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Soldier Challenges Bush to "Ridealong"
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In this photo, six American soldiers and an Iraqi translator are burning to death inside the armored vehicle. Cpl. Joshua Lake from Apache Company told Sean Smith, "It's a joke. We will have spent 14 months in contact, basically fighting all 14 months…first week in Baghdad we lost two guys in our battalion, and it hasn't stopped since."
(Sean Smith/Guardian)
This from ABC News.
Spc. Gabriel Vassell told Smith, "…We have people up there in Congress with the brain of a 2-year-old who don't know what they are doing, they don't experience it. I challenge the president or anyone who has us for 15 months to ride alongside me. I'll do another 15 months if he comes out here and rides alomg with me every day. I'll do 15 more months. They don't even have to pay me extra."
Let's see who among the conservative war supporters is man enough to ride with him.
Even for a day.
Anyone care to bet?
Meanwhile: US Media nearly unanimously fails to comprehend the meaning of the word "filibuster," much less actually use it in describing the events on Capitol Hill last night. CNN appears to be a limited exception. ("Senate Republicans on Wednesday scuttled a Democratic proposal ordering troop withdrawals from Iraq in a showdown that capped an all-night debate on the war.")
As might be expected, Fox News led the Bamboozle Express ("After All-Night Debate, Senate Rejects Measure to Bring Troops Home From Iraq"). Headed with a photo of the Democratic Senate Leadership, the Fox article kinda makes it sounds like the Democratic Majority voted the proposal down, eh? You have to actually dig a bit to see that it was in fact the recalcitrant conservative Republican minority that obstructed progress.