Over in Morning Martini, Pissed-off Patricia, in relation to this post asked: "Are you outraged yet?" In the comments I started detailing all of the reasons why I'm outraged and became so pissed-off doing it that it evolved into a full length post. Here it is:
One of my earliest reactions to 9/11 was "How are they going to use this to their advantage?". So I have been outraged for at least 5+ years. I wasn't enamored of sending the military into Afghanistan, that was a job for covert operatives and still is. So I was little more outraged about that. Iraq outraged me without question. The photo-op seizure of Baghdad and toppling of Saddam's statue while the city was being looted upped the outrage even more. The sham that was "Mission Accomplished". The mismanagement of the peace from the gitgo. The losing of New Orleans. The 3,000 plus American lives. The 50,000 or so Iraqi civilian lives. The lack of protective armor for the Humvees. The lack of vests for the troops. The unreported military deaths because wounded that die outside of Iraq don't count in the total. The mortgage that BushCo is buying that my great-grandchildren's great-grandchildren will have trouble paying off. The erosion of our rights. The stolen elections. The tragedy that is Walter Reed army hospital. The "Do Nothing But Rubber Stamp Administration Requests" Congress. The Dems taking impeachment off the table. And so much more that it makes my head spin over and over again. Shit, yeah, I'm outraged and I will continue to be outraged until I see BushCo in shackles. And I will be outraged until I die that the American people let the 2nd election get close enough to steal.
R.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Oh, the irony...
Ironic Times
Much more.
Dems Trade Lieberman for Hagel
And a congressman to be named later.
Blair Announces Withdrawal of British Troops From Iraq
Congressman wants English muffins renamed "freedom muffins."
Report: Yellowstone Air Quality Improving
White House blames snowmobile restrictions.
Unnoticed Provision in Defense Budget Makes it Easier to Declare Martial Law
You'll be notified where to go and what you can take with you.
Much more.
Had a Blast at Bagram
The LATimes has the story of the bomb that went off a mile from The Dick at Bagram AFB in Afghanistan. That's the closest he's ever been to danger in his life. I hope he shit his pants.
They missed, dammit.
He sent the Taliban a 'Thank You' card.
I'd like to send them a card too. Does Hallmark make "Better Luck Next Time" ones?
They missed, dammit.
He sent the Taliban a 'Thank You' card.
I'd like to send them a card too. Does Hallmark make "Better Luck Next Time" ones?
Deputy SecDef Recommends End War Before '08 Elections
Al Kamen (WaPo)
I don't think Bush's War, the major "current project", will end as long as he's in office, but if it ends prior to that to prevent "disruption of management process changes" at the Pentagon, I'm all for it. I'm not going to hold my breath.
On the other hand, maybe England's just seen the writing on the wall and figured out they'd better get any projects done before the elections because they're all gonna get kicked out on their asses afterwards, and rightly so.
There's for damn sure gonna be some "disruption of management process changes" under the next real President.
The Democrats and other cut-and-runners are in disarray over their next move on Iraq. And they keep jabbering that the administration has no plan for the war other than the same old, same old.
Nonsense. The Pentagon, in a series of recent memos, is making the fight against terrorism synonymous with Iraq (although it has been pretty much confirmed that Saddam Hussein wasn't involved in the Sept. 11 attacks) and has issued a clear call for getting the job done by the end of next year.
In a Feb. 15 memo, England spotted a key fact that most everyone in this town has overlooked. "At noon on Jan. 20, 2009," he wrote, "many of the civilian Department of Defense (DOD) leadership positions will transition to a new Administration Team. This change, coupled with the normal rotation of military leadership, could disrupt many of the management process changes currently underway in the Department."
So "to ensure that warfighters and taxpayers receive maximum benefit from on-going initiatives," England suggested, "it would be highly desirable to complete current projects by the summer/fall of 2008." (my em)
I don't think Bush's War, the major "current project", will end as long as he's in office, but if it ends prior to that to prevent "disruption of management process changes" at the Pentagon, I'm all for it. I'm not going to hold my breath.
