<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>U.S. National Guard Activities: News &amp; Videos about U.S. National Guard Activities - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/U_S_National_Guard_Activities</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about U.S. National Guard Activities from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:54:11 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>U.S. National Guard Activities: News &amp; Videos about U.S. National Guard Activities - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/U_S_National_Guard_Activities</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about U.S. National Guard Activities from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>National Guard helps as Ida's remnants flood East Coast counties</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/weather/11/13/northeast.storms/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/weather/11/13/northeast.storms/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Governors in three Eastern Seaboard states Friday called on National Guard troops to help evacuate people from flooding caused by the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida.</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:29:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Guardsmen sue KBR over chemical exposure</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/12/03/guardsmen.toxic/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/12/03/guardsmen.toxic/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Attorneys for 16 Indiana National Guard soldiers on Wednesday sued the largest U.S. contractor in Iraq, alleging the company knowingly exposed the soldiers to a cancer-causing toxic chemical.</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:26:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>A battle far from Iraq, but just as hot</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/07/12/nationalguard.fire/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/07/12/nationalguard.fire/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Their weapon in Iraq was a rifle.</description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Calif. Wildfires Out of Control</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1819899,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1819899,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Authorities ordered most of the remaining residents of this scenic coastal community to leave Wednesday because an out-of-control wildfire, one of hundreds in California</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Army Turns to Guard for Recruits</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1656982,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1656982,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The U.S. Army, struggling to meet recruitment goals in the midst of a long and unpopular war in Iraq, is turning to the National Guard for help in signing up would-be soldiers</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Army offers Guardsmen $2,000 for soldier referrals</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/08/28/army.recruiting.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/08/28/army.recruiting.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The U.S. Army is turning to the National Guard for help recruiting would-be soldiers in hometowns across America.</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:16:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>At least 4 killed after foot of rain floods upper Midwest</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/08/19/flooding.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/08/19/flooding.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Severe storms deluged parts of the upper Midwest during the night with as much as a foot of rain, causing flooding that washed away bridges and roads and killed at least four people, authorities said Sunday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Disasters and homecomings: I-Report weekly highlights</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/08/02/ireport.august.highlights1/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/08/02/ireport.august.highlights1/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>I-Report marked another big week after readers sent in some of the first images of a bridge that collapsed Wednesday, August 1, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>I-Report: Iowa soldiers come home from Iraq </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/07/31/iowa.soldiers.irpt/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/07/31/iowa.soldiers.irpt/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The Iowa Army National Guard's 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry received an emotional welcome home July 25 -- more than a year and a half after leaving for Iraq. More than 600 soldiers marched on the field at Riverfront Stadium in Waterloo, Iowa, in front of thousands of friends and family members.</description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 05:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>For wounded troops, the next battle is on the job front</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/07/09/wounded.jobs/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/07/09/wounded.jobs/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The U.S. troops brought to Walter Reed Army Medical Center are among the military's most severely wounded from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 05:26:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. sees headway in fight against roadside bombs in Iraq</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/06/27/behind.battlefield/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/06/27/behind.battlefield/index.html</guid><description>The sound of mortar rounds in the distance draws the attention of the visitor in the Humvee backseat. The threats and potential threats much closer have the attention of the three members of Bravo Company taking CNN along for the mission.</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Battlefield breakdown: The full price of war in Iraq</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/06/27/battlefield.breakdown/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/06/27/battlefield.breakdown/index.html</guid><description>Army Sgt. Chris Tucker is a textbook case of the wear and tear of multiple deployments to Iraq and the strain this remarkably frustrating war has been on the men and women who serve in it.