[jazusamo]

Marine Ping!

[SoCalPol]

Have relatives serving with the 1st Marines who are based here in San Diego.

Another 1st Marine based at Camp Pendleton with a tour in Iraq is 19 yr old Jimmy McCain, son of the Senator

[TribalPrincess2U]

Thought I would stick this in here...My guy...

Sen. Cornyn is leading a campaign to protect the right to vote for U.S. military personnel serving overseas. He is working to advance several steps that would significantly improve the process of delivering military absentee ballots to ensure every vote counts. Sen. Cornyn introduced the Military Voting Protection Act in the Senate and is also pressing for administrative solutions. He believes those who defend our freedom and security must be guaranteed democracy’s highest rights and privileges.

This is an important issue. Our military was short changed with the Gore fiasco. The Marxist know they would lose for sure if the military got their votes in.

[smoothsailing]

Two Iraqi national army divisions in Anbar are now fully "stood up," and the province the size of North Carolina west of Baghdad has seen its police forces swell from about 5,000 three years ago to about 28,000 today.

Now I believe, myself, that the secretary of state, the secretary of defense and you have to make your own decision as to what the president knows: that this war is lost, that the surge is not accomplishing anything," Harry Reid, D-Nev., told reporters.

What a putz.

[stylin19a]

But the military will soon shut down some of its larger bases, Kelly said, including Camp Fallujah.

Would it be better to t urn it over to the IRAQ army and let them decide to close it ?