On the other hand, maybe England's just seen the writing on the wall and figured out they'd better get any projects done before the elections because they're all gonna get kicked out on their asses afterwards, and rightly so.
There's for damn sure gonna be some "disruption of management process changes" under the next real President.
Supporting the Troops. Not.
From Navy Times:
A truly wonderful way of supporting the troops. Horrible conditions uncovered at a major medical facility? The Pentagon's response: lock up the folks that are paying the price for Bush's Folly and see to it that their words are filtered. A wonderful place thĂȘ U.S. is becoming under the current administration. Not.
A tip of my Jersey hat to Silver Owl (in the comments) for the link and to nitpicker for the link to the Navy Times article.
R.
"Soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s Medical Hold Unit say they have been told they will wake up at 6 a.m. every morning and have their rooms ready for inspection at 7 a.m., and that they must not speak to the media."
"Soldiers say their sergeant major gathered troops at 6 p.m. Monday to tell them they must follow their chain of command when asking for help with their medical evaluation paperwork, or when they spot mold, mice or other problems in their quarters"
"The soldiers said they were also told their first sergeant has been relieved of duty, and that all of their platoon sergeants have been moved to other positions at Walter Reed."
A truly wonderful way of supporting the troops. Horrible conditions uncovered at a major medical facility? The Pentagon's response: lock up the folks that are paying the price for Bush's Folly and see to it that their words are filtered. A wonderful place thĂȘ U.S. is becoming under the current administration. Not.
A tip of my Jersey hat to Silver Owl (in the comments) for the link and to nitpicker for the link to the Navy Times article.
R.
Walter Reed patients told to keep quiet
Army Times
What are they gonna do to soldiers who talk to the media? Give 'em a haircut and new legs and send 'em to Iraq?
Soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center's Medical Hold Unit say they have been told they will wake up at 6 a.m. every morning and have their rooms ready for inspection at 7 a.m., and that they must not speak to the media.
"Some soldiers believe this is a form of punishment for the trouble soldiers caused by talking to the media," one Medical Hold Unit soldier said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
The Pentagon also clamped down on media coverage of any and all Defense Department medical facilities, to include suspending planned projects by CNN and the Discovery Channel, saying in an e-mail to spokespeople: "It will be in most cases not appropriate to engage the media while this review takes place," referring to an investigation of the problems at Walter Reed.
What are they gonna do to soldiers who talk to the media? Give 'em a haircut and new legs and send 'em to Iraq?
A History Lesson for SecState
Go see Keith Olbermann go off on Condilieza Rice after her stupid remarks about Hitler, WWII, and the Marshall Plan, in his words "more in snark than anger".
Also at Raw Story.
Also at Raw Story.
One sentence
William Rivers Pitt describes the Bush maladministration in one long sentence.
I hope 'the next sentence' is given by a judge and has words in it like 'gallows', 'firing squad', and 'penitentiary' just before the phrase '...return our democracy to us'.
...just because our phones are tapped and our homes are no longer protected from unreasonable searches, just because we torture at will, just because we detain forever and use habeas corpus like so much toilet paper, just because signing statements have dismantled the separation of powers one brick at a time, just because no page is safe in a Republican Congress, just because no bribe is too small in a Republican Congress, just because a Democratic resurgence in 2006 is only a tiny beginning and not any kind of an end, because these Bush boys have no intention of slowing down or backing off...
...just because our national reputation is ravaged and our future has been sold out from under us, just because Truman's wartime economic footing has morphed into a machine that Eisenhower would recognize in horror as the very thing he warned us about before he left, just because the whole system now requires us to manufacture wars if none are available because the system itself has been wired to feed the beast no matter the consequences, just because television tells you not to worry, look at these breasts or this shaved starlet's head, or this shiny thing, look here, shhh, be silent, be still, sleep...