</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Venezuela Troops Fire on Protesters</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1625887,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1625887,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>At least three students are injured after Chavez takes a television station off the air</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 21:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>New Jersey blaze 70 percent contained</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/05/16/wildfires/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/05/16/wildfires/index.html</guid><description>A flare dropped from an F-16 jet fighter during a training exercise may have caused a wildfire that has burned 14,000 acres since Tuesday afternoon in southern New Jersey, according to the state's National Guard.</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 13:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Greensburg focuses on rebuilding</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WEATHER/05/07/severe.weather/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WEATHER/05/07/severe.weather/index.html</guid><description>Federal officials arrived Monday in ravaged Greensburg to survey the damage caused by the weekend's tornado-packed storms.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 10:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Survivors sought as more storms threaten Plains</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WEATHER/05/06/severe.weather/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WEATHER/05/06/severe.weather/index.html</guid><description>Rescue crews Sunday resumed sifting through the rubble of a small Kansas town destroyed by tornadoes Friday night.</description><pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2007 05:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Immigration: Key dates</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/27/elec.keydates.immigration/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/27/elec.keydates.immigration/index.html</guid><description>Some key dates surrounding the immigration issue:</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:38:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tropical Storm Ernesto hits North Carolina</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WEATHER/08/31/ernesto/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WEATHER/08/31/ernesto/index.html</guid><description>Hovering just below hurricane strength, Tropical Storm Ernesto made landfall near Long Beach, North Carolina, late Thursday, according to the National Hurricane Center.</description><pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 04:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Dobbs: Bush spittin' in the wind at border </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/08/08/dobbs.august9/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/08/08/dobbs.august9/index.html</guid><description>There you go again, Mr. President. You just couldn't help yourself this weekend. For crying out loud, you did everything but declare "Mission Accomplished" on our southern border.</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2006 20:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>St. Louis struggles without power</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WEATHER/07/23/st.louis.blackout/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WEATHER/07/23/st.louis.blackout/index.html</guid><description>Almost 300,000 electric customers in the St. Louis, Missouri, area remained in the dark Sunday night, four days after the first of two severe thunderstorms battered the region amid a lingering heat wave, a utility spokesman said.</description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hundreds of thousands flee Northeast floods</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WEATHER/06/28/east.flood/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WEATHER/06/28/east.flood/index.html</guid><description>At least 10 people were killed and hundreds of thousands displaced in the U.S. Northeast as major rivers and their tributaries overflowed their banks Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:07:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>First Guard troops set to work at Mexican border</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/06/05/guard.border/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/06/05/guard.border/index.html</guid><description>The first of about 6,000 National Guard troops ordered to bolster patrols along the U.S.-Mexico border started work Monday as a 55-member detachment from Utah began working on projects in southern Arizona, a Guard spokesman said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2006 07:31:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush pushes immigration plan on border visit</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/18/bush.border/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/18/bush.border/index.html</guid><description>President George W. Bush visited the U.S.-Mexico border Thursday to try to build support for his plan to stem the tide of illegal immigrants into the United States.</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2006 22:16:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gen. Blum: Not every guardsman on border 'will be armed'</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/17/cnna.blum/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/17/cnna.blum/index.html</guid><description>President Bush announced this week that 6,000 National Guardsmen would be sent to the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border to assist Border Patrol with surveillance and intelligence duties.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2006 19:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Dobbs: Bush speech satisfies nobody </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/05/17/dobbs.bushspeech/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/05/17/dobbs.bushspeech/index.html</guid><description>President Bush's address from the Oval Office on border security and illegal immigration failed to satisfy either advocates of amnesty or those demanding that the government secure our borders and ports. Whether by design or not, however, the president did manage to advance public awareness of both crises.</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2006 13:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>GOP resists Bush's immigration pitch</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/16/immigration/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/16/immigration/index.html</guid><description>The first test vote in the Senate after President Bush's national address on immigration -- coupled with resistance in the House -- illustrated the challenges he faces in uniting his own party on the politically thorny issue.</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 May 2006 08:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Durbin questions Guard use at border</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/15/immigration.dems/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/15/immigration.dems/index.html</guid><description>Delivering the Democratic response to President Bush's immigration speech, Senate Minority Whip Richard Durbin questioned Bush's plan to deploy National Guard troops on the United States' southern border.