Bradley Manning should not be in court but before congress feeding truth. This man has moral balls.
With more troop suicides after coming home than killed in theater speaks very loudly about the irresponsibility of current leadership today 2013 . kos
repost from 2007 below, with no war the defense both private and and federal will have to find new jobs.....volunteering time at va hospitals and working with vets would be a good start. Their is so much apathy and disconnect most all federal employees as [they] develop a sense of entitlement especially all three branches of (do nothing,but backbite each other, only talk) government.
The new enemy is war "we against us our own people" task to finance our own early deaths at the expense and detriment of our brothers and sisters. 22,000 drones by/buy 2015, the worst may yet to come for some. kos
Two chickehawks in the bush are better than....one in the white house
Demagogue,
n (plural dem·a·gogues) 1. emotive dictator: a political leader who gains power by appealing to people's emotions and prejudices rather than their rationality.
I know they don't put pictures in the dictionary but if they did republicans and democrats faces would be next to this word. We have misunderstood, misread, misplanned and mismanaged our honorable intentions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, Lebanon, entire south America, Cuba...... with an arrogant self-delusion reminiscent of Vietnam. I happen to believe that by
These young men and women that we deploy on others sovereign soil that possess valuable natural and human resources(american corporate interest, not u.s. citizens interest), are not beans. They're real lives. And we better be damn sure we know what we're doing, all of us, especially after we put 22,000 more Americans into that grinder. Many of those who want to rush this country into war and think it would be so quick and easy don't know anything about war. They come at it from an intellectual perspective, versus having sat in jungles or foxholes and watched their friends get their heads blown off.
Chicken hawk (n, pronounced chi-ken-shit): used in the u s to criticize a politician, bureaucrat, or commentator who strongly supports a war or other military action, but has never personally been in a war, especially if that person is perceived to have actively avoided military service when of draft age.
We know who the chicken hawks are. They talk tough on national defense and military issues and cast aspersions on others, When it was their turn to serve where were they? AWOL, that's where they were...the lead chickenhawk…. the GOP presidential-vice nominess of the United States. President Obama.
There is nothing brave, resolute, nor virtuous about advocating military action from afar while suffering personally no costs and/or consequences. It is, in fact, a very easy argument to make from afar when one does not have any combat experience. When the U.S. military has difficulties in recruiting soldiers and Marines (like today) the refusal of prominent war supporters even to encourage their eligible relatives and friends, their circles of influence, to consider volunteering for military service, calls into question their integrity. If the war is so important, why are only "other people" actually fighting it? George W. Bush and obama has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between. The mark of leadership is not to stand up when everybody is standing, but rather to actually stand up when no one else is standing.
I have to honestly admit that I am ashamed at the behavior of Americas top leadership. Maybe I am paranoid, but I don't feel too comfortable exercising my constitutional first amendment right of free speech by criticizing the chickenhawks in our government. Afraid five masked men may burst into my home, handcuff me, put a black hood over my head, whisk me off to the airport, put me on a plane bound for a Turkish prison never to be heard from again. A special thanks to sen. Chuck Hagel and general Wesley Clark for their contributions to this blog today….so, g-men, if you come after me, be sure and get the senator and general too, be nice to have intelligent company since I don't associate with chicken shh….uh hawks.
signed a VET
……………..Kosmicdebris…………………………..
throw all out there...accept or dismiss what-the - ever kos
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