USO's Partnership With MoveOn Angering Some Board Members

AP:

The chairman of the United Service Organizations defended its decision to pair with MoveOn.org to provide phone cards to U.S. troops after some USO board members were outraged by a partnership with a group that opposes the Iraq war.

At least one board member, Vietnam veteran John Gioia, called for USO President Edward Powell to be fired over his decision to accept more than $350,000 from MoveOn's members to buy phone cards for troops overseas.

In September, MoveOn angered opponents and even some supporters by placing an advertisement in The New York Times in advance of congressional testimony by Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, about the status of President Bush's war strategy. The ad said, "General Petraeus, or General Betray Us?"

That's hardly a sentiment felt by USO board members, many of whom are retired military officers or Bush appointees.

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Comments

[ibsteve2u]

The U.S.O. is a service organization first and foremost; I remember them with great fondness.

If those board members are so incensed by MoveOn "doing the right thing", they need to contact some of their warmongering, chickenhawk buddies and tell them to take their minds off of their oil futures and stock options long enough to pry some of that blood money out of their moldy wallets.

[wadenelson1]

Support the Troops!

Unless you're a leftie liberal, of course!