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By Michael M. O'Brien, on April 20th, 2013 Female U.S. Army soldier. (Reuters)
The body armor for our women in combat doesn’t fit right. What’s next, new weapons made just for them too? How about lighter bullets?
Now that feminists have gotten 99% of what they want (doing everything that men do), it’s still not enough. Liberal democrats and their wimp republican allies have . . . → Read More: Women in combat: now their body armor doesn’t fit right. What’s next?
By Michael M. O'Brien, on April 13th, 2013 President George W. Bush
Cost of Iraq War: Walter Russell Mead’s April 13th editorial in The American Interest looks at the political costs of the Iraq War and the future of the Republican Party.
As bad a president as Barack Hussein Obama is, George W. Bush wasn’t any better. And I’m a conservative. Obama didn’t start Iraq or . . . → Read More: Cost of Iraq War: should GOP admit failures of the Bush presidency?
By Michael M. O'Brien, on April 7th, 2013 President George W. Bush presents the Medal of Freedom to Paul Bremer.
Cost of Iraq War: On March 20, 2013, David Ignatius wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post titled “The painful lessons of Iraq.” It’s a short and very accurate take on the mistake the United States made when it invaded Iraq in March 2003.
But . . . → Read More: Cost of Iraq War: David Ignatius and the “The painful lessons of Iraq”
By Michael M. O'Brien, on April 5th, 2013 Photo from the Associated Press
It seems two more female Marines failed the physical fitness test for the infantry. The standards were not lowered for them, so they failed the test. So sad. Any bets on how soon Congress will step in and lower the physical standards for the women? Or better still, for men . . . → Read More: Female Marines fail the infantry physical fitness test—not for long!
By Michael M. O'Brien, on April 5th, 2013
At the 10-year point in the Iraq War timeline, RT television’s Moscow studios interviews me on March 18th about the cost of the Iraq war.
By Michael M. O'Brien, on April 3rd, 2013 U.S. soldiers from the 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, pass out toys to local children during a Human Terrain Team site survey mission, in Kilabeen, Iraq, on Sept. 15, 2009. (Photo: Spc. Benjamin Boren)
The US Army’s “Human Terrain System” for Iraq and Afghanistan has turned out to be a $250 million waste . . . → Read More: Iraq and Afghanistan: US Army’s “Human Terrain System” a $250M waste
By Michael M. O'Brien, on March 31st, 2013 Iraqi oil production.
Why is Iraqi oil going to China?
According to McClatchy News Service:
America, with its own homegrown energy bonanza, isn’t going after the petroleum that lies beneath Iraq’s sands nearly as aggressively as is China, a country hungry to fuel its rise as an economic power.
Iraq remains highly unstable in . . . → Read More: Iraqi oil: if we invaded Iraq for its oil—why’s it going to China???
By Michael M. O'Brien, on March 30th, 2013 March 29, 2013 – A man looks at the site of a bomb attack in Kirkuk, 155 miles north of Baghdad. (Reuters)
Ten years after the ‘end’ of the Iraq war, 4 car bombs went off in Shiite sections of Baghdad, killing 19 . . . → Read More: Iraq War 10 years later: 4 car bombs leave 19 Shiites dead, 70 wounded
By Michael M. O'Brien, on March 25th, 2013 The Sadriyah outdoor market the day after a lone suicide truck bomb detonated, killing 137 people instantly and injuring 350. It was the deadliest insurgent attack since the US-led invasion on March 20, 2003.
Since President George W. Bush declared . . . → Read More: Iraq war timeline: Iraq in the years since “Mission Accomplished!”
By Michael M. O'Brien, on March 24th, 2013
Here’s more on Blackwater, the rogue security firm, in my RT interview March 15, 2013.
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