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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!First Lady Michelle Obama opened a second front Tuesday in raising her profile on one of her signature issues, announcing President Obama's fiscal 2011 proposed budget will include $8.8 billion to help military families, a three percent boost. Mrs. Obama took a motorcade to Bolling Air Force Base outside of Washington in Virginia to speak to the Joint Armed Forces Officers' Wives' Luncheon about Obama's budget, to be unveiled on Monday Since the presidential campaign, Mrs. Obama's top agenda items have included helping military families, and the speech marked one more step of her newfound ...
FORT DRUM, N.Y. -- Wearied and worn by eight continuous years of war, the 37,000 soldiers and family members of the 10th Mountain Division here await with stoic resignation the decision President Obama will soon announce on sending more troops to Afghanistan. So far, they have found the strength to weather a seemingly unending wartime cycle that has sent soldiers away for a year of combat, brought them home for a year of intense training, and sent them back into war for another year. If the president calls, they will salute and pack up once again, of course. But the signs of strain are ...
The Pentagon said today that it will lift the ban on media photographers covering the repatriation ceremonies for American war dead at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. President Barack Obama had asked Defense Secretary Robert Gates to review the policy, which was first put in place prior to the first Gulf War in 1991 by President George H. W. Bush, earlier this month. Supporters of the ban say that media coverage of the solemn ceremonies only serves to politicize American war casualties, while opponents argue that the lack of media coverage hides the true cost of the war from the public.Most ...
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