THE TICKER – Pentagon can no longer hide coffins :: Israel lobbyists charged with spying on U.S. :: Military scours online personals to route out gay servicemembers
THE TICKER – Pentagon can no longer hide coffins :: Israel lobbyists charged with spying on U.S. :: Military scours online personals to route out gay servicemembers
Pentagon can no longer hide coffins: In response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, the Pentagon will now release photos of flag-draped coffins containing the remains of U.S. servicemembers killed in the Iraqi war. The Bush Administration has censored such photos in order to keep public approval of the war from slipping. Too late for all that, anyway.
Israel lobbyists charged with spying on U.S.: Two former employees of the lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) were indicted yesterday on charges that they illegally received and passed on classified information to foreign officials and reporters over a period of five years. A Pentagon security analyst has been charged with feeding the two men secret U.S. information about Iran.
Military scours online personals to route out gay servicemembers: The U.S. military apparently has nothing better to do than surf Gay.com and other websites looking for service personnel who may have profiles online so they can kick out the homos under the “Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell” rules. Hey, it’s not like there’s a war going on or anything.
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Not hiding the coffins will make it a little harder for the Pentagon to fudge the numbers. Puerto Rico said that their are more like 6 or 7 thousand dead and the extra deaths are not reported as combat deaths because the soldiers died in the hospital in Germany. As ;long as they leave Iraq soil breathing, they are supposedly not reported as killed in combat. Now we can verify if this is the case.
Matt Gaetz is just a shutdown-promoting asshat
Who wants to oust McCarthy if he works with Democrats.
But he needs the cooperation
Of the Democrat delegation,
So what do they do to Gaetz if HE works with Democrats?
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A new Pew Research poll finds that 65% of Americans “say the way the president is elected should be changed so that the winner of the popular vote nationwide wins the presidency. …. A third favor keeping the current Electoral College system.”
Not hiding the coffins will make it a little harder for the Pentagon to fudge the numbers. Puerto Rico said that their are more like 6 or 7 thousand dead and the extra deaths are not reported as combat deaths because the soldiers died in the hospital in Germany. As ;long as they leave Iraq soil breathing, they are supposedly not reported as killed in combat. Now we can verify if this is the case.