An excerpt from yesterday's SEC filing under the Halliburton ticker (other topics in the filing include Halliburton's efforts to dupe DoD auditors, and the Dick Armitage/Halliburton connections):
"Who is the closest relative of either Constitutional officer, or of any member of the President's Cabinet, who is actually serving in uniform today?"
"And please spare me the well-coifed, ill-informed Tony Snow piously trotting out the President's supposed 'service' in the Air National Guard. Mark Bingham, the gay rugby player on Flight 93, did more to protect America's skies than Dubya ever did in all his years of supposed service in the ANG. I'd rather have a real hero like Mark Bingham on my flight - someone who actually got the 'mission accomplished' - than a manufactured hero using the trappings of office, a flight suit, and an aircraft carrier photo op to prematurely declare 'Mission Accomplished'."
"How did 'Shrubya and Rove' repay Mark Bingham's heroics on Flight 93? By dishonoring his memory: by stepping up 'don't ask, don't tell discharges' - even against military personnel with critical foreign language skills. They made gay marriage the distracting wedge issue of the 2004 general election. This, despite the fact that the man Karl Rove knew as his father, the man who raised Rove to be the man he is today, was reportedly gay. Now there's a fact that Karl Rove conveniently failed to tell the heartland, as he railed about God, guns, and gays. Does Mr. Rove believe that the man who raised him was somehow less patriotic by dint of his orientation? Does Mr. Rove believe that the man who raised him was unfit to wear the uniform? Does Mr. Rove believe that the man who raised him was an unfit parent, or that he - Mr. Rove himself - was somehow irrevocably damaged by that man's parenting? If so, does that call into question Mr. Rove's suitability to serve as a counselor to the leader of the free world?"
Smith continues: "Rove didn't serve in the military either, maintaining deferments during the Vietnam War without ever completing his college degree. He's a self-described agnostic. He's been divorced once, married twice, and has a son of military service age. Is Rove's son serving his country? And what the heck is a college dropout like Rove doing advising the President on matters beyond his ken, with security clearances like his? Maybe the heartland voters should take a harder look at the marketing behind Rove's Gods, guns, and gays message: he doesn't believe in God, he dodged picking up a gun, and he was raised by a gay man."
To read the rest:
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/45012/000126947606000011/shameonvirginiasenators.htmBest to all,
- David A. Smith, Editor, HALwhistleblowers.org and BushBunglesBrigade.org
(not to be confused with David R. Smith, VP of Tax at Halliburton, my former employer)