Afghanistan & Iraq Veterans for Congress

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AIVC Endorses Navy Iraq Vet in Maryland US Senate Race

Fishkill, NY (January 9, 2012): Afghanistan & Iraq Veterans for Congress political action committee (AIVC) today announced the endorsement of Richard Douglas for US Senator in Maryland. 

Douglas, who is running against Democrat incumbent Ben Cardin, enlisted in the US Navy at age 17 and served on a submarine during the 1970s.  After the attacks of 9/11, he was recalled to active duty in the N

The Marine Corps will shrink from about 202,000 troops to as few as 175,000 under an estimated $1 trillion in Defense Department budget cuts set to take place over the next decade.

The service has been working for months on a plan to cut its force to 186,000 troops by the end of 2014, but that number could fall even more under a strategy to absorb the cuts unveiled Thursday by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and the Obama administration.

In recent weeks, the Marine Corps has begun offering plans for early retirements and reducing the number of positions in certain job categor

WASHINGTON — In a defiant display of executive power, President Barack Obama bucked GOP opposition and named Richard Cordray as the nation’s chief consumer watchdog.

President Obama offered a new Pentagon strategy that cuts billions of dollars for defense over the next decade and will "turn the page on a decade of war," but has critics arguing will gut U.S. ability to lead a dangerous world.

In a rare appearance in the Pentagon press briefing room Thursday, where he announced that the military will be reshaped over time, Obama said the reality of the U.S.

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Fishkill, NY (January 4, 2012): Afghanistan & Iraq Veterans for Congress political action committee (AIVC) today announced the endorsement of Operation Iraqi Freedom vet Dakota Wood in Oklahoma’s 2nd Congressional District. 

“A man of great skill, experience and uncommon devotion to public service, <A hr

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College Park, MD  – Richard Douglas, an Iraq veteran, former Diplomat and
small business owner, is pleased to announce that Ambassador John Bolton has strongly endorsed his accelerating campaign to unseat incumbent Democrat Ben Cardin in the United States Senate.

Ambassador Bolton said, “Douglas is the most qualified Senate candidate to emerge in Maryland in forty years. Douglas will bring badly-needed experience to the Senate at a moment of profound crisis.

Well, that didn’t take long: Now that President Obama has brought US troops home — to fulfill a campaign vow — Iraq is devolving into political chaos verging on civil war.

Barely 100 hours after the troops were withdrawn, Baghdad was rocked by more than a dozen explosions — including suicide car bombers — that left at least 63 people dead and 194 injured.

The attacks followed the pattern long favored by al Qaeda in Iraq terrorists — before the Bush-Petraeus troop surge reined them in, of course.

And they also followed the stunning political onslaught launched by Prim

TEHRAN (Reuters) - - Iran announced a nuclear fuel breakthrough and test-fired a new radar-evading medium-range missile in the Gulf on Sunday, moves that could further antagonize the West at a time when Tehran is trying to avert harsh new sanctions on its oil industry.

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Seven long years after he allegedly committed “premeditated murder,” Iraq war veteran Ilario Pantano, who gave up a comfortable life on Manhattan’s Upper West Side to fight for his country following the September 11th attacks, has been thoroughly vindicated. Thus ends a saga highlighted by an unconscionable rush to judgement by the military, and the subsequent trashing of Mr. Pantano’s reputation by leftists who never miss an opportunity to denigrate American soldiers based on nothing more than unproven allegations.

By any reasonable measure, Mr. Pantano is an American patriot.