President: New website will aim to deter fakers
By Andrew Tilghman -
Staff writer
Army Times
Posted : Tuesday Jul 24, 2012
The Defense Department plans to unveil a new website listing high-level military honors in an effort to deter military fakers, President Obama said Monday.
The president, speaking to the annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Reno, Nev., said the site, which will be posted this week, is an effort to honor those who serve.
Obama’s announcement comes just weeks after the Supreme Court struck down a 2006 law making it a crime to lie about receiving some military honors, ruling that the law violated the First Amendment right to freedom of speech. “It may no longer be a crime for con artists to pass themselves off as heroes, but one thing is certain — it is contemptible,” Obama said.
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Showing posts with label VFW Convention. Show all posts
Showing posts with label VFW Convention. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Monday, August 25, 2008
McCain needs to explain where he's been when all this was happening
Full Text of Senator John McCain's Speech at the VFW Convention
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/articleid/10957
It's a speech. A speech made to come out as if McCain had nothing to do with the problems of Walter Reed, the backlog of claims, the worsening situation the troops were coming home to or anything that has been done while the troops suffered. He wants us to think his hands are clean because after all, a veteran wouldn't treat other veterans a deplorably as his record indicates if he really cared. In his speech, he went to great lengths to attack Obama instead of attacking his own record against veterans. While he wants people to always see him as a "war hero" so they don't look at what he has done since Vietnam, he will not do it with honesty.
McCain wants to paint Obama as being so ambitious that winning is all that matters to him, but that is just an attempt to take factual focus off of himself. If McCain were not ambitious, he wouldn't not be running for the presidency and he treats us as if we were stupid enough to not notice this. Winning, as he puts it, in Iraq, was accomplished back in 2003 when ever goal the troops were given was in fact achieved.
Where was McCain calling for the plans to do what the Bush administration was finally forced to do after the 2006 election if McCain really understood anything about Iraq or winning?
Where was he when the commanders in Iraq were shifting from fighting the Iraqi people to paying the Iraqi people to take up their own arms and fight the few members of Al-Qaeda causing most of the problems?
Where was McCain's judgment when all the evidence about the reason Iraq was invaded proved beyond a doubt there was never a need to invade especially given the fact there was already an ongoing campaign in Afghanistan in direct response to the attacks on our nation that was not "accomplished" and they were warned pulling troops out of Afghanistan was a dangerous move to make so much so that generals quit in protest?
Where was McCain when NATO was screaming for more help in Afghanistan years ago when all he talked about was Iraq?
Where was he right after 9-11 when he was already talking about the need to invade Iraq when everyone else was trying to focus on Afghanistan and the Taliban and Osama?
This is what needs to be focused on but McCain, well if he limits what he says to words that paint a picture of a "war hero" then people won't see what's behind the facade. They won't see that McCain wants combat veterans treated differently than all others when it comes to the medical care they were all promised equally. They were all willing to risk their lives. While the combat veterans do have needs above peacetime veterans, we have failed all of them already by what "leadership" like McCain's has already proven. It's time to get this right and with McCain, his judgment, his lack of support of veterans and the truth, it will be more devastation for those who serve this nation. kc
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/articleid/10957
It's a speech. A speech made to come out as if McCain had nothing to do with the problems of Walter Reed, the backlog of claims, the worsening situation the troops were coming home to or anything that has been done while the troops suffered. He wants us to think his hands are clean because after all, a veteran wouldn't treat other veterans a deplorably as his record indicates if he really cared. In his speech, he went to great lengths to attack Obama instead of attacking his own record against veterans. While he wants people to always see him as a "war hero" so they don't look at what he has done since Vietnam, he will not do it with honesty.
McCain wants to paint Obama as being so ambitious that winning is all that matters to him, but that is just an attempt to take factual focus off of himself. If McCain were not ambitious, he wouldn't not be running for the presidency and he treats us as if we were stupid enough to not notice this. Winning, as he puts it, in Iraq, was accomplished back in 2003 when ever goal the troops were given was in fact achieved.
Where was McCain calling for the plans to do what the Bush administration was finally forced to do after the 2006 election if McCain really understood anything about Iraq or winning?
Where was he when the commanders in Iraq were shifting from fighting the Iraqi people to paying the Iraqi people to take up their own arms and fight the few members of Al-Qaeda causing most of the problems?
Where was McCain's judgment when all the evidence about the reason Iraq was invaded proved beyond a doubt there was never a need to invade especially given the fact there was already an ongoing campaign in Afghanistan in direct response to the attacks on our nation that was not "accomplished" and they were warned pulling troops out of Afghanistan was a dangerous move to make so much so that generals quit in protest?
Where was McCain when NATO was screaming for more help in Afghanistan years ago when all he talked about was Iraq?
Where was he right after 9-11 when he was already talking about the need to invade Iraq when everyone else was trying to focus on Afghanistan and the Taliban and Osama?
This is what needs to be focused on but McCain, well if he limits what he says to words that paint a picture of a "war hero" then people won't see what's behind the facade. They won't see that McCain wants combat veterans treated differently than all others when it comes to the medical care they were all promised equally. They were all willing to risk their lives. While the combat veterans do have needs above peacetime veterans, we have failed all of them already by what "leadership" like McCain's has already proven. It's time to get this right and with McCain, his judgment, his lack of support of veterans and the truth, it will be more devastation for those who serve this nation. kc
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Obama to VFW:You are Democrats and Republicans and Independents
This is what too many in this country forget. Vetearns are not members of one party, but all of them. In the end, they served, risked their lives and live out their days with events of wars inside of them and they did it for this one nation.
“Let me be clear,” Mr. Obama said. “I will let no one question my love of this country. I love America, so do you, and so does John McCain. When I look out at this audience, I see people of different political views. You are Democrats and Republicans and Independents. But you all served together, and fought together, and bled together under the same proud flag. You did not serve a Red America or a Blue America, you served the United States of America.”
That passage received the warmest applause of his 30-minute address.
August 19, 2008, 9:27 am
Obama Returns Fire on McCain in VFW Speech
By John M. Broder
Barack Obama spoke at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention. (Photo: Matt Stroshane/Bloomberg News)Updated ORLANDO – Addressing both his opponent’s charges of weakness and vacillation, and public doubts about his credibility on military matters, Senator Barack Obama on Tuesday told the Veterans of Foreign Wars that he offered not just tough talk but smart answers to national security questions.
Mr. Obama appeared before the V.F.W. a day after his presumed Republican opponent, Senator John McCain, criticized him for advocating a policy of defeat in Iraq and suggested Mr. Obama put personal ambition before the interests of the country.
Mr. Obama struck back with tough language, although his delivery was largely without passion. He received a polite but not enthusiastic response from the estimated 3,000 veterans assembled in a cavernous convention hall here. Many seats were empty because a number of veterans left Orlando ahead of the advancing tropical storm Fay.
“If we think that we can secure our country by just talking tough without acting tough and smart, then we will misunderstand this moment and miss its opportunities,” Mr. Obama said. “If we think that we can use the same partisan politics where we just challenge our opponent’s patriotism to win an election, then the American people will lose. The times are too serious for this kind of politics. The calamity left behind by the last eight years is too great.”
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http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/
2008/08/19/obama-returns-fire-on-mccain-in-vfw-speech/?hp
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