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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin described Georgia’s actions as “complete genocide”. Putin also said Georgia had effectively lost the right to rule the breakaway province – an indication Moscow could be preparing to fulfill South Ossetians’ wish to be absorbed into Russia.
Russia also laid much of the responsibility for ending the fighting on Washington, which has [...]

Posted by bosskitty August 10th, 2008 | Tags: Bush, Commander In Chief Test, Georgia, Ossetia, Putin, Russia, US State Department, War | Category: Bush, Cheney, Commander In Chief Test, Election, Georgia, Ossetia, Putin, Soldiers, US State Department, War | Leave a comment

Veterans Administration Bars Voter Registration Drives for Wounded Soldiers
On April 25, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) issued Directive 2008-023, “Voting Assistance for VA Patients,” allowing voter registration drives in VA hospitals, only to reverse itself on May 5 with Directive 2008-025. Without registration drives, it appears that each veteran will have to request [...]

Posted by bosskitty May 28th, 2008 | Tags: Dianne Feinstein, Hatch Act, John Kerry, VA, veterans benefits, Veterans Health Administration, Vote, wounded soldiers | Category: Hatch Act, Politics, Soldiers, VA, Veterans Health Administration, Vote, War Cost, trauma, veterans benefits | Leave a comment

The US State Department rejects wannabe immigrants who have gambled their lives to help Americans. The stories are endless and tragic. Americans promise the world to Iraqis and Afghanis, winning their allegiance and support. Often recruiting them for dangerous translator positions, sometimes making outrageous promises they know can’t be kept. Some [...]

Posted by bosskitty March 23rd, 2008 | Category: Green Card, Human Rights, Immigration, Mismanagement, Occupation Army, Outsource, Pentagon Corruption, Promises, Soldiers, US State Department, Ugly American, Volunteers, War Cost, contradictions, critical resources, injustice, negligence, prejudice, profiling, responsibility, translators, troops | Comments (1)

After the War, a New Battle to Become Citizens
Despite a 2002 promise from President Bush to put citizenship applications for immigrant members of the military on a fast track, some are finding themselves waiting months, or even years, because of bureaucratic backlogs. One, Sgt. Kendell K. Frederick of the Army, who had tried three [...]

Posted by bosskitty February 24th, 2008 | Category: Bush, Immigration, Iraq, Pentagon Corruption, Promises, Senator Charles E. Schumer, Soldiers, The Liar, VA, VFW, War Cost, immigrants, injustice, national security, profiling, troops, veterans | Comments (2)

Well, here’s another well kept secret about Bush’s favorite mercenary death squad. Apparently in 2005, Blackwater dropped CS gas, a riot-control substance, from a helicopter. They also released it from an armored vehicle on U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians at the checkpoint to the Green Zone. Blackwater, being the steroid boneheads that they are, said [...]

Posted by nytexan January 10th, 2008 | Category: Baghdad, Blackwater, CS gas, Green Zone, Iraq, Mercenaries, Politics, Soldiers, State Department, War Crimes, military | Comments (9)

Pentagon Warns of Civilian Layoffs If Congress Delays War Funding
Democrats Are Firm on Link to Troop Withdrawals From Iraq
By Jonathan Weisman and Ann Scott Tyson Washington Post
The Defense Department warned yesterday that as many as 200,000 contractors and civilian employees will begin receiving layoff warnings by Christmas unless Congress acts on President [...]

Posted by bosskitty November 21st, 2007 | Category: Afghanistan, Agendas, Bush, Casualties, Congress, Contractors, Corruption, Democracy In Action, Executive Branch, Hypocracy, Iraq, Joint Chiefs, Middle East, Nancy Pelosi, Outsource, PTSD, Pakistan, Pentagon Corruption, Politics, Propaganda, Soldiers, Tax Dollars, VA, War, War Contractors, War Cost, Waste, appropriation, betrayal, department of defense, deployment, disinformation, escalation, mental health, negligence, profiteers, responsibility, veterans benefits, victims | Comments (3)

Iran says documents show U.S. backing “terrorists”
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran has access to evidence of U.S. support for terrorist groups in the Middle East, a senior Iranian official was quoted as saying on Sunday.
U.S. imposes new sanctions on Iran‘s military
Petraeus steps up accusations against Iran
Petraeus says Iran stoking Iraq violence
Iraq official says [...]

Posted by bosskitty October 28th, 2007 | Category: Afghanistan, Ahmadinejad, Al Qaeda, Arab Nations, Armageddon, Ayatollah Khamenei, Black Ops, Bomb, Bush, CIA, Casualties, Cheney, Collateral, Congress, Corruption, DOD, Donald Rumsfeld, Elections, Fear, Foriegn Policy, Global Power, Iran, Iraq, Islamic Jihad, Oil, PKK, Pentagon Corruption, Petraeus, Politics, Propaganda, Soldiers, Tax Dollars, Tehran, The Divider, Turkey, WMD, WWIII, War, War Cost, Weapons of Mass Destruction, World War Three, administration, arrogance, candidates, covert, disinformation, escalation, executive privilege, invasion, military, resonsibility, terror, threat, troops | Comments (4)

There is even a Texas connection in this story. Apparently there are forward thinking military families and sperm banks starting a discounted business relationship. The legal issues abound. The moral issues are yet to be addressed. There are a lot of great arguments from all sides.
Two years after US soldier’s death, [...]

Posted by bosskitty October 25th, 2007 | Category: Casualties, DNA, Soldiers, Widows, grandparents, sperm | Leave a comment

Bush the deceiver, the liar and a disgrace to all Americans again is hiding the truth and playing with numbers. I guess he thinks soldiers are numbers and not human beings.
In his prime time play us for fools speech, Bush said troops would be redeployed by next summer bringing the troops to pre-surge level. Well [...]

Posted by nytexan September 14th, 2007 | Category: Bush, Iraq, Iraq Report, Politics, Soldiers, War, military, surge | Leave a comment