Ultra-Realistic Modern Warfare Game Features Awaiting Orders, Repairing Trucks Designers say the new game explores the endless paperwork, routine patrolling a modern day soldier endures in photorealistic detail.
LoD’s Jamie McIntyre discusses a current New Yorker article that attempts to put the widely-covered fall of Saddam’s statue in Baghdad in 2003 in its proper historical context. — RT’s The Alyona Show, Jan 4, 2011 6pm EST.
An excerpt from Capt. Owen Honors’s Movie Night Clip reel, ruled clearly inappropriate by the U.S. Navy. This clip features mock masturbation and “chicks in the shower.” See full clip at: The Virginian-Pilot
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld discusses his first meeting with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in a 2002 interview with CNN Senior Pentagon Correspondent Jamie McIntyre. Rumsfeld was special envoy for President Reagan when he met with Saddam Hussein and Tarik Aziz on Dec 20, 1983.
I created this short video after I saw these photographs on a friend’s Facebook page. These are pictures that for a long time the government didn’t allow the public to see.
Did President Lyndon Johnson really say? “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost middle America,” or words to that effect? The late Don Hewitt says a top Johnson aide told him the story firsthand. Is he “misremembering” history, and feeding another media-driven myth? Judge for yourself.
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