Supporting the troops. Really Supporting the Troops.

Waaaay beyond sticking a magnet on your car.

Go here, read this. Read it for the pictures, if nothing else. And when you reach the end of it - read the linked blogpost, too.

Then, to have your Amusing Moment of Zen, read this.

Radio Spot

For those of you who love the melodious sound of my sweet, sweet voice, I'll be on the Lynn Woolley Show this Monday at 9:30pm.

We'll be discussing ROTC on campus, and why Greyhawk is so terrible at answering emails.

Link has a "Listen Live" feature on the left sidebar.

Twenty Questions

One hundred twelve of the "world's biggest thinkers" will gather in Berlin next month to answer some of the international community's most pressing questions, in a first-ever global town hall to be moderated by actor Willem DaFoe. One hundred questions will be selected from the tens of thousands being submitted at the dropping knowledge web site.

I haven't yet received my invitation to be on the panel, but I don't think the questions are all that difficult. Click here to read twenty of the questions submitted to the web site, and my answers.

Lieutenant Watada versus the Man, update.

In response to defense questions, Keith affirmed he was open to considering arguments about the war's legality and allowed Boyle, former United Nations Undersecretary Denis Halliday and retired Col. Ann Wright to speak about the legality and conduct of the war. Boyle, an outspoken critic of the administration policy in Iraq, went into considerable detail about the rules for war as detailed in the Army Field Manual. He accused the administration of using fraudulent means to persuade Congress to authorize the war, twice-failing to get U.N. Security Council authorization for the war and then allowing war crimes to occur.

Keith listened, his finger on his chin.

In questioning, he appeared skeptical.

"I am struggling with the connection between what you have just discussed ... and how that relates to Lt. Watada," Keith told Boyle at one point during the professor's testimony.

Read the whole thing here.

Posted at 1511Z

News of Afghanistan

Time for the News of Afghanistan again?

Help a sister out...

Fuzzybear Lioness has a visitor from somewhere east of Kos. Aside from dissing Enormous State Universities of the Interior, he's spouting all the usual anti-war blather. The usual Moonbat Ravings of Emotion trumping anything else with that soupçon of "even if you're retired military" you can't have an opinion on the war, because you aren't fighting it. Unless it's an anti-opinion, of course. That's *always* a moral stance and allowed... If you're bored and would like to go watch the debate, especially you warfighters, since you apparently *are* allowed an opinion, do go visit.

What to do about Iran?

Well, it has been a golden rule at CDR Salamander that if retired LtGen Robert Gard stands on one side of the issue, it is a good idea to get on the other.

Retired Army Lt. Gen. Robert G. Gard, one of the letter's signers and a former military assistant to Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara in the 1960s, said the group was particularly concerned about administration policies toward Iran, believing them to be a possible prelude to a military attack on suspected nuclear sites in that country.

Gard said the signatories — who included retired Marine Corps Gen. Joseph P. Hoar, head of U.S. Central Command from 1991 to 1994, and Morton H. Halperin, a senior State Department and National Security Council official during the Clinton administration — did not believe that Iran had the wherewithal to build a nuclear weapon in the immediate future and would push the administration to open negotiations with Tehran on the issue.

Sinking to a New Low

If this report is true, journalism is in more trouble than any of us could have imagined.

Re: Numbers Lie

I ain't specially good at math or nuthin, but seems like if we's findin' more Eye-EE-Dees and they's killin' less folks, that adds up doin' better all 'round, not worst like that reporter sayed. Maybe it ain't the numbers what's lyin. But like I sayed, I ain't good at sypherin'.

Or jernalisms neither.