Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what your country can do TO you

In its eternal wisdom the US Department of Defence has seen fit to recall 50 year old Paul Bandel of Tennessee fifteen years after he left the Army and to deploy him to combat duty overseas.

Just in case we need reminding...

...that the best reason for voting for Barack Obama is the status of the US Supreme Court SCOTUS itself reminds us by ruling that testing equipment to be used to kill humans is more important than the lives of Cetaceans.

Second class soldiers

If you are a woman serving in the American armed forces, at home or abroad, and you are sexually assaulted by a fellow serviceman expect to pay for your rape kit. Did someone appoint Sarah Palin Defence Secretary whilst I wasn't looking?

The awkward squad

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is still holding up a deal with the US over the continuation of their illegal occupation over such meaningless details as American demands for immunity for US soldiers and mercenaries. One has to admit he has a point. If Iraqi justice was good enough for Saddam Hussein why isn't it good enough for Yanks?

Today in maths

If x = 7 months what does 1/x equal?

Imagine that Iraqi confessed to standing guard whilst four Americans were bound, hooded and executed. In the unlikely event that he would ever be given a trial and found guilty do you think that the sentence would be seven months? I think not.

Lying in the defense of Captain Codpiece and other Republican cunts freedom

Surely this is a violation of the standards expected a US military officer that warrants Captain Porter's dishonourable discharge,. Right?

A message to the good people of Vincenza Italia

You have won a battle in your fight to prevent the US from hugely expanding its military base in or near your town. Now keep on fighting until you win the war!

In which I explain why I am not proud to be an American

Because it is now becoming clear that, with absolute certainty, both the US military and the US "intelligence" community have engaged in systematic, intentional and highly managed horrific abuse of prisoners and detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan, Cuba and places unnamed. We have finally lost any remaining moral authority we may have had. These are crimes against humanity and someone, hopefully several someones, high up needs to pay and pay dearly.

Key quote: "If the detainee dies, you're doing it wrong".

"If we showed you we'd have to kill you!"*

When US Military's Office of Show Trials Military Commissions told the Washington Post that detainees will have the right to see classified information presented to the juries that will be convicting them with "no exceptions" what they really meant that detainees will have no rights to see classified information nor will they necessarily be able to question their torturers interrogators. Justice, American Style.

*Note: we reserve the right to kill you anyway.

Now this could prove more than a wee bit tricky

Should Afghanistan launch military strikes against Afghanistan, as threatened by the Afghan President, whose side will the US be on. Afghanistan's? Pakistan's? Neither? Both?

"Hurry up, please, it's time!"

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki has suggested that, if the US and Iraq cannot agree on a military pact, he may have to ask US forces to leave the country. (Please don't slam the door on the way out.) One would think that he has deluded himself into believing that his country is actually a sovereign nation.

"You fucking idiot! Iran's the other way, stupid!"

The Pakistani Army is blaming the US military for an air strike in Pakistani territory that killed 11 members of the Pakistani military. With friends like these...

Looks like they're weeding them out!

Discharges from the US military under the "don't ask - don't tell" policy as regards sexual preference continue to decline. Do you reckon that any of them have been for asking?

Isn't there a crime here or are we no longer a "nation of laws"?

The Pentagon explicitly urged interrogators at the Guantánamo Bay Beach and Leisure Resort to destroy any and all notes relating to the interrogation and treatment of prisoners in case they were called to testify. I'm sure that the Department of Justice will get right on this.

Has anyone seen the moral high ground?

There used to be a time that the United States could stand proudly on its record as regards freedom and human rights, sometimes justifiably and sometimes not, but now that is frankly impossible. Yesterday a panel of experts from the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child severely criticised the US for its continued detention of minors as "threats to security" at the Guantánamo Bay Beach and Leisure Resort and elsewhere as well as the recruiting campaigns run by the US military that specifically target underage and disadvantaged youths. US officials have, as yet, failed to respond to the criticism.

How the mighty have fallen.

US officials sacked for incompetence!

Let us hope that the sackings of Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne and the service's chief of staff, Gen. T. Michael "Buzz" Moseley, for their incompetence in nuclear affairs is the start of a trend. Just think how much money the government could save if every one of the incompetent officials appointed by Captain Codpiece had their employment terminated. It would probably cover a couple of hours of the illegal occupation of Iraq!

Ok Iraq if you want to be a soveriegn nation, and a democracy, this might be a good time to start

And the best way to start is by simply saying no to the deal that the US wants you to sign up to. The military accord, which Captain Codpiece continue to insist is not a treaty and therefore outside of the scope of Congressional approval, would see "US troops would occupy permanent bases, conduct military operations, arrest Iraqis and enjoy immunity from Iraqi law". The US would also control Iraqi airspace.

I say let freedom ring!

1,000 reasons John McCain shouldn't be President

Number 35: he has no honour. Now as I see General Petraeus has two, and only two, options. He must either publicly demand that The Aged One immediately remove his image from the campaign website AND explain how this could have happened without the General's permission or he must immediately resign his commission. Over to you General.

"As soon as the kangaroos arrive we'll be ready to start"

Authorities at the palatial Guantánamo Bay Beach and Leisure Resort have had to dismiss judge Colonel Peter E. Brownback III from his role as the chief judge. Although no explanations were given for putting Col. Brownback on gardening leave it appears that amongst other things he was insisting that the prosecutors turn over evidence to the defence teams and that he was resisting the carefully worked out schedule that would see the first convictions verdicts come in time for the coronation of President John McCain in November!

As if we need evidence! These men are evil doers and we all know it. Why else would the US government be financing their six or seven year long holidays in Cuba?

Let the proselytising begin...

...or perhaps continue would be a better choice of words. A US Marine has been removed from duty after he was found to have been handing out coins with Biblical verses on them at a checkpoint in Falluja. Just in case anyone thinks this may have been an accident should know that the coins were inscribed in Arabic. The taxpayer funded campaign for converts marches on!