Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Come join me - if you dare

"…We have people up there in Congress with the brain of a 2-year-old who don't know what they are doing, they don't experience it. I challenge the president or anyone who has us for 15 months to ride alongside me. I'll do another 15 months if he comes out here and rides alomg with me every day. I'll do 15 more months. They don't even have to pay me extra."
(Sean Smith/Guardian)

I was stationed in Turkey in the late 70's, but there the hottest day I saw was 118F. Helmet, gas mask, long sleeve fatigues and flak jacket. There were people shooting at us, but it was mostly the Kurdish PKK downtown.

Even then the politicians were pretty spineless and refused to answer out letters, because "officially" we weren't there.

Then the Iran hostage situation hit and amazingly we had bases all over Turkey.

I guess if there's one thing you can count on, it's that you can't count on politicians. Especially these Republican chickenhawks, in such a rush to go to war but afraid to go themselves.

Monday, July 02, 2007

The Real Libby Crime

There's a lot of talk about Scooter's escaping prison and Valerie Wilson. But everyone seems to miss the real crime, and threat, from a CIA operative being exposed.

Ms. Wilson (Plame) may or may not have been working undercover at the time she was revealed. But her exposure lead to the destruction of a very carefully constructed front company that was heavily involved in preventing the spread of nuclear weapons and other severe threats.

This company was Brewster Jennings & Associates. Not only was the company brought to public scrutiny, but so were other CIA operatives as well as foreign nationals friendly to our cause.

Major spy networks obliterated for the selfish purposes of the Bush administration and we may never know how many lives were lost for this petty achievement. Underground weapons networks don't take kindly to spies.

In every respect the constant missteps of this administration have put us under more danger. Something that should be treated as a high crime and treason.