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Edited on Thu Jun-15-06 01:40 PM by maxrandb
**edited because I was pissed when I wrote it**
When the Pentagon, which is charged with protecting and defending ALL Americans, issues coordinated "talking points" for the Republican Party, you can stick a fork in the once great United States, because it's done. When the Pentagon, which is required to be apolitical, works in collusion with one party to defeat another...Democracy is dead. The Pentagon is supposed to defend and protect Democrats, Republicans, Greens, Liberals, Conservatives, Libertarians, and Wing-nuts of all political stripes. They work for you and I. They work for every American that pays taxes, and even those that don't. Well, I want a refund. It's one thing for the military to do what they are supposed to do, and follow the orders of the Commander in Chief. It's quite another when they pick sides. Our military is the strongest in the world. I never thought it would be used against me.
This is serious and important. One of the main reasons that our little experiment in Democracy has lasted as long as it has, and one of the only reasons that we have peaceful transfers of power, is because the Pentagon (read military) IS NOT PERMITTED TO BE A POLITICAL ENTITY!!!
There was a very good reason that the framers of our country ensured civilian control of the military. That was to prevent the senior military officials from entering into a "protective" agreement with either a king, or a politician.
You want to see Democracy die quickly? Let one party control the military.
Leaders from both damn parties better demand an investigation into this, and they better get to the bottom of who authorized this, who paid for it, who commissioned it, and who timed the release.
Am I putting my tin-foil hat on too tight, or does this look like collusion between the military (which is supposed to answer to and protect ALL AMERICANS) and the Bush regime? Is our military...the military of ALL THE UNITED STATES...preparing "talking points" for the Repuke Party?
We're looking more and more like a dictatorship every day. Are there any Dems, or Republicans with integrity, that care enough about our country, that they would be willing to PUT THE PENTAGON BACK IN IT'S BOX???
Hell, I might as well resign my commission and move to Iraq. It's like we've switched places. We're trying to establish, in Iraq, the Constitutional government we used to have here, and in America, we're establishing the government they used to have in Iraq.
This is as "effed up as a soup sandwich".
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