Deja Vu All Over Again

This AP story could have come from William Shirer's, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. These clowns are following it like it was an NFL Playbook. They think Hitler had the right idea, they can just do it better.

Congressman Questions DOD Presence

Dem. Congressman claims generals watched House vote, demands to know why.

ERICA WERNER
AP News
May 16, 2008 14:57 EST

An anti-war Democratic congressman is demanding to know why there were uniformed Defense Department personnel watching House proceedings from a public gallery Thursday, who they were and what they were doing.

"If they were here on official duty, this was an abhorrent misallocation of our military resources at a time of war," Northern California Rep. Pete Stark asserted Friday in a letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

Stark, an 18-term incumbent known for his liberal positions and outbursts of temper, said he observed the contingent of 20 or so officers, apparently Army generals, in the gallery for a couple of hours while the House debated and voted on an Iraq war spending bill.

"At a time when our nation is at war, our troops are overextended, and the administration is literally asking for emergency military spending, what good to the 'war on terror' is having U.S. generals and other top-ranked officers — who were likely accompanied by staff and escorted by their chauffeurs — spending hours sitting in the gallery of the House of Representatives?" Stark asked.

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Stark said he didn't have a problem if the military personnel were there on their own time, but if they were there on official duty he wanted to know why. He asked Gates for an accounting by Monday of the name, rank, branch and duties of each of the officers as well as how many staff members and drivers were involved.

Good luck with that Congressman. You might have more success writing a letter to Santa Claus.

Thanks, and a tip 'o the hat to:
Betmo at Life's Journey

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