Sunday, August 24, 2008

more godd news! hurt solders get free hoses!

See this is good abot America. The liberuls all say the trops arenot beeng helped but they are like this. They just always want to look at bad stuf. Thank God we have a reel president and not one the democants wold want. HEres proof from a site that publshes reel news abot stuf. I mene who nows whatis happening in the Iraq better then are army? Not the liberul pres that just wants to make us look bad!

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America Supports You: Group Helps Political Parties Build Common Ground

By Samantha L. Quigley
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22, 2008 – It took a Massachusetts troop-support group to get the country’s two major political parties to find a sliver of common ground, literally, during this election year.

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A joint advertisement by the Democratic and Republican parties shows unity for a common cause, as a wounded veteran from each of the cities that will host their 2008 national conventions will receive an adaptive home from Massachusetts-based “Homes for Out Troops,” a supporter of the Defense Department’s America Supports You program. Courtesy graphic

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During each party’s convention, Homes for Our Troops will present a wounded veteran from each of the communities where the Democratic and Republican conventions are being held with keys to a specially adapted home.

The timing and locations are no coincidence. Everything was very carefully planned between Homes for Our Troops and representatives of the Republican and Democratic national committees.

“The RNC and the DNC, that’s one of their things that they do,” said Dawn Teixeira, Homes for Our Troops vice president and chief communication officer. “They converge hundreds of people into these cities, [and] they like to leave something nice behind. That’s why the conventions are involved.”

The Credit Union National Association is at the center of it all, she said. Involved in the conventions because of lobbying interests, the association helps the parties fulfill their desire to give back to the communities in which they hold their conventions.

With the mission of “People helping people,” the association saw what Homes for Our Troops was doing and decided it fit the parties’ mission perfectly. “They saw us and they said, ‘What a perfect way to give back,” Teixeira said.

To get the two houses built took a fair amount of effort on the part of Homes for Our Troops, despite the backing of the two powerhouse parties, because each project was started from scratch. “We had to seek out some vets to say, ‘We have this wonderful opportunity. We’re going to build you a house,’” Teixeira said.

It was months ago that Homes for Our Troops shocked Travis Strong and Marcus Kuboy with the news that each would receive a home built to accommodate their unique needs. During each of the conventions, the wait to move into their new homes will be over.

Ceremonies are scheduled to turn over the keys to Strong on Aug. 27 in conjunction with the Democratic convention in Denver and to Kuboy on Sept. 1 in St. Paul, Minn. The Republican convention takes place that week in Minneapolis.

Strong was on a patrol during his second tour in Iraq when the Stryker armored combat vehicle he was riding in was hit by a roadside bomb. He lost both of his legs because of the incident.

When he, his wife, Misty, and their children, Sean and Brianna, get the keys to their new home in Denver, they will be moving into the 30th home that Homes for Our Troops has completed since October 2005.

Kuboy was injured in a Humvee explosion while serving in Iraq last year. Both of his legs were severely damaged. He also suffered a traumatic brain injury, a broken arm, back and jaw.

After months of recovery at Walter Reed Army Medical Center here, he continues rehabilitation at the Veterans Affairs Rehabilitation Center in St. Paul.

While the benefits of the projects are the primary focus for all parties involved, the irony isn’t lost on both political parties’ operatives. That was evident when they released a joint advertisement for their home-building endeavors.

“There’s not much Democrats and Republicans agree on, but we all agree on supporting our troops,” reads a joint Democratic and Republican advertisement. “That’s why the Democratic and Republican National Conventions are proud to join … Homes for Our Troops in building specially adapted new homes in Denver and Minneapolis-St. Paul for a seriously wounded servicemember and their family from each of these communities.”

Homes for Our Troops is a supporter of America Supports You, a Defense Department program connecting citizens and companies with servicemembers and their families serving at home and abroad.

Monday, August 18, 2008

America the Beutiful!!!!


I want pepel to get this. Americans have the bst women! This is prof!

this is about how John MCcain understands things about Jews because he is clearheaded

Huckabee: Obama Can't 'Fully Grasp' Israeli Politics



Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee visiting Jerusalem on Monday called John McCain the “overwhelmingly better choice” for Israel in the United States’ upcoming presidential elections.

"John McCain understands this part of the world very clearly,” Huckabee said, while adding that Democratic candidate Barack Obama doesn’t “fully grasp” the politics of the region.

The former Arkansas governor was whisked to Israel by a right-wing organization, the Jerusalem Reclamation Project, which settles Israelis amid predominantly Arab east Jerusalem neighborhoods. Huckabee, on a 48-hour tour, stressed Israel’s right to defend itself against a potential strike by Iran. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly vowed to “wipe Israel off the map.”

“Israel has to take whatever steps it feels necessary to protect itself against someone who has openly said it would seek to annihilate her,” Huckabee said.

He said the United States should remove a restriction on the sale of F-22 stealth fighters to Israel since they are “specifically the type of aircraft Israel needs for its defense purposes.”

Huckabee also underscored his support for an undivided Jewish capital.

“It is possible for different cultures and people to live together, but it is not necessarily very realistic to expect two governments to operate on the same street,” Huckabee said, referring to a divided Jerusalem as a capital of both a Jewish and Palestinian state.

Palestinians demand all of east Jerusalem including the Old City containing Muslim and Jewish holy sites as the capital of their future state. Israeli politicians have been willing to give up parts of Jerusalem, but the concept of giving up Jerusalem is extremely controversial among Israelis. The city today is a crowded patchwork of Jewish and Arab neighborhoods all closely situated.

“If a person comes here and can see the close proximity, just the tiny little footprint that Israel actually occupies, one gets the idea that to maintain a long-term security and peace there has to be attention to every inch of real estate,” Huckabee said.

Taking it a step further, Huckabee said America should relocate its Israeli embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem to acknowledge the nation’s capital. Most countries moved their embassies from Jerusalem in 1980 under threat of an Arab oil embargo. Huckabee believes McCain will do so if elected.

Daniel Luria, executive director of Jerusalem Reclamation Project, said the organization brought Huckabee to Israel to reinforce his friendship with the Jewish state.

“He speaks truth and calls a spade a spade,” Luria said. “He understands dealing with the Arab world, terrorism, Hamas, Fatah cannot be, that Oslo (agreement) has failed, ‘land for peace’ doesn’t work, and that you can’t divide Jerusalem and expect everything is going to be okay.”

Huckabee called this tenth trip of his to the Holy Land since 1973 a fact-finding mission and not a sign of any political aspirations. He visited secluded Jewish settlements in the shadow of the security fence in east Jerusalem, places even President George W. Bush and McCain hadn’t visited.

Democratic New York Congressman Dov Hikind, who accompanied Huckabee, called the Republican a “real hero in the Jewish community”

“He is someone who understands Israel, understands Jerusalem beyond what most people understand,” Hikind said.

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This is good becaus it tlls uyo abot how John MCCain understand foren problems and Jeews who will be safe if he wins but not if Obsama wins becaus Obsama will giv the terrists all his help becaus he is also a muslum.