I had a Top Gun in the studio today. Major Rob Novotny, who appears in the Omnimax movie “Fighter Pilot: Operator Red Flag” came in to my show this afternoon. He told stories about flying missions over the No-Fly zone in southern Iraq in the 1990s and being part of Shock And Awe at the […]
For anyone who blames the media for not giving an accurate representation of what’s going on in Iraq, here’s another source. It’s a cable from the US Ambassador in Baghdad to Condoleeza Rice, describing conditions there and for the Iraqis who work with the Americans at our embassy. As you read it, remember that this […]
This afternoon, I talked with Paul Rieckhoff of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America about the case of Lt. Ehren Watada, who has refused to go serve in Iraq because he’s opposed to the war — not all war, just this war. We also discussed the VA losing personal data on 26 million veterans, the […]
In the wake of last week’s incident in Iraq that killed two CBS crew members and seriously injured Kimberly Dozier, CNN’s Howard Kurtz addressed the issue of how dangerous Iraq has become for reporters trying to cover the war (more journalists have died covering this conflict than any other war in US history). On today’s […]
I talked to Adrian Cronauer on my show this afternoon. You know him as the guy Robin Williams played in “Good Morning Vietnam.” Now he works for the Defense Department in the Office of Missing Personnel, which continues to look for American servicemen and women who are still missing in action from World War II […]
I invited former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter back onto my show to talk about developments in the Iran nuclear story, with their President and Deputy Nuclear Chief crowing about their ability to produced low-grade enriched uranium. As always, Ritter explained in layman’s terms what’s going on and why, while we certainly must continue to […]