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>> the iraq vets who now fighting on the battlefield in afghanistan and the feeling was that the appropriate time to have a national new york-style ticker tape parade was the time when combat troops were back home. >> to be clear, the iraq war is over. the idea is to hold a parade to mark the end of that specific war. not to mark the end of war altogether. military officer a decorated combat veteran of iraq and afghanistan wrote to me today on the subject to say this. if they are waiting until c...

City parade, mayor bloomberg said on this network i guess on sunday to "meet the press," as soon as it is appropriate to have this parade he was respecting the request of military leaders and thats whos made the request. the military leadership, all of the joint chiefs of staff and the heads of services not to not have a parade but to wait until combat troops come home. thats the question and he said when they do, were going to have the biggest backup parade you have ever seen and we cant wait t...

Had not said it we would have already had a parade by now. >> i think this is instead the senior military leadership including those who served in iraq and others at lower levels, who were part of the discussion on how best to honor and celebrate the troops made the request. they are making a request that the white house is honoring. they are making a request that mayor bloomberg and others are honoring. i have to tell you the program you quoted me from yesterday on npr was a call in program. th...

Idea but the pentagon told him not to do it. a statement from the mayors office saying we sought the pentagons guidance since they are the real experts and there is a question about whether a parade puts troops still in the field at risk. that struck some people including me as strange. after all, the parades to mark other wars had happened with troops still in the field somewhere. nobody thought those troops, parades put anybody at risk. after all, the st. louis parade went out without a hitch ...

War. the nazis sure rear denied in may, the parade in the canyon of heros did not mean every american who had been in harms way was safe at home. that parade was held because we were a country that had gone to war, fighting the nazis was done, that was worth throwing a heck of a lot of paper out the windows for. june 10th, 1991 parade the mark the end of the gulf war, when it ended saddam hussein was still in power and thousands of americans still deployed to the region, particularly u.s. air fo...

Veterans, id say how cool to see how much the american people support us. he writes and concludes, we should have a parade to thank iraq vets now, and afghanistan when those ops are over. >> joining us for the interview from washington d.c. the man from the pentagon who disagrees, making the pentagons case on this matter, assistant secretary of defense, douglas wilson, thank you for being here. i appreciate the chance to talk with you about this. >> thank you for having me, i appreciate it. >> i...

Just want this country and i want the department of defense and veterans administration to treat us like we are more than a burden. in our nation after what we have done. and that is the point. the pentagon does not oppose parades. our military leadership does not oppose parades. what happened in st. louis was a template. that was a parade that grew up spontaneously and allowed that community not to just attract hundreds of thousands of people to shed tear and have their tear ducts dry but to un...

Turns out no. in an interview with military.com, a spokesman for the chairman of the joint chiefs clarified, telling bryant jordan, "a national level parade in new york city to honor iraq veterans would not harm our efforts in afghanistan." so its all been a big misunderstanding, ala threes company with jack and chrisy, and jacks gay, no hes not. the mayors office thought the pentagon was saying dont do the parade will put troops at risk, but the pentagon says it was not saying that at all. now ...

City parade, mayor bloomberg said on this network i guess on sunday to "meet the press," as soon as it is appropriate to have this parade he was respecting the request of military leaders and thats whos made the request. the military leadership, all of the joint chiefs of staff and the heads of services not to not have a parade but to wait until combat troops come home. thats the question and he said when they do, were going to have the biggest backup parade you have ever seen and we cant wait t...

In terms of the new york ticker tape parade, those who were winding down the war in afghanistan are military leaders and troops who are fighting there, made clear last fall that they thought it was not the time to have such a major national parade because there were still individuals on the battlefield in afghanistan, many of them. as you know, our troops are rotating, a lot of those fighting in afghanistan are themselves iraq vets. instead, i think we need to be having a conversation about how ...