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25 September, 2006

The Blog | Bob Geiger: September War Dead the GOP Wants You to Forget | The Huffington Post

The Blog Bob Geiger: September War Dead the GOP Wants You to Forget The Huffington Post

"With just six weeks until the 2006 midterm elections, one would never know to look at the media -- or by where the White House or Republican Congress direct their focus -- that the United States is still involved in a bloody war that has continued almost as long as our country's entire involvement in World War II. September 20 marked three years and six months since America invaded Iraq under the pretense of weapons of mass destruction and the imminent threat the Bush administration claimed Saddam Hussein posed to us.

All of that and the contrived links between Iraq and Osama bin Laden have since been proven false and yet no oversight or investigations have been performed by the Republican-led, do-nothing Congress and, to watch the news and the actions of the GOP in Washington, one could easily miss how much American and Iraqi blood is still being shed for nothing.

Almost 2,700 Americans troops have been killed in Iraq and 20,000 have been wounded -- many with limbs missing and life-changing brain injuries -- and Iraqi civilians continue to die at a horrifying clip that I guess, at this point, is just too boring for the American media to cover.

It must be nice for Team Bush to be able to start a war for no reason, be responsible for such hideous, ongoing violence and not be held accountable by Congress or an American press that, amazingly, some idiots still have the nerve to say operates with a liberal bias. Do the American people want to be so numb to all of this that they simply forget our troops are in the middle of a civil war, on a mission that does not have -- nor did it ever have -- a damn thing to do with our national security?"

Crooks and Liars » Major General John Batiste opening at the Hearing on Rummy

Crooks and Liars » Major General John Batiste opening at the Hearing on Rummy

I want this guy for President. He says many of the things I have been thinking.

11 September, 2006

Fog

Fog over Watsonville... 9/11/06 Fog... connecting Iraq with WOT. Posted by Picasa

02 September, 2006

Only one Young Eagles flight today for 44D, I killed the battery on the plane taxiing back by not turning off the landing light. Couldn't start the engine for the next flight. Had to tow the plane back to the tiedown with the truck. Very embarrasing. But the boy paid me the greatest compliment you can give a pilot. He said " huh? We landed? We are on the ground? I didn't know we landed!" Very funny, I may have laughed too much at him. But it was a pretty good landing... except I forgot to turn off the landing light. Posted by Picasa