Yeah, right, Rush, we all know how well equipped our troops are. Remember Donald Dumsfailed’s quip about fighting with the army we have instead of the army we want???

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I suspect that it has a lot to do with the fact that a great many of our major media outlets are actually owned by a handful of larger parent companies, reportedly only around five or so — and media outlets also depend on advertising for their profits. The problem with this is that if a media outlet’s parent company or one of its larger advertising partners decides that they don’t want a certain story to be reported because it would reflect badly on them directly or on someone or something which they support (such as the Bush administration or the Republican Party), there’s a good chance that the story won’t get reported — or at least, not by that outlet. Add to this the fact that the Bush administration and/or its supporters are prone to labeling (or should that be libeling?) any critics as being unpatriotic, anti-American, or outright traitorous — and you begin to get a very clear picture as to why stories like this aren’t being widely reported. The fact is that the majority of the reporters in the mainstream media have been grossly negligent in their responsibility to the American people over the last few years. One of the whole purposes of having freedom of the press (and one of the reasons why our Founding Fathers wanted and insisted upon having a free press) is because a free press has the power and the potential to serve as a governmental watchdog by exposing corruption. If and when the press only chooses to report what is “safe” — regardless of whether “safe” is defined directly by the government or by people who support that government (such as major corporations), then the press is not truly doing their job and not living up to the responsibilities that inevitably come with freedom.

My niece served two tours, and continually had to deal with Army bureaucracy that flat out refused to get her the supplies and equipment she needed to do the job she was trained to do.

You heard right. Not “We don’t have it.” “Refused.”

Oh really….just where did that half a trillion dollars for Iraq and Afghanistan go?
“Support the troops”? It looks like what America has been doing is “supporting the contractors and war profiteers”.

In hindsight, it seems to me that if people would have pressured Congress into doing some oversight into where the money was actually going, THAT would have been supporting the troops much more than putting a magnetic ribbon made in China on a vehicle.
However, putting a magnet on our car is much easier than actually taking the time out of our busy lives to follow what’s going on and call our Congressman…….
and we were also constantly told that if we questioned anything we were traitors and helping “the enemy”.

We are almost all guilty for what has happened to this country (and Iraq) and the looting of the Treasury.
We have almost all been played for suckers (myself included)

BTW, How is that investigation of the 2001 Anthrax attacks being conducting by the people “who want to make us safe from terrorism” going?

Remember why we are in Afghanistan? September 11, 2001. Our priorities are screwed up.

Comment by Marie — February 23, 2008 @ 11:09 pm

NOPE, I say throw them over NOW!!! TODAY preferably.
And make sure the trolls here are the first on the gang plank.

Comment by Bartolo — February 24, 2008 @ 7:36 am

From Today’s Chicago Tribune:

Federal prosecutors in Rock Island have indicted four former supervisors from KBR, the giant defense firm that holds the contract, along with a decorated Army officer and five executives from KBR subcontractors based in the U.S. or the Middle East. Those defendants, along with two other KBR employees who have pleaded guilty in Virginia, account for a third of the 36 people indicted to date on Iraq war-contract crimes, Justice Department records show.

On Wednesday, a federal judge in Rock Island sentenced the Army official, Chief Warrant Officer Peleti “Pete” Peleti Jr., to 28 months in prison for taking bribes.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-kbr-war-profiteers-feb21,1,5231766.story?page=1

Yeah, Frankie, its not like you care enough to actually read up, research and find out what is really happening and who is really to blame.
Way to support the troops, you (self proclaimed) fascist idiot.

Comment by Frank M — February 24, 2008 @ 7:27 am”

My god, Frank, you are full of ****. Your beloved leader and his lockstep Congressional minions were in complete control for the first four years of this war, and all a bedwetting coward like you can do is blame Democrats. Where is your limit for self-debasement, Frank? Where does it all end? When do you and your self-delusions finally hit the wall?

Comment by Frank M — February 24, 2008 @ 7:27 am

But y8ou won’t blame the traitors that have sent the appropriations into the bowels of Halliburton, instead of arming the troops? wow, frank, you have zero patriotism in you. I hope you get hit by a bus today. The world would be better off without you.

Oh, right–ambushed and killed most of them about a month later.

No prob. The military investigated, and found no evidence of wrongdoing by the military. None whatsoever.

Leave your gun.