They are located on the bottom of my side bar all the way at the end.
Some of the sites are for the newbie military spouses, and some sites are just good to browse for staying connected to your soldier during deployment and ideas etc etc.
Aloha
Bree
How can he make such bold statements as that? Does he really think his balls are big enough to just sit there and say hey oh here is a Bill that will bring our troops home next year because this is what the american people want, the congress wants ah fuck that I am going to veto it. Next!
Because why would this President want to do the only good thing he has done while serving the public, bringing our troops home! Oh I remember he has too many interests in Iraq to pull out and FINALLY bring our troops home. Troops can die at any costs to ensure a victory in Iraq. I remember now. Our troops were put into Iraq for one man's war and now when Bush vetos this bill, we can FINALLY say warmonger(which those that do not know what this is here you go-someone who is anxious to encourage a people or nation to go to war. Someone that also has selfish motives for going to war or likes war.) Now tell me once Bush vetos this Bill he is not a warmonger? And if you believe in this President and the way he is keeping our troops in Iraq you should get informed. Especially if you have a loved one deloyed or preparing to deploy. This veto is a smack in your face as a follower to Bush. And I am so glad to be on the other side of that.
Please if you have not gotten informed about what is going in Iraq-DO IT! If your soldier is active military attempt to inform yourself so that you know what is going on so that you can let your voice be heard. So that you do not support this war any longer and help bring our troops home.
Here are a few links I am sharing with you to read in full detail about this Bill. And FYI Bush will ttry to spin this and try to blame the Dems etc etc but we all know the one to blame iwill be BUSH himself for vetoing this Bill!
Now go get informed-
USA TODAY LINK
MSNBC LINK
CNN LINK
all three links will take you to the story.
Also make sure to follow the Gonzales story, it will get bigger over the next few months to come. Can BUSH do anything right?
Proud Army Wife
Bree
Since I now have a deployment date and know when my soldier will returning, I will be blogging once again on MY FEELINGS and MY OPINIONS on deployment-war-Bush-military life.
So with that said, if you can't handle yourself in a proper matter while coming to visit me and my thoughts please take yourself somewhere else.
As you can see from my side bars I am not a supporter of this war. I support our troops and my soldier. I am not a gung-ho Bush lover and supporter either.
I took a break from this blog because I was getting fustrated with blogging about Bringing Our Troops Home and nothing being done to get them here from the people who can bring them home. But in doing that I have not been keeping my small voice heard and out there for everyone to hear/read.
So I welcome myself back. If you followed me before great, I hope you continue to follow me. If I lost you as a reader, well I am truly sorry. Maybe this blog was not meant to be for you to follow.
If you ready, then let's get blogging!
God Bless
Bree
Last Letters Home - Voices of American Troops from the Battlefields of Iraq
Staring Lisa Johnson (VIII)
I am still letting this new news about becoming a recruiter set in. We get something in place and I think that is the plan, then my soldier comes home and BAM it is something else. But I geuss like the military the news is always changing.
I will update as I get updates on our adventures of maybe moving to Missisippi. I will be a city girl living in the country. We shall see how that goes!
Aloha, have a wonderful and safe fourth of July.
Bree
But this gets me to the point of me being so angry that nothing seems to help. I watched a documentary called: Uncovered-The War on Iraq. It was a controversial documentary which takes you behind the walls of the U.S government as CIA, Pentagon and Foreign Service experts address the government's reasons for launching the "preemptive" war on Iraq 2003. This viedo got me angry. I am already angry that we talk about impeaching Bush, that we have all this evidence to the cover-ups and betrayals but yet we sit back and let Bush be our commander in chief. WHY? In this particular viedo you learn of the Neo-Cons(if you do not know who these people are-KNOW THEM)you learn about PNAC(Project for a New Century(learn this also). PNAC will be a sweeping movement that future Presidents that will be coming into office could be the puppets for.
I kept asking myself like I have been asking the past three years, why the hell is Goerge.W Bush in office? This makes me so angry that nothing seems to help.
We have all this information out there now three years after the fact we invaded Iraq, and yet NOTHING gets done to put a stop to this madness.
2,500 soldiers dead. More then 18,000 wounded. WHY????
I think to myself does the average American(other then the 60 million plus that already know)what is really behind invading Iraq? Do they just blindly follow our President and not seek out the truth for themselves. Isn't this what we are suspose to do. Question the government, question why our leader sent our husbands to war. The government does not have our best intrest in mind, but their own.
Watching this viedo for more than an hour and half I found myself getting more and more angry, I started even talking back to the t.v. I have to let my soldier go back to this country. Maybe die for this other country. To have a FREE IRAQ. I am so outraged by my soldiers looming date of deployment. It taunts me. It gives me sleepless nights. It consumes my everyday functions. Watching video's like these, which I have watched too many only makes me want to stand on rooftops and shout "WAKE UP AMERICA YOU ARE NOT THIS DUMB!" When will our troops come home?
