Missing The Mark

No doubts left here...

How 'bout you?

No doubt at all. I just spoke with a veterans wife and they are already backed up at our local VA hospital, and thats before any of the men and women of our armed forces even are home...

Fubar..

Freedom Under Bushes Abusive Regime...?

America aint seen nothing yet. There are hundreds of millions, close to one Billion in Cash, one hundred dollar bills, Missing.

The major cost of this war has not yet made itself public, which is the replacement of equipment in Iraq. Sand tears into mechanical parts like you wouldnt believe, there are estimates that up to half of all Equipment on the ground today will need replacing in the next 5 years due to sand.

the VA is short a Billion....and Halliburton's profits are about that for 2004 from Iraq.
( if you want to read about an American Hero, Bunnatine Greenhouse, she kicked butt and should be given an Award of some sort..she took on Halliburton. THIS is what a Democrat Senator should be made of).

Whatever figure is given by the white house for the Iraqi war, triple that at least to financing the debt, replacing equipment, and taking care of our men and women who are placing their lives, limbs and spirit on the Line.

And yet this White House deliberately shorts their care and treatment...has anyone seen Defense Contractors profit and loss statements for this last quarter....Sickening.

Call your senator now.
Call your Senator now
Call your Senator now.

Then go see your congressman.
In person.
Bring your child.

Re Bush's speech:

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. (George Eliot, 1879)

Re fake applause issue - I also saw a "poll" - reported in International Herald Tribune, which showed a "significant" increase in popular support for Bush and also public support of the war - when comparing responses for 300+ people polled before and after the speech.

Upon reading further - half were Republicans, approx 25% were Democrats, the rest were Independents & sundry others. That is no poll.

This from the OpTruth blog, on Bush's speech:

"President's Speech, or The Live Bait Approach to National Security"

"Re: the speech last night.
His speech says basically "we were attacked on 9/11 and so we went to war." And then he goes on to "we're fighting terrorists in Iraq." But it's like, woah. Wait a second. They weren't there before we f*cked it up. That's an important point that needs to be addressed. And he loses credibility by not doing so.

It's like assaulting a building because you're convinced WMD-wielding terrorists are there and want to kill you, discovering there's nothing there but a big warehouse full of newspapers, accidentally lighting the newspapers on fire, and then when people ask what the f*ck you're doing in the building in the first place answering, "putting out the fire."

That sh*t may be convincing if you just arrived on the scene, but we saw the whole thing go down up close and in person."

There's more, it gets better. These guys know how to say it like it really is. Check out the whole blog.

Some suggest that Bush sees the military of this country as a tool for Republican PR. Others, that our people in uniform are being used as "live bait" in Iraq, keeping terrorists busy attacking volunteers who are serving their country, rather than attacking "real" Americans back home. They're sick of hearing that, especially when they know that it isn't working, that we're only creating MORE terrorists with this strategy.

Check it out. Smart people over there.

http://optruth.org/main.cfm?actionId=blogShowExcerpts&blogId=14&year=2005&month=6&day=29&Action=ShowCalendar&lnav=7

Feeling Fabulous,

Absolutely, always bring the family to see your Congessmember. They NEVER throw you out when you have the kids with you.

Hey, also, i will give you a call tomorrow, as my little brother and I are meeting my older brother in the big city. Well, the other big city, but I will give you a call in the morning, once I am on the road.

ff,

Glad to see you here!

This is for toolmaker...

http://www.d-n-i.net/lind/lind_6_01_05.htm

Wreck it and Run By William S. Lind
This is a great, great read..

[snip]
It is increasingly clear that under Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, the U.S. armed forces have also been taken over by “wreck it and run” management. When Rumsfeld leaves office, what will his successor inherit?
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The world’s largest pile of wrecked and worn-out military equipment (maybe second-largest if we remember the old Soviet Navy). I’m talking about basic stuff here: trucks, Humvees, personnel carriers, crew-served weapons, etc. This is gear the Rumsfeld Pentagon hates to spend money on, because it does not represent “transformation” to the hi-tech, video-game warfare it wrongly sees as the future. So far, deploying units have made up their deficiencies by robbing units that are not deploying, often National Guard outfits. But that stock has about run out, and some of the stripped units are now facing deployment themselves, minus their gear.

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There are several more points but this echos Toolmaker's statement about worn-out equipment..

Another Lind beauty..
The Other War By William S. Lind

[snip]
As recently as April of this year, the senior U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Lt. Gen. David Barno, said he envisioned “most of (the Taliban) collapsing and rejoining the Afghan political and economic process” within a year. He seems to have projected the winter’s quiescence as a trend, forgetting that Afghan wars always shut down in wintertime, as war did everywhere until the 19th century. Afghanistan is not so much Iraq Lite as Iraq Slow, the land that forgot time. Our defeat will come slowly. But it will come.

The reason we will lose is that our strategic objective is unrealistic. Neither America nor anyone can turn Afghanistan into a modern state, aka Brave New World. In attempting to do so, we have launched broadscale assaults on Afghanistan’s rural economy and culture, guaranteeing that the Pashtun countryside will eventually turn against us. Afghan wars are decided in the countryside, not in Kabul.

whoooo--eeeeee

Hubby just got invited to an anual fundraiser dinner with our own GWB. Should he go? Should we take a vote? Should we use diebold's to conduct this vote? Who thinks GWB will listen to our advice?