Supporting the troops by taking away their armor
posted by
Wally
11:37 AM
Army Orders Soldiers to Shed Dragon Skin or Lose SGLI Death Benefits
Pardon my language, but can you fucking believe this shit? THIS is how our government is "supporting the troops." First, they send them into an illegal, unnecessary, senseless war, risking their lives because george and dick have a hardon for war. They send them into combat in Humvees (which were neither designed or intended to be combat vehicles), where they are sitting ducks for enemy snipers and IED's. They send them into combat in these non-combat vehicles without body armor. They force the soldiers to scrounge around junkyards for scrap metal to bolt onto the Humvees as makeshift armor. Finally, after years of public outcry, they give them shitty body armor that doesn't provide adequate protection. And then, when the soldiers (and their parents, friends, communities, etc) go out and on their own initiative shell out 6 grand for decent protection, the Army tells them they can't use it.
Is this a big FUCK YOU to the troops or what?
"Last week DefenseWatch released a secret Marine Corps report that determined that 80% of the 401 Marines killed in Iraq between April 2004 and June 2005 might have been saved if the Interceptor OTV body armor they were wearing was more effective. The Army has declined to comment on the report because doing so could aid the enemy, an Army spokesman has repeatedly said."
AID THE ENEMY??? AID THE FUCKING ENEMY???? What better way to aid the enemy than by making our soldiers more vulnerable to attack, by ordering them not to wear good armor? Holy shit this pisses me off.
This is why we need to bring our boys home. This is why Murtha is so pissed off about the way this war is being handled. This is a crime being committed against every one of the troops deployed in Iraq, their families, and every American who gives a shit or who pays taxes (that leaves the bush administration and most of the billionaires out).
How could this happen, you wonder? Maybe it had something to do with the insane amounts of money being pulled down by David H. Brooks, the CEO of DHB Industries, the company that makes the shitty body armor for the marines (DailyKos has a thing or two to say about him HERE). This dude threw a 10 million dollar bat mitzvah for his daughter while our soldiers were dying because his company is making body armor on the cheap. You KNOW he's a republican, and a heavy donor to republican causes. This sonofabitch is wiping the blood off his hands with silk napkins, drinking Dom Perignon while his customers - our soldiers - die.
You want to know who's aiding the enemy? Everyone who voted for bush. Everyone who voted republican. Anyone who is NOT fighting to end this war, and who wasn't fighting even before it began. The enemy is in the White House. Anyone still supporting and defending the criminals and monsters residing there - those are the people who are aiding the enemy.
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I've got your waterboard right here
posted by
Wally
11:36 AM
When bush said he wanted to be dictator, people laughed and thought he was 1) joking or 2) an idiot. They never counted on the third - that he was serious, and seriously insane. Once again, he's taking steps to ignore the law and the Constitutionally imposed checks and balances and bypass the new torture ban imposed by Congress. After threatening to veto it, and having Congress tell him to fuck off, he signed it strictly in order to avoid humiliation and defeat. (By the way, we were SO hoping he would do it. Go ahead chimp-boy, make the ONLY veto of your 2 term career be 1) vetoing a defense spending bill and 2) vetoing it solely because it says you can no longer torture people. How appropriate and representative of him would that be?) Now that he was forced to sign it into law, he's trying to weasel around it by saying he'll obey the law depending on how he interprets it at the time. In other words, he'll obey it as long as it's convenient for him to obey it. As soon as he gets in the mood for a little of his more kinky fun, he'll be dressing in leather with a riding crop, some electrical appliances, and a waterboard, and sashaying off to Gitmo for a little gay S&M action, just the way he likes it.
This is a man who is convinced he is above the law. He has never been held accountable for anything his entire life, from barely passing college (passing because of who he is, not because he actually studied or learned anything), to getting out of Nam by using his daddy to get into the Air Nat'l Guard, and then deserting, to bankrupting several oil companies in Texas (how much of a fuckup do you have to be to make THAT happen?). Now he's the prez, and has taken his lack of accountability and responsibilty to new levels. He thinks he's king. Laws don't apply to him. Like his pal tom delay, he IS the law. This has become especially true since 9/11. He can do anything he wants, now that he has 9/11 and the war on terrah as an excuse for it. There are no longer any boundaries to his power. He's a war president, don'tcha know.
Ignore the fact that 9/11 happened because he messed up and ignored all the warnings he was given. Ignore the fact that he's only a war president because he wanted his war. He needed his war. He HAD to have his war, and would do anything, including lying blatantly to Congress and the American people so that he could play with his planes and ships and tanks and blow stuff up and make big loud "BOOM" noises and pretty explosions, just like on 4th of July (do you think maybe his mom wouldn't let him play with fireworks when he was a kid and now he's making up for it?). Now he has his 9/11, and his war on terror, and in his little tiny one-dimensional mind, nothing else is going on in the world, and nothing else matters. Fuck the Constitution. It's just a goddamn peice of paper. Fuck the Bill of Rights. Fuck the American people. And especially, fuck the rest of the world. He will do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, wherever he wants, to whoever he wants to do it, because HE IS KING!!! He will do it, and he will blame it on the terrorists, never realizing that HE is the biggest terrorist of them all, destroying entire nations, shocking and aweing cities of civilians - like the fire bombing of Dresden or the bombs over Japan - except that Germany and Japan had attacked us and declared war on us. Iraq never did so. But george had his 9/11, his war on terror, his crown, and his hardon for war, and by god he was going to get his way.
He's also got a lot of pals in the energy industry and weapons industry to take care of. The Iraq invasion fits very nicely into that little arrangement. And of course, in that vein, he also has Darth Cheney to answer to (you just know that little georgie craps himself whenever unca dick snarls at him). Which leads me to my next point.
While reading this (It's official: last year was hottest ever) it once again struck me that anyone who's paying attention knows that climate change is WAY more of a threat than terrorism. When the glaciers melt on Greenland alone, it will raise sea levels by 6.5 meters. That's over 21 feet boys and girls. And we're not even talking about Antarctica's ice sheets yet. Melting all of them could lead to a sea level rise of 80 meters (264 feet). see this
With freshening water (ice caps melt as fresh water, not salt water), the ocean circulation patterns (i.e. Gulf Stream) will slow or even stop. This will cause equatorial waters to warm, firing up stronger and more frequent hurricanes, making the 2005 storm season the norm, not the exception. Add in the higher sea levels to begin with and, well, all you people in coastal cities might want to keep those plywood sheets that you put over your windows handy. Maybe sell off the big-screen (or a couple of your kids) and buy yourself a boat.
Clyde, Dookie and I will be safe (from flooding at least) here in Kansas City, but if you thought Katrina was a bitch, just wait until Ma Nature gets REALLY pissed off. New York, Amsterdam, Venice, much of Florida, Houston, Bangladesh.... damn.
A dirty bomb or a couple of hijacked planes is nothing compared to that. But climate change is a complex and multi-faceted issue, difficult to understand and even more difficult to resolve. It will take an enormous, cooperative, concerted, international effort. bush is completely incapable of that kind of thing. It involves complex, nuanced thought. It involves compromise. It involves acknowledging that you can't always have your way. It involves difficult and painful choices. It involves sacrifice. This is an issue that he can't bomb or torture his way out of. That's why he's not interested.
Waterboard my ass? Bring your surfboard.
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