Veterans For America

The Pentagon is now seeking Congressional approval to shift $9.7 billion to the Army from other services to help pay for the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan this year. The Army says that it will run out of money on June 15 unless Congress passes a new wartime supplemental spending bill. That’s not to say that billions haven’t already been spent in Iraq — in fact, at least $8.2 billion spent by the Army cannot be properly accounted for in Iraq, as well as another $1.8 billion in seized or frozen Iraqi assets.

Sen. Barack Obama, the Illinois Democrat running for president, may take a trip to Iraq – following a back-and-forth with Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain on the situation on the ground in Iraq. It would be Obama’s second trip.

Meanwhile, on the ground in Iraq, more bloodshed.  And, another setback towards political reconciliation.

It’s “no longer big news when we hear about returning servicemen and women getting lousy treatment.” It sure should be.

Opposition to the new GI Bill, some say, amounts to “twisted logic.” The White House does not like criticism over its stance on the GI Bill, or the war.

Visit the online home of the National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

In case our military families didn’t already have enough to worry about, now comes word that foreclosure rates in military towns are four times the national rate.