“Another leader of the armed bands is Guy Philippe, a former member of the Haitian military who received training from US Special Forces in Ecuador in the 1990s and was then sent back to Haiti, where he became a brutal police chief and sought to organize a coup in 2000. He is suspected of involvement in cocaine trafficking.”

Or that “On November 14, a U.S. Special Forces team is sent into Tarin Kot to protect Hamid Karzai. In late November, they participated in the slaughter of prisoners in the Qala-i-Janghi prison fort in Mazar-i-Sharif. Recent evidence reveals that also they were involved at least as passive observers, in the infamous container convoys of death bringing prisoners from Mazar to Sheberghan.”

And so on.

“dissent with foreign policy to be incompatible with military service” -hm, gen. Butler did his “dissent” ONLY after retirement and he TOTALLY refuted his job. He called it “racket”. He did not defend what he did, he did not said he was ONLY against “this war”. And he was not a liberal, I guess

“I spent almost twenty years in the U.S. Army Special Forces. I’m a staunch liberal, and very much against this war.”

Hm, why it sounds for me very much like “I spent almost twenty years in the slaughterhouse. I’m a staunch vegan, and very much against this beefsteak.”

lidia,

Do you consider military service and liberalism to be incompatible? Or do you consider dissent with foreign policy to be incompatible with military service?

I am glad they are moving to evaporate the bogie man.

I will never forget his hyper-lame excuse for the refusal to comply with the requirement under international a law that they publish a list of names of detainees and their locations so that their families would know 1) they are alive, 2) where they are. He said they were unable to do it because Iraqi names are too difficult to spell. First, let me tell you that Arabic is one of the easiest languages to spell because it uses a purely phonetic alphabet with a strict one-to-one ratio between letters and sounds. Anyone with a few weeks of Arabic instruction can do a credible job of spelling Arabic names. But even stupider, did he REALLY expect us to believe that in all of Iraq, which used to have one of the highest literacy rates in the region, and one of the most highly educated populations, they could not find a single Iraqi who could spell Arabic names?!!!!

And that was far from the only such gem that came out of that idiot’s mouth. He issued them on a regular basis.

And while he is excoriating everyone else for their failures, and suggesting they should be relieved or resign, has he even remotely acknowledged his own lengthy string of war crimes, lies, and utter, abject failure.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I have had enough of these whining, sniveling lying cowards who emerge from their holes after the fact to point the finger at everyone else.

Oh yeah sorry, I forgot that the military is a sacred cow that can do no wrong.

Nevermind.

It should come as no surprise that this man has gotten the same treatment as others before him.

In our fascist-lite country, dissent is not tolerated and all of us who criticize the administration are just a few short steps from “the halliburton detention camps and at any moment are subject to being put on the “watch list: of “enemy combatants or suspects or whatever the term they decide to use”

I would ask again as have many times in the past, when will these generals decide to refresh their memories of their sworn duty to protect us from enemies both “foreign and domestic”, and decide that our “domestic” enemies
the Bush regime are a great enough threat to the people of this great country, that they are willing to remove them by force.

Personally I would much rather live under martial law after a “coup” by the military rather than under martial law declared by the Bush regime.

Hm, why it sounds for me very much like “I spent almost twenty years in the slauterhouse. I’m a staunch vegan, and very much against this beefstake.”

Re-read what I wrote. You missed the point altogether.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20071017/cia-leak-book/

Also she will be on 60 minutes, this coming Sunday.

Larry,

Do you think Valerie would do a guest column on NQ or is there anyway we can contact her to thank her for her service to our country??

1.The president makes a claim which he knows is factually bogus because Intel was dubious at best and he knew it..
2.He tells it to the congress which in turn gives him power to launch an ilegal war.
3. then you have generals who say everything is hunky dory to the visiting congressmen to ease their guilt .
4.then when generals leave the military they finally tell the truth .
5.the congressmen get to claim “he told us everything was alright.

Everyone is off the hook.

Mission accomplished. “OPERATION SCREW THE AMERICAN PEOPLE” goes off without a hitch.

the Perfect circle

disgusting……

http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2007/10/cortez-in-darie.html