The site for ranting and reporting by John Masters
I use this category when posting about the military or military actions.
This is bad, seriously. Paul Hackett is running as the first Iraq war vet to run for Congress, and now his GOP opponent, Jean Schmidt, just said that being an American vet from the Iraq war is the wrong kind of experience for a member of Congress.
Read moreSenate Majority Leader Bill Frist yesterday “derailed a bipartisan effort to set rules for the treatment of enemy prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and other military detention camps by abruptly stopping debate on a $491 billion defense bill,” Knight-Ridder reports.
Read moreApparently, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee is a total idiot, liar, or simply doesn’t care about national security. Driving back and forth to Langley doesn’t make you covert? Uh, so Roberts is suggesting that undercover CIA agents don’t even visit Langley at all, because that would blow their cover?
Read moreIn the latest draft of the Iraqi constitution apparently puts more emphasis on Islamic law, treats ethnic groups differently and sets BACK women’s rights.
Read moreElizabeth Holtzman has a new article in the Nation, Torture and Accountability. It blows the cover off the “few bad apples” meme and makes a case for a war crimes prosecution of higher-ups.
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