...doesn't mean We The People are finished, because all of this is why "We The People" was written down in the first place, and though the day is late and the road is long and the chances for success are slim, We The People are here to stay, so strap in and look out, because we are just getting started, and the next sentence will be ours to write.
I hope 'the next sentence' is given by a judge and has words in it like 'gallows', 'firing squad', and 'penitentiary' just before the phrase '...return our democracy to us'.
Fixer who?
Sorry I've been a little light on my content over the last couple days. A few reasons:
1. Mrs. F has been in Charlotte for a week so I'm doing double duty.
2. Since I'm nearing the end of posting my novel The Captains at The Practical Press, I've been going over some of my old manuscripts, trying to find one suitable to follow.
I should be back to regular duty by the weekend.
1. Mrs. F has been in Charlotte for a week so I'm doing double duty.
2. Since I'm nearing the end of posting my novel The Captains at The Practical Press, I've been going over some of my old manuscripts, trying to find one suitable to follow.
I should be back to regular duty by the weekend.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Snow Job
No, not the White House Press Secretary this time!
I have shoveled these goddam berms out of my driveway for 26 years now, but this is the first time I've ever done three of these things in one day. As you can see, I only got rid of enough to get the car out. The yardstick, stuck down several inches into the snow, is for scale.
The berms are deposited legally in my driveway by the town. The law is cleverly written so they can "store" snow there. If you want to get out of your driveway, it's all yours. There are snow plow accessories available that prevent this, but they cost money and slow down the plowing operation. I don't blame the plow weenies (thanks, Fixer!). There aren't that many of them, and they have a lot of miles to cover. Most of them have been awake and on the job for three days now. All the snow in the pictures is since Sunday.
The berm is compacted snow deposited off the side of the blade of a snow plow or grader at pretty high speed. A homeowner-grade snowthrower won't touch it. You have to break it up with a shovel into pieces the snowthrower will throw. That hole in the berm, done 3 times, represents over 5 hours of hard work. Add in the fact that I also blew out my driveway three times, it's more like 8 hours. Me no like hard work!
Especially in a cold, windy snowstorm. I started the first clearing job at 7:30 Monday morning and completed the third at 1:30 Tuesday morning. If I had gotten up this A.M. to find a fourth one, I would have called up Fixer and had him send me a "DuPont Snowthrower".
I kept the clothes dryer going all day. When I got too wet and cold, I took a break, changed clothes, reloaded dryer, had coffee and a smoke until I thawed out, and back at it. I told Mrs. G that if I didn't show up for an inordinate length of time, to go look for the (hopefully!) tallest pile of ice and snow and hit it with an ax handle.
In the midst of all this, about 11:30 Sunday night, I had just cleared my driveway for the second time that day, and noticed a coupla SUVs in the middle of the street with their four-ways flashing. They had been there for some time. They were trying to get up the worst driveway in the neighborhood to spend a ski week at their absentee-owner friend's $700K second-home "cabin". Nobody had called the plow service that they were coming. They were trying to shovel access up, and I do mean 'up', a 150-foot driveway with a foot and a half of packed snow. Their 4-wheel-drives wouldn't make it more than 50 feet and then high-center. They'd spend their whole vacation doing that, so I felt sorry for them, and in my best neighborly fashion, I volunteered to try to do it with my little sneezer 8-really-old-and-tired horsepower snowthrower. Up four feet, back three feet, up four feet, back three feet. Finally got to the top, a real "Little Engine That Could" deal. It was a little easier going downhill, and I finally got them access. The guy was so dazzled he gave me $100, which I graciously accepted after much protest. Protest, yeah, right. I got to bed about 2AM. The plow came Monday morning, but they're bermed-in snowbound with another foot and a half today. Welcome to Truckee, folks.
I think you can tell what I've been up to for the last coupla days. Every bone, every muscle, in my 61-year-old body is howling at me. Thank God for Ibuprofen!
I gave up complaining about these berms years ago, but this was kind of a "perfect storm" of them. I just wanted to share. Oh, yeah, the Sun came out and it's a beautiful day. That makes it worth all the hassle.
