Someone should watch and see if he looks different. Changed in some way...

You didn’t confirm that those were the only questions he asked.

If any other questions were asked, please relate them to us.

We'll wait.

You're requiring GG to prove a negative. A logical fallacy on your part.

You lose.

You should confess that in an update.

There's nothing to confess. You lose again.

Next.

I just read your last post on troops and the push to keep them in the field.

Earlier, I was engaging in some informed speculation about the Reed outpatient problem because I've read quite a bit on how efforts at recruitment and retention have or have not been working.

What you describe is not surprising, but it is very, very depressing.

I wish I could discuss this with Professor Smith. Perhaps he could offer some helpful comments.

Thank you.

I took umbrage at Greenwalds equally self-congratulatory style, showing how cute and flippant he could be with his cute and flippant turns of phrase...That's not criticism. That's just showing off.

Cute and flippant turns of phrase not criticism? Not a fan of The New Yorker I presume.

I am keenly aware of the shortcomings of my profession. Unlike Mr. Greenwald, I know firsthand what it takes to practice good journalism and recognize that it is harder to find daily. Doesn't keep me from looking though, or teaching students how to do it right. It is an honorable calling, fallen on hard times brought about by a changing world, 24/7 cablevision and the voracious Internet.

- Prof. Tim Smith

These blogs are but a grass-roots response to your profession having "fallen on hard times". Had anyone within the profession cried foul in the first place, we wouldn't be reading Glenn everyday. Glenn is not being cute. He, like us, finds it incredible that this stuff goes on every day, on every network and newspapers, with imppunity. We are outraged at this farce. He does deserve enormous credit for spotting these fakeries, and speaking up about them fearlessly & eloquently. He doesn't deserve to be chided for pointing out the emperor has no clothes.

That practicing "good journalism" is hard is something that shouldn't concern critics like Glenn, or viewers like us any more than a professional baseballer hitting a fastball at 95 mph does. Some people get paid to do it and they better deliver.

P.S.

I am keenly aware of the shortcomings of my profession.

Darn it! I teach them.

I hadn't thought of it that way but you're probably right.

Good point.

Bill Owen... I almost lost my bourbon when you pointed out the towering credibility of anyone who has ever trod the hallowed halls (behind the gas station) of the the storied Beacon-Journal in the bustling metropolis of Akron. (claim to fame; a dirigible that crashed? tires?) Clearly Prof. Tim showed our "sycophantic" butts what's what. Ah, the smell of fresh troll meat on the barbeque in the evening. Good times.

HRH... You have your quirks, but trolldom is not among them.

lateagain... Please work on your punctuality.... I, for one like to laugh earlier in the day.

I was not a military nurse (and I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express), but I have worked with several military nurses and physicians who were in combat operations, and I also have spent many years working in level one trauma medical centers with air and ground medical transportation services, so I am acquainted with TBI care from a second hand military perspective and a first hand civilian healthcare perspective (credentials on the About page of my blog -click on my name - that goes for you, too Prof. Smith, if interested).

Your source probably is pretty much in the know about the latest in the way of field resuscitation and stabilization. That data doesn't read much differently than my own investigations into TBI diagnosis and care.

The problems in the rates come when returnees die from comorbidities or when their deaths come outside of treatment within the military healthcare system. When is a suicide a result of combat? When is overwhelming sepsis a result of an infection sustained, but not diagnosed, in theatre? How about death by cop? Many times the cause of death originated from military service, but this isn't captured on the death certificate, nor does the Pentagon or VA track these.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashleigh_Banfield

In April 2003, in a speech at Kansas State University, Banfield raised concerns regarding media coverage of the conflict in Iraq. She also blasted "cable news operators who wrap themselves in the American flag and go after a certain target demographic", specifically naming Fox News Channel as an example.[2] According to a New York Times article, her speech angered NBC management who rebuked her and lowered her profile. She was fired in 2004

That is what happens to journalists who speak out..

Glenn Greenwald,

You must concede that you made a mistake when you said, “…these are all of the "questions" he asked…”

You didn’t confirm that those were the only questions he asked.

You should confess that in an update.

- Martin Gifford

By the same token, every film critic must confirm that what ended up as the final cut was not all the footage that was shot during filming. Must they examine everything that ended up on the cutting room floor before giving an opinion about a movie?

Anonymust is made of chocolate?

You have heard the silly slang,

'I love you so much I could eat you up!'

It's better than eating a horse? I'd say.

People say, 'I'm so famished I'd eat a horse'

Why? That's so silly to eat a horse any day.

~

I think Nature made chocolate for folk who love sweets. Anonymust, there is a story that Nature/God withdrawals.

The "problem" is God had to refrain and withdrawal love.

If God is allowing too much love of chocolate people eaters.

People may eat-each-other up! There would be no more Anonymust anymore.

One of my ex-wife's nephews returned from Afghanistan with a crippled knee -- I don't know the details of his injury, but my ex said he could barely walk.

It was two months before he could get in to see a military doctor when he returned to the U.S.. Although six months later, he was still unable to walk more than a block or so, he was sent overseas again, this time to Iraq, still assigned to the same combat unit he had been with in Afghanistan.

This is only one story, and one I can't vouch for directly at that. I wonder, though, how many of these stories are out there. Given what I've read here today from ondelette and Nequals1, I'm inclined to think that a) it's true, and b) a list of people somewhere out there should be facing court martials, if not the gallows, for their part in it.

Shameful.