But I am only one small voice in the bigger picture of things. And I just keep plugging along, doing what I can to make Americans aware of what they voted into office. Remember you voted for Bush, I didn't!
Please if you can research the following:
-PNAC-Project for a New Century
PNAC
-NeoCons
What NeoCons are
(Donald Rumsfeld-Elliot Abrams-Paula Dobriansky-Richard Armitage-Robert Zoellick-John Bolton-Richard Perle-Gary Bauer-Paul Wolfowitz-Jeb Bush-Peter W. Rodman-Dan Quayle)
-Blood For Oil
No Blood For Oil
Because our President wanted and got his war with Iraq. To topple Saddam and not really go to war with Iraq for what he lead the American public to believe. To send troops by the thousands over to a country that already has been dominated by insurgents and death. Three years after sending troops into Iraq we still have thousands of our troops on the ground. Dying and being wounded. WHY? Bin Ladden is still out there planning terrorist attacks. He has not been found yet, he is the real mastermind. The one that should be toppled. The one we should have caught way before we set our sites on Saddam. But our President said Mission Accomplished but if the mission is accomplished WHY do we have troops by the thousands in Iraq still? I was reminded last night watching these documentaries how upset being in Iraq makes me. How angry I become knowing troops are dying at an alarming rate and being wounded by the thousands. WHY? So many unanswered questions. Questions we will never get answers to.
During one of these shows I felt my husband grab my hand. I felt a little squueze. Was he telling me thank you for what I went through when the war broke out. Or was he telling me I am glad I made it home to you, to the kids. I was not sure what the hand squeeze meant, but I know it meant something. And when all the shows were finished and we stood up he embraced me. Not our normal hug and I love you. This was like the embrace I recieved when I saw my soldier for the first time after 18 months of being apart. Then he just looked into my eyes, and I knew. Tears welled up in his eyes. He only said thank you!
While laying in bed last night(of course I could not sleep) all kinds of thoughts flooded my mind. Have I forgotten what is it like to have your soldier in war. To not know if he will make it home to you or not. To be sitting and waiting for an email, a phone call, a letter, anything that let's you know he is okay and SAFE. I think I have forgotten. I got comfortable having my own soldier home, that I have sorta forgotten how it is for all the wives and moms still out there with soldiers deployed. Mine is home for now safe. But so many soldiers are not home. Not safe. Like the American people still not OUTRAGED that we lose soldiers everyday to this stupid pointless war in Iraq. That is destroying lives and riping families apart. Have they started to forget?
I apologize to anyone out there that has a soldier deployed. I know your pain. I know your longing to have them home. I know the anger late at night when you think nobody cares if your soldier makes it home to you or not. I know the gut wrenching pain you feel when you hear a soldier died and you pray to God your glad it was not your soldier.
Tomorrow being Memorial Day my heart aches for any mother-father-sister-brother-wife or friend that has lost a soldier to the Iraq War. For some of you it is an honor they died for their country and for others is brings nothing but ANGER. If I can only do one thing by having my blog and having you reading it right now that would be to just not go with the flow. Support our troops, yes never stop doing that. But let's just do something as Americans as a HUGE power to BRING THEM HOME. So that the next Memorial Day we are not honoring another 3000 soldiers lives lost to the Iraq War.
May you know that I do not support this war, I always support our troops!
God Bless-Bree
Not just today but everyday should be spent honoring our mothers. Make sure every now and then you tell your mom what a wonderful job she is doing or has done, how proud you are of her, how special she is to you, she is a queen. Mom's like wives or girlfriends LOVE hearing how important they are to you. So every now and then show her you care. Don't just wait for one time of the year to send your best ;-)
I dedicate this entry to all you moms out there! You are all special and make this world a better place.
Aloha-Hugs
Bree
This is a MUST see movie. I am HIGHLY recommending it to all soldiers, wives of soldiers, parents, sisters, brothers, cousins and anyone eles intrested in politics the way they should be being handled. BY US the people not by our GOVERNEMENT.
Watching this movie last night made me realize even more how much our own government has taken CONTROL and basically keeps us QUIET and in FEAR of what is to come. There are so many things they brought to this movie that is dealing with what is happening RIGHT NOW with our own Administrations tactics and schemes to keep us in fear. Please if you can rent-buy or go watch V for Vendetta GO DO IT!!!!!!!!
And once you have watched it, please come back and sound off so I can hear your thoughts of this flim.
Below I posted pretty much what the movie is about without giving away too much ;-) Enjoy!
