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To: Sully- who wrote (43704)	5/11/2004 6:36:28 PM
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Mark Dayton, Partisan Political Hack Captain's Quarters blog Mark Dayton, our illustrious senior Senator, managed to make a name for himself again today in the hearings regarding the abuses at Abu Ghraib. While the rest of the Senate asked questions of Maj. General Antonio Taguba, who spent months investigating the incidents, Dayton could not be bothered to ask one single question. Dismissing the opportunity to actually get information from an important witness, <font size=4>Dayton instead spewed forth with his partisan posturing during his entire ten minutes, making clear that the purpose of the public hearing was to score as many points against the military and the administration: <font size=3> On the other side of the aisle, Democrat Mark Dayton of Michigan never asked a question during his time, instead using it to accuse Pentagon officials of sanitizing the abuse and obscuring the truth. "That's why the pictures have been so important," he said. "The pictures showed us the truth. ... We were told there were papers and orders ... and everyone followed those orders except for a few people who did very bad things unbeknownst to anyone else who were all doing what they were supposed to be doing to save American lives." "Those pictures were disruptive," he added, "because they defy that sanitizing." Someone please tell me any purpose served by opening these hearings to the public? So far with this Senate Armed Services Committee and the 9/11 Commission, public hearings have delivered counter-productive behavior from panelists, and in this case, the volatile rhetoric tossed around so carelessly will cost American lives in the field. Now we have senators (ours, unfortunately) who don't even bother with the pretense of asking questions before drawing conclusions. Mark Dayton has exposed himself as a partisan political hack, as well as a dullard, twice in the past week. Minnesotans need to keep this in the forefront of state politics for the next two years and commit to replacing him with an intelligent and serious individual in 2006.

To: Sully- who wrote (43704)	5/11/2004 6:43:15 PM
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This has most of the response from Democratic Congressman Stark's reply to one of his constituents. It is unbelievable IMO........ Constituent Relations DANIEL L. DOW of Fremont, California was upset with his Congressman, Pete Stark. So he sent him a fax: I am appalled that you voted against today's House Resolution 627, Roll Number 150. This measure would have shown publicly that you condemn the abuse of the prisoners in Iraq while simultaneously commend the service of the fine men and women who are serving in Iraq that bring honor to the uniform that they wear and to the Nation that they serve... Much to Dow's surprise, Congressman Stark called back a few hours later, and left a message on his machine: Dan, this is Congressman Pete Stark, and I just got your fax. And you don’t know what you’re talking about. So if you care about enlisted people, you wouldn’t have voted for that thing either. But, probably someone put you up to this, and I’m not sure who it was, but I doubt if you could spell half the words in your letter, and somebody wrote it for you. So I don’t pay much attention to it. But I’ll call you back later, and let you tell me more about why you think you’re such a great God-damned hero. And why you think that this general and the Defense Department who forced these poor enlisted guys to do what they did, shouldn’t be held to account. That’s the issue. So if you want to stick it to a bunch of enlisted guys, have your way. But if you want to get to the bottom of the people who FORCED this AWFUL program in Iraq, then you should understand more about it than you obviously do. Dow, who is himself a Staff Sergeant in the US Army, sent the recording to San Francisco talk radio station KSFO, who have been playing it on the air. Over, and over, and over again. Good luck in the upcoming election, Congressman.