Three words: Operation Winter Soldier.

Considering that, to date, no records or competing testimony has been produced to even suggest any of the participants in the WSI were deliberately fraudulent in their testimony (Steven Pitkin doesn't count, btw, given he admitted having 'flawed recollections')?

Hardly a strong counter-argument. Maybe you should just stick to assassination that was your namesake's trade rather than argue a losing side.

World without end, amen.

At least until "God" tells the President to push all the shiny buttons inside The Football, that is.

I really wouldn't put it past that messianic nihlist to do it, either.

Instead President Bush demonstrates true leadership by listening to the expert opinions of the most qualified military and political experts and then relying on his informed instincts.

If jokes like this didn't exist...we'd all be much, much happier!

How long before they start threatening to behead our own infidels?

It won't get that far.

The 'infidels' will just be arrested by the Inquistion and burnt at the stake.

Or they'll be shoot at long range by a sniper under the direction of 'God'.

Or some foot soldier from the Republic of Gilead will blow themselves up in close proximity.

Or the 'undesireables' will be herded off-stage and quietly liquidated en masse.

Its not like there isn't any precedent, right?

To whit, only one side actually has nuclear weapons...and it isn't the Muslims.

Wonder how these idiots would feel if their boy in the White House starts pushing all those shiny buttons inside The Football, all because 'God' told him to.

Other than "Muslim extremism" (which I think is actually a more pejorative term than "Islamofacsism") is there any greater, more real, more unpredictable and more active threat to world stability right now?

Yes there are. Several in fact:

-Some tens of thousands of nuclear weapons, not all of them in the most secure condition, around the world.

-An increasingly erratic and violent global weather system.

-A messianic nihlist occupying the Oval Office.

-A sour and arguably paranoid autocrat in the Kremlin.

Muslim extremists/fundamentalists are just one of several threats to the planet right now, and like the rest, it has no easy solutions to it.

Welcome to the real world. Hope you enjoy your visit.

I'm worried about the big issues.

Really? I thought you'd retired to the island of Capri and were busy chasing about your private harem.

And by "big issues", do you mean "security concerns of medium-to-low probability" or just 'big' in the sense of how much it elevates your impotent ego?

I have no problem with shipping Madonna and Britney off to Waziristan. Add Lindsay to the list as well.

And Ann Coulter and Michele Malkin. They should be right at home within such environment.

You as well, I'm sure.

Wouldn’t one’s time be better spent trying to find ways we could improve our nation’s physical/mental health and crime/accident prevention instead of gathering anecdotal evidence from dubious sources on a few bad guys in a pitiful attempt to raise others’ fears and hatred to the level of their own?

Unfortunately it runs aground against the Prime Directive that has driven the Republican Party since the ascention of Saint Ronny in 1980: Government is the problem, not the solution.

Of course given how much negative use Reagan and ilk made use of the instruments of government, its a rather sad commentary on the elephants.

Who raised these people to be such thoughtless ghouls anyway?

We know who President Bush's parents are, so no comment there.

Cheney's gene-pool isn't something I care to look into.

Ditto on Gonzales.

The Kagans are the sort of "egg-heads" the Right looked down on back in the 1950s, so I suppose its a matter of them going native.

They and their ilk aren't the sort I'd want in the military anyway; don't look like they'd be able fire a gun without loosing bowel control. The only problem with them is the clowns in the White House are listening to them, who themselves shouldn't even be there in the first place.

Apparently Glenn thinks rotating individuals, groups, and his tires, are all the same.

Your choice of metaphor is telling. We aren't talking about machines, but human beings who have been subjected to extreme stress for prolonged periods and have time and again been denied adequate time to rest and recover from that. Small wonder the rate of suicides among military personnel are so high.

That it is taking actually legislation to force the Administration to do so speaks more of them than either Senator Webb or Congress.

When you can tell the difference between real, live human beings and the 16-bit characters on your video screen, then talk about this. Until then, or until you actually grow a set and sign up, do spare us your shite.

I hope you all will remember that and not leave yourselves open to this kind of intellectual dishonesty. In other words, when there's a policy issue about liberal left coast bloggers, THEN you can chime in. thank you.

Does this qualify as censorship, or the advocacy of military dictatorship?

Does the commentator believe the Bill of Rights is "quaint", or simply should be exercised by American citizens?

Does this idiot have even the faintest idea he sounds as stupid as futurist J.P. Yates when he declared himself "A Founding Father of the Coalition of the Clueless"?

Rhetorical questions, all. I doubt...whatever...is writing these comments under that handle is even human, never mind how foolish...it...sounds.

Article I, Section 8: Powers of Congress: "The Congress shall have Power . . . To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces."

I lost count of the number of times this had to be quoted to the unlamented 'Bart' every time he resorted to "Article 2" to explain this disgrace.

Let's see if the fighter driver understands it better than the former supply clerk and DUI lawyer.