It was bound to happen and this probably won't be his only appearance in my "Dummy of the Week" award. However, this week I have to say the honor goes to ...
Chairman of the Democratic Party .... HOWARD DEAN!
(Tell him what he won, Johnny!)
Howie is the hand's down winner this week for the following quote on CBS's "Face the Nation":
"... today it looks like women will be worse off in Iraq than they were when Saddam Hussein was president of Iraq."
In spite of the fact that women in Saddam's Iraq had to deal with RAPE ROOMS - where Saddam, his sadistic sons, and the Iraqi intelligence apparatus used RAPE as an institutionalized method of maintaining order.
In spite of the fact that women in Iraq had no vote - well, not one that amounted to anything anyway.
In spite of the fact that Saddam took the lives of hundreds of thousands - perhaps millions - of Iraqi sons and daughters in his many campaigns of genocide. And in spite of the fact that thousands of mothers still grieve for these lost sons and daughters to this day.
In spite of the fact that thousands of women today walk the country in search of mass graves that may hold the remains of their loved ones - loved ones murdered by Saddam.
In spite of the fact that thousands of women still grieve for their lost husbands and sons who were killed in the Iranian War and the Gulf War as a direct result of Saddam's bloodthirsty greed.
In spite of the fact that women in Iraq certainly never celebrated the fact that Saddam used chemical weapons on his own people - and all women had to live in fear of the possibility that he would use the same weapons on them.
In spite of all that - and a million other reasons - Howie thinks that women were better off under Saddam.
It appears that Howie's only gage of women's rights is how short they are allowed to wear their skirt. That is a pretty shallow yardstick if you ask me - but a typical one for Democratic men in politics.
Howie, one question bro...
What rights will the new Iraqi constitution take FROM women? The right to wear a mini-skirt?
With tortured logic like this being displayed by Dean - can we help it if we just outright conclude that he is ANTI-AMERICAN and PRO-SADDAM? I mean, give me a break - did he go to public relations 101 class with Baghdad Bob as his instructor?? "There are no tanks in Baghdad! No Sir! No Tanks!" ..... Boom! Boom! Boom!.... "Those were NOT tanks!"
I think it's clear that, if we win this war and defeat terrorism - it won't be because of anything Howie Dean contributed to the effort.
HOWARD DEAN - DUMMY OF THE WEEK
Monday, August 15, 2005
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Hey,
Thanks for commenting on my blog. You did ask a couple of questions and since I didn't see your email on your site, I'll go ahead and answer them here.
I'm sure people get promoted faster in the Army as well. But the problem is that Trueman is a recruiter for the Army Reserve, he's in an AGR slot. They cannot give him his E7 because that's a station commander rank / appointment and there are no Reserve station commanders. So he can't get promoted until he leaves recruiting.
For an AGR recruiter, there's no such thing as a no-fault transfer. The only way he will get out of USAREC, according to his chain of command, is "in a body bag, in handcuffs, or with retirement papers". Or, of course, if they find he's not up to snuff and toss him out onto the street. Figuratively. If that happens he can turn around and go back reserve.
Everyone I know who's gotten out of recruiting because they were no good at it got 1s and 2s on their NCOERs, which is pretty much a career ender. One lady they kept for 4 years at this station and now they're sending her to Korea on a bachelor tour and then to Iraq after that (so they said). They said, "She is the worst recruiter we've ever had, but she's good at the paperwork." So rather than let her go, they just kept giving her shit because she was good for something.
The majority of active duty recruiters are non-volunteers in the Army. They just get put into USAREC for three years and then sent back to their units. If they do badly, they take away their recruiter incentive pay. But they won't transfer them or let them get out of USAREC.
Trueman volunteered because he was going for an AGR slot. The only AGR slots they had open at the time were for recruiters, so he became a recruiter. Now he's stuck with it, pretty much. He's even volunteered to go to Iraq, but USAREC told him they needed him there.
There's a slim chance that he may get out of this. His shrink wants to write him a letter to recommend he be relieved of recruiter duty. His doctor who is treating his ulcer wants to do the same. And there's a unit here (heavy bridging unit) that has an open, full-time AGR slot open, and they are willing to request him by name. So hopefully that will get him out of USAREC.
The irony of all this - he was infantry for 18 years. He's been deployed nearly anywhere active, Guard, and Reserve. He served in the Old Guard and the Berlin Brigade. But he says this is the most stressful job he's ever been in.
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