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Meanwhile, lets look at a few bush/cheney dandies from their cabinets there is secretary of defense donald rumsfeld. we cant forget him, can we? he botched the wars in afghanistan and iraq. he ignored critical advice from colleagues and failed to commit the correct number of troops to get the job done for those wars. bush appointed condoleezza rice his national security adviser. well, condi lied about weapons of mass destruction in iraq and played a key role in starting the war. as a reward, bus...

Her to secretary of state. then there is fema director, how could we ever forget brownie? of course bush told brownie he was doing a heck of a job responding to hurricane katrina. but now brownie is famous for one of the biggest government failures of all time. after the failures in the bush administration, cheney as i think a lot of nerve calling president obamas choices second rate. chuck hagel is a decorated vietnam veteran with combat experience. well, dick cheney was granted five deferments...

I would like for you as the committee is getting to know you, know something about your service in vietnam and your combat experience. were you wounded, senator hagel? >> i would respond this way. i think my time is better served and maybe talk about more the specific things like senator mccain asked me about. i had one fundamental question that i asked myself. on every vote i took, every decision i made. was a policy worthy of the men and women that we were sending into battle and surely to the...

Pentagon. so i think, you know, they might have been watching yesterday, but for the first time theyre going to have someone in a long time who is actually served in combat and been wounded in combat. >> and do you think that he will be confirmed? what are you hearing from your democratic colleagues? >> i have always felt he is going to be confirmed because, frankly, there are a few people who have been nominated in the position that have combat experience and have been enlisted in had the unite...

Support roles that put them right in the middle of conflicts where the new front line is wherever the next ied or mortar attack or suicide bomb happens to b and while the u.s. militarys old policy discriminated against the women as the casualties can attest, the attackers did not. 283,000 women have been deployed to iraq and afghanistan since 2001, and since then, more than 800 women have been wounded and more than 130 killed in those conflicts. so the pentagons announcement was not only welcome...

Island. there are ways for women to succeed if they choose a military career. i dont know if serving in infran industry is one of them -- infan industry is one of them. if you get pressure to go the front line if you choose military career are you looked down why didnt you go to the front when we are in the tanks for 48 hours and pee in a cup? >> bob: its true that most of the officers who reach the highest levels have had combat experience. >> dana: there are women who are able to -- >> bob: th...

Island. there are ways for women to succeed if they choose a military career. i dont know if serving in infran industry is one of them -- infan industry is one of them. if you get pressure to go on the front line if you choose military career are you looked down why didnt you go to the front when we are in the tanks for 48 hours and pee in a cup? >> bob: its true that most of the officers who reach the combat experience. >> dana: there are women who are able to -- >> bob: this will lead to more ...

Where the war zone is anymore and tammy duckworth and others giving parts of their body an given their lives will say we have been fighting for a long time. you cannot ascend to the higher levels of the military because you have to have combat experience and women are getting combat experience but not recognized for it because officially they cant be in combat and cant get to the higher levels of military and bad for the military. this is going to give women a chance to get recognized for the th...

Algeria like to associate themselves with al-qaeda. but we have to be careful what about that means. core al-qaeda has been depleted coming out of afghanistan and pakistan. what we are dealing with now is the jihadist who have been associated with al-qaeda and gained unfortunately very serious combat experience coming back to the countries they left to wage jihad in central asia. so whether they call themselves al-qaeda, or boca horam or ansar al-sharia, they are all part of the same global jiha...

Libya. we know people like we saw with the recent attacks in a.m. jeer ya like to associate themselves with al qaeda. but weve got to be careful about what that means. core al qaeda has been severely depleted coming out of afghanistan and pakistan. what were dealing with now is the jihadists who have been associated with al qaeda who have gained, unfortunately, very serious combat experience. coming back to the countries that they left in order to go wage jihad in central asia. so whether they c...