Tag: iraq
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Time for United States to Police our Own Neighborhood
“PROBLEMS ON THE HOME FRONT” by Jeff Crouere, ©2018 (Dec. 21, 2018) — In November of 2016, the American people elected Donald Trump to be our nation’s 45th President. He campaigned on a platform of bringing our troops back home from Syria and Afghanistan and focusing on an “America First” foreign policy. By announcing he…
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U.S. Army Veteran Shares Painful Experiences of Military Racism, Part 16
“THAT’S NOT THE BATTLE YOU WANT TO FIGHT” by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 15, 2018) — In the last installment of the story of former Army Capt. Gary Mason’s military experience, gleaned between 2000 and 2015 in the U.S. Army, he described officers in his command unit within the Iraq Sunni Triangle war zone as having…
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U.S. Army Veteran Shares Painful Experiences of Military Racism, Part 15
“WHATEVER YOU DO, DO NOT QUESTION WHAT’S GOING ON” by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 21, 2018) — In Part 14, former Army Captain Gary Mason brought us to the point in his story where he was sent back to Hawaii, purportedly on medical grounds, from Joint Base Balad in Iraq. Mason had arrived in-country just days…
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U.S. Army Veteran Shares Painful Experiences of Military Racism, Part 13
“IT WAS GOING TO BE ME OR THEM” by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 14, 2018) — This part of former Army chaplain and Capt. Gary Mason’s story focuses on his sense of frustration, anger, despair, and fear of persecution from within after he filed a formal complaint against an enlisted soldier who physically assaulted him at…
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U.S. Army Veteran Shares Painful Experiences of Military Racism, Part 12
“A REFLECTION OF YOUR LEADERSHIP” by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 3, 2018) — In the last installment in this series, former U.S. Army Captain and chaplain Gary Mason described how a physical assault by an enlisted soldier at FOB Paliwoda in Iraq went unaddressed and his subsequent discovery that the command in the 3/4 Cav unit…
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U.S. Army Veteran Shares Painful Experiences of Military Racism, Part 9
“A PROBLEM WITH AFRICAN-AMERICANS” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 19, 2018) — In Part 8 of our series, former Army Captain and Chaplain Gary Mason took readers to Iraq’s Sunni Triangle, where he was deployed in 2008 with the 3/4 Cavalry on a mission to retake the region from insurgents and set the stage for peace.…
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U.S. Army Veteran Shares Painful Experiences of Military Racism, Part 8
“NOT READY FOR A BLACK MAN” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 14, 2018) — Part 7 of our series of former Army Capt. Gary Mason’s story brought readers to Forward Operating Base (FOB) Poliwoda in Iraq’s Sunni Triangle, where Mason was stationed in late 2008 with the 3/4 Cavalry unit after re-entering active duty. For the…
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U.S. Army Veteran Shares Painful Experiences of Military Racism, Part 7
“WE HAD JUST LOST CONTROL” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 5, 2018) — Our last installment of Capt. Gary Mason’s story ended on the note that he had asked an Army recruiter if he could return to active duty for financial reasons while finishing his Divinity degree toward ordination as a U.S. Army chaplain. Mason enlisted…
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State Department: Close to 5 Million People Freed from ISIS Control
“IDLIB PROVINCE IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM” by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 4, 2017) — A transcript from a briefing by the U.S. State Department on Friday reveals that according to Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition To Counter ISIS Brett McGurk, nearly five million people who were terrorized by the brutal Islamic group ISIS are now…
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Mr. President, Follow in the Footsteps of Reagan, Not Bush
FOCUS ON “AMERICA FIRST” by Jeff Crouere, ©2017 (Apr. 15, 2017) — In 1986, United States President Ronald Reagan authorized military aircraft to unleash a torrent of bombs in Tripoli, Libya to send a strong message to Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. The attack was in response to Gaddafi’s involvement in the terrorist bombing of a Berlin…
