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The Frito Pundito realizes why Iraq's Civil War is so much less glamorous than ours was, a lack of stirring war songs!
I-I wish I wuz in the land of petrol
Where the damage is co-lateral
Fire away, fire away, fire away
Syraqiran*!
There's IRE's and SAMs abounding
Oh to see a Blackhawk grounding
Fire away, fire away fire away
Syraqiran
And for those who haven't seen V: for Vendetta yet, our government gives you a preview of what a dystopian fascist nation would look like played out here in the good old US of A:
A draft Bush administration plan for special military courts seeks to expand the reach and authority of such "commissions" to include trials, for the first time, of people who are not members of al-Qaeda or the Taliban and are not directly involved in acts of international terrorism, according to officials familiar with the proposal.
The plan, which would replace a military trial system ruled illegal by the Supreme Court in June, would also allow the secretary of defense to add crimes at will to those under the military court's jurisdiction. The two provisions would be likely to put more individuals than previously expected before military juries, officials and independent experts said.
[...]
Detainees would also not be guaranteed the right to be present at their own trials, if their absence is deemed necessary to protect national security or individuals.
Honestly, why don't they just start weighing the defendents against a duck and have done with it? If they weigh the same they've obviously made of wood and therefore wi- er terrorists. There. Done.
I-I wish I wuz in the land of petrol
Where the damage is co-lateral
Fire away, fire away, fire away
Syraqiran*!
There's IRE's and SAMs abounding
Oh to see a Blackhawk grounding
Fire away, fire away fire away
Syraqiran
And for those who haven't seen V: for Vendetta yet, our government gives you a preview of what a dystopian fascist nation would look like played out here in the good old US of A:
A draft Bush administration plan for special military courts seeks to expand the reach and authority of such "commissions" to include trials, for the first time, of people who are not members of al-Qaeda or the Taliban and are not directly involved in acts of international terrorism, according to officials familiar with the proposal.
The plan, which would replace a military trial system ruled illegal by the Supreme Court in June, would also allow the secretary of defense to add crimes at will to those under the military court's jurisdiction. The two provisions would be likely to put more individuals than previously expected before military juries, officials and independent experts said.
[...]
Detainees would also not be guaranteed the right to be present at their own trials, if their absence is deemed necessary to protect national security or individuals.
Honestly, why don't they just start weighing the defendents against a duck and have done with it? If they weigh the same they've obviously made of wood and therefore wi- er terrorists. There. Done.
