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Where the civilians at the helm of the sub being rewarded for campaign contributions?
On February 9, 2001, the Navy attack sub USS Greeneville collided with the Ehime Maru, a Japanese training ship from Uwajima Fisheries High School. A tragic accident?
Tragic as they may be, accidents do happen. Some accidents, however, come about as a result of gross negligence, as appears to have been the case in this incident. From the Washington Post:
The presence of civilians in the control room of the Greeneville has become an issue because the accident, which killed nine Japanese students and crew members, remains unexplained.
Two of the civilians, interviewed on television yesterday, said they were at control panels at the time of the collision, though they insisted that crew members supervised everything they did.
The civilians who were at the control panels of the sub at the time of the collision were not just ordinary civilians. They were major contributors to the USS Missouri Memorial Association, an foundation that is restoring the WWII battleship Missouri, and whose honorary chairman is George H. W. Bush. According to Democrats.com, rumors are circulating that at least one of the civilians was a major contributor to the campaign of George W. Bush, the current Resident of the White House of the United States.
Should operating a nuclear attack submarine be payment for campaign contributions? Who will be held accountable for the deaths of 9 people, 4 of them children? Coffee at the White House, functions at Buddhist temples and nights spent in the Lincoln Bedroom pale by comparison.
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