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Related: About this forumHow completely UNEXPECTED! Grampy McBush & DiFi want the Pres to send more ground troops to Yemen.
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McCain, Feinstein Call for More US Presence in Yemen
Kate Scanlon / @scanlon_kate / January 25, 2015
http://dailysignal.com/2015/01/25/mccain-feinstein-call-us-presence-yemen/
Two U.S. senators a Republican and a Democrat called for an increased American presence in Yemen this morning on CBS Face the Nation.
Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Cali., both said that an increase in American presence in Yemen might be necessary to stop Iranian influence in the country.
McCain said that Iran is on the march in Yemen.
He said that the White Houses version of events is contradicted by the situation on the ground, and that they lack a strategy to defeat the threat.
http://www.wnd.com/2007/03/40845/
FEINSTEIN QUITS COMMITTEE UNDER WAR-PROFITEER CLOUD
Report documents military contracts
for firms owned by senator's husband
Published: 03/28/2007 at 10:05 PM
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has abruptly walked away from her responsibilities with the Senate Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee after a report linked her votes to the financial well-being of her husbands companies, which received billions of dollars worth of military construction contracts she approved.
As reported in Metroactive, an online report from the Silicon Valley, Feinsteins resignation followed six years of subcommittee work during which time her alleged conflict of interest stemmed from her husband Richard C. Blums ownership of Perini Corp. and URS Corp.
Feinstein, chairman and ranking member of the subcommittee, regularly reviewed and accepted contracts from her husbands companies for not only construction work for military bases, but also addressing quality of life issues for the veterans of the United States military services.
As MILCON leader, Feinstein relished the details of military construction, even micromanaging one project at the level of its sewer design, wrote Peter Byrne in the report. She regularly took junkets to military bases around the world to inspect construction projects, some of which were contracted to her husbands companies, Perini Corp. and URS Corp.
FEINSTEIN QUITS COMMITTEE UNDER WAR-PROFITEER CLOUD
Report documents military contracts
for firms owned by senator's husband
Published: 03/28/2007 at 10:05 PM
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has abruptly walked away from her responsibilities with the Senate Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee after a report linked her votes to the financial well-being of her husbands companies, which received billions of dollars worth of military construction contracts she approved.
As reported in Metroactive, an online report from the Silicon Valley, Feinsteins resignation followed six years of subcommittee work during which time her alleged conflict of interest stemmed from her husband Richard C. Blums ownership of Perini Corp. and URS Corp.
Feinstein, chairman and ranking member of the subcommittee, regularly reviewed and accepted contracts from her husbands companies for not only construction work for military bases, but also addressing quality of life issues for the veterans of the United States military services.
As MILCON leader, Feinstein relished the details of military construction, even micromanaging one project at the level of its sewer design, wrote Peter Byrne in the report. She regularly took junkets to military bases around the world to inspect construction projects, some of which were contracted to her husbands companies, Perini Corp. and URS Corp.
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How completely UNEXPECTED! Grampy McBush & DiFi want the Pres to send more ground troops to Yemen. (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Jan 2015
OP
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)1. It has become very apparant that these two don't give a
rats ass about our country. It is the Saudi's who are messing with Yemen and not the Iranians. But,the truth can not and will not surface with the Neo-Cons. The Press really loves these two wackos.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)2. We've got
our own assortment of problems here. What business would we have sending even more troops out, especially after drawing down the Afghan War?
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)3. Look people, we just need more war!
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)4. I used to be of a mind that...
public servants who've not served in the military should not be of authority over the military. But McDunce's PTSD reigns over every thought he has. Clearly, he's NOT qualified to make ANY decisions regarding deployment of this nation's military personnel.