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Radical Islamic Terrorists From Somalia, Iraq, Sudan, Yemen, Syria, and Iran Have Attacked Americans in the US
IF PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS DID IT, WHY NOT THIS ONE? by Capt. Joseph R. John (Ret), Chairman, CombatVeteransForCongress, ©2017 (Feb. 6, 2017) — In the last ten days, American citizens have been bombarded with fake news and outright lies stating that there have never been terrorist attacks in the United States by foreign nationals from the…
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An Open Letter to Black America
AND ALL CONTACT SPORT PROFESSIONALS by Dr. Thomas E. Davis, Col., USA (Ret.), ©2017 (Jan. 21, 2017) — Just because you happened to be born black does NOT make me feel sorry for you. This quote from Dr. Ben Carson is so valuable and meaningful, as are the rest at the site from which this…
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Republican Presidents and War Crimes, Nothing New Here
“HORRIBLE ACTS” by Michael Gaddy, ©2017, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Jan. 7, 2017) — On April 28, 2004, decent Americans were shocked to see pictures of American soldiers torturing prisoners in a military prison in Iraq known as Abu Ghraib. While there were many who saw nothing wrong with such atrocities, many more were…
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Lessons Unlearned and Unintended Consequences
“THE DEPARTMENT OF OFFENSE” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016 (Dec. 31, 2016) — “Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.” ~ Margaret J. Wheatley Janus, the Roman god who has faces on both sides of his head in order to look forward as well as backward…
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The Shia Hatfields and the Sunni McCoys
A “CENTURIES-OLD NARRATIVE” by Don Fredrick, ©2016, author of The Complete Obama Timeline (Dec. 17, 2016) — Obama would have been better off doing nothing about Syria. There is no doubt that President Bashar al-Assad is a brutal criminal, but the United States was not threatened by his regime and has no interests in Syria.…
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We Live in Occupied Territory: It is Not Getting Better
“THE ILLUSION OF HOPE” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016 (Aug. 3, 2016) — Somewhere down the road of history, someone will write of this period in America and make the observation that most of our population had to be either, drugged, delusional or insane, for this alone could explain people who hold tightly to several conflicting…
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No Greater Sacrifice?
“CHOICE” VS. “SACRIFICE” by Don Fredrick, author of The Complete Obama Timeline, ©2016 (Aug. 2, 2016) — When Khizr Khan addressed the Democrat convention last week, he excoriated Donald Trump, saying he had never sacrificed anything. Not surprisingly, the mainstream media has since then incessantly repeated the “ultimate sacrifice” line in honor of Khan’s son, who…
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God or Tyranny
WAR OR PEACE? by OPOVV, ©2016 (May 20, 2016) — “How are we supposed to, what do they say, ‘monitor the situation?’” “Look, Jackson, you heard the man as well as I, so just cool it. It’s a catch phrase that covers every and all contingencies, like in the phrase ‘Catch-22,’ which covers anything that’s not…
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Faith vs. Trust or God vs. Government, Part V
“EXTREMELY LOW CHARACTER” by Dr. Thomas E. Davis, Col. USA (Ret.), ©2016 (May 7, 2016) —[Editor’s Note: Please see Parts I, II, III and IV of this series on U.S. presidents beginning with Andrew Jackson.] George W. ‘Dubya’ Bush, the eldest son of G.H.W. Bush, defeated Al Gore in a hotly-contested, “hanging-chads” election ultimately decided…
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ISIS Metastasized While the Muslim Brotherhood Front Groups Have Penetrated the US Government Agencies
STILL A “JV TEAM?” by Capt Joseph R. John (Ret), ©2016, Chairman, CombatVeteransForCongress (Apr. 25, 2016) — Obama removed all U.S. military forces from Iraq in 2011; he ignored the advice of his highly-experienced U.S. Army Generals, the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, the CIA, and the outgoing National Security Council not to do so in…