Update:
Berm No. 4 arrived while I was taking a nap this afternoon. I noticed it at about a quarter to five. Since a big part of my reason for being is to provide Mrs. G with an accessible driveway, I turned to. Luckily for me it wasn't as big as the other ones. I was still standing there with my shovel (a trick I learned from highway workers) when she pulled in. Whew! Just in time, but it's embarrassing for me to have her actually catch me working!
I also got reminded of things I know during my snow clearing adventures:
1. Check the snowthrower gas tank before you get eighty feet from the garage in a snowstorm in the dark, and
2. Due to residual snow in the augur/discharge mechanism, don't squeeze the augur drive lever in the garage! Yeesh.
Click to waaay embiggen!
I have shoveled these goddam berms out of my driveway for 26 years now, but this is the first time I've ever done three of these things in one day. As you can see, I only got rid of enough to get the car out. The yardstick, stuck down several inches into the snow, is for scale.
The berms are deposited legally in my driveway by the town. The law is cleverly written so they can "store" snow there. If you want to get out of your driveway, it's all yours. There are snow plow accessories available that prevent this, but they cost money and slow down the plowing operation. I don't blame the plow weenies (thanks, Fixer!). There aren't that many of them, and they have a lot of miles to cover. Most of them have been awake and on the job for three days now. All the snow in the pictures is since Sunday.
The berm is compacted snow deposited off the side of the blade of a snow plow or grader at pretty high speed. A homeowner-grade snowthrower won't touch it. You have to break it up with a shovel into pieces the snowthrower will throw. That hole in the berm, done 3 times, represents over 5 hours of hard work. Add in the fact that I also blew out my driveway three times, it's more like 8 hours. Me no like hard work!
Especially in a cold, windy snowstorm. I started the first clearing job at 7:30 Monday morning and completed the third at 1:30 Tuesday morning. If I had gotten up this A.M. to find a fourth one, I would have called up Fixer and had him send me a "DuPont Snowthrower".
I kept the clothes dryer going all day. When I got too wet and cold, I took a break, changed clothes, reloaded dryer, had coffee and a smoke until I thawed out, and back at it. I told Mrs. G that if I didn't show up for an inordinate length of time, to go look for the (hopefully!) tallest pile of ice and snow and hit it with an ax handle.
In the midst of all this, about 11:30 Sunday night, I had just cleared my driveway for the second time that day, and noticed a coupla SUVs in the middle of the street with their four-ways flashing. They had been there for some time. They were trying to get up the worst driveway in the neighborhood to spend a ski week at their absentee-owner friend's $700K second-home "cabin". Nobody had called the plow service that they were coming. They were trying to shovel access up, and I do mean 'up', a 150-foot driveway with a foot and a half of packed snow. Their 4-wheel-drives wouldn't make it more than 50 feet and then high-center. They'd spend their whole vacation doing that, so I felt sorry for them, and in my best neighborly fashion, I volunteered to try to do it with my little sneezer 8-really-old-and-tired horsepower snowthrower. Up four feet, back three feet, up four feet, back three feet. Finally got to the top, a real "Little Engine That Could" deal. It was a little easier going downhill, and I finally got them access. The guy was so dazzled he gave me $100, which I graciously accepted after much protest. Protest, yeah, right. I got to bed about 2AM. The plow came Monday morning, but they're bermed-in snowbound with another foot and a half today. Welcome to Truckee, folks.
I think you can tell what I've been up to for the last coupla days. Every bone, every muscle, in my 61-year-old body is howling at me. Thank God for Ibuprofen!
I gave up complaining about these berms years ago, but this was kind of a "perfect storm" of them. I just wanted to share. Oh, yeah, the Sun came out and it's a beautiful day. That makes it worth all the hassle.
