Even The Colbert Report on Comedy Central lampooned the administration's attempts to cover up torture. Unfortunatly, this latest power grab by the Bush administration is no laughing matter.

The most responsible "private contractor", seems to be KBR, a former subsidiary of Dick Cheney's Halliburton. Nice way to "support our troops".

Quoted: Shoddy work by private contractors is causing more deaths and injuries on U.S. military bases in Iraq than previously acknowledged, according to documents.

Quoted: Congress should pass legislation to require the president to consult lawmakers before going to war, according to a bipartisan study group chaired by former U.S. secretaries of state James Baker III and Warren Christopher.

Bill Moyers editorial on Memorial Dat

Quoted: We honor our war dead this Memorial Day weekend. The greatest respect we could pay them would be to pledge no more wars for erroneous and misleading reasons; no more killing and wounding except for the defense of our country and our freedoms.

Nice way to support our troops . . .

Quoted: The number of suicides among veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may exceed the combat death toll because of inadequate mental health care, the U.S. government's top psychiatric researcher said.

Quoted: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives, in a surprise and largely symbolic move, defeated legislation on Thursday to fund the war in Iraq for another year. But it also sent the Senate a controversial

An average of 18 war veterans kill themselves each day - five of them under care at the VA. A sad state of affairs.

Quoted: Returning US war veterans sue the government over what they say is inadequate medical care.

Quoted: Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance, an examination by The New York Times has found. ... The effort, which began with the buildup to the Iraq war and continues to this day, has sought to exploit ideological and military allegiances, and also a powerful financial dynamic: Most of the analysts have ties to military contractors vested in the very war policies they are asked to assess on air.

If we wait to withdraw until these people get it together, we'll never leave.

Quoted: Iraq has dismissed about 1,300 soldiers and policemen who deserted or refused to fight during the offensive against Shiite militias and criminal gangs in Basra, officials said Sunday.