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Unspectering?

by Tim F|  September 25, 200611:58 am| 7 Comments

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Head over to ObWings and do what Katherine says. I don’t know whether Specter is trying to weasel out of his shiny new verb but regardless this seems like a positive development.

Back when the awful Specter bill first came out I called his office in Pittsburgh and asked him to stop being such a tool. Mostly I did it because as a constituent it seemed like Specter has a right to know when he pisses me off, not because it would make any difference.

Looks like he listened to me, at least a little bit. Guess I should call more often.

***Update***

As long as I am exercising my authoritah, go do what Josh says also. Even if they black-marker every word other than if, and and but I want to see that NIE for myself.

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  1. 1.

    Krista

    September 25, 2006 at 4:20 pm

    Man. Sometimes I wish we had audio commentary. My impression of Cartman’s “I am a cop, and you will respect mah authoritah!” is not to be missed.

    Oh well.

  2. 2.

    DougJ

    September 25, 2006 at 4:38 pm

    Great of you to push this, Tim F. Everyone should be for releasing the NIE.

  3. 3.

    Dici

    September 25, 2006 at 4:57 pm

    Specter was a group in a movie.

    So, ws he a spy like Plame?

  4. 4.

    Richard Bottoms

    September 25, 2006 at 9:22 pm

    The pressures that the conflict in Iraq is putting on the Army are apparent amid the towering pine trees of southeast Georgia, where the Third Infantry Division is preparing for the likelihood that it will go back to Iraq for a third tour.

    Col. Tom James, who commands the division’s Second Brigade, acknowledged that his unit’s equipment levels had fallen so low that it now had no tanks or other armored vehicles to use in training and that his soldiers were rated as largely untrained in attack and defense.

    For this alone the Republicans should be driven from power.

    Spend the next six weeks on issues like this rather than Guantanamo and we might just have the goods this time. Make them explain where the money went and why we aren’t ready for this war, or the one over the horizon.

    Making do

  5. 5.

    Richard Bottoms

    September 25, 2006 at 9:24 pm

    Normally, armored units preparing for Iraq are sent to Fort Irwin, Calif., for such training, but transporting a brigade’s worth of equipment and soldiers there takes a month, which the schedule would not permit.

    So the trainers and Arabic-speaking role players, who will simulate conditions the unit is likely to encounter in Iraq, were brought here to conduct the three-week exercise in a Georgia pine forest, rather than in the California desert.

    My God, what a disgrace.

  6. 6.

    harrison

    September 26, 2006 at 2:08 am

    Oh, yes, please release the NIE.

    I remember when they released the August Memo, too, and it said nothing like what the leak-based news articles had implied.

  7. 7.

    Tulkinghorn

    September 26, 2006 at 4:07 am

    Egad.

    It sounds like Mel Gibson is right. Human sacrifice is probably not the best way to describe this — might as well just call this murder.

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