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[POLITICO Top Stories] President Obama's new defense shield: Jim Jones - Laura Rozen ...: But wasn't Jones supposed to be out...just like health care..and everything else you TMZ like media were hyperventilating about...Oh Noess...Town halls...Town halls....And all bark and no bite...Once again..the MSM creates a story line and then concludes it...All in a day's work..

[Politics & Government] News Headlines - Analysis: Campaign vow meets harsh Afghan reality ...: Now he may be forced to decide there is no military solution in... Others are more skeptical, including National Security Adviser Jim Jones and Vice President Joe Biden who wants Obama to consider dialing down U.S. forces in favor of a counterterrorism campaign along the Pakistan border where many al-Qaida operatives are believed to be hiding.

[The Opinionator] The General Has Spoken - The Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com: we’re right, damn it, and it’s disconcerting how few people criticizing McChrystal are able to produce full, contextualized quotes from the man to support this narrative of insubordination. Gates and Jones addressed a media-driven controversy to end it, and to get McChrystal, indeed, to stop giving the press opportunities to feed a narrative that’s irresistible to the press.

[Patrick J. Buchanan] The Generals' War « Patrick J. Buchanan: McChrystal participated by teleconference. His strategy””fight a counterinsurgency against the Taliban by taking and holding population centers, protecting the Afghan people and building up Kabul’s army, economy and government””was challenged.

[Enduring America] Video, Transcripts, and Analysis: National Security Advisor Jones ...: Steeped in desert traditions of pride, dignity and honor, no one in Anbar, perhaps the most Arab of Iraq’s Arab regions, would contend that any foreign occupation was good, and the Americans remain deeply unpopular in some quarters here. But true or not, there is a prevailing sense in this vast, arid region bisected by the Euphrates that, as far as occupations go, the British were better at it than the Americans.

[newcastleonhunter.com] 'Everything else is a bonus' | newcastleonhunter.com: Lieutenant Colonel Smith is noted for his proactive role in improving the survival rates of soldiers who .Not only did she balance full-time study with her job as a police officer and caring for two young children (with another due in November), Mrs Jones completed her Bachelor of Laws degree with Honours Class I and achieved a University Medal.

[POLITICO Top Stories] Sunday talk show tip sheet - Dianna Heitz - POLITICO.com: Buchanan answers the question: "Who are they, the neoconservatives?" He quotes a Wall Street Journal article by Max Boot in which Boot states that support for Israel is a "key tenet of neoconservatism" and that Commentary, the American Jewish Congress magazine, is the "neocon bible." Buchanan points out that Israel Lobby neocon Michael Ledeen wrote in his book The War Against the Terror Masters: "First and foremost, we must bring down the terror regimes, beginning with the big three: Iran, Iraq, and Syria." "Stability is an unworthy American mission, and a misleading concept to boot. We do not want stability in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and even Saudi Arabia;

[The Confluence] Al Franken Keeps His Promise « The Confluence: In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones was gang-raped by her co-workers while she was working for Halliburton/KBR in Baghdad. She was detained in a shipping container for at least 24 hours without food, water, or a bed, and “warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she’d be out of a job.” (Jones was not an isolated case.) Jones was prevented from bringing charges in court against KBR because her employment contract stipulated that sexual assault allegations would only be heard in private arbitration.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Objectively pro-rape: Especially THIS company - an Army medical exam said that Jones had been raped multiple times, both vaginally and anally, but multiple perps, but darned if the rape kit didn't get itself disappeared after the Army turned it over to KBR Security. ...

[ArtsBeat] The Morning Feed - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com: Books of The Times: Ground War: The Iraq Surge Grunts Knew. By MICHIKO KAKUTANI. The Iraq war in Mr. Finkel's heart-stopping new book is something immediate and visceral. Archie's Destiny, as Shaped by Robert Frost ...

[Hillary Is 44] Hillary Is 44 » Blog Archive » Newsom For Governor; Martha Coakley ...: Apparently, General Jones would have us believe that President Obama wasn’t aware that we were fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan when he promised to lift the gay ban during the campaign in exchange for our votes. So, Jones tells us today, Obama can’t get to that particular promise right now because he’s busy fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: The Republican National Committee is instructing surrogates to accuse the Obama administration of trying to "fool Americans" into supporting their heath care plans by hyping GOP figures who've spoken positively about the plan, according to internal RNC talking points provided to CNN on Tuesday by a Republican source outside the committee.

[IRVING] IRVING Blog | The Dallas Morning News: It is perhaps fitting that the honor be given to one of our Purple Heart war heroes who have returned from Iraq.

[MoJo Blog Posts: kevin drum] Star 6 | Mother Jones: Oh, and I like the civility in your message, it is sooo refreshing compared to the "right-wing" "extremists" at these town halls. It is so nice to see a leftie contribute to the civility that is apparently only sought under Democratic administrations.

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