</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 May 2006 01:44:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Democrats' immigration response</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/15/democrat.response/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/15/democrat.response/index.html</guid><description>President Bush spoke to the nation about immigration Monday night. Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois, the assistant minority leader, gave the Democratic Party's response.</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 May 2006 00:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Reaction to Bush immigration speech</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/15/immigration.reax/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/15/immigration.reax/index.html</guid><description>The following is a sampling of reaction to President Bush's speech on immigration Monday night in which he proposed deploying National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border:</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 May 2006 00:56:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sunday, May 14</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/05/15/Monday/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/05/15/Monday/index.html</guid><description>BAGHDAD (CNN) -- Four British soldiers were wounded in a mortar attack on a military outpost in southern Iraq Monday, a British military source in Basra said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2006 06:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Frist: Guard troops the best short-term border fix</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/14/immigration.1748/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/14/immigration.1748/index.html</guid><description>Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist on Sunday dismissed concerns about a proposal to use National Guard troops to help secure the U.S.-Mexico border, saying it is the only short-term solution to stem the flow of illegal immigrants.</description><pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2006 21:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Concerns raised over Guard border plan</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/14/immigration/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/14/immigration/index.html</guid><description>As President Bush prepared to address the nation on immigration, U.S. lawmakers and Mexico's president on Sunday raised concerns about the possible deployment of U.S. National Guard troops along the border.</description><pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2006 14:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pentagon weighs border deployment</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/05/12/border.defense/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/05/12/border.defense/index.html</guid><description>The Pentagon has been asked to draw up options for deploying military personnel to help secure the border with Mexico, CNN has learned.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2006 23:07:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush to address nation on immigration  </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/12/bush.immigration/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/12/bush.immigration/index.html</guid><description>President Bush will speak from the Oval Office Monday about immigration and border security, hot-button issues that have inspired massive demonstrations and a growing political divide.</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2006 18:38:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The vulnerable nominee</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/20/vulnerable.nominee/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/20/vulnerable.nominee/index.html</guid><description>George W. Bush's agents have convinced conservative Republican senators who were heartsick over his nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court that they must support her to save his presidency.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Search-and-rescue to resume Sunday</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/09/24/rita.nola/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/09/24/rita.nola/index.html</guid><description>As many as 1,000 people who did not follow mandatory evacuation orders in one southwestern Louisiana parish may need to be rescued, an emergency management official said Saturday.</description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2005 18:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Lt. Gen. Honore a 'John Wayne dude'</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/honore.profile/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/honore.profile/index.html</guid><description>New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin calls Lt. Gen. Russel Honore a "John Wayne dude" who can "get some stuff done."</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2005 19:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Convoys bring relief to New Orleans</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/katrina.impact/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/katrina.impact/index.html</guid><description>Four days after Hurricane Katrina devastated much of the northern Gulf Coast, tired and angry people stranded at the convention center in New Orleans welcomed a supply convoy carrying food, water and medicine with cheers and tears of joy.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2005 10:43:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>At the convention center: 'These little guys got guns'</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/01/cnna.cooper/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/01/cnna.cooper/index.html</guid><description>Thousands of frustrated people waited for help Thursday amid dead bodies, feces and garbage with little food and water, and in 90-degree heat and rain.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2005 01:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sniper fire halts hospital evacuation</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/01/katrina.hospital.sniper/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/01/katrina.hospital.sniper/index.html</guid><description>The evacuation of patients from Charity Hospital was halted Thursday after the facility came under sniper fire twice.