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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wagn'nagl fhtagn ("In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."). --HP Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu

The stars hath turned in the heavens once more: Mighty Cthulhu stirs. His dreams reacheth forth, communing with those with ears to hear. Iä! Shub-Niggurath! His thoughts trample down along the pathways of thy mind; thou knowest His footprints, each of which is a wound...

Tuesday, July 27, 2004



A Matter of Leadership

Got lots to do today, so can't post much--but I didn't want this to get lost amid the shuffle of other news items this week:

“Our company XO [Executive Officer] accidentally fired two grenades from a Mark 19 right in the middle of a town filled with civilians,” adds Soldier No. 2. “What the lieutenant was doing manning that weapon is beyond me. It’s normally a job for a grunt. The incident was covered up. No investigation. Nothing. Had a soldier done this he’d be in jail.”


Colonel Hackworth--whose excellent Soldiers for the Truth helped to break the Abu Ghraib story--reports on the abysmal lack of direction and leadership beleaguering our troops in Iraq:

“Most of the roads they want us to go down aren’t there or are impassable. Don’t our leaders go out and check them for accuracy? Like do reconnaissance like the good book says before sending us on foolish missions that can get people killed the way Lt. Tyson and Specialist McCaffrey were on 22 June when they were sent on such a fool mission?”

“McCaffrey always said that it was going to take someone getting hurt or killed before our leaders wake up and not run us into the ground,” says Soldier No. 5. “Now that he and the lieutenant got killed, I still see no upward learning curve from our officers.”


While Rumskull and the Army whitewash and sugarcoat everything they can, the fact is that our men and women are suffering--and dying--because poorly trained troops are being rushed into combat without proper leadership by an administration that cares more about body-counts than problem-solving.

Go give the Colonel a read, and then bookmark SFTT. If you're not reading it once a week, then you're missing out on one of the most important reasons to vote Democrat this year: To support our troops.
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