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Spitting on the Troops

examples of how Republican policies are responsible for our troops and vets getting screwed

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An Imminent Spending Blitz (?) and the Debt Ceiling

About Two and a half months ago, Mike Norman pointed out that when Federal spending and tax collections in fiscal 2012 were compared with those for the same calendar date in 2011, data from the Daily Treasury Statements (DTS) showed that 2012 Federal spending was lagging behind 2011 spending by $433 Billion; while 2012 tax revenue Read below the fold...

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Best in Class . . . and a Blue Ribbon for Unintended Situational Irony

Seen at a local fair.
Yay! This is the best 9/11 since 9/11!
Be sure to light the candle to celebrate!
After we've all had a slice, maybe we can give a bullhorn to a Texas rooster so he can climb all over it and sing cock-a-doodle doo!
Cock-a-doodle doo!
BEST IN CLASS!

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In Other News: Wreck in Strait of Hormuz Damages Navy Nuclear Sub

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So the Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine Hartford and the Navy LPD New Orleans (which is an amphibious dock ship, meaning essentially it can launch and recover amphibious boats for landings: Read below the fold...

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Liar! Liar! Obama's Secretary of War (crossposted from BAR)

Until 1947, the United States habitually told the truth about at least one thing. The job title of the Pentagon's highest ranking civilian was the Secretary of War. But the recent slaughter of tens of millions in the Second World War had given the Pentagon's real function a bad name. So Democrat Harry Truman rebranded the Department of War, naming it the Department of Defense. From that day, the Secretary of War became the Secretary of Defense. War plants, war expenditures and bloodthirsty war industries became more benign-sounding defense plants, the defense expenditures and the patriotic defense industry. Read below the fold...

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Absurdity and Obscenity: The Best Phrase to Describe "news" From Iraq

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It's all lies. Or distortion. Or confabulation. Or misdirection. But I found this example rather egregious. I bet you DFHs remember this sort of thing from back in the day:

Radio Sawa broadcast on December 11 the good news from the American forces that the regions of Arab Jabour and Al-Buaitha had been definitively cleared of the last vestiges of AlQaeda. Here's what their website reported that day

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Phony Soldiers Tell Us About The War; Are Iraqis Who Agree Also Phony?

As you have probably heard by now, we have another signed op ed by those who fought the war in Iraq, this time in the Wa Po, and this time we are hearing from commissioned officers, 12 Captains whose Read below the fold...

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Bush Legacy: Looting the Ruins

The Bush War Department sent 2,600 soldiers from the Minnesota National Guard to Iraq for two years. The survivors came home to learn their orders showed they served one too few days to accrue GI Bill benefits.
Tell me again how anything connected with the GOP supports our armed forces' serving personnel?
Because, while Rush and the rest of their media tools bloviate on the phoniness of soldiers who aren't gung-ho on staying in Iraq forever (especially when the soldiers say this is a distraction from the real mission in Afghanistan), Bu$hco wrecked our Army. Read below the fold...

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US General Battiste Answers Rush Limbaugh AND defends Petraeus

From Keith Olbermann's show on MSNBC recently -- pay particular attention to the last 45 seconds please!

Al Qaeda in 60 countries, or more? Dave Petraeus used by the Bush administration? Read below the fold...

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30,000 coming back from Iraq next year, just as planned

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From a recent Anderson Cooper 360 broadcast, originating Over There: Read below the fold...

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For more than 50 years

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Between 1952 and 1962, Boeing built more than 740 of these planes. Not a one since. Read below the fold...

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Vets Deserve an Education, at the Very Least. Right?

Ok, I just listened to this (short, worth your time):

Sergeant Todd Bowers - Listen to the audio clip (or download)

warcomeshome.org

And besides being pissed that Chimpy has made one more American drop out of college and join the race for lifetime underemployment, I'm pissed at the Democrats. I'm slow and can't keep up with all the developments these days, but since when has the Montgomery Bill (education for vets) package been so shitty? And for how long are the Democrats going to sit around and do nothing about it? I remember the package when I was in, and for some reason it didn't seem as bad as it's described in that clip- I seem to remember there was more. Even if I'm wrong, isn't right now a great time to get moving on something like this? It's a win, win, win situation, no voter would be against it and no Republican could be for very long or very loudly in the last few months of the campaign cycle. Sigh. It just seems so obvious to me.

That the Dems' new "VETS" education package doesn't increase the amount of money given for books or tuition, I'd have to call it "better than warm shit." Just what our returning vets deserve, right? Christ, what hypocrites and idiots rule us.

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