[Pesqueeb]

So much Freedum® it hurts.

 

[Pesqueeb]

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/21/this_cowardly_silence_is_an_act_of_war/

 

[Pesqueeb]

President Nobel Peace Prize at it again.

 

[JohnE]

Sigh...getting tired of reminding people of the alternatives to him. This whole thing sucks, but it would suck no matter which idiot we put in the Oval Orifice. Had we elected a RW warmonger, he would have had 'murikan™ kids bleeding on the ground. The LW warmoger just has brown kids on the ground bleeding, and we all know thats okay.

Feel the Bern...

 

[stevew]

the love for a old angry white male is stunning.

 

[Pesqueeb]

the love for a old angry white male is stunning.

Jewish socialist. Just like Jesus, except real!

 

[stevew]

Jewish socialist. Just like Jesus, except real!

fairy tale comparisons....yay!

 

[stevew]

President Nobel Peace Prize at it again.

50 guys who drew a short straw.....sucks to be them.

 

[jstuhlman]

they were already over there, correct? so troop movements into non-combat situations (if the articles i've read are to be believed) are big news?

 

[Pesqueeb]

they were already over there, correct? so troop movements into non-combat situations (if the articles i've read are to be believed) are big news?

"Advisers"

In September 1950, US President Harry Truman sent the Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) to Vietnam to assist theFrench in the First Indochina War. The President claimed they were not sent as combat troops, but to supervise the use of $10 million worth of US military equipment to support the French in their effort to fight the Viet Minh forces. By 1953, aid increased dramatically to $350 million to replace old military equipment owned by the French.[2]

Newly elected President John F. Kennedy agreed with MAAG Vietnam's calls for increases in ARVN troop levels and the U.S. military commitment in both equipment and men. In response, Kennedy provided $28.4 million in funding for ARVN, and overall military aid increased from $50 million per year to $144 million in 1961. In the first year of the Kennedy administration, MAAG Vietnam worked closely with administration officials, USOM, and the US Information Service to develop a counterinsurgency plan (CIP). The CIP's main initiatives included the strengthening of ARVN to combat the Communist insurgency, which had the corollary effect of strengthening Diem's political position.[8] At the same time President Diem agreed to the assignment of advisers to battalion level, significantly increasing the number of advisers; from 746 in 1961 to over 3,400 before MAAG Vietnam was placed under U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV) and renamed the Field Advisory Element, Vietnam. At the peak of the war in 1968, 9,430 Army personnel acted as advisors down to the district and battalion level to train, advise and mentor the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), Republic of Vietnam Marine Corps, Republic of Vietnam Navy and the Vietnam Air Force.

 

[Pesqueeb]

the president—who once declared, unequivocally, that “we’re not considering any boots-on-the-ground approach” in Syria—ordered several dozen Special Operations troops into Syria for what The New York Timesdescribes as “the first open-ended mission by United States ground forces in that country,” Welch said: “Make no mistake about it, this is a war.”

http://www.thenation.com/article/make-no-mistake-about-it-this-is-a-war/