Comments on: Dereliction of Duty http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/30/dereliction-of-duty/ Firedoglake weblog Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:59:06 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: octopibingo http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/30/dereliction-of-duty/#comment-356755 octopibingo Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:48:00 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/30/dereliction-of-duty/#comment-356755 <p><a href="#comment-355655"><em>bugsy @<br /> 144 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p>today I taped this sign on my front door</p> <p>IMAGINE THAT 100 TENANTS IN THIS BUILDING<br /> DIED IN OCTOBER<br /> THAT’S HOW MANY OF OUR TROOPS DIED IN IRAQ<br /> THIS MONTH<br /> TELL US WHAT FOR GEORGE</p></blockquote> <p>What for? So 100 tenants in that building didn’t have to die.</p> bugsy @
144

today I taped this sign on my front door

IMAGINE THAT 100 TENANTS IN THIS BUILDING
DIED IN OCTOBER
THAT’S HOW MANY OF OUR TROOPS DIED IN IRAQ
THIS MONTH
TELL US WHAT FOR GEORGE

What for? So 100 tenants in that building didn’t have to die.

]]> By: Mary4 http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/30/dereliction-of-duty/#comment-355781 Mary4 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:48:14 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/30/dereliction-of-duty/#comment-355781 <p>scarecrow @138 have the darnedest cat too. *g*</p> scarecrow @138 have the darnedest cat too. *g*

]]> By: Christy Hardin Smith http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/30/dereliction-of-duty/#comment-355758 Christy Hardin Smith Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:25:52 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/30/dereliction-of-duty/#comment-355758 <p>mc at 117 — you heard correctly. More details as things firm up, but I am, indeed, CNN bound for election night. You have some good little birdie sources. *g*</p> mc at 117 — you heard correctly. More details as things firm up, but I am, indeed, CNN bound for election night. You have some good little birdie sources. *g*

]]> By: Glen Tomkins http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/30/dereliction-of-duty/#comment-355691 Glen Tomkins Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:30:47 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/30/dereliction-of-duty/#comment-355691 <p>Criminality, not incompetence</p> <p>Recording the serial numbers of weapons you hand out, even to our own military, much less to third parties, is so standard, so obviously necessary a procedure, that omitting it simply could not have been a mere mistake. They knew that most of these weapons would end up in the hands of insurgents, but if that were provable, by serial numbers of weapons recaptured from insurgents, that would be politically embarrassing. So they deliberately sabotaged our military’s ability to track how the insurgency is obtaining its arms in order to avoid political embarrassment. But, since the whole war was undertaken solely for political gain, I guess this latest filigree of their treachery is a mere ornament. Art for art’s sake, if your chosen genre is betraying your country for political benefit.</p> Criminality, not incompetence

Recording the serial numbers of weapons you hand out, even to our own military, much less to third parties, is so standard, so obviously necessary a procedure, that omitting it simply could not have been a mere mistake. They knew that most of these weapons would end up in the hands of insurgents, but if that were provable, by serial numbers of weapons recaptured from insurgents, that would be politically embarrassing. So they deliberately sabotaged our military’s ability to track how the insurgency is obtaining its arms in order to avoid political embarrassment. But, since the whole war was undertaken solely for political gain, I guess this latest filigree of their treachery is a mere ornament. Art for art’s sake, if your chosen genre is betraying your country for political benefit.

]]> By: Cujo359 http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/30/dereliction-of-duty/#comment-355657 Cujo359 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:06:37 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/30/dereliction-of-duty/#comment-355657 <p>OT: Rasmussen <a href="http://rasmussenreports.com/2006/State Polls/October 2006/MarylandSenate1026.htm">released a poll today</a> about the MD-SEN race, where BlueAmerica candidate Ben Cardin still leads Michael Steele. This is not a repeat from yesterday, it’s a different poll. Rassmussen says that nothing’s changed since Sept. 13 in this race, and little since August. The current split is 50-43, which is an identical lead to the last two Rasmussen polls.</p> <p><a href="http://rasmussenreports.com/2006/State">http://rasmussenreports.com/2006/State</a> Polls/October 2006/MarylandSenate1026.htm</p> <p>As I mentioned yesterday, this is despite a push-poll campaign that’s been going on for at least the last few days. Apparently, no one’s buying it.</p> <p><a href="http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/010652.php">http://www.talkingpointsmemo.c.....010652.php</a></p> <p>I’d be very surprised if Cardin lost this one, but in a race that’s not a blowout, GOTV is still important.</p> <p>UPDATE: That Rasmussen URL had an embedded space, so I made it into an embedded link as well.</p> OT: Rasmussen released a poll today about the MD-SEN race, where BlueAmerica candidate Ben Cardin still leads Michael Steele. This is not a repeat from yesterday, it’s a different poll. Rassmussen says that nothing’s changed since Sept. 13 in this race, and little since August. The current split is 50-43, which is an identical lead to the last two Rasmussen polls.

