Waking Up To Saturday

And another Iraq revelation..

Army desertion rate highest since 1980

By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON – Soldiers strained by six years at war are deserting their posts at the highest rate since 1980, with the number of Army deserters this year showing an 80 percent increase since the United States invaded Iraq in 2003. While the totals are still far lower than they were [...]

However, blogs on the Right have a different view. It’s a numbers game…

Shocker: Almost 1% Of Army Soldiers Have Deserted!

The problem is, while it’s true that desertions are up 80%, there are still so few soldiers deserting that it’s not even a worry.  But, of course, we don’t learn that until we read well into the [...]

Who ya’ gonna believe?  Ghostbusters?

Kerry Called His Bluff

Nice work!  A million bucks speaks volumes.

Swift Boat Funder T. Boone Pickens Renegs On John Kerry Million Dollar Offer

Rich Texas bastard T. Boone Pickens boasted that he would give $1 million to anyone who can disprove “even a single charge” leveled by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, who he funded to the tune of $3 milion. Kerry offered to meet with Pickens and do so, with the million dollars going to [...]

Brothers and Enemies

The name is Krongard.  Don’t forget it. You’re gonna be hearing it for a while.

Buzzy Tells Waxman He Told Cookie About Joining Blackwater

We’re that much closer to a perjury investigation. Buzzy Krongard has told House oversight committee staff what he told TPMmuckraker on Wednesday: that he told his brother, State Department Inspector General Howard “Cookie” Krongard, about his decision to join the advisory board of State Department contractor Blackwater. Cookie Krongard told the committee on Wednesday his brother had [...]

UPDATE:

Alvin “Buzzy” Krongard resigns.

“The brother of embattled State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard quit as an adviser to Blackwater Worldwide on Friday, two days after the relationship with the security contractor was sharply criticized by a congressional oversight committee. Erik Prince, Blackwater’s top executive, said the conflict-of-interest questions raised by the connection prompted Alvin ‘Buzzy’ Krongard to submit [...]