Reply #3: And what did you do, Mr. Batiste? [View All]

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You asked for more troops, you didn't get them, and the administration said over and over again in public that you'd gotten everything you had asked for. The administration also said everything was rosy, nice and comfy cozy in Iraq, and you knew better. The administration said over and over again that anything negative reported out of Iraq would hurt troop morale and lend comfort to your adversaries, and you knew that accurate reporting was crucial to giving your mission a chance to succeed.

But what did you do, Mr. Batiste? Did you go public with the truth? No. And there are people who will say that you couldn't do that, because it's against some rules to dispute the commander in chief. Yet your men were dying and the administration was lying. Did you resign in protest? You did not. Did you try to work within the system to get it to change? And what did you do when it didn't change? Or were you more preoccupied with getting enough time in grade to give your pension a bump? How many people, military and civilian, died between the time you knew you were working in the service of a disaster and your public remarks yesterday?

Which one of the men and women now serving in Iraq should be the next one to die for this lie? Who should be the last one? And what will you do, Mr. Batiste, to atone for your failing?