Update:
Berm No. 4 arrived while I was taking a nap this afternoon. I noticed it at about a quarter to five. Since a big part of my reason for being is to provide Mrs. G with an accessible driveway, I turned to. Luckily for me it wasn't as big as the other ones. I was still standing there with my shovel (a trick I learned from highway workers) when she pulled in. Whew! Just in time, but it's embarrassing for me to have her actually catch me working!
I also got reminded of things I know during my snow clearing adventures:
1. Check the snowthrower gas tank before you get eighty feet from the garage in a snowstorm in the dark, and
2. Due to residual snow in the augur/discharge mechanism, don't squeeze the augur drive lever in the garage! Yeesh.
Surprise! (not) It's about oil
From Guardian Unlimited:
And how do the "independent" Iraqis feel about this?
"Iraqi trades unions have called for the country's oil reserves - the second-largest in the world - to be kept in public hands. "
Makes sense doesn't it. "Freely elected" government and all that. But wait:
R.
"Iraq poised to hand control of oil fields to foreign firms"Anybody wanna guess to which countries "foreign" refers? Here's a little clue:
"Baghdad is under pressure from Britain and the US to pass an oil law which would hand long-term control of Iraq's energy assets to foreign multinationals, according to campaigners."Wait a minnit! I thought this was about WMD. Or was it democracy for Iraq? No, wait, weren't there a dozen other reasons? No one ever mentioned oil. How could this be?
And how do the "independent" Iraqis feel about this?
"Iraqi trades unions have called for the country's oil reserves - the second-largest in the world - to be kept in public hands. "
Makes sense doesn't it. "Freely elected" government and all that. But wait:
"But a leaked draft of the oil law, seen by The Observer, would see the government sign away the right to exploit its untapped fields in so-called exploration contracts, which could then be extended for more than 30 years.More here. Prepare to read it, shake your head and think "I knew this all along."Foreign Office minister Kim Howells has admitted that the government has discussed the wording of the Iraqi law with Britain's oil giants."
R.
Monday, February 26, 2007
Brothers in Arms Again: Bush Faction Arming Al Qaeda to Thwart Iran
Chris Floyd at Empire Burlesque, whose motto is "High Crimes and Low Comedy in the Bush Imperium". I like that.
This comes as no surprise to any of us, I am sure, but Mr. Floyd says it well. I put nothing past the Bushes and their ilk in their quest for riches and power and fuck the rest of us.
Please go read the rest. Many links.
Here's the upshot of Sy Hersh's latest piece in the New Yorker: George W. Bush is working with, paying, arming and training -- directly and by proxy -- violent terrorist groups in league with Osama bin Laden.
I have been writing here for years about the Bush Administration's openly declared intent to arm and fund violent militia groups all over the world, especially in "inaccessible" places where the US cannot operate openly. Hersh has confirmed this "strategy" several times in his reporting.
But as we've also noted many times, this political "philosophy" is by no means unique to the Bush Family faction. It is resolutely bipartisan, and deeply embedded in the mindset of the American Establishment. The Bushes are nothing but second-rate camp followers, empty shells and non-entities, originating nothing, ignorant and cynical in equal measure, their only unusual trait being how open they are in their scorn for the worthless rabble and the bullshit Constitution that the crypto-Commies like Madison and Jefferson foisted on the proper rulers of the country. Otherwise, they simply regurgitate the unprocessed prejudices, unexamined assumptions and vulgar ambitions of the clique that spawned them.
This comes as no surprise to any of us, I am sure, but Mr. Floyd says it well. I put nothing past the Bushes and their ilk in their quest for riches and power and fuck the rest of us.
Please go read the rest. Many links.
Talking ...
It's about the only thing the conservatives are good at. I talked about this yesterday, about the war supporters who were big on talk, short on action. Wolcott expands on Fox 'News' and their war cheerleading squad:
These are the ones who should be the first against the wall when the revolution comes. Yes, I have my problems with the idiot, everyday folks who still support this war, but ignorance can be dealt with. It's the paid shills operating under cover of a 'news' organization. Basically those who have sold out the well-being of America for a price.
