House Passes New Defense Bill

The Troops get a 3.5% pay raise.

The bill authorizes about $696 billion in defense spending, including $189 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Besides the pay raises for service members, the bill's primary purpose is to guide Pentagon policy, including setting restrictions on the Pentagon's multibillion-dollar acquisition program.

what sort of restrictions are on Pentagon? And how exactly are these enforced?

what sort of restrictions are on Pentagon? And how exactly are these enforced?

Haven't had a chance to read the Bill yet, I'm 250,000,000 on the mailing list.

Haven't had a chance to read the Bill yet, I'm 250,000,000 on the mailing list.

well I actually said it sarcastically...as I have a sense that CIA cannot be controlled by non other but itself.

MOD HAT: this is more suited to politics than WE so it has been moved

well I actually said it sarcastically...as I have a sense that CIA cannot be controlled by non other but itself.

The CIA is not the Federal'naya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti.

The CIA is not the Federal'naya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti.

oh, you overestimate your so called freedom and underestimate the lawlessness of your government. On surface they all do their jobs...but lift that surface (http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1200594608313) and oh boy we all got in store for us "accidental" deaths and "unfortunate" and "unforeseen" circumstances...

Its only a matter of who hides their actions better...the GRU, FBR, and such or CIA, FBI and such...

Especially from the FSB.

Poisoned former KGB man dies in hospital | Russia | Guardian Unlimited
"Poisoning is a well known tactic of Russian intelligence, but not only of ... that Mr Litvinenko had been the victim of a Kremlin assassination attempt. ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,1955864,00.html

Especially from the FSB.

Poisoned former KGB man dies in hospital | Russia | Guardian Unlimited
"Poisoning is a well known tactic of Russian intelligence, but not only of ... that Mr Litvinenko had been the victim of a Kremlin assassination attempt. ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,1955864,00.html

counter falsified media by UK M15 corrupt (http://rachelnorthlondon.blogspot.com/2006/12/m15-chief-quits.html) government officials covering up their deeds (http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17075498&method=full&siteid=62484&headline=m15-infiltrated-by-al-qaeda--name_page.html) against civilians

Well anyway the troops are getting a well deserved pay raise, and V.A. will get their funding, and the the Retirees will get their raises.

the democrats have nothing against the troops, at least not from where I'm standing. there are leftists in the Forces you know.

the democrats have nothing against the troops, at least not from where I'm standing. there are leftists in the Forces you know.That's not really true:
A number of independent surveys were carried out in the mid to late-1990s to assess racial and political attitudes in the services, but these were confined mostly to in-depth interviews of officers attending war colleges, rather than on a large sample chosen at random.

Some of those surveys raised new alarms about a growing civilian-military gap in which military officers were found to be significantly more conservative than their civilian counterparts, and self-described "liberals," who had historically been well-represented in the army in particular, had all but disappeared from all of the services.
It actually says 7% of those serving in the military describe themselves as liberal. So I guess there are a few.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/ips/lobe43.html

It actually says 7% of those serving in the military describe themselves as liberal. So I guess there are a few. The most economically socialized and informationally isolated institution in the country is not going to have very many liberals in it.

Guys like Tillman are exceptions.

Spoken like someone who has never been in or around a military community before.

Spoken like someone who has never been in or around a military community before.

yup military don't speak, they act

http://warhistorian.org/images/starship_troopers_large_05.jpg

yup military don't speak, they act

http://warhistorian.org/images/starship_troopers_large_05.jpg

No, we speak through our actions.