Add that to the SCHIP thing, juxtapose it for Bush’s (and the Republicans’) crying for ever more contract money for the war and you’ve got some perfect campaign commercials for 2008.

The NeoCons have just perfected a fraudulent system.

Signs and symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder may include:

Grandiose sense of one’s own abilities or achievements
Fantasies about having exceptional power, attractiveness or success
Sense of belonging to an exclusive group of people who truly understand each other
Need for constant praise
Expectations of special treatment
Exploitation of other people
Lack of empathy for other people
Envy of other people or a belief that you are the subject of other people’s envy
Haughty or arrogant behaviors

Ask families of the soldiers killed in action how long it took to receive death benefits and what they had to do to get them.

Rush is allowed to make fun of Michael J. Fox and wounded soldiers.
His recorded words need to be on the airwaves 24/7 just as Imus words were. I was not an Imus fan, however, he was wise enough to apologize for his stupidity. Rush doesn’t acknowledge his stupidity.

Ahhh, the harsh croaking of chickenshit chickenhawks in the morning!

Spare us your lectures on how to be a skeptic. LOL.

That’s fact. Any questions?

*shudder*

I’m pretty sure that when they enlisted they were assured they would never be sent to Iraq in the first place, so it’s not like they were expecting to get those education benefits.

Besides, what’s to prevent the Administration from giving them a month’s rest, then sending them back for another 22 months?

Orders are orders and rules are rules. If the rule says 730 days, and there is no rule against ordering them back at 729 days, then what the Bush Administration did was perfectly legal.

Don’t you realize that by allowing these men and women to come home to their families a day earlier, Bush saved the taxpayers over $6,000,000 per year?!? That one extra day of service would have cost us that much! Would we really have benefited the war effort $6,000,000 worth just by having a few soldiers stay one lousy day?

You all blame Bush for being fiscally irresponsible, yet when he shows fiscal responsibility, you criticize Him for it.

/troll

Make the chimp veto THIS legislation!

I would view that ruling by the Supreme Court as being quite favorable to the Bush administration but not a view that is universally shared by others. This war/occupation has been seen as illegal by the Geneva Convention, the UN Charter, the U.S. Constitution and, as I mentioned earlier, the UCMJ. The U.S. Army Field Manual 27-10, Section II subsections 498-504 begins by stating that “Any person, whether a member of the armed forces or a civilian, who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefor and liable to punishment.” As I also previously mentioned, when those German officers and officials tried to claim that they were only following orders, the court at Nuremberg took a different position and as a result hanged them for their crimes.

If you were somehow obliquely referring to Lt. Watada’s first court martial, it would be instructive to remember that the first witness to take the stand on the Wednesday when the trial was being held was Watada. The judge in the case, John Head, tried to claim that Watada did not somehow understand the stipulation that he had signed the week before, despite the fact that the court had literally gone through that stipulation line by line with the lieutenant and decided, over the objections of the defense, no less, to bizarrely declare a mistrial. A more likely reason why Head declared that mistrial was because Watada was due to take the stand and was going to declare to the world that the war was illegal, something which the military and the government could not possibly allow to happen. The last thing this administration wishes to happen is for word to get out that this war has been conducted illegally and to have that happen by, of all people, a military officer. What this country needs is more people like the lieutenant willing to tell the truth, something which the U.S. government is quite loath to do.