And an aside, we got about 2 1/2 inches of snow during the night. At 3:30 this morning, I was awakened by the dog licking my face. Have I mentioned the Cattle Dog loves snow? I couldn't get dressed fast enough. It was like "Dad, it snowed! Come on. Hurry, dad, let's go! It SNOWED!" Oy. Now I have to dig the car out.
... Talking big is the only calisthenic exercise neoconservatives get apart from practicing their "Hail, Caesar!" salutes, but to hear them tell it they're the ones of trim purpose with vital essences coursing through their veins while the rest of us steep in our tepid, watery neo-Weimar malaise ...
These are the ones who should be the first against the wall when the revolution comes. Yes, I have my problems with the idiot, everyday folks who still support this war, but ignorance can be dealt with. It's the paid shills operating under cover of a 'news' organization. Basically those who have sold out the well-being of America for a price.
And an aside, we got about 2 1/2 inches of snow during the night. At 3:30 this morning, I was awakened by the dog licking my face. Have I mentioned the Cattle Dog loves snow? I couldn't get dressed fast enough. It was like "Dad, it snowed! Come on. Hurry, dad, let's go! It SNOWED!" Oy. Now I have to dig the car out.
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Roots
Raw Story
Keep digging. I got a hunch the serpent in the Garden of Eden was a Republican.
I have a friend who was one of very few Afro-Americans in the Nevada Highway Patrol. One day he was at the Washoe County Jail and noticed that one of the inmates had the same slightly unusual last name as his. He went to see the guy, who was white. In an explanation of how they might have ended up with the same name, my friend told the guy, "Maybe your great-grandfather owned mine".
In a revelation that will stun the nation, the Rev. Al Sharpton, one of America's most powerful black leaders, has unearthed a shattering family secret - his ancestors were slaves owned by relatives of the late South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond.
It is an ironic twist of fate that inexorably links one of the most vocal civil rights activists and an icon of Deep South segregation.
Keep digging. I got a hunch the serpent in the Garden of Eden was a Republican.
I have a friend who was one of very few Afro-Americans in the Nevada Highway Patrol. One day he was at the Washoe County Jail and noticed that one of the inmates had the same slightly unusual last name as his. He went to see the guy, who was white. In an explanation of how they might have ended up with the same name, my friend told the guy, "Maybe your great-grandfather owned mine".
Ball Blast
A comment about the mess at Walter Reed Army Medical Center from Editor & Publisher:
I think it would take a marksman with extremely good eyesight and a 10x scope to hit such a small target! A dinner plate at 500 yards presents a larger sight picture than these guys' huevos at three feet.
I have a suggested solution: line up the executive branch from the prez on down and the members of congress and the senate along with the Miltary Officers with oversight responsibility, have them all drop their pants and have expert rifle(wo)men shoot off one testicle of each one in line. Have them treated in these facilities.
I think it would take a marksman with extremely good eyesight and a 10x scope to hit such a small target! A dinner plate at 500 yards presents a larger sight picture than these guys' huevos at three feet.
Sign up or shut up
NYT:
Now, at this point, when we can't get enough recruits, when we're going back on the promises made to our National Guard, when the White House won't call for a draft, it's time for all you able-bodied war supporters to do your duty and enlist.
And don't give me those tired equivocations where 'you support the police and fire departments, but you don't join up'. The facts are this. You've been cheerleading this war from the get go. You've been eager to have others go 'kill the ragheads' while you sit back in the comfort of your homes, enjoying your family, your freedom to say all sorts of stupid shit, and not really have to worry about the war until it comes time for you to run your mouth some more.
Well, we're out of 'other folks' to go fight this thing. We're scraping the bottom of the barrel by taking criminals and nut cases as it is. Contributing to the Rethug spin ain't gonna cut it anymore. Shit's bad and it's gonna get worse while you put another magnet on your car and tell everyone who will listen that 'we should just nuke the bastids'. If you want to do that so badly, join up and do your part because there's a buncha guys over there who want to do what you're doing right now. Sitting on your ass reading the Sunday paper or surfing the interwebs with your pants around your ankles.