http://rasmussenreports.com/2006/State Polls/October 2006/MarylandSenate1026.htm

As I mentioned yesterday, this is despite a push-poll campaign that’s been going on for at least the last few days. Apparently, no one’s buying it.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.c…..010652.php

I’d be very surprised if Cardin lost this one, but in a race that’s not a blowout, GOTV is still important.

UPDATE: That Rasmussen URL had an embedded space, so I made it into an embedded link as well.

]]> By: T- http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/30/dereliction-of-duty/#comment-355656 T- Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:05:48 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/30/dereliction-of-duty/#comment-355656 <p>There’s a new <a href="http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/30/im-officially-bored-with-this-blue-dog-story/#respond">thread</a>.</p> There’s a new thread.

]]> By: bugsy http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/30/dereliction-of-duty/#comment-355655 bugsy Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:05:42 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/30/dereliction-of-duty/#comment-355655 <p>today I taped this sign on my front door</p> <p>IMAGINE THAT 100 TENANTS IN THIS BUILDING<br /> DIED IN OCTOBER<br /> THAT’S HOW MANY OF OUR TROOPS DIED IN IRAQ<br /> THIS MONTH<br /> TELL US WHAT FOR GEORGE</p> today I taped this sign on my front door

IMAGINE THAT 100 TENANTS IN THIS BUILDING
DIED IN OCTOBER
THAT’S HOW MANY OF OUR TROOPS DIED IN IRAQ
THIS MONTH
TELL US WHAT FOR GEORGE

]]> By: Mary4 http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/30/dereliction-of-duty/#comment-355653 Mary4 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:04:09 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/30/dereliction-of-duty/#comment-355653 <p>I’m having a hard time finding some of the links I thought I remembered, but this one</p> <p><a href="http://www.thenextleft.com/blogatory/archives/2006/05/usbought_arms_l.html">US bought arms likely leaking to insurgents</a></p> <p>makes it sound as though possibly they are not included, bc the 200,000 were a part of a “complex procurement” </p> <p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/file_on_4/5006196.stm">BBC story on the missing weapons and ammunition rounds as well as missing UK weapons</a></p> <p>and <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/armstrade/story/0,,1773106,00.html?gusrc=rss">the Guardian says</a> it was part of a “secret” weapons deal. ???</p> <p>Anyway - everything old is new again. Story in May, story again in October. Vietnam, now Iraq. Nixon, now Bush. Negroponte’s El Salvadoran death squads, now Negroponte’s Iraq/Shiia death squads.</p> I’m having a hard time finding some of the links I thought I remembered, but this one

US bought arms likely leaking to insurgents

makes it sound as though possibly they are not included, bc the 200,000 were a part of a “complex procurement”

BBC story on the missing weapons and ammunition rounds as well as missing UK weapons

and the Guardian says it was part of a “secret” weapons deal. ???

Anyway – everything old is new again. Story in May, story again in October. Vietnam, now Iraq. Nixon, now Bush. Negroponte’s El Salvadoran death squads, now Negroponte’s Iraq/Shiia death squads.

]]> By: Octopibingo http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/30/dereliction-of-duty/#comment-355651 Octopibingo Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:02:17 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/30/dereliction-of-duty/#comment-355651 <p>Q. How many of the deaths came from U.S. ammo?</p> <p>A. None that we know of.</p> Q. How many of the deaths came from U.S. ammo?

A. None that we know of.

]]> By: Primordial Ooze http://firedoglake.com/2006/10/30/dereliction-of-duty/#comment-355643 Primordial Ooze Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:56:37 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/10/30/dereliction-of-duty/#comment-355643 <p>Hugh is funny.</p> Hugh is funny.

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