Last girl on Maher tonight

[adarling]

I can't remember her name but it looked like she was going to cry, i was about to cry when i was listening to her talk. This well spoken woman had witnessed horrible things (she was a translator in the army and she had a book coming out about her experiences). I felt like the interview wasn't long enough, i want to hear more from this woman. She looked Sooooo young and had seen all of this. I feel like these men and women coming back from that place are going to be far worse than the Vietnam men. It was so interesting to watch and listen, anyone else catch it, best moment besides She-Man Coulter denouncing the evil one on Maher.

[alfredo]

1. She impressed me. Her comments on torture

were right on the money.

[adarling]

2. exactly

i don't think i have ever heard it put in such away, that is why i was so impressed. She needs to testify in front of congress/

[Sydnie]

3. Kayle Williams

She wrote a book called "Love My Gun More Than You".

[DaveColorado]

4. I remember hearing her on NPR

when I was driving from Pueblo to Colorado Springs the other week.

I don't remember her name either, but look it up, and then search the NPR archives for her.

You will be impressed.

[alfredo]

6. I am going to buy her book next month.

Kayla Williams "Love My Gun More Than You."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4814647

[Mabus]

5. She was articulate, intelligent and well-spoken

Kayla, not Coulter. I was both stunned and amazed by her and what she said. It was almost surreal. I would like a chance to hear her talk more.

[DaveColorado]

7. Thanks for the link

[adarling]

8. We need to get her to speak at functions and such

she would be an excellent person to listen to....liked your comment about it being surreal, that is how i felt just couldn't put it into words.

[fooj]

11. Yes. A genuinely decent human being.

Peace.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

9. I saw her a couple of days ago on CNN

The talking head (don't remember who interviewed her) didn't let her recount her war experiences. But she did mention that her husband was very badly injured in Iraq and that he isn't getting adequate treatment. She mentioned that quite a few soldiers are suffering from post traumatic stress as well. She said that the Veteran's Administration's approach to some of the injured now, especially when their primary care is over is to take a couple of pills and get lost. She tore into the Bush Administration for abandoning the troops after they come home from war.

[Skittles]

14. bush abandoned them by sending them there

based on lies

[bluedawg12]

10. Viet nam left many scarred emotionally

I was hoping this generation could live with out a major war and not have to endure the pain of war memories. thank the PNAC for this.

http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm

>January 26, 1998

The Honorable William J. Clinton
President of the United States
Washington, DC

Dear Mr. President:

We are writing you because we are convinced that current American policy toward Iraq is not succeeding, and that we may soon face a threat in the Middle East more serious than any we have known since the end of the Cold War. In your upcoming State of the Union Address, you have an opportunity to chart a clear and determined course for meeting this threat. We urge you to seize that opportunity, and to enunciate a new strategy that would secure the interests of the U.S. and our friends and allies around the world. That strategy should aim, above all, at the removal of Saddam Hussein’s regime from power. We stand ready to offer our full support in this difficult but necessary endeavor...

Given the magnitude of the threat, the current policy, which depends for its success upon the steadfastness of our coalition partners and upon the cooperation of Saddam Hussein, is dangerously inadequate. The only acceptable strategy is one that eliminates the possibility that Iraq will be able to use or threaten to use weapons of mass destruction. In the near term, this means a willingness to undertake military action as diplomacy is clearly failing. In the long term, it means removing Saddam Hussein and his regime from power. That now needs to become the aim of American foreign policy...

Elliott Abrams Richard L. Armitage William J. Bennett

Jeffrey Bergner John Bolton Paula Dobriansky

Francis Fukuyama Robert Kagan Zalmay Khalilzad

William Kristol Richard Perle Peter W. Rodman

Donald Rumsfeld William Schneider, Jr. Vin Weber

Paul Wolfowitz R. James Woolsey Robert B. Zoellick



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[AtomicKitten]

12. Kayla

A SMART military person that understands the ramifications or our intervention in Iraq. An amazing interview. That and Andrew Sullivan speaking passionately AGAINST Dim Son literally had me in tears, that there is hope for this country.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

13. Contrast Kayla and Coulter.

Kayla, who has been in a war zone, is genuinely shocked and saddened by what our government is responsible for against a culture different than ours.

Meanwhile, Coulter, who wouldn't go to a war zone if you wrapped her crystal meth in $1,000 bills, spouts hatred against anyone not exactly like her and cheerleads this clusterfuck.

Go figure.