by admin | Apr 8, 2008 | Politics / Govt
On a day General David Petraeus – the top U.S. military commander in Iraq – appears before Capitol Hill lawmakers to update them on the situation in Iraq, Senator Kit Bond (R-MO) delivers a blistering attack on those he claims are in denial and committed...
by admin | Feb 7, 2008 | Military
A Missouri Army National Guard Sergeant has been killed in Iraq, the victim of an improvised explosive device (IED) yesterday, February 6 th . The Guard reports that Sergeant Bradley Skelton of Gordonville had come out of retirement to serve on this deployment....
by admin | Dec 9, 2007 | Crime / Courts, Politics / Govt
Governor Blunt criticizes a court ruling that has blocked enforcement of the state’s ban on protests at military funerals. A preliminary injunction has been issued by the 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals, preventing enforcement of the protest ban. The court has...
by admin | Nov 25, 2007 | Military, Politics / Govt
Violence has fallen in Iraq since the United States fully employed the troop surge, but Missouri’s military expert in Congress says Iraq still has a long ways to go. West-Central Missouri Congressman Ike Skelton (D-Lexington), chairman of the House Armed...
by admin | Oct 3, 2007 | Politics / Govt
Sen. Bond makes an aggressive defense of the Bush Administration’s strategy for the war in Iraq. Bond, Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, insists the counter-insurgency plan put into place this year is working by aggressively battling the...