It’s quite evident that President Obama is in for just as equal opportunity treatment as President Bush when it comes to what’s wrong with the War on Terror. It remains to be seen if those who made an industry out of Bush bashing will commit the same ferver to Obama bashing or not?
Public television has shown that it is willing to be just as forceful with Obama and Democrat pro-war Chicken hawks as it was with President Bush and his Republican pro-war chicken hawks, now it remains to be seen if mainstream media will be just as hard on President Obama as it was on Bush when and if things go very wrong in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. That I believe is a sentiment that even Rush Limbaugh would agree with me on.
In the meantime, MFSO is about to add to the demand for CHANGE WE REALLY NEED this coming February 2009.
Robert L. Hanafin
Major, U.S. Air Force-Retired
Here are a list of events:
From Friday February 6 through Monday, February 9, MFSO will bring their message "The Change WE Need: Bring them Home NOW!" to Washington, DC.
MFSO is working with allies to plan a series of events and actions that include:
· A Friday teach-in on Iraq and the need for the immediate and complete withdrawal of U.S. troops. MFSO hopes to have the teach-in broadcast on C-Span.
· A Saturday march from Arlington National Cemetery to the White House. Military families, veterans, and Iraqis will lay flowers symbolizing U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians. Letters collected from veterans, military families, and Iraqis will be brought by these individuals to President-elect Obama, and laid along with the flowers.
· A Sunday legislative briefing, followed by time for an MFSO meet and greet.
– A Monday lobbying day on Capitol Hill
If you can’t join us in DC but would like to help make it possible for other military families to bring their message to Washington please make a donation to support this campaign and all the work of MFSO — go to
Readers are more than welcome to use the articles I’ve posted on Veterans Today, I’ve had to take a break from VT as Veterans Issues and Peace Activism Editor and staff writer due to personal medical reasons in our military family that take away too much time needed to properly express future stories or respond to readers in a timely manner.
My association with VT since its founding in 2004 has been a very rewarding experience for me.
Retired from both the Air Force and Civil Service. Went in the regular Army at 17 during Vietnam (1968), stayed in the Army Reserve to complete my eight year commitment in 1976. Served in Air Defense Artillery, and a Mechanized Infantry Division (4MID) at Fort Carson, Co. Used the GI Bill to go to college, worked full time at the VA, and non-scholarship Air Force 2-Year ROTC program for prior service military. Commissioned in the Air Force in 1977. Served as a Military Intelligence Officer from 1977 to 1994. Upon retirement I entered retail drugstore management training with Safeway Drugs Stores in California. Retail Sales Management was not my cup of tea, so I applied my former U.S. Civil Service status with the VA to get my foot in the door at the Justice Department, and later Department of the Navy retiring with disability from the Civil Service in 2000.
I’ve been with Veterans Today since the site originated. I’m now on the Editorial Board. I was also on the Editorial Board of Our Troops News Ladder another progressive leaning Veterans and Military Family news clearing house.
I remain married for over 45 years. I am both a Vietnam Era and Gulf War Veteran. I served on Okinawa and Fort Carson, Colorado during Vietnam and in the Office of the Air Force Inspector General at Norton AFB, CA during Desert Storm. I retired from the Air Force in 1994 having worked on the Air Staff and Defense Intelligence Agency at the Pentagon.
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