let me take that back, while I am surprised and disapointed in powell, I am also surprised in tenet

shows, how bad my estimate of men

Put nothing past any of those people, including Powell. He puts on a big show about how he resisted the administration on this or that, but at the end of the day he was with them the whole way. I wouldn’t be surprised at all about Tenet, after that 60 Minutes interview where he came off like a raging juvenile. The way he talked about how he wanted to respond to 9/11 was simple-minded vengeance, not the clear tactical mind required for a top leader in the intelligence community. These people are criminals and idiots, plain and simple.

Bush in January 2007:

MR. LEHRER: Is there a little bit of a broken egg problem here, Mr. President, that there is instability and there is violence in Iraq – sectarian violence, Iraqis killing other Iraqis, and now the United States helped create the broken egg and now says, okay, Iraqis, it’s your problem. You put the egg back together, and if you don’t do it quickly and you don’t do it well, then we’ll get the hell out.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Yeah, you know, that’s an interesting question. I don’t quite view it as the broken egg; I view it as the cracked egg –

MR. LEHRER: Cracked egg?

PRESIDENT BUSH: — that – where we still have a chance to move beyond the broken egg. And I thought long and hard about the decision, Jim.

This reduction in tour length is a sop before the elections. And, I suppose, an effort to entice more souls to enlist.

Criminal administration. Enabling congress.

Powell and My Lai – Initally there were 2 independently written letters sent to superiors about the massacre – the 1st, written by Tom Glen was sent to Gen Abrams – this letter was not just about the village but overall counterproductive treatment of locals by US Forces, using My Lai as the most egregious example -Powell was assigned there and was charged with investigating -

he dismissed it with

“In direct refutation of this portrayal is the fact that relations between Americal soldiers and the Vietnamese people are excellent.”

a second letter written by Ridenhour (a year after the crime) was initially ignored by all its recipients save Congressman Mo Udall – this eventually led to the trials of Calley and Medina

however . . .Powell admits to war crimes in ‘My American Journey ‘-

“I recall a phrase we used in the field, MAM, for military-age male,” Powell wrote. “If a helo spotted a peasant in black pajamas who looked remotely suspicious, a possible MAM, the pilot would circle and fire in front of him. If he moved, his movement was judged evidence of hostile intent, and the next burst was not in front, but at him. Brutal? Maybe so. But an able battalion commander with whom I had served at Gelnhausen (West Germany), Lt. Col. Walter Pritchard, was killed by enemy sniper fire while observing MAMs from a helicopter. And Pritchard was only one of many. The kill-or-be-killed nature of combat tends to dull fine perceptions of right and wrong.”

there ya go – ‘ok to kill unarmed civilians ’cause a buddy of mine was killed ‘

Citizen Raven:

Quoth the Raven, “Everthng is doomed.”

Hang in there Brother Raven, things are gunna get worse before they get any better.

KEEP THE FAITH AND DON’T LET THE BASTARDS INTO YER YARD!!

Neocons and PNACians be gone!

poof.

Citizen perris:

I think that Obama will run somethin’ akin ta the “Peace and Reconcilliation” process that they had in South Africa. That’s more like Obama’s style and I think that a special investigator may be charged with issuin reports on specific areas in coordination with the Rocconcilliation Commission.

I think thaqt Obama will try and get the story out but not bog the process down with criminal investigations and prosecutions unless it’s engineered from the Congress.

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION…LET’S GET RID OF THE BASTARDS FIRST!!

For another view on this “squabbling” see Hothead McCain by Richard Dryfuss in March 24 issue of The Nation.

Errr Ummmm. That’s Robert Dryfuss. Richard is the actor.