SocraticGadfly: Iraq-related roundup – Latest neocon lie, ACLU filling gap, JROTC in UK

April 05, 2008

Iraq-related roundup – Latest neocon lie, ACLU filling gap, JROTC in UK

Doug Feith lies about Iraq
One of the “masterminds” clusterfuckers behind us invading Iraq, Doug Feith, now has a new take on why we invaded Hussein might attack us first. No further comment needed on the stupidity and lying level of this one.

ACLU filling Gitmo gap
The ACLU is working hard to get volunteer civilian attorneys to supplement the military defense attorneys in Gitmo military trials. The ACLU is going to need plenty of PR help in weeks ahead; we know that, from military insiders, the trials are being pushed up to coincide with the general election in November. The ACLU is going to get a lot of blowback from both elected and unelected wingers.

Junior ROTC Britain?
It sounds like something like that is what Prime Minister Gordon Brown wants, to improve relations between the armed forces and the general public. Few secondary schools in Britain currently have a cadet corps program. A simpler solution, Mr. PM, might be getting your troops out of Iraq and not getting involved in stupid, unpopular wars in the future.

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