Archive for the ‘Iraq’ Category
On May 31st, I posted a story about how the United States government had funded terrorist broadcasting on al Hurra television network in the Middle East. This happened because not a single one of the executives or officials at al Hurra spoke Arabic.
Why? Why don’t they have any Arabic speakers among their personnel?
I can’t say for sure but I can say that over 11,000 service members have been discharged from the military in the last 14 years. It continues to happen to this day even though the military is having trouble meeting recruiting quotas and desperately needs members to fight the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Of these 11,000, 300 were speakers of critical languages.
Why were they discharged? They were openly gay.
When the military acts against their own best interests because of a archaic anti-gay policy something needs to be done.
Robert Greenwald at Brave New Foundation has a new video out about the ban.
You can also help by signing the petition to your Member of Congress to sign the Military Readiness Enhancement Act.
When I read about our army giving weapons to Sunni insurgents earlier this week I was confused. After all, weren’t these the same people who were fighting and killing U.S. troops? Why would we want to help them kill more of our troops.
Apparently, a promise to use the weapons to fight Al Qaeda is enough to win over the commanders of our troops.
When I first read about this I thought of the saying “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” It turns out I wasn’t the only one. There is, however, a bit of a problem with this type of thinking. It ignores the fact that when your “enemy” is no longer around, your “friend” may revert back to being your enemy.
It turns out I wasn’t the only one to remember that saying in regards to this story. Jon Stewart over at The Daily Show had this very funny spin on the issue. Click on the picture below to be taken Crooks and Liars to see the clip of the show.
The U.S. military death toll in Iraq has reached passed 3,500. The Department of Defense has confirmed the deaths of 3,492 troops. Eleven more have been reported but are as yet unconfirmed.
As of 8:00 PM Eastern time there have been 3,503 military deaths in Iraq.
Information obtained by Iraq Coalition Casualties
This cartoon very clearly shows the differences between most former “war time” presidents and Bush.
