CNBC crawl: Bush nominee for navy secretary death a suicide

[librechik]

looking for link

on edit here's a link
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/2358673/detail.html

sad--I guess working for Bush was too horrible to contemplate. Or something.

[Maple]

1. .

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A47501-2003Jul25?language=printer

[w4rma]

2. Bah. Yet another person associated with Bush is suicided

I wonder what he knew and what he was about to do.

[sleepystudent]

6. Real sensitive, folks...

His cancer had returned and he couldn't face fighting it again. That's why he killed himself. I understand how mad we all are, but come on, let's have a little decency and think of his family. It hurts enough to lose someone to an accident or disease, I can't imagine how it would feel to lose someone to suicide.

[ewagner]

8. If you are speaking

from a position of knowledge, then I agree.

[ChillEB]

9. I'm sure his wife will be by here soon, seeking condolences...

If ANY of us thought there was even the SLIGHTEST chance that someone that cared about this person might stumble upon this thread, we'd have a different tone. However, I fail to see how wondering aloud whether this person was, in fact, 'suicided', would qualify as insensitivity? I'd feel *less bad* knowing that a loved one was murdered than I would knowing they killed themself. Esp. if it was someone I was that close to ... at least you don't live the rest of your life wondering whether or not it was in any way *your* fault, or whether there was something you failed to do that might've made a difference...

... but thats just me ...

[MissMarple]

13. Showing reverence for lost life is a good thing.

Being dismissive about someone's death is never a good thing. Maybe we can raise it up a notch? Perhaps?...

And please , I know I have my snippy moments, but they are never about the death of a person. I know that mourning is for the people left behind, but, quite frankly, we are all left behind. There are larger issues here. If this death is a part of that, it will come out in time. It may fit in as a puzzle piece, but let's work with the bigger picture first. If it is a key piece. we can figure it out with out being petty or snippy.

This must be a little like poker. And I've always been fond of the Maverick family. :D

[ILeft]

12. WTF! How can you presume to know?

But we'll never know what happened because like everything else since November of 2000, this won't be completely and justly investigated.

[Rex]

15. Oh really? So you know more than the family does? Hmmm.

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/0703/26navy.html

-"Family spokesman Bill Owen downplayed the cancer, saying McMillan had a growth removed from his mouth in the past weeks and the prognosis was for a complete recovery."-

-""Based on everything we know, Colin was doing well and was waiting like the rest of us for Senate confirmation (as Navy secretary)," Owen said. "Everything was on 'go,' but it's a time-consuming process.""-

Thank you sleepystudent, for proving a point. :tinfoilhat:

[DemoTex]

3. Lot of that disease going around.

Rat shot from 4 feet, perhaps? Like Enron's Cliff Baxter?

[stickdog]

4. Question and Follow Up Question for Bush on McMillan

"Now that Mr. McMillan has 'committed suicide', is it your belief that he will necessarily spend the rest of eternity burning in hellfire?"

"OK. But would please get back to us on this after God tells you the answer?"

[goforit]

5. This is unbelievable!!!!..........They just drop like flies! I wonder if..

he told Bush that he would rather not be Sec. of Navy and
W didn't like it, so "poof" .....another suicide.

Nobody wants to work for the WH??????

[barbaraann]

7. Guess who his boss was at Defense in the early 1990's.

Dick Cheney.

[Oreegone]

10. Wait a minute

If this guy was dying why was he waiting to get the nod to be Secretary of the Navy. Doesn't make sense to me. I mean wouldn't you withdraw if you were dying?

Oilman Colin McMillan, who was awaiting Senate confirmation as Navy secretary, died from a single gunshot wound, and investigators said Friday it might have been self-inflicted.

http://www.620ktar.com/news/article.aspx?article_id=185822&cc=012345

[kathee]

11. Exact;ly

Somethin smells here.

[Rose Siding]

16. Maybe Bush doesn't really want to fill the position

I think the Army is short a Sec also. The Sec of AF has been nominated for Army and is awaiting confirmation. A replacement for him has just been nominated as well- a woman who used to be with the FAA.

Maybe it's significant (but I don't know why) that the Sec positions of two of the largest branches of the military remain empty during the slew of military engagements we've found ourselves in.

[soothsayer]

14. Guess Shady Cheney and Dumsfeld and Asscroft didn't like W's pick

Poor guy. Sorry if he had cancer, too.