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2005 20:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Louisiana wants 40,000 troops</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/01/katrina.recovery/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/01/katrina.recovery/index.html</guid><description>Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco said Thursday she has requested the mobilization of 40,000 National Guard troops to restore order and assist in relief efforts in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2005 11:38:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>New Orleans evacuations under way</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/08/31/katrina.impact/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/08/31/katrina.impact/index.html</guid><description>The first of New Orleans' evacuees began arriving in Texas early Thursday as the Gulf Coast began to grasp the magnitude of what President Bush called "one of the worst natural disasters in our nation's history."</description><pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Floodwaters, tensions rise in New Orleans</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/08/30/katrina.neworleans/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/08/30/katrina.neworleans/index.html</guid><description>National Guard troops moved toward the French Quarter in an effort to stop rising unrest in flood-stricken New Orleans late Tuesday as police reported looting, attempted carjackings and shootings near the city's main shelter.</description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:17:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush: We will complete the mission</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/08/24/bush.speech/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/08/24/bush.speech/index.html</guid><description>Americans appreciate "the service and the sacrifice of the military families" during the ongoing war in Iraq, President Bush told Idaho National Guard members and their families Wednesday, as he insisted again that a withdrawal from the strife-torn country would be a mistake.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2005 19:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush, Cleland offer clashing views on Iraq war</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/08/20/radio.addresses/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/08/20/radio.addresses/index.html</guid><description>President Bush on Saturday said the United States is fighting "terrorists in Afghanistan, Iraq, and around the world," and a former U.S. senator who fought in the Vietnam War denounced the Iraq war effort, saying "its plan for victory is not working."</description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2005 13:04:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Female troops in Iraq exposed to combat</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/25/women.combat/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/25/women.combat/index.html</guid><description>The Pentagon's policy banning women in combat is being tested in Iraq, where the lack of a defined front line and insurgents' guerrilla tactics expose female troops to deadly situations.</description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2005 10:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. female troops face combat</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/24/women.combat/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/24/women.combat/index.html</guid><description>The Pentagon's policy banning women in combat units is being tested in Iraq, where the lack of a defined front line is exposing female troops to combat.</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2005 16:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Democrats slam budget cuts for veterans' services </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/03/19/dems.radio/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/03/19/dems.radio/index.html</guid><description>The governor of Pennsylvania on Saturday said the federal government must do a better job helping America's war veterans and criticized proposed budget cuts affecting them.</description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:26:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Pilot investigated after alleged Wall Street threat</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/LAW/02/10/pilot.arrest/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/LAW/02/10/pilot.arrest/index.html</guid><description>A commercial airline pilot who also flew for the New York Air National Guard is under investigation after allegedly threatening to fly a plane into Wall Street, according to court documents.</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:38:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Rumsfeld: U.S. military 'stressed'</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/02/06/troops/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/02/06/troops/index.html</guid><description>The U.S. military "is clearly stressed," and recruitment of new troops is falling short of plans, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said Sunday.</description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2005 20:05:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>CBS ousts four over Bush Guard story</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/10/cbs.guard/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/10/cbs.guard/index.html</guid><description>CBS News has ousted four employees over its "60 Minutes Wednesday" report about President Bush's National Guard service, the network said Monday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:12:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Midwest storm brings record snowfall</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WEATHER/12/23/winter.storm/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WEATHER/12/23/winter.storm/index.html</guid><description>A storm that blew across the Midwest and East Coast was headed to Canada on Thursday, leaving more than 2 feet of snow in some areas and snarling holiday travel for many.</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2004 16:18:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Troops put thorny questions to Rumsfeld</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/12/08/rumsfeld.troops/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/12/08/rumsfeld.troops/index.html</guid><description>U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld faced tough questioning Wednesday from troops about to be deployed to Iraq.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2004 12:25:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Dan Rather to leave anchor desk in March</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/23/rather/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/23/rather/index.html</guid><description>Longtime anchor Dan Rather will leave the "CBS Evening News" on March 9, the network said Tuesday, just months after Rather's use of questionable documents in a report critical of President Bush's National Guard service.</description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2004 18:29:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Veterans Day events follow contentious election </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/11/11/veterans.day/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/11/11/veterans.day/index.html</guid><description>With the nation observing another Veterans Day, men and women in armed forces and their loved ones may remember 2004 as a particularly trying year.