U.S. Army 1st Lt. Quentin Cummings and local contractors discuss building a road across the district border of Nejrab and Koh band, east of Durnama village, Kapisa province, Afghanistan, July 22, 2010. Cummings is assigned to the Provincial Reconstruction Team Kapisa. The team's mission is to stabilize the region by enabling local governments to care for, educate, employ and protect their people through the construction of basic infrastructure. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Joe Laws
The operational mobility of the Stryker, pictured here, is one of the capabilities the Army desires in the new ground combat vehicle. The Army released a request for proposal, Feb. 25, for the GCV. According to the Brigade Combat Team Modernization Plan, released Feb. 19, the new vehicle must include, among other things, full-spectrum capability, net-readiness, and mobility. Photo credit Staff Sgt. Tony White
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates talks to students at the U.S. Air Force Air War College on Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., April 14, 2009.
Secretary Gates is on a four day trip visiting all of the branches war colleges.
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U.S. Navy Capt. Robert Lansden spends a moment with local children outside Al Mobid medical center in Az Zubayar district in Basra, Iraq, March 17, 2009. Lansden is assigned to the 304th Civil Affairs Brigade. U.S. Army photo by Karah Cohen
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U.S. Navy Cmdr. Willie “BBO” Billingslea, commanding officer of the “Warbucks” from Training Squadron 4, places a flight helmet on a female 8th-grade student from Tuskegee Middle School after speaking to hundreds of students on the importance of goal setting and his experiences as a naval aviator, Tuskegee, Ala., Oct. 9, 2008.
U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Chris Fahey
Let’s see if we’ve got this straight.
After the election, which we’re going to win, by the way:
We will not be racist.
We will not be sexist.
We will not be anti-war.
We will not be . . . .
Well you get the pattern.
This is all only about getting past the election, which we are going to win, by the way.
We are going to knit this country back together.
Then we’ll just all hang out together and be nice.
And after the election, the world will get back to normal.
The bad guys will go back into their caves.
And all will be well again.
Sure. Can hardly wait. What channel is TV Land on these days?
“The only way Iraq is going to work is if we concede that it is not likely to work the way we wanted it to.”
So say Sen. Joseph Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Leslie Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
They advocate breaking Iraq into a federation consisting of three parts: a Kurdish north, a Sunni center and a Shiite south.
Sometimes it works.
Sometimes it turns out to be Germany or Korea, or Ireland, or Cyprus or Yugoslavia.
Who gets to pull border guard duty?
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Thousands of Prisoners May Be Released Soon
IAF MP Reports Security Committee Made Recommendation to Government
Baghdad, Aug 23, (VOI)- A member of the security and defense committee of the Iraqi parliament expressed on Thursday the expectation that thousands of prisoners would soon be set free in accordance with the recommendations made by a joint parliamentary security committee.
MP from the Iraqi Accordance Front (IAF) Abdul Karim al-Samaraei told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI) “there is a committee, which includes members of parliament, Iraqi and U.S. forces, that has presented legal mechanisms to the government to free prisoners from Iraqi and U.S. jails.”
“Once these mechanisms come into force, thousands of captives will be released throughout Iraq,” the man, who is also the spokesman for the Iraqi Islamic party, said.
“The security and defense committee paid several visits to the interior ministry’s jails, including al-Adala jail in al-Kadhimiya region in northern Baghdad, al-Tasfeerat prison in central Baghdad and other jails in the capital, to be updated om the conditions of prisoners there,” he noted.
“The visits unveiled the deteriorating humanitarian conditions in the jails, where prisoners’ human rights are being violated,” the lawmaker asserted.
Are you ready for Sharia Law?
It’s coming, some say, perhaps before the next tsunami.
Maybe even before Global Warming.
It might be worth looking into. It could change your life.
If it really does come.
