Memo
TO: House Speaker Dennis Hastert
FROM: Lex
DATE: 29 June 2006
RE: Your little temper tantrum
Yo, Self-Serving Fat Boy: Before you get your panties in a wad over The New York Times (and The Wall Street Journal, don't forget, although for some reason defenders of the administration always do) "disclosing" a program whose existence was only slightly more secret than the fact that the sky is blue, you might want to have a word with one of your friends:
No one would have mentioned his name at all if President George W. Bush hadn't singled him out in public. Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, West Point '76, is not someone the Army likes to talk about. He isn't even listed in the directory at Fort Bragg, N.C., his home base. That's not because McChrystal has done anything wrong—quite the contrary, he's one of the Army's rising stars—but because he runs the most secretive force in the U.S. military. That is the Joint Special Operations Command, the snake-eating, slit-their-throats "black ops" guys who captured Saddam Hussein and targeted Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi.JSOC is part of what Vice President Dick Cheney was referring to when he said America would have to "work the dark side" after 9/11. To many critics, the veep's remark back in 2001 fostered his rep as the Darth Vader of the war on terror and presaged bad things to come, like the interrogation abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay. But America also has its share of Jedi Knights who are fighting in what Cheney calls "the shadows." And McChrystal, an affable but tough Army Ranger, and the Delta Force and other elite teams he commands are among them.
After the Zarqawi strike, multinational forces spokesman Gen. Bill Caldwell refused to comment on JSOC's role, saying, "We don't talk about when special operating forces are involved." But when Bush revealed to reporters that it was McChrystal's Special Ops teams that had found Zarqawi, Caldwell had to gulp and say (to laughter), "If the president of the United States said it was, then I'm sure it was."
Just sayin'.
Now, don't we have some terrorists to catch and an executive branch to oversee? Why, yes, we do. So put the Constitution down, hand me your scissors and go do your freakin' job.
Oh, and Denny? Last time I checked that Constitution, you worked for me and not the other way 'round, so I don't give a flying flip at a rolling doughnut what you "expect."
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Funny that Hastert doesn't talk about the 2 million or so dollars he made off of taxpayers money, illegally and unethicaly. This whole administration and their Republican counterparts have no shame and don't care who they screw in the mean time. That is, as long as they aren't geting screwed. Speaking of screwed, how about that pay raise they gave themselves. Last time I checked, you had to earn a raise, but I guess they count a rewrite of the Constitution as earning it. Asshats.
Posted on July 2, 2006 11:34 AM