Shame on Lizzie Dole

This morning during the Armed Forces Committee hearings, Sen. Dole referenced 4 slain contractors from her home state in addition to Nick Berg before asking what the Armed Forces were doing to protect these "unarmed civilians" that were doing "God's work" in Iraq to help along the recondstruction process.  She also called them heros.  I would suggest that Sen. Dole owes the American public an apology for using known security contractors (i.e. mercenaries) as an example of how the U.S. armed forces are not doing enough to protect unarmed American civilian workers.

•  I agree with your post

  but she is referred to as Liddie not Lizzie

  by bulldog on Wed May 19, 2004 at 09:46:49 AM PDT

  •  Liddie Borden

    I had to stop myself from refering to her as "Lizzie Borden" - thus the Lizzie rather than Liddie.

    You know, taking an axe and giving the truth 40 whacks in all.....

    by joby on Wed May 19, 2004 at 10:14:46 AM PDT

    •  ya know

      you shouldn't have done that to me....milk through the nose is not fun!

      by bulldog on Wed May 19, 2004 at 12:27:39 PM PDT

      •  I'm just glad...

        it wasn't soda.  That would have hurt!!

        by joby on Wed May 19, 2004 at 01:38:55 PM PDT

•  Sessions pretty much did the same

  It seems that the Republican talking points on this these days seem to go something like this:

  "Blah blah blah Nick Berg blah blah blah four contractors burned alive blah blah blah oh yeah we're here to talk about mistreatment of detainees."

  We all know that Nick Berg and the deaths of those four contractors have nothing to do with each other or with the treatment some of our people have shown Iraqi detainees. This is nothing more than rhetorical damage control. For me, it brings to mind Bush's rhetorical linking of Saddam Hussein and 9/11. It's an attempt to reduce the outrage by implying that the detainee mistreatment wasn't as bad as the other events.

  by Devin on Wed May 19, 2004 at 09:51:44 AM PDT

•  God's work?

  Did she really refer to the functions of the civilian workers as "God's work?"

  by Lucky Ducky on Wed May 19, 2004 at 09:52:17 AM PDT

•  So She Worships

  So she worships at the altar of Bush?

  I did that as a young person but it got me into too much trouble.  Bush worship is not good.

  by nofundy on Wed May 19, 2004 at 10:11:58 AM PDT

  •  Eh?

    Bush worship can be a great experience, if you do it right.

    by aullando on Wed May 19, 2004 at 10:25:41 AM PDT

•  Liddy Dole is an Idiot.

  Instead of calling mercenaries and missionaries heroes she should have been showing her outrage as a former head of the Red Cross about how their cries of prisoner abuse were going unheeded and their personal witnessing of abuses were shoved aside. What a loser she is not to be fronting this charge to defend this organization.

  by wilfred on Wed May 19, 2004 at 10:26:03 AM PDT

•  Has she ever been other

  than what she was this morning, and in the other hearings as well?

  I saw an old harridan, puffed and poufed and spouting polemics and preaching ignorance.  This bizaare christianist quasi state religion.  I have run out of words for all of this.  Collaborationist, part of the instigator, white dominant class.

  It is one of the enduring faces of America.  I thought I saw facial implants as well...

  by Marisacat on Wed May 19, 2004 at 11:22:37 AM PDT