“I’m not going to get into a name-calling match with somebody who has a 9 percent approval rating,” Mr. Reid said. (NY Times)
Give him hell, Harry!
* Rudy Giuliani thinks it would be bad to elect a Democrat as President: If a Democrat is elected president, Giuliani said he feared the country would “go back on defense, like it was in the pre-9/11 era.” (The Telegraph)
Yo, Rudy! When we were hit on 9/11, there was a Republican in the White House. When we were hit on 9/11, that Republican in the White House, George W. Bush, had ignored the warnings he received in his presidential daily briefings. When we were hit on 9/11, Bush continued to remain in a classroom instead of reacting to an attack. Don't give us any baloney about what would happen if a Democrat is elected President!
* There is more on the Tillman coverup. The following is from Forbes:
An Army Ranger who was with Pat Tillman when the former football star was cut down by friendly fire in Afghanistan said Tuesday a commanding officer had ordered him to keep quiet about what happened.
The military at first portrayed Tillman's death as the result of heroic combat with the enemy. Army Spc. Bryan O'Neal told a congressional hearing that when he got the chance to talk to Tillman's brother, who had been in a nearby convoy on the fateful day, "I was ordered not to tell him what happened."
"You were ordered not to tell him?" repeated Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
"Roger that, Sir," replied O'Neal, dressed in his Army uniform.....
Incredible. This administration used Tillman as their poster boy but would not disclose the circumstances of his death to his family.
* The families of the 82nd Airborne Division have sustained major losses in Iraq. Santa Barbara News-Press:
FORT BRAGG, N.C. - Nine soldiers killed in a double suicide truck bombing on their outpost belonged to a small Fort Bragg unit that has taken a staggering number of casualties in recent weeks.
The 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry of the famed 82nd Airborne Division went to Iraq with about 330 soldiers, but has lost 18 in just five weeks, as well as two others late last year. The squadron's casualty rate has climbed so high so quickly that it has turned families' nagging worries into vivid fear.
Kara Honbarger, 29, figures that if anything happens overnight to her husband, squadron chaplain Capt. Craig Honbarger, that the notification team will show up about 6:30 a.m.
"'I think most of us look out our windows in the morning to make sure there's no car there,'' she told reporters Tuesday afternoon at Fort Bragg. ''I think we get nervous when the doorbell rings.''
The squadron is fighting in an insurgent stronghold, Diyala Province, that for much of the war has been overshadowed by fighting in Baghdad and Anbar province, but is emerging as one of the most dangerous places for U.S. troops....
How much more will they need to sacrifice for Bush's war?