We felt the novel was very prescient to how the political climate is at the moment. It really showed what can happen when society is ruled by government, rather than the government being run as a voice of the people. I don't think it's such a big leap to say that things like that can happen when leaders stop listening to the people-Director James McTeigue
With the intention of making the film relevant to today's audience, the filmmakers included many modern day references as well. For example, the culture of fear montage of news stories ordered by Sutler contains references to an avian flu pandemic. As well there is pervasive use of biometric identification, as well as signal-intelligence gathering and analysis by the regime. Many have also noted the numerous references in the film to the current American administration. These include the "black bags" worn by the prisoners in Larkhill that have been seen as a reference to the black bags worn by prisoners at Abu Ghraib in Iraq and Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. Also London is under a yellow-coded curfew alert, which is similar to the US Government's color-coded Homeland Security Advisory System.One of the forbidden items in Gordon's secret basement is a protest poster with a mixed US–UK flag with a swastika and the title "Coalition of the Willing, To Power." This is likely a reference to the real Coalition of the Willing that was formed for the Iraq War.(At the same time, it also appears to be a reference to Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of Will to Power). As well, there is frequent mention of "rendition" in the film.There is even a brief scene (during the Valerie flashback) containing real-life footage of a anti-Iraq war demonstration, with mention of President George W. Bush. Finally, the film contains reference's to "America's war" and "the war America started" as well as real footage from the Iraq War.
Much of the modern US imagery can be personified in the character Lewis Prothero. Prothero's combat record seems to be an allusion to the current war in Iraq and other potential regions of conflict in the Middle-East ("Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria, before and after...")As the talk show host "The Voice of London" Lewis can be seen evoking the image of conservative American pundits like Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh, (particularly with Limbaugh and Prothero's drug use).Furthermore, with his rhetoric about God, gays, and Muslims, Prothero is likely to be a caricature of religious right-wing commentators like Pat Robertson. (Prothero mentions that the US itself has collapsed due to "Godlessness").
Despite the American specific references, the filmmakers have always referred to the film as adding dialogue to much broader set of issues than the US administration. When James McTeigue was asked whether or not BTN was based on Fox News McTeigue replied, "Yes. But not just Fox. Everyone is complicit in this kind of stuff. It could just as well been the Britain's Sky News Channel."
This is a MUST see movie. I am HIGHLY recommending it to all soldiers, wives of soldiers, parents, sisters, brothers, cousins and anyone eles intrested in politics the way they should be being handled. BY US the people not by our GOVERNEMENT.
Watching this movie last night made me realize even more how much our own government has taken CONTROL and basically keeps us QUIET and in FEAR of what is to come. There are so many things they brought to this movie that is dealing with what is happening RIGHT NOW with our own Administrations tactics and schemes to keep us in fear. Please if you can rent-buy or go watch V for Vendetta GO DO IT!!!!!!!!
And once you have watched it, please come back and sound off so I can hear your thoughts of this flim.
Below I posted pretty much what the movie is about without giving away too much ;-) Enjoy!
We felt the novel was very prescient to how the political climate is at the moment. It really showed what can happen when society is ruled by government, rather than the government being run as a voice of the people. I don't think it's such a big leap to say that things like that can happen when leaders stop listening to the people-Director James McTeigue
With the intention of making the film relevant to today's audience, the filmmakers included many modern day references as well. For example, the culture of fear montage of news stories ordered by Sutler contains references to an avian flu pandemic. As well there is pervasive use of biometric identification, as well as signal-intelligence gathering and analysis by the regime. Many have also noted the numerous references in the film to the current American administration. These include the "black bags" worn by the prisoners in Larkhill that have been seen as a reference to the black bags worn by prisoners at Abu Ghraib in Iraq and Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. Also London is under a yellow-coded curfew alert, which is similar to the US Government's color-coded Homeland Security Advisory System.One of the forbidden items in Gordon's secret basement is a protest poster with a mixed US–UK flag with a swastika and the title "Coalition of the Willing, To Power." This is likely a reference to the real Coalition of the Willing that was formed for the Iraq War.(At the same time, it also appears to be a reference to Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of Will to Power). As well, there is frequent mention of "rendition" in the film.There is even a brief scene (during the Valerie flashback) containing real-life footage of a anti-Iraq war demonstration, with mention of President George W. Bush. Finally, the film contains reference's to "America's war" and "the war America started" as well as real footage from the Iraq War.
Much of the modern US imagery can be personified in the character Lewis Prothero. Prothero's combat record seems to be an allusion to the current war in Iraq and other potential regions of conflict in the Middle-East ("Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria, before and after...")As the talk show host "The Voice of London" Lewis can be seen evoking the image of conservative American pundits like Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh, (particularly with Limbaugh and Prothero's drug use).Furthermore, with his rhetoric about God, gays, and Muslims, Prothero is likely to be a caricature of religious right-wing commentators like Pat Robertson. (Prothero mentions that the US itself has collapsed due to "Godlessness").
