Today's War News

Tell Hoover that this really sucks (see, Hoover makes a line of vacuum cleaners, though I realize we’re talking about two different entities – a long way to go for not much of a laugh, but after this week, I need it).

It turns out that Don (“The Defense Secretary We Used To Have, And Boy Are We Paying For It”) Rumsfeld has been appointed a visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, as rapacious a nest of self-aggrandizing freepers as anyone has ever seen (I believe this story broke on the 8th, but for some reason it’s just getting out now among some media outlets).

I doubt seriously that they’ll care, but if you want to contact them and protest, you can access their information from here.

Also, it looks like Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch is at it again, blaming the media for the overall failing support in this country for Dubya’s Not-So-Excellent Iraq Adventure.

This is the same member of the military who stated here that “about 50 members of an elite Iranian military unit (were) training Shiite militias south of Baghdad, the first time the U.S. military has alleged that Iranians are aiding insurgents from inside Iraq.”

I don’t know if Lynch was correct, but how con-vee-nient for him to let us know about this at approximately the same time as Dubya designated Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization to be covered under the 2002 Authorization to Use Military Force, which was unusual partly because it was the first time a military unit of a nation had received that designation (providing somewhat of a flimsy legal cover for an attack).

That was included in the prior post from August 20th, along with the result of Lynch’s “investigation” into the killing of a Reuters journalist by our troops near Baghdad in September 2005 that sounded a little too much like a whitewash for my liking.

General, we don’t trust you. The time has long since passed to pursue a political solution in Iraq as opposed to a military one. The fact that you don’t seem to recognize that makes you (in my book) a sadist, an egomaniac, a zealot, or an idiot (or any combination of the above).