By: Cary Harrison and Scott Slavin With grateful acknowledgment to the late Joyce Riley and The American Gulf War Veterans Association With US TROOPS still fully entrenched in Mid-East soil, threats to safety continue to escalate. At the time of 9-11, over one-quarter (nearly 200,000) of vets who served in Operation Desert Storm had filed […]
By: Cary Harrison and Scott Slavin With grateful acknowledgment to the late Joyce Riley and The American Gulf War Veterans Association With US TROOPS still fully entrenched in Mid-East soil, threats to safety continue to escalate. At the time of 9-11, over one-quarter (nearly 200,000) of vets who served in Operation Desert Storm had filed […]
This War Is Not Over Yet By MARY L. DUDZIAK Published: February 15, 2012 THE defense secretary, Leon E. Panetta, recently announced that America hoped to end its combat mission in Afghanistan in 2013 as it did in Iraq last year. Yet at Guantánamo Bay and elsewhere, the United States continues to hold enemy detainees […]
Originally Posted: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/10/17/us-marine-stands-up-to-the-nypd-at-occupy-wall-street-protests/ This weekend, United States Marine Corps. Sgt. Shamar Thomas from Roosevelt, NY faced down over a dozen NYPD officers and gave them hell about their brutality that has been plaguing the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement. The 24-year-old Marine veteran (2 tours in Iraq) confronted the officers and lectured them about the tactics […]
Seems the only males with any balls–connected to the US, even in a superficial way–may, indeed, only reside in Iraq. The recent AP report summed it up beautifully: “On a whirlwind trip shrouded in secrecy and marred by dissent, President George W. Bush on Sunday hailed progress in the wars that define his presidency and […]