Joe Galloway

Commentary: Trust us? In a pig's eye, I say

The Bush administration is telling Congress and the president himself is on television telling the American people: Trust us. Trust us with a check on the national treasury for $700 billion, and that's just for starters. We don't need no stinking oversight. Trust Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson — a Wall Street critter whose last civilian paycheck was for $38 million for a year's work — to make sure the money is wisely and conservatively spent. | 09/24/08 18:37:53 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: Now, maybe the issues will start to matter in this election

There's nothing like a 504-point free fall in the Dow Jones Industrial Average to clear the mind and lead voters to set aside debate over such critical issues as lipstick on pigs and Gov. Sarah Palin's dismissal of the man who refused to fire her state trooper ex-brother-in-law. | 09/16/08 15:36:56 By - Joe Galloway

Commentary: Farewell to an American hero

For the better part of 60 years, two old Army pilots who loved each other argued over many a meal and drink as to which of them was the second best pilot in the world. Their argument over which of them is the Best Pilot in the Whole World sadly came to an end this week when our friend and comrade-in-arms Maj. Ed (Too Tall to Fly) Freeman slipped the surly bonds of earth and headed off to Fiddler’s Green, where the souls of departed cavalrymen gather by dispensation of God Himself. | 08/21/08 12:53:25 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: A sad week for Georgia, America and the world

Only someone with a tenuous grasp on reality and a poor knowledge of history and the world could have looked into the flinty eyes of a onetime colonel in the Soviet KGB and "found him very straightforward and trustworthy." That was newly elected President George W. Bush's pronouncement in June 2001, on his first meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin. | 08/14/08 19:28:03 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: A top general says more troops aren't the answer in Afghanistan

One of the sharper military analysts I know has just returned from a tour of Afghanistan, which has been at war continuously since the Soviet Army invaded it in late 1979. Gen. Barry McCaffrey says we can't shoot our way out of Afghanistan, and the two or three or more American combat brigades proposed by the two putative nominees for president are irrelevant. | 07/31/08 17:39:59 By - Joseph L. 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

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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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