want a man like this to be a leader in their armed services? one would think the leaders of nations would want men and women with intelligence, strength (of mind and will), bravery, compassion, HONOR............ but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Army Commander Investigated in Iraq Killing Spree
Military Tribunal Begins for Four Soldiers Involved in Incident
By JONATHAN KARL
Aug. 1, 2006 — - Col. Michael Steele, whose heroics were portrayed in the movie "Black Hawk Down," is under investigation for allegedly encouraging his men to go on a killing spree. The investigation begins just as the Army has started to make its case against four soldiers who are charged with murdering three Iraqi civilians while under Steele's command, ABC News has learned.
The soldiers' defense is that they were under orders to kill all military-age males.
ABC News has learned that Steele has already been reprimanded for the incident.......
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yeah graeme it sure is. and hey graeme????? what the hell time do YOU go to bed?
In defense of the Beard and Che...
from "Valhalla"
I love this blog!!!! But, as an old speech teacher of mine used to say, "I have one squeeze with you." And mine concerns your grouping of Fidel and Che as the same kind of people as Saddam and Momar. The island of Cuba has been exploited and colonized by Europeans and then later North Americans (i.e., the United States)for centuries. Fidel, Che and Rual Castro's revolution attempted to restore Cuba to its indeginous people and kick-out the capitalist American Corporations (ranging from Dole and del Monte fruit to the American mafia) that owned most of the property and provided big money to a few Cuban families while most of the people were impovershed (cross reference this to the social and economic policies seeded by Ronald Ray-gun, incubated by neo-cons and birthed by early 21st century America under King George). As I recently heard on national public radio, today's Cubans are well-educated and there is a national health care system---all state sponsored. Basic human needs are taken care of. True, private businesses are forbidden because they are considered a threat to the socialist ideals of the state, which has tried to accomplish this goal using the island nation's scarce resources. Resources deliberatly made scarce by the Kennedy administration's punitive policies against trade with Cuba; policies that continue to this day. How many American children do not have health care? How many elderly and mentally ill Americans go without needed medicines under the the new prescription drug program? Yet, how many record breaking billions has Exon/Mobil earned by sucking currency out of our wallets as we drive to our jobs every day. I ask you, which seem like more oppressive regimes. Fidel and Che are not perfect men, nor is the society they created a Utopia. Which society is? However, U.S. policies placed them in a desparate situation which required desparate actions. We (the U.S.) has done everything and anything it could to subvert the success of Castro's Cuba---invasions, assassination attempts, economic strangulation---and then we blame Fidel for the any and every problem in Cuba. How may things have been different if the United States aided, rather than thwarted, Cuba's right to self determination? I love reading "ravings of a semi-sane madwoman" because of its commitment to speaking-up for the downtrodden. Please do not make the mistake of viewing history solely from the eyes of those who write it. You are much too astute for that.
thank you for you compliment. however i stand by my fidel and che statments and i would have named germain castro (raul) too but i don't know much about him. fidel and che killed people. they killed lots of people. fidel made aids patients outcasts (yes he gave them medical attention but they were in concentration type camps. i do NOT know where they are now, this was years ago). the people of cuba do NOT have a lot of basic freedoms. you cannot argue that with me. i won't buy it. fidel is a DICTATOR. FIDEL CARES ABOUT FIDEL. you can use the SAME arguement for america and the native americans.
i think we have the same basic beliefs by the way. i just cannot accept violence as the FIRST way to deal with problems.
oh and of course i agree about the care our citizens receive (or DON'T receive). in a neighborhood i frequent there are many of these citizens who SHOULD be cared for and are not.
i WANT a perfect world. it's not going to happen. money and power get in the way and always will
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