Patriot Paradox

AFP – US President Barack Obama on Wednesday warned Congress he would veto funds for more F-22 fighter jets as well as other changes to his proposed defense budget, his administration said. Read the rest of this entry »

AFP – Defense Secretary Robert Gates is weighing a possible temporary expansion of the US army to ease the strain from wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, his press secretary said on Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »

Reuters – Senator Carl Levin on Wednesday temporarily withdrew a bid to kill $1.75 billion in funding for more F-22 fighter jets in a massive defense spending bill but senators leading the charge vowed they would try again soon. Read the rest of this entry »

AFP – US President Barack Obama on Wednesday threatened to veto moves by Congress to build more F-22 fighter jets as well other changes to his proposed defense budget, his administration said. Read the rest of this entry »

What are your opinions of President Barack Obama, now that he’s been in office for a few months?

Are you seeing the “change” you thought you would?

If you voted for him, do you feel he’s kept his campaign promises? Or are you starting to feel he said whatever he needed to in order to get elected, and you feel disillusioned, thinking maybe you were deliberately misled?

Or, as a popular e-mail asks, “How’s that ‘Hopey-Changey’ thing working for you?

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AFP – Top US commander Admiral Mike Mullen made an unannounced trip to Iraq on Monday, visiting the ethnically divided northern oil city of Kirkuk for the second time in a year. Read the rest of this entry »

AP – An American service member has been killed in an insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said. Read the rest of this entry »

AP – A bomb blast killed two U.S. Marines in Afghanistan’s dangerous south, where thousands of American troops have deployed in a massive operation to oust Taliban fighters from the country’s opium poppy region, officials said Sunday. Read the rest of this entry »

AFP – A truck driver was mistakenly killed by American forces outside the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, the US army said on Saturday. Read the rest of this entry »