The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is a United States federal law specifying the budget and expenditures of the United States Department of Defense. Each year's act also includes other provisions. The U.S. Congress oversees the defense budget primarily through two yearly bills: the National Defense Authorization Act and defense appropriations bills. The authorization bill determines the agencies responsible for defense, establishes funding levels, and sets the policies under which money will be spent.

Offended is a mild word. "Put it this way...you don't send dispensable people into battle." Be very clear you addlepate , when you join me at the WALL on Memorial Day and Veteran's Day with three wreaths, then and only then may you speak or write about what military personnel are!!! Your comment was arrogantly flippant.

You state the President is "symbolic". A correct statement. Through my long life, never have I seen a President show such disdain, by action not words, toward the dispensable. He can barely lift his basketball arm to return a salute to the military personnel at his plane. The unmitigated gall of his treating a US Marine as if he was a doorman by requesting he hold an umbrella at the press conference last week with the Turkish Ambassador in the Rose Garden was beyond the pale. The press conference could have been held inside, especially since there had been rain on and off for two days and was called for. His total and blatant disregard for the safety of a Seal Team by naming them in the Bin Laden event is incomprehensible to any rational person. The Seal Teams and Force Recon Marines nor any other Special Ops personnel do not want public acknowledgment of their performance, and his lack of understanding of this is profane.

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The Iran-Contra Affair was a clandestine action not approved of by the United States Congress. It began in 1985, when President Ronald Reagan's administration supplied weapons to Iran, a sworn enemy in hopes of securing the release of American hostages held in Lebanon by Hezbollah terrorists loyal to the Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran's leader


The transactions that took place in the Iran-Contra scandal were contrary to the legislation of the Democratic-dominated Congress and contrary to official Reagan administration policy.