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[MoJo Blog Posts: mojo] Senate Bill Would Allow "Mentally Incapacitated" Vets to Buy Guns ...: Currently, when the Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA) appoints a fiduciary to assist a veteran with managing their financial affairs, VA also deems the veteran mentally incompetent and reports him or her to the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). The Veterans Second Amendment Protection Act would require a judicial body to deem a veteran, surviving spouse, or child as a danger to himself or others before being listed in NICS, which would prohibit the veteran from being able to purchase certain firearms.

[MY WP] Iraqi Mojo: Iraq war and nation-building has been expensive « MY WP: Iraqi Mojo: Iraq war and nation-building has been expensive. Filed under: General ”” Tags: america, free-polls, iraq-, iraqi-mojo, location, party, pasadena, rating, reading, tennis, voice, washington ”” admin @ 8:17 pm. For America the”¦ ...

[MoJo Blog Posts: mojo] Rove, Cheney, Gingrich and Kristol Fail To Rally 9/11 Trial Foes ...: The administration was told this on multiple occasions by the chief weapons inspector for the UN but Bush and crew did not let facts get in the way of their drive for this war. Their own intelligence community verified the lack of WMD's but Cheney badgered them into manufacturing evidence.

[Alan Colmes' Liberaland] Alan Colmes' Liberaland » US Official Resigns Over Afghan War: Matthew Hoh: “But many Afghans, he wrote in his resignation letter, are fighting the United States largely because its troops are there ”” a growing military presence in villages and valleys where outsiders, including other Afghans, are not welcome and where the corrupt, U.S.-backed national government is rejected.”

[MyDD] MyDD :: UPDATE: Afghanistan Decision Time:  We tend to look at the confict in Afghanistan through the prism of the Soviet experience there, if not that of the British in the 19th century, and yet there are a number of indications that economically, socially and politically the frame of reference has shifted in the broader region, if not in the Taliban sanctuaries we hear so much about, and seemingly will carry Afghanistan relentlessly along with them.  We need to look at the region from that perspective.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » The Afghan Decision: He voiced these words because the war in Afghanistan was relatively popular at the time, the war in Iraq was unpopular, and Obama is a man with little Character, who is willing to voice the words that are beneficial to him. ...

[MoJo Blog Posts: kevin drum] No-Win in Afghanistan | Mother Jones: A question I've always had about Afghanistan is, what's the cheapest way to accomplish our MINIMUM goals, which I've always understood as prohibiting the establishment of safe havens for organizations that truly threaten the United States, e.g., the 9/11 terrorists. That's a lot narrower than, say, keeping the Taliban from controlling areas of Afghanistan, or creating a Western-style democracy in Afghanistan, and so it presumably could be accomplished more easily and more cheaply.

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