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Dem Guru: McCain Captivity Limits Experience
Wes Clark is not alone in maligning the service record of John McCain. Now a former Kerry Campaign adviser and Obama supporter takes his shot. ABC Rand Beers, an Obama supporter who served as the top national security adviser to the 2004 Kerry campaign, said that because McCain was in an unfortunate state of “isolation” during much of the Vietnam War, he missed the domestic turmoil which took place in the United States and his national security experience is “sadly limited” as a result. Beers said the McCain limitations are reflected in “some of the ways he thinks about the ways in which US forces might be committed to conflicts around the world.” McCain spent five years in captivity as a POW in North Vietnam. This is just vile. It has been a great many … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Politics, Executive Branch, Politics
Arizona National Guard Rescues U.S. Senators
DVIDS By Army Maj. John Bozicevic Arizona National Guard When a helicopter carrying three senior U.S. senators was forced to make an emergency landing, Feb. 23, due to blizzard conditions in the mountains of Afghanistan, Soldiers of the Arizona National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 158th Infantry Regiment, responded to secure the site and evacuate Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.), Joseph Biden (D-Del.) and Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.). The D Company platoon, led by Army 1st Lt. Dennis Chamberlain of Gilbert, Ariz., along with service members of Combined Joint Task Force-82, made the treacherous cross-country journey from Bagram Airfield to their rendezvous in less than an hour after receiving notice of the downed aircraft. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Afghanistan, Military, War on Terror
