December 01, 2005
Two links for ya this morning. First, from jwz, “The Zombie Vote: In an election year, dead veterans of the current conflict crawl out of their graves and stagger single-mindedly to voting booths so they can eject the president who sent them to fight a war sold on ‘horseshit and elbow grease.’”
The second is from Rafe:
Larry Johnson flags an excerpt from a Department of Defense press conference with Donald Rumsfeld and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace. I’ll snip out an even smaller bit of the excerpt, you don’t even need to see the question being answered:
PACE: It is absolutely responsibility of every U.S. service member if they see inhumane treatment being conducted, to intervene, to stop it… .
RUMSFELD: I don’t think you mean they have an obligation to physically stop it, it’s to report it.
PACE: If they are physically present when inhumane treatment is taking place, sir, they have an obligation to try to stop it.
Want an explanation of why we torture and who’s responsible? There it is in a nutshell.
Look for General Pace to announce an early retirement. Original source was the TPM Cafe with additional commentary there.
The side project that I mentioned is proceeding nicely, but it’s still consuming large amounts of free time.