Infect it then kill it

Here is yet another story about how Bush and his cronies are fucking our military sqaure in its oddly receptive manhole. Letting hotemongering groups in due to recruiting shortfalls. The SPLC quoted a DOD source saying "We've got Aryan Nations graffiti in Baghdad." This in addition to the fact that we're committed all over the globe, our training centers are infested with evangelicals harassing Jewish and non-christianist students (this is where our military leaders come from, remember), Duke and his pals fucking with the appropriations committee to enrich themselves, and the simple fact that hundreds of thousands of Americans are in a situation right this second where they could be killed at any time. Here's a Google News search for "U.S. military scandal". There's some crap in there I'd forgotten about.

So we have an overcommitted, poorly supplied, understaffed, endangered military being inflitrated by groups whose loyalty does not lie with their country but with ideologically extreme groups. Who's that sound like? Hmmm...two guesses, and if you don't say "IRAQ!" right away, I'm going to come over and chide you. And don't flip out, if anyone reads this with a flag sticking out of their ass. I don't mean that the US military is as incompetent or lazy or corrupt as the Iraqi military. YET. We are letting Bush & Co. DESTROY OUR NATION'S MILITARY. Some of you may go, "Sweet!" but I'm not one of them. I am in favor of a smaller military, but it's impossible to see a world without some credible threat of force to keep the worst douchebags away.

So, the Bushinskis, and the Clintons and Old Bushes and creaky evil Lich Reagan are killing our military through massive pig-feeding of contractors, overcommittment, under-training and under-staffing and under-funding. All of that leads to infections, such as the hate-mongers infiltrating ("Maybe in the thousands" says the article) and the religionists harassing, which are a precursor to the death of the body. I despair that there is anyone left who knows how to honestly and honorably run a public concern. The level of incompetence spread by this bumbling, treasonous administration is leaking down into all levels of society.

I guess everything will either break or keep slowly devolving, unless some real competent people get involved.

An aside:
Hey, if you think that we need a huge military to fight terrorists, what about the worst of the lot, Osama bin Laden (well, presumably. I think he's fighting because first the Soviets, then we, tried to horn in on his family's oil construction business. Read Greg Palast's Armed Madhouse for more info on that subject)? Palast notes that in 2003 the Bush admin gave Osama exactly what he'd been asking for, attacking and killing people for, as stated loudly on his communications: US Withdrawal from Saudi Arabia. That, and (as Palast calls it) and "Islamic Oil Caliphate", is Osama's goal, and thanks to Bush cutting and running in Saudia Arabia (an historic event which we haerd hardly a whisper of in the US), Osama is halfway there. Repeat: Osama demanded that the US get out of Saudia Arabia since 1996, and in 2003, George Bush complied with his demands. Look it up.

I'd really, really recommend getting a copy of Greg Palast's Armed Madhouse, and his other stuff too. He's a good read, logical, clear, and comes from a statistics background. Anyone I know around here can borrow my copy if they'd like.