Sometimes it only takes one death, or one mistake as Qana bring outcry to end needless deaths and misery. Frankly Rumsfeld I hope the Senate uses this as the catalyst to make you start answering for your fuck ups in the planning, the execution of and the exit of American Forces from Iraq.
I hope this is your Napoleon moment.
This week a United States Senator's nephew died in Iraq, the Senator thought of him as his son, he has taken early leave of Capitol Hill to return home to be with the family.
http://www.cbsnews.com/...
""CBS/AP) A nephew of Sen. Max Baucus was killed in combat in Iraq during the weekend, the senator's office said Tuesday.
Marine Cpl. Phillip E. Baucus, 28, died Saturday in the province of Al Anbar, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. He was assigned to 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Twentynine Palms, Calif.
A spokesman for Baucus confirmed that the serviceman, who lived in the Helena area, was the Montana Democrat's nephew.""
Now we can hope that the Senate will start demanding answers from the Bush Administration to account for their piss poor intelligence reports that Sen Pat Roberts promised this nation, last year when Senator Reid boldly shut the Senate down with his demand for the investigation into wether or not the Bush Administration misused the intelligence and lied this nation to war. Nine months later they are no closer to answering it than they were then WHY?
Why are they still driving HUMVEES in IRAQ when they have over 4000 Armored Personnel Carriers (APC's) M113A1 that provide a lot more protection for 11 men than a HUMVEE does for 4 men. The raason they don't send them is the cost of shipping them over there. Forget how many lives they would save.
I feel for the Senators family, the questions they will be asking him in the next week, why did he keep voting to support the funding, a hell of a catch-22, if he didn't vote for funding then he would have been labeled anti-troop, since he did vote for funding he helped to kill his own nephew, there is not right answer for him or his family right now, just a lot of pain.
Maybe this will embolden him to ask his fellow Senators to set apart the partsian fighting and ask some of the serious questionsof this administration, like the WHY questions.
It is not unpatriotic to ask questions, it is UNPATRIOTIC to blindly play follow the leader when the whole world can see the policy is wrong.
How do I dare say this, I served this nation in 2 wars, and 31 years of either Uniformed military service or a govt job providing a public service. I became totally disabled due to medical problems or injuries sufferred in the Army, I am as patriotic as anyone, my entire family has served this nation in a military uniform since before we were a nation, my fanily immigrated here like most, but mine came here in 1635 on the Angel Gabriel. The early pioneers fought the French Indian wars, the early British wars, the revolution, and all the other wars ending with my service in the First Gulf War.
We as citizens of this free society have the right to question our elected leaders, on the whys, the how's, any question we want, they are elected, they are answerable to the American voters, none of them should be above the law, George W, should be prosecuted if he did break our laws, his "Presidential Signing Statements" mean nothing if they were illegal. It is time our Congress started asking the questions the American people want answered, if one more person tells me I have to stand behind my President because we are at war, I will smack them, that is about as stupid as not farting in church, we are at war ,anyone tells me 911, I will puke, this was a PNAC devised war to take out Saddam since before they were elected to office, 911 gave them the justification, after they shaped the intelligence to scare the hell out of this nation, I will never forget the proclaimed "mushroom clouds".
Rummy you are a senile old sick twisted fuck and need to go, Cheney you are just evil, and W you are to stupid to be President, you trusted to many of Daddy's old friends, they knew where each others bodies are buried, you were to young and drunk and high to watch the first forays into the evil world of Nixon, human experiemnts, dead bodies and violations of the Nuremberg Codes of 1947 by using America's soldier,human guinea pigs at Edgewood Arsenal in chemical weapons and drug tests http://www.outsidethebeltway.org/...
Now they are opening another biological weapons test lab at Fort Detrick the same type facility we as a nation closed in 1972 after we signed the international treaty banning all biological weapons use, possession and experiments. Why are you twisted old bastards trying to start it up again, don't you have enough dead or disabled veterans you refuse to find and give them their veteran benefits. All of you men can kiss my ass, none of you know what Honor, Dignity and Duty really are, to you they are just buss words.
I dare you all to go to Senator Baucus's nephew;s funeral. Or are you to afraid to show your face near an honorable man's grave?