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:43:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Judge: Guardsmen ordered to Iraq can't quit</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/11/05/extended.enlistments/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/11/05/extended.enlistments/index.html</guid><description>A federal judge in Sacramento, California, has upheld the Army's policy of involuntarily extending enlistments, a process critics have called a "backdoor draft," Justice Department officials said Friday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2004 21:38:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Burkett: 'Jury still out' on memos CBS aired</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/23/cbs.documents/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/23/cbs.documents/index.html</guid><description>Bill Burkett, who gave CBS News the alleged documents about President Bush's National Guard service, insists "the jury is still out" on whether those documents are authentic.</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2004 00:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>GOP, Dems swap charges over CBS documents </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/21/cbs.documents/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/21/cbs.documents/index.html</guid><description>Republicans demanded answers from the Kerry campaign Tuesday after revelations that a senior Kerry adviser and one of his most prominent supporters both had contact with the man who supplied now-discredited documents before CBS News used them in a story about President Bush's National Guard service.</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2004 03:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Audience appeal</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/21/tues/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/21/tues/index.html</guid><description>President Bush faces a tough crowd this morning at the U.N. General Assembly, where he'll talk about Iraq's stability at a time when the country looks anything but stable. The applause will be polite, at best, but Bush isn't there for the audio. "It's all visual," one GOP sage told the Grind. And while this may be an international body, "Bush's visit is all about domestic politics." (More on this below.)</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2004 12:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>CBS can't vouch for Bush Guard memos</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/20/cbs.documents/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/20/cbs.documents/index.html</guid><description>CBS News said Monday it cannot vouch for the authenticity of documents that cast doubt on President Bush's Vietnam-era National Guard service, and the White House suggested Democrats might have been involved.</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>CBS revisits Bush's Guard memos</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/15/guard.memos.congress/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/15/guard.memos.congress/index.html</guid><description>The growing controversy over President Bush's National Guard records, and whether some of the memos aired on CBS were fake, took another turn Wednesday night.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2004 19:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>CBS' experts say they didn't authenticate Bush memos</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/15/bush.guard.memos/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/15/bush.guard.memos/index.html</guid><description>Three experts asked by CBS News to examine memos alleging President Bush received special treatment during his service in the Texas Air National Guard told CNN Tuesday they did not authenticate the documents -- and one said the network "ignored" her reservations about them before a "60 Minutes" broadcast last week.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2004 07:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Group offers $50,000 for proof of Bush service</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/14/bush.texans/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/14/bush.texans/index.html</guid><description>The founder of the group Texans for Truth said Tuesday that he is offering $50,000 to anyone who can prove President Bush fulfilled his service requirements, including required duties and drills, in the Alabama Air National Guard in 1972.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:41:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Staring contest</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/14/tues/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/14/tues/index.html</guid><description>President Bush stares down the controversy over his military service today with a speech before the National Guard in Las Vegas, Nevada. Back east, Porter Goss, the president's pick for CIA director, stares down tough questioning about the 9/11 commission report in his first day of Senate confirmation hearings.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2004 11:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Professor says Bush revealed National Guard favoritism</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/13/bush.professor/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/13/bush.professor/index.html</guid><description>A business school professor who taught George W. Bush at Harvard University in the early 1970s says the future president told him that family friends had pulled strings to get him into the Texas Air National Guard.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2004 20:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>4 Iraqis killed, family kidnapped</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/09/11/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/09/11/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>Four Iraqis were killed Saturday in separate incidents and the wife and three children of an Iraqi National Guard officer were kidnapped.</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2004 11:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Dan Rather's stand</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/09/10/rather/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/09/10/rather/index.html</guid><description>This is not the first time Dan Rather has found himself in a serious dispute with a U.S. president.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2004 20:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush's war record still in question</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/09/thurs.hot/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/09/thurs.hot/index.html</guid><description>Check out the links below to hot political stories around the country this morning.