Comments on: Another Phony?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:43:06 +0000

They’ve broken the National Guard, too.

First the leaders, then the underlings. Rumsfeld’s power was given to him by the Shrubbery, and he kept it long after it was obvious he was unfit.

By: whig

whig — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:13:28 +0000

Rummy isn’t past-tense, he’s still at liberty.

By: whig

whig — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:10:33 +0000

Regulate the militia, all those bearing arms, and you don’t need a draft.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:29:56 +0000

That was part of Rummy’s vision – automated wars. The man was mental.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 02:10:04 +0000

that would be disheartening, to be the conquered country because your robots lost to their robots.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:38:52 +0000

They have broken it again, and I’m not sure they are going to be able to rebuild on a voluntary basis after this adventure in imperialism. We could end up having to establish another draft just to fill the ranks.

There are so many groups that need to be flushed out, like the evangelicals in the Air Force, the gang members in the Army and Marines, that you wonder what will be left.

Robots and mercenaries are not the magic solution that Rumsfeld envisioned.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:19:56 +0000

They’re doing their best to turn the U.S. military into a third world military led by politically connected thugs and staffed with goons who can be used to impose order upon the United States in the event that such becomes called for. One of the first things you have to do in order to do that is get all the honorable careerists to resign or force them to retire. Now that Posse Comitatus has been repealed in all but name, it is now legal to use soldiers (as vs. National Guardsmen) for internal “police actions”. Only problem is, they’re all stuck in Iraq right now. Oops, guess Dear Leader wasn’t quite as smart as he thought he was…

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 16:19:27 +0000

I didn’t have any problem figuring it out, and based on the number of resignations and retirements among the military lawyers, they know. The Judge Advocate Generals corps of all the services have been complaining about this since the beginning, but no one is listening to them. It was a Navy JAG, LCmdr Charles Swift, who filed the appeal in Hamdi v. Rumfield an won.

These people are doing their very best to corrupt the military justice system.

By: whig

whig — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:40:12 +0000

All enemies of the constitution, foreign or domestic, includes this administration. Can that be less than obvious to anyone?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 03:51:43 +0000

Actually, if you understand the normal court martial system, the general is supposed to be the first step in the appeal process. This is like an appeals court judge telling the prosecutor what to do, not just the trial judge. The general is supposed to be independently reviewing the process and judgment of the trial court.

They brought in someone with no experience in criminal or military court procedure, which is absurd on its face.