The folks in the military did not sign up for this. They did not sign up to have their lives squandered in a war without end, in deployment after deployment. The Guard guys certainly didn't, volunteering to spend the spare time they have to help their communities, not act as regular Army troops for years on end. People, your fellow Americans, are dying over there for no good reason and you're cheering them on? No. Time to walk the walk or STFU.
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon plans to send more than 14,000 National Guard troops back to Iraq next year, shortening their off-duty time to meet the demands of President George W. Bush's buildup, Defense Department officials said.
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Now, at this point, when we can't get enough recruits, when we're going back on the promises made to our National Guard, when the White House won't call for a draft, it's time for all you able-bodied war supporters to do your duty and enlist.
And don't give me those tired equivocations where 'you support the police and fire departments, but you don't join up'. The facts are this. You've been cheerleading this war from the get go. You've been eager to have others go 'kill the ragheads' while you sit back in the comfort of your homes, enjoying your family, your freedom to say all sorts of stupid shit, and not really have to worry about the war until it comes time for you to run your mouth some more.
Well, we're out of 'other folks' to go fight this thing. We're scraping the bottom of the barrel by taking criminals and nut cases as it is. Contributing to the Rethug spin ain't gonna cut it anymore. Shit's bad and it's gonna get worse while you put another magnet on your car and tell everyone who will listen that 'we should just nuke the bastids'. If you want to do that so badly, join up and do your part because there's a buncha guys over there who want to do what you're doing right now. Sitting on your ass reading the Sunday paper or surfing the interwebs with your pants around your ankles.
The folks in the military did not sign up for this. They did not sign up to have their lives squandered in a war without end, in deployment after deployment. The Guard guys certainly didn't, volunteering to spend the spare time they have to help their communities, not act as regular Army troops for years on end. People, your fellow Americans, are dying over there for no good reason and you're cheering them on? No. Time to walk the walk or STFU.
Conscience ...
Nice to know not all the flag officers are neocons. This should give whatever Bush supporters that are left a bit of pause:
For them to let this leak out means they are worried over what will be left of the military after the Chimp and Cheney get done with it. Nothing good can come from an attack on Iran. I hope the Dems, and the Rethugs who have some sort of conscience, realize what this means and do whatever it takes to get these idiots out of 1600.
Update:
And read the above with regard to this:
Can you say, 'Office of Special Plans' and 'White House Iraq Group'? I thought you could. Same old song and dance. Let's hope Congress gets it too.
SOME of America’s most senior military commanders are prepared to resign if the White House orders a military strike against Iran, according to highly placed defence and intelligence sources.
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A generals’ revolt on such a scale would be unprecedented. “American generals usually stay and fight until they get fired,” said a Pentagon source. Robert Gates, the defence secretary, has repeatedly warned against striking Iran and is believed to represent the view of his senior commanders.
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However, army chiefs fear an attack on Iran would backfire on American troops in Iraq and lead to more terrorist attacks, a rise in oil prices and the threat of a regional war.
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For them to let this leak out means they are worried over what will be left of the military after the Chimp and Cheney get done with it. Nothing good can come from an attack on Iran. I hope the Dems, and the Rethugs who have some sort of conscience, realize what this means and do whatever it takes to get these idiots out of 1600.
Update:
And read the above with regard to this:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Despite the Bush administration's insistence it has no plans to go to war with Iran, a Pentagon panel has been created to plan a bombing attack that could be implemented within 24 hours of getting the go-ahead from President George W. Bush, The New Yorker magazine reported in its latest issue.
The special planning group was established within the office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in recent months, according to an unidentified former U.S. intelligence official cited in the article by investigative reporter Seymour Hersh in the March 4 issue.
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Can you say, 'Office of Special Plans' and 'White House Iraq Group'? I thought you could. Same old song and dance. Let's hope Congress gets it too.
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