "According to the most recent study, published in Lancet, somewhere between 400,000 and 800,000 Iraqis have died because Americans […]

PA1 Kyle Niemi, writing in Military.com reports on an interesting promotion ceremony in Marine Officer Promoted Aboard Coast Guard Ship: "If you've never seen a military advancement or promotion ceremony, here's […]

Heidi at VirusHead has an excellent post on the current regime's attempts to link opposition to wars of agression with providing comfort to the enemy: We are America’s citizens. We […]

Further demonstrating the fact that the Bushies, neo-conservative tough guys and their neo-libertarian buddies are destroying the military, the United States Marine Corps is now planning to call up 2500 members of […]

Well, writing letters can sometimes make a difference.  On June 19, 2006, Representative Edward J. Markey and fourteen other Members of Congress sent a letter to President Bush: Global security […]

According to a press release sent by the Office of the House Democratic Whip: Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD), Ranking Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee Charlie Rangel […]

The Arab American Institute (one of my favorite advocacy organizations) has issued the following information for U.S. citizens currently trapped in Lebanon: The Arab American Institute remains in constant contact […]