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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
`Virgil wrote:` We all know what a woe-man's rage can do.
`And a fury which is all more gnawing for being compelled
`to justify itself by loving affection. He/she won't be bridled.
The Lt. who was a West Point graduate and in Nam - The 1st Airmomile Cav., Col. He was several several times wounded. Jon Dodson was a platoon leader, and the one who survived Vietnam alive.
He keeps me abreast of what happened after I was 'dusted-off' ... all ripped to shreds, ugh, etc., You'd enjoy LT. Dodson.
He gets around and does good.
He is a wealth of information. He volunteers at Walter Reed, and so much more with veteran advocacy... benefit claims, and advice.
Dodson works with many Veteran Groups.
Look Jon Dodson up? Mention my name? He's real technical, and stayed at the Pentagon post-`Nam. It was his way of coping? He cries. boohoo. Big West Point cry baby. O LT DODSON? Ya Got a last cigar as my femur bleeds? You know, he will understand. He takes Michele for a ride in his big old Mercedes. Yahoo! It's safe to e-mail him and relay this. Hay LT. Ya Got a extra cuban illegal smoke for Retired Military Patriots GRAND CHILDS? When do you, LT, plan to give me the printer? In the next Vietnam foxhole? RMP. Tell him I want a KEFLAR HELMET That will not EXPLODE like a IUD. P.S. In today's `The Washington Post, read Walter Pinkus.
It's a must read.
It a BOB HOPE Afghan Rockets cacccan kick, and you may be a NASA wrestler, movie star, or left-brain blogger and go entertain trOOPs?
Try finding the front page Walter Pinkas article?
Wanted: Entertainers for War Zone. Hemets Provided.
~FOCUS. okay.
*Army seeks Stars to Visit Bases in Afghanistan. A must read!
Jon.dodson@US Army.mill.
I hope that's a accurate e-mail.
The article LT. shares mentions BRINGING THEM BACK HOME! C- 17, Aeromedical Missions.
(Try).... http://bcpid1407952648/bctidi1664436922
RMP. If that's not correct, let me know. Blame LT. Dodson.
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try www.snopes.com
email. Jbdodson@aol.com
ask LT. to not frag anybody. (ugh-okay)
ask Col to collect all prosthetic legs, arms, toes, ears, wheel chairs, etc.,
ask all head vet amputees to toss @ DOD's head master fool, Mr. Gates.
Chapter 16 from Lawrence Walsh's Iran/Contra Report
http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/chap_16.htm
An excerpt from Lawrence Walsh's book "Firewall: the Iran/Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up." and a good summery of Chapter 16. From the link:
We told them that we did not think we had enough corroborating information to indict Robert Gates, but that his answers to these questions had been unconvincing. We did not believe that he could have forgotten a warning of North's diversion of the arms sale proceeds to the Contras. The mingling of two covert activities that were of intense personal interest to the president was not something the second-highest officer in the CIA would forget.
http://www.counterpunch.org/walsh11082006.html
Two links from The National Security Archive at GWU.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB208/index.htm
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB210/index.htm
An article by Robert Parry
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/110906.html
An interview of Robert Parry and Melvin Goodman by Amy Goodman
http://www.democracynow.org/2006/11/9/defense_secretary_nominee_robert_gates_tied
Another article by Robert Parry
However, if Obama does keep Gates on, the new President will be employing someone who embodies many of the worst elements of U.S. national security policy over the past three decades, including responsibility for what Obama himself has fingered as a chief concern, "politicized intelligence."
http://www.truthout.org/111408A
You are projecting your normal habits onto me again; just as you do others here all the time. You are so stupid, it must hurt.
I'll ask as nice as I know how. Would you please get back on the short bus and go fuck yourself?
What's a "short bus"? (the rest of your comment came through loud and clear).
I think that the prosecutor is one of the larger parts of the puzzle of what went wrong in our justice system. Robert H. Jackson was a United States Supreme Court Justice from 1941 until 1954 and was the chief prosecutor of the surviving Nazi leaders at Nuremberg, Germany in 1946. As Attorney General in 1940, he said in a speech to the United States Attorneys:
"The prosecutor has more control over life, liberty, and reputation than any other person in America. His discretion is tremendous. He can have citizens investigated and, if he is that kind of person, he can have this done to the tune of public statements and veiled or unveiled intimations. Or the prosecutor may choose a more subtle course and simply have a citizen’s friends interviewed. The prosecutor can order arrests, present cases to the grand jury in secret session, and on the basis of his one-sided presentation of the facts, can cause the citizen to be indicted and held for trial. He may dismiss the case before trial, in which case the defense never has a chance to be heard. Or he may go on with a public trial. If he obtains a conviction, the prosecutor can still make recommendations as to sentence, as to whether the prisoner should get probation or a suspended sentence, and after he is put away, as to whether he is a fit subject for parole. While the prosecutor at his best is one of the most beneficent forces in our society, when he acts from malice or other base motives, he is one of the worst."
Even in 1940 professionals inside the legal profession could see that enormous, almost unchecked power is wielded by America's prosecutors.
Ever since the odious Richard Nixon unleashed the domestic "war on crime" in the 1970s the only thing the much of the public has paid attention to is the "batting average" of the prosecutors; that is, the rate of convictions.
The conviction rate has become the main test of the performance of the prosecutor, even though officially our system asks that the prosecutor seek justice first and foremost. It is an accepted maxim that unchecked power leads to abuse; so why do we not see that it is impossible to merely trust that our prosecutors are acting in the interest of justice rather than their own selfish designs without some effective oversight mechanism?
One attorney wrote, "Traditionally, the expectations of ethical conduct by prosecutors are so low, and the willingness to turn a blind eye to their ethical lapses is so high, that they have no reasonable fear of being held accountable in any forum for their failings, whether deliberate or incompetent. Essentially, they are given carte blanche to be bad."
I think justice, both home and abroad, should be the main political fight of this era. Without justice, how can there be peace?
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Salon headlines in your mailbox
