Hmmmmmm, This Seems To Have Blipped Off The Radar Really Fast

(LATimes) Contractors Say Marines Behaved Abusively

(AP) Contractor Says Marines Abused Him in Iraq

(AP) Exec Says Contractors Didn’t Fire on Troops

I’m totally in sympathy with the regulars being p***ed off that contractors make a bundle while we pay them s**t, but, omigod, they’re Americans too. There’s something rotten in the state of Columbia and it ain’t the troops or the contractors, it’s the bigwigs who allowed this inequity to occur in a war we had no right to have fought…

Back to work and catching up with the Schiavos

The good doctor gets it wrong (EJ Dionne) Dionne puts the case on Bill Frist squarely where it belongs–he said he was talking as a physician more than as a politician, and said that Schiavo’s condition didn’t sound like a vegetative state. Now he’s trying to say he really hadn’t said anything of the kind. The fact was, he had been speaking more as a politician than as a physician even back then, a polly with an agenda, just as much an agenda as Jeb Bush has in opening an investigation of whether Michael Schiavo was negligent in summoning aid for his wife and whether or not that was connected to abuse. GRANDSTANDING.

Can You Say Smoking Gun?

Although we’ve mentioned it before in text, I haven’t done a ‘toon of the Downing Street Memo Affair, because just the existence of a memo didn’t lend itself to a cartoon. Tuesday’s press conference, on the other hand, was ripe 🙂 For full coverage, see Downing Street Memo.Com and After Downing Street.Com. There are links to sign a petition on behalf of Sen. Conyers who is pressing for a full explanation of this affair. BTW, why do Bush and Blair keep saying that Saddam Hussein hadn’t complied with the disarmament directive of the UN, when all subsequent intelligence shows he had ten years ago…which we would have found out if our war hadn’t prevented the UN inspectors from finishing their evaluation? I guess neither Bush nor Blair has any respect for the intelligence of their own people. Have a good weekend folks…