unhappycamper note: Since the ‘Pentagon’ has ‘requested’ that I only post one paragraph from articles on
Army Times, and
Airforce Times, I’ve decided to give ya’ll an unhappycamper summary of the article and a link to the OP. To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for for articles on
Navy Times,
Marine Corps Times,
stripes.com and
military.com.
To read the article in the military's own words, you will need to click the link.
(This space reserved for a legally correct snark dump.) It sure is beginning to smell like fascism.
unhappycamper summary of this article: I am
not advocating for a Republican, but I am asking the question: Why does Skeleton love war so much? Along that same line, why does my congresscritter love war so much? Why can't we find 218 people with balls in the House of Representatives to stop this shit?
Dems Wage 'Military Campaigns' for CongressSeptember 20, 2010
Associated Press
U.S. Rep. Ike Skelton, the rural Missouri chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, is waging a military campaign to retain his congressional seat in the face of his most formidable opposition in more than a decade.