Joe Galloway

Commentary: Back to the future in the war on terror

The events of this week served to underline the fact that the war on terrorism was always really about Afghanistan and Pakistan, and that President George W. Bush's splendid little adventure in Iraq was always a sideshow, even though it siphoned off the biggest chunk of manpower and resources. | 07/24/08 20:31:54 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: How dare they rip the Fourth Amendment?

Early next week the U.S. Senate will vote on an extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, with a few small amendments intended to immunize telecommunications corporations that assisted our government in the warrantless and illegal wiretapping it has grown to love. That such a gutting of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution even made it out of committee is yet another stain on Congress. | 07/03/08 17:46:26 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: Gen. Taguba knew scandal went to the top

Maj. Gen. Anthony Taguba under went a trial by fire when, in 2004, he was named by the Pentagon to conduct an investigation of the abuses of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. But this week in the preface to a damning report on the treatment of Guantanamo detainees, Taguba declared that there was no longer any doubt whatsoever that President George W. Bush and others in the White House had committed war crimes. | 06/20/08 18:33:16 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: News, good and bad, from America's war zones

The waning days of the Bush administration are filled with news, good and bad, and American voters who should be watching the lame ducks with the eyes of a hawk are still absent without leave (AWOL). | 06/12/08 17:48:17 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: It's time to do right by our troops

Wonders never cease! There we were, well down the road to naming the presidential nominees for both major parties, without any of the candidates addressing anything but peripheral finger-pointing nonsense and the daily media-generated crisis, when suddenly a real and serious issue — veterans benefits in a time of war — has bubbled up. | 05/30/08 12:34:40 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: How we can really honor our veterans

How strange that today in our country, in a time of war, battles are raging over the need for medical care, educational benefits, employment opportunities and assistance for those who've served honorably and come home to begin new lives in a nation they risked their lives to defend. | 05/22/08 15:18:36 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: Propaganda and the media

Once upon a time, it was widely believed that one of the greatest sins the U.S. government or its temporary political masters could commit was to turn a propaganda machine loose on the American people. Congress viewed this so seriously that every appropriations bill passed since 1951 has contained language that says no public money “shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes within the United States” without the lawmakers' prior approval. | 05/15/08 14:38:56 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: An indictment of our Army's competence

If the Army cannot afford to maintain minimally decent standards of housing and feeding our soldiers — and treat them with the best medical care and all the loving attention they deserve when they're wounded in combat — then, by God, the Army doesn’t deserve to have ANY soldiers at all. | 05/01/08 18:38:11 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: Unforgettable soldiers

Some people are truly unforgettable; larger than life and so full of life that the memory of them lingers long after they're gone. One such man -- the late Capt. B.T. Collins — came roaring back to life for me this week with an announcement of the publication of a new book. | 04/25/08 14:19:43 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: In Iraq and in Washington, reality bites

The closer we get to the end of the Bush administration, the more honest the assessments of where we are in Iraq and where we're going have become, at least from some key players. | 04/10/08 17:37:22 By - Joseph S. Galloway

Commentary: A common bond for Gold Star children

A good friend, Tony Cordero, has written of a day in early spring of 2003 when he and a group of sons and daughters of American military men killed in Vietnam heard that a new war was at hand. This week, I turn this space over to him and his memories. | 04/03/08 12:30:38 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: Shame on them and shame on us

This week, the Iraq war claimed its 4,000th American killed in action, but that sad and tragic milestone came as the war seems to have slipped off the evening news, off the front pages and from the minds of the American people. Shame on them, and shame on us, for such callous indifference to the service, sacrifice and suffering of the families of the dead, wounded and injured troops who've given so much for so little in return. | 03/26/08 12:31:38 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: Iraq surge has failed in its main purpose

But for the traveling politicians and this week's fifth anniversary of our invasion and occupation of Iraq, the war would have continued to be missing in action from network and cable television and the front pages of our newspapers, as well as from the attention of most Americans. | 03/19/08 19:52:57 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: When will it end?

This month marks the beginning of our country’s sixth year of war in Iraq, and still the question is: Why? The other question is: When will it end? | 03/13/08 12:09:24 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: The Pentagon is financed like Enron and run like General Motors

Pentagon procurement spending is so totally out of control that no one even attempts to separate the good and necessary weapons programs from the bad, useless and even harmful ones. | 02/28/08 16:56:56 By - Joseph L. Galloway

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BOOK: WE ARE SOLDIERS STILL

The long-awaited sequel to Joe Galloway's and Gen. Hal Moore's bestseller "We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young" will be published Aug. 19, 2008, by HarperCollins. It is titled "We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam."

Read an excerpt from "We Are Soldiers Still" here.

Army Magazine review by Col. Cole C. Kingseed, retired.

ABOUT JOE

General H. Norman Schwarzkopf has called Joseph L. Galloway, a military columnist for McClatchy Newspapers, "The finest combat correspondent of our generation — a soldier's reporter and a soldier's friend."

Galloway is the co-author, with Lt. Gen. Hal Moore, of "We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young," a story of the first large-scale ground battle of the Vietnam War. The book was made into a movie of the same name. Galloway was portrayed in the movie by actor Barry Pepper.

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BACK TO VIETNAM

In 2003, some 65 sons and daughters of men who died in the Vietnam War walked in their fathers' footsteps in that country.

Click here to read the letters and photographs.

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