Council holds hearing on removing Gen. Hayden tribute!

[Bravo Zulu]

Monday, March 01, 2010
By Joe Smydo, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

West View resident Harry Hayden defended his brother, retired Air Force Gen. and CIA director Michael V. Hayden, this morning at a City Council hearing on a proposal to remove a decorative nameplate bearing the general's name on North Shore Drive.

Mr. Hayden said accusations that his brother had illegally wiretapped Americans and condoned torture of terrorism suspects were "wildly inaccurate." Council held the hearing because about 60 residents signed a petition requesting that the decorative nameplate be removed, saying he was responsible for some of the most controversial aspects of former President George W. Bush's antiterrorism campaign.

About a dozen people spoke at the hearing in all. They were evenly split between supporters and opponents of Gen. Hayden.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10060/1039476-100.stm#ixzz0gwz7Q8h

[Enrique]

1. kudos to whoever is doing this

make these people as controversial as they deserve to be, for the rest of their lives! :toast:

[cui bono]

2. logged in just to KICK and REC this baby! eom

[jmowreader]

3. I don't mind a General Hayden tribute in his home town...

because not only do we have a Ronald Reagan Memorial SOMETHING coming soon to every county in America thanks to Grover Norquist, there's a Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park in Tennessee.

If the founder of the Ku Klux Klan gets a whole park named after him (I think they should raise a monument to the 29 horses Forrest got shot out from under him during the War Between the States) and the name of the second most corrupt president in history is on thousands of things, one decorative nameplate for a piss-ass general who was only following orders doesn't really raise my hackles much. They should put a second monument next to it: a statue of George W. Bush committing seppuku in atonement for the damage he inflicted on the world, made from photos of Bush actually committing seppuku. I'm sure we can convince Bandar Bush to loan us Muhammad Saad al-Beshi, the leading executioner in Saudi Arabia, to serve as Bush's second.