I happened to be watching C-SPAN and saw Lt. Gen Steven Blum, Chief of the National Guard Bureau, testifying in front of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense (sexy!) and some of the questions and answers really bothered me. Folks like Sen. Patty Murray and Sen. Byron Dorgan were asking about what seems to me to be basic services the armed forces ought to be providing to Guardsmen – basic services and care that you would assume the biggest military in the world would be handling. Even worse was Lt. Gen Blum’s responses, indicating that Sec. Gates had enacted responses to the issues at hand.
But, we’ve been at war in Afghanistan for six years and in Iraq for four years. What The Eff was Donald Rumsfeld doing all that time? And what was the Republican congress, in all that time, doing to provide oversight of the Guard and Rumsfeld as the constitution requires?
This is insane.
Might have been able to shed some light on the issues for you if you’d mentioned any of the specifics that bothered you.
Just wanted to say that the new format is like, “Whoa!”
Now, if you just ditcha the captcha
“Might have been able to shed some light on the issues for you if you’d mentioned any of the specifics that bothered you.”
Here’s one: OSAMA IS STILL FREE.
Want more?
pd100: When we caught Saddam, the Dems were “Ho – hum”.
When Osama is caught, what do you anticipate the political result will be?
By Democrats, if he is caught before NOV 2008?
By Republicans, if caught after JAN 2009?
And, BTW, his capture is closer than ever
Frank, they could capture Osama tomorrow, and the Iraqis could lay down their arms at and join in a group-sing of “kumbaya”, and this administration would still be the biggest bunch of f*ck-ups ever to occupy the oval office.
If you do a thousand things wrong, it doesn’t really matter much if you do one thing right.
When we caught Saddam, the Dems were “Ho – hum”.
“We”?
Surely you meant the Coalition Forces, because your sorry ass hasn’t been seen fucking about in Iraq and in need of withdrawal.
When a crime is commited as in the case of 9/11, a logical response would be to apprehend the actual perpetrators. Yes? No?
Instead, Bin Laden is a sidebar while a moth-eaten tinpot dictator and non-9/11-participant became the target of choice. Ho-Hum indeed.
“Closer than ever” to Catching Bin Laden? When the United States was under competent leadership, It took less time to win World War 2 than it has now taken to catch or kill Bin Laden. Attacks are up 6-fold on NATO / U.S. Forces in Afghanistan since the beginning of the invasion. Bin Laden will probably die of old age instead of ever facing justice.
-Yet you anticipate reactions based on yet another one of your patently idiotic strawman arguments. Nice work.
From Frank’s link:
“But a senior US official insisted last week that bin Laden’s trail had ‘not gone stone cold’.”
Should I be watching CNN for updates? Sounds like they’ll have him any second now. “not gone stone cold” is code for “we almost have him”, right?
pd100: Contrary to contemporary liberal opinion, “we” are Americans, and the United States Armed Forces are called that because they are “our” Armed Forces.
By your logic, “we” didn’t World War II, either, eh?
When a crime is committed…
When a crime is committed?
You mean like when my VCR gets stolen? Or my aunt gets mugged?
Yeah, then you go after the perpetrator.
How many Japanese and German soldiers did we arrest during World War II?
Don’t try this World War crap with me. I was born after noon, not this after noon.
During World War II, we pursued and killed Japanese and German soldiers who wore uniforms, and occupied fixed areas of land, with conventional lines of supply.
Anything like that going on now? Yes? No?
And you shouldn’t call anyone an idiot, when you’re playing one on a blog…
N D : If I were you, I wouldn’t be watching CNN at all.
“not gone stone cold” is code for “we almost have him”, right?
No, it’s code for “We know where he ain’t.”
If this is a black or a muslin
person, Michelle Malkin and “Nappy head Ho” LaShawn Barber is going to jump for joy.
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