digby: Torturing The Troops And Their Families

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Torturing The Troops And Their Families

by digby


Oh fergawdssake. Here we go again with St John McCain and Mr Elizabeth Taylor pretending to care about the military when they're actually just trying to save their miscreant leader's face and kicking the can down the road a few more FU's. (I wonder where the third Musketeer Huckleberry is this morning? He must be working overtime to ensure they can't get enough votes to keep the US Government from torturing and indefinitely imprisoning anyone the Boy King deems his enemy. Busy day.)

Anyway, here's the latest lame maneuver from the Torture Twins:




Sorry flyboy. Your "sense of the senate" isn't going to do jack about this:

While generals and politicians debate strategy and funding for the Iraq war on Capitol Hill, the cost of the conflict is tallied in places like this quiet subdivision, where Kelly Bridson each night listens to her 10-year-old son’s bedtime prayers for his stepfather’s safety: “The light of God surrounds you. The love of God enfolds you. The power of God protects you. …”

Army Spc. Joe Bridson is stationed in the volatile city of Samarra, Iraq, about 80 miles north of Baghdad. The prayers could well be goodnight hugs if not for the vagaries of military service in the era of the volunteer army: Joe Bridson is now in the 14th month of what originally was to have been a four- to six-month deployment in Iraq.

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Blackwater or another private security company, if they want to defend their country.

Just like they're making life miserable in New Orleans, so they can use government failure to argue for privitization of EVERYTHING. It's a very simple philosophy, and the people they put through hell to advance this philosophy are completely meaningless to them. Cannon fodder in every sense of the word.