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To: Road Walker who wrote (345754)	8/5/2007 1:27:31 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1576642

WTF, who exactly is going to attack us that we need this much for "defense"? They can't stop. I don't understand it other than its become business as usual. We are war mongerers.....the very thing we accused the Soviets of being. I guess it never showed when the Soviet Union was in full flower......they did look like the bad guys then. But now, with them gone, the US sticks out like a sore thumb. And no matter what the people are saying, they do what they want. Same with this spy crap......they gave Bush the authority to listen on to calls not only from suspected terrorists but they can listen onto calls from my German friends as well. What kind of BS is that?

To: Road Walker who wrote (345754)	8/5/2007 1:43:45 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1576642

Look at this list of Democratic buttholes who voted for the extension of the illegal wire tapping by Bush.......a little more than half are from the South. They too probably would vote to have someone busted for beating off. 41 House Dems Tremble Before the Mighty Bush by Meteor Blades Sat Aug 04, 2007 at 09:19:43 PM PDT Of the 41 House Democrats who voted today to roll over on the eavesdropping amendment that the White House demanded be added to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, 26 30 were Blue Dogs. The bill, Orwellianly named the Protect America Act, passed 227-183, with 181 Democrats and two Republicans opposed. These are the Dems who ... failed us. Who failed our country. Jason Altmire (4th Pennsylvania) John Barrow (12th Georgia) Blue Dog Melissa Bean (8th Illinois) Blue Dog Dan Boren (2nd Oklahoma) Blue Dog Leonard Boswell (3rd Iowa) Allen Boyd (2nd Florida) Blue Dog Christopher Carney (10th Pennsylvania) Blue Dog Ben Chandler (6th Kentucky) Blue Dog Rep. Jim Cooper (5th Tennessee) Blue Dog Jim Costa (20th California) Blue Dog Bud Cramer (5th Alabama) Blue Dog Henry Cuellar (28th Texas) Artur Davis (7th Alabama) Lincoln Davis (4th Tennessee) Blue Dog Joe Donnelly (2nd Indiana) Blue Dog Chet Edwards (17th Texas) Brad Ellsworth (8th Indiana) Blue Dog Bob Etheridge (North Carolina) Bart Gordon (6th Tennessee) Blue Dog Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (South Dakota) Blue Dog Brian Higgins (27th New York) Baron Hill (9th Indiana) Blue Dog Nick Lampson (23rd Texas) Blue Dog Daniel Lipinski (3rd Illinois) Jim Marshall (8th Georgia) Blue Dog Jim Matheson (2nd Utah) Blue Dog Mike McIntyre (7th North Carolina) Blue Dog Charlie Melancon (3rd Louisiana) Blue Dog Harry Mitchell (5th Arizona) Colin Peterson (7th Minnesota) Blue Dog Earl Pomeroy (North Dakota) Blue Dog Ciro Rodriguez (23rd Texas) Blue Dog Mike Ross (4th Arkansas) Blue Dog John Salazar (3rd Colorado) Blue Dog Heath Shuler (11th North Carolina) Blue Dog Vic Snyder (2nd Arkansas) Zachary Space (18th Ohio) Blue Dog John Tanner (8th Tennessee) Blue Dog Gene Taylor (4th Mississippi) Blue Dog Timothy Walz (1st Minnesota) Charles A. Wilson (6th Ohio) Blue Dog

To: Road Walker who wrote (345754)	8/5/2007 1:46:37 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1576642

Waiting for the Truth on Corporal Tillman Published: August 4, 2007 Now that the Army has completed its seventh inquiry into the death of Cpl. Pat Tillman and top military leaders have testified in Congress, we still don’t know who concocted a phony story about how Corporal Tillman died and whether the White House knew it was happening. Congress needs to clarify whether this messy affair reflects astonishing incompetence or a conspiracy to exploit a famous soldier’s death. Corporal Tillman, who gave up a pro football contract to volunteer as an Army Ranger, was shot dead in Afghanistan in April 2004 while trying to assist another Ranger unit. Almost immediately, soldiers in the field recognized that he had been hit by fire from fellow Rangers. Yet witness reports were rewritten to make it seem like he had been felled by the enemy. That became the basis for expediting a posthumous Silver Star before a memorial service in early May. Even after the truth was recognized, the Army stuck by its award on the theory that Corporal Tillman acted heroically before he was killed. Even the Tillman family deemed it a cynical effort to exploit the tragedy. Army and Pentagon investigators have been unable to establish who rewrote the witness reports, and why. This week Army Secretary Pete Geren called it “a perfect storm of mistakes, misjudgments and a failure of leadership.” The Army punished its designated villain, a conveniently retired general who is apt to lose a star and some pay. Meanwhile, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and three senior generals testified that they knew of no cover-up at the Pentagon or the White House. The bungling and misrepresentations might well have been the Army’s sole doing. Yet the White House could ease doubts by granting the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee full access to key personnel and documents. The committee has already learned that, immediately after Corporal Tillman’s death, at least 97 White House officials exchanged hundreds of e-mails about how the White House should respond. Yet weeks later, when the truth came out, there was nary an e-mail peep about the astonishing change. Is that because officials had lost interest? Or have embarrassing e-mails been withheld from Congressional scrutiny? The committee needs to find out. nytimes.com