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To: Assignment Desk, Daybooks
Contact: Debra A. Colbert for VoteVets.org, 301-332-0813
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...JON SOLTZ, CHAIRMAN AND CO-FOUNDER, ...
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VoteVets is a pro-military organization, and if I see 'anti-war' even in a headline, I go ballistic," exclaims Soltz, a 29-year-old Squirrel Hill native and Iraq war veteran. "What I have a problem with is that there is no real strategy for Iraq. I have a problem because our troops don't have the proper body armor and equipment that they need. I have a problem with our president, because he was handed a mandate following the mid-term elections to come up with a new strategy for the war on terror. His new strategy was to stay the course more and send 20,000 more troops to Iraq.
Soltz says that voters can't understand the conflict unless they hear from the troops who have served in it. The debate over the "surge," he says, shows just how unrealistic the rhetoric is. "When I served in Ko...
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... of the peacenik sellouts, however, is Jon Soltz of VoteVets, described by WhoRunsGov as "among the...
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...JON SOLTZ, VOTEVETS.ORG: Thank you, Senator Reid, for havin...
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...Jon Soltz, the Chair of VoteVets.org said, "If not every dim...
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To: STATE EDITORS
Contact: Naomi Seligman, +1-310-392-0522 ext. 318, Doug Heller, +1-310-392-0522 ext. 309, Harvey Rosenfield, +1-310-392-0522 ext. 303
... Commissioner John Garamendi, and Jon Soltz, chair of VoteVets.org, who signed the ballot argu...
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President Obama said Friday that he will send more troops to Afghanistan, more money to Pakistan and push for renewed diplomatic attention to the region to combat terrorism - moves met with a positive international response as the president prepares to travel abroad to build support for his new strategy.
Mr. Obama said his administration's review found that the status of the seven-year-long war is "increasingly perilous" and declared a "clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and to prevent their return to either country in the future.
...Iraq war veteran Jon Soltz, chairman of grass-roots group VoteVets.org, said ...
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To: STATE EDITORS
Contact: Naomi Seligman, +1-310-392-0522 ext. 318; or Doug Heller, ext. 309
... need a car while living on base," said Jon Soltz, Chairman of VoteVets.org and an Iraq War veteran....
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Routine Warning
[On Wednesday,] there was a big hubbub manufactured by the American Legion and Republicans surrounding the Department of Homeland Security finding that there is a possibility that returning veterans who were facing issues reintegrating into society could be recruiting targets for extremist groups.
...Bush's Pentagon. -Jon Soltz, VoteVets.org. WHO'S A THREAT?. In an intelligence...