But while responsibility begins with the six soldiers facing criminal charges, it extends all the way up the chain of command to the highest reaches of the military hierarchy and its civilian leadership. And the resignations should start with CIC and work their way...

Bush Avoided Going after Zarqawi for political reasons. In his effort to claim he is the strongest candidate on national security, President Bush has lately been speaking a lot about how he is doing everything possible to track down terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi1 - the man thought to be...

Nineteen seventy-two was the year George W. Bush dropped off the radar screen.\ He abandoned his once-prized status as a National Guard pilot by failing to appear for a required physical. He sought temporary reassignment from the Texas Air National Guard to an Alabama unit but for six months did...

We have two different threads in the War Against "Terror". They are working against each other. The one is our efforts to work with the intelligence services of many other countries to destroy Al Qaeda root and branch. We've done a lot of that. A large number of Al Qaeda "middle managers" have...

"Al Qaeda will be weighing its options for staging an attack against the continental United States before the presidential elections in November. Stratfor believes that an attack is possible, though not certain -- and the decision likely will be made at the highest levels of the organization, based...

BUSH SERVED HONORABLY AND HE'S GOT THE MEDALS TO PROVE IT __________________ At least one picture exists that shows Bush wearing ribbons that don't appear on his discharge. Walt

Bush should be arrested, not reelected. "President Bush failed to carry out a direct order from his superior in the Texas Air National Guard in May 1972 to undertake a medical examination that was necessary for him to remain a qualified pilot, according to documents made public...

Records show pledges unmet September 8, 2004 This article was reported by the Globe Spotlight Team -- reporters Stephen Kurkjian, Francie Latour, Sacha Pfeiffer, and Michael Rezendes, and editor Walter V. Robinson. It was written by Robinson. In February, when the White House made public...

NEW YORK — If I've heard it once, I've heard it a hundred times from discouraged Democrats and liberals as the Republican convention here wrapped up this week. Their shoulders hunched, their eyes at a droop, they lower their voice to a whisper hoping that if they don't say it too loud it may not...

From the New York Times today: It was a measure of the troubles Mr. Bush is running into within his own party that Senator Pete V. Domenici, a New Mexico Republican who usually sides with the administration, expressed his frustration to Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld on Wednesday that he...

Hi, I am building a diorama with a 1/48th scale B-17 at low altitude. It will have two engines turning and two shut down. My question is, would a B-17 have its landing flaps deployed at all at this lower speed and altitude if it was not landing, just hedge-hopping home? And if so, how...

Why do we have over 700 dead Americans in Iraq? Who stands to benefit? The houses of Bush and Saud. Walt

Now, can the president ensure that every government employee, or serviceman/woman is doing their full duty 100% of the time? No. But he's in charge, and he is responsible. You can't be held responsible for things outside your ability to control. Your two statements above are...

From the NYT: It's hard to imagine what the Pentagon was thinking when it told the American Army and Marine replacement divisions bound for Iraq earlier this year to leave their tanks and other heavily armored vehicles behind. American military planners seem to have ignored evidence that armed...

Is it me, or have I heard of very few Marines killed with IED's (improvised explosive devices), road side or suicide bombs, especially when compared to the Army? As a former Marine am I being prejudiced, or is the Marine Corps doing something differently? And I don't think having a lot fewer...

If U.S. Marines were really targeting civilians, or anybody else, there wouldn't be nearly as many wounded as this laughable article suggests. There would be a lot more dead, however. Walt

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message ... What's Caidin's track record? Mr. Gustin: His writing "never let the facts get in the way of a good story." He wrote a lot of books, always giving far more...

BTW trying to having a debate with Walt M140 is about as entertaining as talking to a concrete wall :-) Are you -ever- going to apologize for saying that Martin Caidin fabricated the story of the B-17 that survived a head on collision with an FW-190? Should I post the serial number of that...

The United States is shouldering a greater debt burden today than it did during the Great Depression. This seems a no-brainer. Everyone didn't have their hands out in the 1930's, more people lived on farms, Johnson's Great Society was a socialist dream, etc. The U.S. military was very small...

Separation of church and state, anyone? The president doesn't speak for the state in the same way that the Queen of England does, for instance. Abraham Lincoln: ``I have often wished I was a more devout man. Nevertheless, amid the great difficulties of my administration, when I could not see...