I see no mention of vermin or deteriorated facilities in this document. Of course injured soldiers are confused about their care and future. That has been a problem since the beginning of time.

I don't see how this single page could alert anyone to the gross conditions found at Walter Reed in 2007.

Unfortunately the article does not differentiate between the concept of fraud by voters and the more dangerous problems of rigging elections.

There is a limit as to how effective using physical persons to vote multiple times, vote the dead and the like can be. They all require a person to show up and commit an illegal act. During the time the polls are open there is a limit as to how many votes a single person can place since, in general, they would have to go to different polling places to avoid suspicion and arrest. Additionally there is a limit to how many people are willing to break the law for any politician or party.

This boogie man argument is another example of "welfare queen" stereotyping.

Much more dangerous is VOTE FRAUD by rigging the system. In the old days you needed multiple people placed throughout the system to add votes by "stuffing" the ballot boxes. This type of fraud was allegedly honed to a fine edge in the 60's by Mayor Dailey in Chicago. It took a big organization to pull this off but it is much more effective than working with individual voters

With the current crop of computerized voting machines it appears that one person can do the work of many. We have seen the sort of numbers that come out of these machines. More votes than registered voters in the precinct, negative numbers and integer overflows.

This evidence points to massive VOTE FRAUD that you won't see many Republicans rushing out to investigate.

Why not develop and deploy unmanned surveillance drones over the roads most used by our troops. Just a fraction of the $5B spent on a fruitless jamming effort could put inexpensive eye in the sky drones just about everywhere.

We could use the 20k "surge" troops to operate them or go with a more netroots operation.

The ideal solution would be a pilot + copilot arrangement operated via standard PCs over the internet. Something like flight simulator controlling a lightweight drone that could destroyed in event of control failure before it fell and caused damage. One soldier should be able to oversee 5 to 10 drone crews much like the cashier at do it yourself checkout lanes.

I bet you could find a lot of volunteers for this effort. Gamers would love it, and so would the relatives of those deployed.

If nothing else more Americans would get a chance to see what is really going on over there.

What a great thing!

I recently merged my Tungsten e, pager and cell phone into a Treo 650. It is amazing how mucked up the operation of the Treo is compared with my previous Palm products. Still better than the Windows version or the touchscreenless Blackberry.

The beauty of the original Palm Pilot was that you could work them with your FINGERS! For text entry a stylus was handy but for finding information your fingers could do the walking. For me this tended to be a one handed process which is impossible on the Treo since firing up the search application requires multiple button presses and a swipe across the screen.

Just give me a big ass touchscreen, Graffiti (original or a suitable SINGLE stroke per letter substitute) , a SIM card and a decent battery. I would be happy.

Hopefully the iPhone will spell the END of the idiotic qwerty keyboard on handheld devices.