Military Spouse Appreciation Day: May 12, 2006
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"If the military had wanted you to have a spouse, they would have issued you one." Remember those words? Well, that was then and this is now. America's military has realized and acknowledged the significance of the military spouse. In 1984 President Reagan proclaimed the Friday before Mother's Day of each year to be Military Spouse Appreciation Day. It is your day to stand up and be honored.
For the times you've stood and watched a ship sail from the harbor, an aircraft disappear into the clouds, or a truck convoy pull out of sight, not sure when they would return, we thank you.
For the countless household moves you've made from a place you know to one that's strange and different -- often by yourself -- we thank you.
For the families you've held together, for the anniversaries, birthdays, and holidays you've celebrated alone, we thank you.
For the hand you've extended to another military spouse when the need was there, truly creating a military family, we thank you.
For the spirit and strength you've shown when your service member has gone into harm's way, we thank you.
For the pride you've displayed while serving as an ambassador of the military spouse to the rest of the world, we thank you.
Far too frequently, the sacrifices and dedication of the military spouse have gone unnoticed and unappreciated. In our nation's recent history, thousands of service members have been placed in harm's way as they stood watch as freedom's guardian. You too have stood watch at home, facing challenges alone. You have waved flags and held banners high to express your support. You have kept the candles burning on the home front as a reminder of our deployed military.
You have made difficult sacrifices of your own, and have called upon your inner reserves to nurture family life so your service member can focus on the business at hand.
Even in times of relaxed alert status for our military, you have stood ready and alert for the slightest of signs, perhaps overlooked or ignored by your civilian counterparts, signaling a potential change in the status of our military forces. As a military spouse, you have willingly packed up and relocated countless times, and may have been separated from your own parents and siblings for several years at a time.
Quite often, you have been placed in an unfamiliar ethnic or cultural setting, or a remote location. You have met this challenge with confidence and pride, making your nation proud of you. By the same token, you have extended your hand and hospitality to visitors to our country.
A country cannot count itself strong by its armed services alone, but must also depend on its civilians. With military wives and husbands setting a superior example through devotion, courage, and commitment, we are a nation of strength.
Military spouses � stand tall, stand proud � we salute you, you are truly our unsung heroes.
It estimates that Congress has appropriated $368bn for the global war on terror, including both conflicts.
It says that if the current spending bill is approved, US war costs will reach $439bn, and it estimates that an extra $371bn may be needed by 2016.
On that basis, the two wars would cost more than the $579bn spent in Vietnam.
The future costing assumes that US troop levels will drop from the 258,000 currently engaged in all operations to 74,000 by 2010.
Budget Gap
The rising cost of the war is leading to growing concerns in Congress, where attempts to control the budget deficit have been hindered by the "supplementary" requests received each year for war spending.
The CRS estimates that the US Department of Defense's annual war funding has risen from $73bn in 2004 to $120bn in 2006, with an increase of 17% this year alone.
There have also been concerns that extra non-related appropriations are often tucked inside the war funding bill.
On Thursday Senators deleted funding for a $15m seafood promotion programme that had been tucked away in the current bill.
Earlier, Senators diverted $1.9bn in war funds to pay for increased immigration controls at US borders.
Troop Levels
The cost of the war in Iraq has been increasing since US troops have become bogged down in the conflict.
The CRS says the real cost of the conflict in Iraq has risen to $8bn monthly, nearly double the cost in 2003.
It points out that it is difficult to estimate the exact cost of individual operations, such as the Iraq conflict, because the Defense Department does not break down the figures for individual operations.
And it says that the Defense Department has also minimised the cost of the war by not including other costs, including intelligence and the training of Iraqi and Afghan security forces, in its estimates.
Overall, 71% of the total war costs have been spent in Iraq, 21% in Afghanistan, and 7% on increased protection for US forces worldwide.
The main reason for the rapidly escalating costs is increased spending on ammunition, equipment and operational materials such as petrol.
Over $60bn has been spent on procurement, including improved armour, replacement of damaged vehicles, and the building of a more extensive infrastructure to support the troops on the ground.
The CRS says that "if the global war is likely to become the long war as some administration spokesman have suggested, Congress may want to consider requiring that the Department of Defense request a full year's war funds concurrently with its regular budget".
The estimates do not include the costs of reconstruction, which the US originally estimated at $56bn.
A recent report from the General Accounting Office suggested these costs would be much higher, but also said much of the money disbursed so far had been spent on security, not rebuilding.
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