We have spilt the blood of close to 4,000 of the brightest and best US military, with another 50,000-plus permanently physically wounded (loss of toes and fingers not counted!), uncounted mental casualties, bombed, slaughtered, raped, rendered homeless refugees of upto 85 to 655 thousand Iraqi dead (depending upon who’s doing the counting), another 2 million Iraqi wounded and displaced and YET - YET, the various commissions relating to the intelligence gathering or failure thereof, Abu Ghraib, NSA, FISA, CIA torture, Attorney purges (related and unrelated to the war) have been systematically lied to both by ex-Attorney General and White House personnel, false stories planted and leaked, key evidence has been suppressed lost, stolen, shredded, disks wiped clean, WH personnel have refused sub poenas, the President and the ex-Attorney General have both claimed loss of memory on specific questions, the President and the VP have consistently refused to appear under oath…
I have been diligently following these stories even though I lack a degree in law, politics, or have no degree in sewage cleansing, but I blinked for a second and the next thing I hear is - Barry Bonds is indicted on perjury!
I’m sorry I don’t understand sports; so I don’t understand what it is that he did that was even one-tenth as bad as the story I’d been following the past 7 years! Can someone please explain to me how this country can spend resources on a baseball commission to study the extent of drug abuse amongst players, list players who do not appear before the commission as drug abusers by default for non-appearance, and indict on perjury those who have appeared but claimed innocence when that is exactly what this country’s President, VP, ex-AG, and the entire WH gang have been doing for the past 8 years!!
Oh, thank you, I forgot that’s why you need a Harvard Law degree and an MBA! Poor Barry Bonds!
http://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/10/AR2006101001442_pf.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_conflict_in_Iraq_since_2003
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