SIGAR: U.S. Army’s waste, fraud and abuse in Afghanistan
SIGAR, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, has found two U.S. Army generals guilty of waste of $36 million in U.S. taxpayer money for a Taj Mahal in Helmand province that...
View ArticleThe U.S. can’t leave Afghanistan, but everything’s going great!
The U.S. can’t leave Afghanistan, but everything there is going great. Just like things in Iraq were just swell under General Casey in 2006-2007, while 50 decapitated bodies were being found in a house...
View ArticleDeath of a contractor: a former colleague in Iraq, Dick McEvoy
I was recently informed by a former co-worker in Iraq that one of our colleagues there, retired U.S. Army colonel Dick McEvoy, was killed on August 22, 2015, while serving as a contractor in...
View ArticleChild sex abuse in Afghanistan condoned by senior US military
U.S. soldiers and Marines have been punished, relieved of duty and forced out of the military for reporting child sex abuse by Afghan officials to their superiors. In one case three Marines were...
View ArticleObama shows his ‘leadership’ by letting Putin be the leader
Barack Hussein Obama continues to show the world what kind of ‘leader’ he really is, this time by handing the baton of world leadership to Vlad Putin. The Community-Organizer-In-Chief doesn’t have...
View ArticlePutin vs. Obama: The enemy of my enemy is my friend!
In yesterday’s post I described how Obama abdicated U.S. leadership to Vladimir Putin, who was more than happy to grab the baton Obama dropped on the floor. The ‘leadership swap’ allowed Vlad to take...
View ArticlePutin and Obama: the adult and the child (in that order).
Vladimir Putin is showing Obama what it’s like to deal with a real man, and a real leader. No matter how you feel about the guy, Putin is one to be taken seriously. Likewise, no matter how you feel...
View ArticleGeneral says U.S. making ‘remarkable progress’ against ISIS!
Retired Marine Corps General John Allen (who got canned after sending 1,000’s of emails to Jill Kelley in Tampa) says the U.S. is making ‘remarkable progress’ against ISIS. Really? Gen. John Allen...
View ArticleTony Blair says “elements of truth” linking Iraq War and ISIS
In advance of a long-awaited report on Britain’s role in the Iraq War, former PM Tony Blair has admitted there are “elements of truth” to reports that overthrowing Saddam Hussein may have had something...
View ArticleMartin Dempsey retired—what did he accomplish in 40 years?
Martin Dempsey retired from the United States Army last month after serving on active duty for 40 years. But what did he accomplish? I served under Martin Dempsey in Iraq. He was the commander of the...
View ArticleThe U.S. had wiped out the Taliban, then we invaded Iraq.
By the afternoon of the 9/11 attacks we knew Al Qaeda was responsible, and we also knew it was the welcome guest of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. President George W. Bush sent U.S. forces to...
View ArticleObama: ‘no boots on the ground!’ Now, boots on the ground.
Reversing his many pledges not to put ‘boots on the ground,’ Obama is now reversing himself by putting ‘boots on the ground‘ in Syria for the first time, and maybe sending some back to Iraq. This past...
View ArticleU.S. general who botched training Syria rebels to get promoted
The U.S. Army general who botched training Syria rebels will be getting promoted to three stars. The Army general in charge of the Pentagon’s failed $500 million program to train and equip Syrian...
View ArticleGuantanamo terrorists calling the shots: no female US soldiers!
The terrorists at Guantanamo are calling the shots: they refuse to be escorted to and from court proceedings by female soldiers. And the U.S. military judge ruled in their favor! Inmates apparently...
View ArticleVeterans Day: 101st to send 500 soldiers to train Iraq Army.
On this Veterans Day 2015, it looks like the 101st Airborne (actually “Airmobile”) Division plans to send 500 soldiers (they are no longer “Paratroopers” in the 101st) to Kuwait to train the Iraqi...
View ArticleTime out—we’re sending a second wave of soldiers to Kuwait!
It turns out 500 soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division are replacing a unit that just came back. We’re sending a second wave of soldiers to Kuwait! There’s more. The commander of the unit that just...
View ArticleIf the ISIS attack in Paris isn’t a wake-up call, what is?
Abu Bakr al–Baghdadi (Photo: Iraqi Ministry of Interior) If the ISIS attack in Paris this past Friday wasn’t a wake-up call for the western democracies to get their act...
View ArticleCongressman: 4-star general needed to lead fight against ISIS
In the aftermath of the attacks in Paris, and the pathetic lack of will on the part of Barack HUSSEIN Obama, a U.S. Congressman says a 4-star general is needed to lead the fight against ISIS. Rep. Mac...
View ArticleMitt Romney takes the gloves off against Obama!
Mitt Romney took the gloves off and unleashed on Obama this past Tuesday: “I think he may go down in history as one of the very worst foreign-policy presidents in American history.” It’s too bad Mitt...
View ArticleI thought Obama said we weren’t in combat in Afghanistan.
Didn’t Obama say we weren’t in combat in Afghanistan anymore? When Krissie K. Davis deployed to Afghanistan this spring with the U.S. military, she was excited about her mission and told her family...
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