[jazminerose]

Links:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obamas-negation-of-hostilities-in-libya-draws-criticism/2011/06/20/AGV2zTdH_story.html?wprss=rss_politics

[Grunthor]

“Troops engaged in the Libyan Kinetic Military Action are receiving combat pay.”

Kind of like how the fees in Obamacare aren’t taxes....unless you are aguing in favor of the power grab in front of a judge.

Impeach this lying marxist NOW!

[Jack Hammer]

It’s been clear from the beginning that Obama thinks honesty is a joke; he derives a perverse pleasure - apparently the only sort of pleasure of which he is capable - from thumbing his nose at both congress and the American people.

How far we’ve fallen as a nation.

[blueunicorn6]

Dear Gates; I would like to stick my boot up your ass. Let’s just call it a kinetic shoe shine.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"The Defense Department decided in April to pay an extra $225 a month in imminent danger pay to service members who fly planes over Libya or serve on ships within 110 nautical miles of its shores."

As I recall, even though we all called it combat action pay, the correct term used on the LES (Leave and Earnings Statement) calls the pay "imminent danger pay". So, you don't just get it for declared wars. I've gotten it for places like Somalia which were supposed to be "humanitarian missions". It's a joke. We were not awarded a combat action ribbon in Somalia because it was a humanitarian mission. Even though we were in firefights all the time. However, we did get a humanitarian medal for it....