Nice. You get wounded, and then you are asked to REPAY part of your incentive to enlist in the first place? Insult upon injury. Literally. “Service members seriously wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan after they received a $10,000 bonus for enlisting are being asked by the Pentagon to repay portions of the incentive money, says a U.S. senator who calls the practice an example of military policy gone wrong.” “A bill in the mail is not the kind of present…
Memorial Day is the day to remember those who died in defense of this country. The American dead in Iraq were not defending our country. Their deaths represent an even more significant tragedy. (Broken bottles under children’s feetBodies strewn across the dead end streetBut I won’t heed the battle callIt puts my back upPuts my back up against the wall) They died for causes that no-one has been able to articulate faithfully or honorably. (There’s many lost, but tell me…
I support Senator Biden’s Amendment to bar any funds from being used to establish permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq or to control Iraq’s oil. I disagree with Biden’s stated opinion on the following points: I don’t think it’s at all “obvious to most Americans” that we have no designs or Iraq’s oil or strategic control of bases, nor do I believe that such topics can so easily be pushed off into the realm of “conspiracy theory” tinfoil-hatland anymore. I…