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2004 13:17:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ohio and Florida, continued</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/08/wed/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/08/wed/index.html</guid><description>President Bush faces new questions today about how he spent the Vietnam War, while John Kerry, in a major speech and new TV ad, attacks the president's handling of the current war.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2004 11:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Daily Blog Roundup: Thursday, September 2, 2004</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/03/thursday.blog.roundup/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/03/thursday.blog.roundup/index.html</guid><description>While bloggers were a novelty at the DNC in Boston and were less of a story in and of themselves during the RNC, the quality of commentary and the number of breaking stories during the RNC show that bloggers are starting to hit their stride.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2004 15:57:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Guardsman denies revealing secrets</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/09/01/soldier.arrested/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/09/01/soldier.arrested/index.html</guid><description>A National Guardsman accused of trying to pass information about American tanks to al Qaeda told federal agents posing as terrorist operatives that he wasn't giving them anything they couldn't find publicly.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2004 16:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush and Vietnam </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/08/27/bush.vietnam/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/08/27/bush.vietnam/index.html</guid><description>It's an issue that has dogged the president almost since the day he first entered the political arena, as illustrated in a MoveOn.org add that said, "George Bush used his father to get into the National Guard, was grounded and then went missing."</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:21:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. Marines take command of troops in Najaf</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/08/09/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/08/09/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>U.S. Marines have taken over as the lead multinational force in the holy city of Najaf, where radical Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr vowed Monday to fight American troops to the death.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2004 04:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ephrata, Washington Pays For The War A small town's National Guard soldiers trained hard for duty in Iraq. No one trained their </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2004/08/01/376482/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2004/08/01/376482/index.htm</guid><description>It's two minutes before parade time on a sunny Saturday morning when Sheila Kelly, 40, dissolves into tears. Her son Michael, 10, has disappeared just as he was to take his place in the procession....</description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2004 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Car bombs kill six, injure dozens</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/17/iraq.explosion/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/17/iraq.explosion/index.html</guid><description>Two car bombs exploded at almost the same time in and near Baghdad Saturday morning, wounding dozens of people and killing at least six, Iraqi police said.</description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2004 05:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Militants: Captured U.S. Marine beheaded</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/03/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/07/03/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>Militants in Iraq claimed Saturday to have beheaded a U.S. Marine who disappeared from his post last month, but neither the military nor news organizations could confirm the report posted on three Islamic web sites.</description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2004 07:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Defending Kerry, senator blasts 'chicken hawks'</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/29/senate.military/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/29/senate.military/index.html</guid><description>The rough-and-tumble of the presidential campaign spilled onto the Senate floor Wednesday in an unusually sharp and personal exchange over military service during the Vietnam War.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2004 12:17:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>After sister's death, surviving Witmers make painful choice</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/04/27/witmer.sisters/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/04/27/witmer.sisters/index.html</guid><description>After suffering an enduring loss, the Witmer sisters were faced with an excruciating decision.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2004 20:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Soldier sisters won't return to combat</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/Midwest/04/27/sister.soldiers/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/Midwest/04/27/sister.soldiers/index.html</guid><description>Two female soldiers have decided not to return to combat in Iraq after their sister was killed in Baghdad this month, a spokeswoman for the family said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2004 19:04:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nerves rattled by military jets over Capitol</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/04/06/dc.flyover/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/04/06/dc.flyover/index.html</guid><description>The sight of military jets flying low over the U.S. Capitol and the National Mall rattled some nerves Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2004 22:20:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>National Guard soldier charged with desertion </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/03/27/court.martial/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/03/27/court.martial/index.html</guid><description>The U.S. Army charged a Florida National Guard soldier, who went absent without leave while on a two-week break from duty in Iraq, with desertion, an Army spokesman said Saturday.</description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2004 17:10:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Chavez opposition urges new protests</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/03/04/venezuela.protests/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/03/04/venezuela.protests/index.html</guid><description>Opposition leaders Thursday called for a new demonstration this weekend against President Hugo Chavez's government to encourage a national electoral commission to approve a recall vote.