concerned veterans for america

AuthorDenny Gillem

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Our young service members’ victory

Vice President Biden recently claimed for the administration the credit for the great successesbr /we are experiencing in Iraq. And there are successes, but their government is no where near ready to stand alone.br /br /We live in a nation where...

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New citizens

This week in Baghdad more than 100 US service members became naturalized citizens. Lt. Gen Charles Jacoby, Deputy Commanding General for Operations and Corps Commander, was the host for the ceremony. The 107 new citizens had come from 44 counties...

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Breaking Ice with the USCG

Yesterday I escorted a group of Michigan employers to the US Coast Guard Station at St. Ignace, MI. It’s right at the narrow straights that a great deal of ship traffic uses to move lots of cargo, 12 months a year. But it gets cold up there...

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Obama claims success for Iraq

Fox News is reporting that Pres Obama–through VP Biden–is claiming credit for the success in Iraq. These two guys voted against the surge. The Status of Forces agreement (SOFA) stipulating the withdrawal process was negotiated by Bush...

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We don’t want to win

Rep Buck McKeon, the senior Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, hammered away at the administration’s national security policies the other day. “A reluctant wartime President, I fear, abstains from using words like victory and...

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Normal American Soldiers

Sergeant First Class Bruce Wolaver, a platoon sergeant working in Iraq, noticed a child playing at abr /street corner without any clothes; the child was always at that corner; Wolaver had seen poor kidsbr /before, but not one that ran around nude...

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Weather politics again

Last Monday, in the middle of the heaviest snow season on record, The Obama administration proposed a new agency to study and report on the changing climate, formerly known as global warming.br /br /Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Jane Lubchenco...

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American Moslems – a threat or help?

It turns out after the shooting at Fort Hood that there are other American Muslems who claim to be moderate that are training our military–and some of these folks have the same attitudes and relationships as did the traitor-major at Fort Hood...

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Stomp out fake heroes

The City of Houston had a mayoral election last Dec. At the vicory party of the winner a Houston citizen appeared in the uniform of an Army general, resplendet with very high awards for valor as well as a Purple Heart. Someone took pictures, and it...

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Women in the Iraqi Army

A major breakthrough. In late January a group of 65 Iraqi women started army basic training; this is the same basic training that men take. One female soldier said that she had lost her husband and son in an explosion and needed a job so she could...

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