If we the citizens of America then turn around and re-elect the current members of the Democratic majority or, heaven forefend, add to their sorry numbers in 2008, we will have vindicated Bush’s estimate of our collective stupidity.
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Mysterious Deaths of War Critics
By the way, speaking of taking us all for stupid, how many people think that the death of three enlisted men in a truck crash in Iraq yesterday--three enlisted men who happen to have been among the seven who wrote a powerful op-ed article only a week ago in the New York Times calling the war a failure and saying the solution is for American troops to go home--was an "accident"?
At the time their piece was published, one of the seven had already been injured in the head by a sniper bullet. Now only three of the original brave seven remain alive and healthy.
The mother of one of the dead soldiers is demanding a full and open investigation into their bizarre deaths. Congress must join in that demand.
Sure, coincidences happen, but this is powerful strange. Half a million or more Americans in uniform have passed through the hell of Iraq and only some 4000 have been killed. That's roughly 0.8 percent. So you have a 0.8 percent chance of being killed in Iraq, and here we have three guys killed, all of whom had the courage to very publicly criticize the war.
At the very least, somebody needs to check who sent them out on that last mission together, and follow that order right up the chain of command.
As the paper that published their article, the New York Times really has an obligation to chase this story down to the bitter end.
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DAVE LINDORFF is a Philadelphia-based investigative journalist and colmunist. His latest book, co-authored by Barbara Olshansky, is "The Case for Impeachment" (St. Martin's Press, 2006 and now available in a paperback edition). His work is available at www.thiscantbehappening.net
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Mysterious Deaths of War Critics
By the way, speaking of taking us all for stupid, how many people think that the death of three enlisted men in a truck crash in Iraq yesterday--three enlisted men who happen to have been among the seven who wrote a powerful op-ed article only a week ago in the New York Times calling the war a failure and saying the solution is for American troops to go home--was an "accident"?
At the time their piece was published, one of the seven had already been injured in the head by a sniper bullet. Now only three of the original brave seven remain alive and healthy.
Sure, coincidences happen, but this is powerful strange. Half a million or more Americans in uniform have passed through the hell of Iraq and only some 4000 have been killed. That's roughly 0.8 percent. So you have a 0.8 percent chance of being killed in Iraq, and here we have three guys killed, all of whom had the courage to very publicly criticize the war.
At the very least, somebody needs to check who sent them out on that last mission together, and follow that order right up the chain of command.
As the paper that published their article, the New York Times really has an obligation to chase this story down to the bitter end.
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DAVE LINDORFF is a Philadelphia-based investigative journalist and colmunist. His latest book, co-authored by Barbara Olshansky, is "The Case for Impeachment" (St. Martin's Press, 2006 and now available in a paperback edition). His work is available at www.thiscantbehappening.net
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