</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2004 18:39:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Soldier charged with trying to aid al Qaeda</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/02/18/espionage.alqaeda/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/02/18/espionage.alqaeda/index.html</guid><description>A National Guard soldier stationed in Fort Lewis, Washington, was formally charged Wednesday with attempting to aid al Qaeda after he was caught in a sting operation involving the military, FBI and Justice Department.</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2004 00:27:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Dems play the military card</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/13/ip.pol.opinion.democrats/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/13/ip.pol.opinion.democrats/index.html</guid><description>"What did you do during the war, daddy?"</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:38:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush releases his Vietnam-era military files</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/13/elec04.prez.bush.texas.records/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/13/elec04.prez.bush.texas.records/index.html</guid><description>Hundreds of pages of President Bush's Vietnam-era military files were released to the media Friday amid questions about whether he completed his required service in the Air National Guard.</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:16:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Dueling military records</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/13/mgrind.hot.friday/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/13/mgrind.hot.friday/index.html</guid><description>Check out the links below to hot political stories around the country this morning.</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2004 13:33:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>GOP, Democrats get down and dirty</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/13/elec04.gillespie/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/13/elec04.gillespie/index.html</guid><description>Despite calls to move away from negative attacks in the 2004 presidential campaign season, Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie and campaign officials for Democratic hopeful John Kerry traded barbs, each accusing the other of dirty politics.</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:35:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Alleged al Qaeda link shocks soldier's neighbors</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/02/13/natl.guard.arrest/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/02/13/natl.guard.arrest/index.html</guid><description>Neighbors of the National Guard soldier who was detained in Washington on suspicion of aiding al Qaeda expressed surprise Friday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:51:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush military dental record released</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/12/elec04.prez.bush.military/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/12/elec04.prez.bush.military/index.html</guid><description>The White House released a military dental examination record for President Bush, claiming the document proves the president was at the base where he was to carry out his service in the Air National Guard.</description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:32:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Guardsman says he saw Bush's Guard records in trash</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/12/elec04.prez.bush.texas.records/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/12/elec04.prez.bush.texas.records/index.html</guid><description>A former officer in the Texas National Guard said Thursday he once overheard a conversation in which there was a request to sanitize President Bush's Guard records during Bush's tenure as Texas governor.</description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2004 04:02:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>White House blasts 'gutter politics'</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/11/elec04.prez.bush.military/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/11/elec04.prez.bush.military/index.html</guid><description>People who question President Bush's Air National Guard service 30 years ago are engaging in "gutter politics" and "trolling for trash for political gain," a White House spokesman said Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2004 18:06:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>An absence in Alabama</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/10/timep.awol.tm/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/10/timep.awol.tm/index.html</guid><description>As Bush's military service re-emerges as an issue, here is what we know--and don't know</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2004 18:05:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>White House releases Bush's military payroll records</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/10/elec04.prez.bush.military/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/10/elec04.prez.bush.military/index.html</guid><description>The White House released payroll records Tuesday it said demonstrate that President Bush fulfilled his obligations to the Texas Air National Guard in the early 1970s, hoping to defuse lingering election-year questions about the president's service.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:19:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush defends Iraq war in TV interview</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/02/08/sprj.nirq.bush/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/02/08/sprj.nirq.bush/index.html</guid><description>President Bush defended the U.S.-led war in Iraq and said he didn't want to rush an inquiry into U.S. prewar intelligence that suggested Iraq had stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.</description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2004 13:12:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The Mayor, His Troops, And The Health Of A City Chicago is better prepared than any other large city to protect its citizens aga</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/11/26/314074/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/11/26/314074/index.htm</guid><description>As anthrax terrorized America in mid-October, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley met with his high command in the city's Emergency Communications Center, a technology-packed fortress two miles from the do...</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2001 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>