Washington, DC – Nine years ago this week, our FOX News team accompanied U.S. Marines as they swept into Baghdad and then north up the Tigris River to seize Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit. It took less than three weeks to drive the tyrant from power in Operation Iraqi Freedom, and it appeared then that the […]
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Missing the Mark – Again
Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesWashington, DC – Our so-called mainstream media have launched a new anti-military feeding frenzy. The furor is over a crude 39-second video showing four Marines apparently urinating on the bodies of three dead Taliban combatants. In hysteric rhetoric akin to “news reports” on the 2004 Abu Ghraib photos, hoards of print and broadcast “correspondents” rushed […]
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Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesMarine Corps Base, Quantico, VA – Our FOX News crew is here wrapping up our 100th War Stories documentary – with some of the “stars” of previous episodes. Though most of the Marines here are recent veterans of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, their present focus is on the next trouble spots. Thanks to inept […]
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Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesClovis, CA – This little town not far from Fresno may be a perfect place to observe Veterans Day as our nation closes a decade of war. A quiet San Joaquin Valley community in the heart of our most populous state, Clovis has lost 10 of its sons – eight of them from Buchanan High […]
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Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesWashington, D.C. – First the good news. The war in Afghanistan is being won. As our FOX News team saw on our most recent trip through the length and breadth of the country, the Taliban and their al Qaeda allies are being defeated at nearly every turn. Though military operations and police actions are being […]
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Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesCamp Hansen, Helmand Province, Afghanistan – This austere U.S. Marine base in the Marjah District is headquarters for 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment – famous for action during World War II on Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian and Okinawa. Dubbed “America’s Battalion,” the unit has adopted a new slogan in Afghanistan: “Front Toward Enemy” – the […]
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Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesUSS Yorktown, Patriot’s Point, SC – There has been much said and written of late regarding “high-risk decision-making” and “courageous leadership” in Washington. The so-called mainstream media, politicians and pundits are all a-twitter – literally – about a congressman’s underwear, the damage done by Wikileaks, and how the death of Osama bin Laden and the […]
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Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesQuantico National Cemetery – When I was a kid, we called May 30th “Decoration Day.” It was an occasion for Boy Scouts to be up before dawn and report, in uniform, to the American Legion hall. There, Cub Scouts would be paired with older Boy Scouts, organized into detachments of a dozen or so and […]
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Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesQuantico, VA – Here at this sprawling Marine Corps base south of our nation’s capital, nothing has changed since Osama bin Laden met his demise in Pakistan. Thousands of Marines here at the “Crossroads of the Corps” are still waking up at “Oh-Dark-Thirty,” going about their duties, running for miles, lifting weights and tossing each […]
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Categories: Common Sense, CSS Research And ArticlesPittsburgh, PA – According to the experts, this ought to be “Obama Country.” In the 2008 presidential election, the Obama “Hope and Change” machine scored big in western Pennsylvania, carrying the region with nearly 58 percent of the vote. But this week, there’s little evidence of that support here in the Steel City, where more […]
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