chickenhawk

Eager to fabricate some tough-guy credentials, Senator Richard Burr couldn't stop himself from rushing into the breach, exclaiming to the media that torture was an essential ingredient in killing Osama bin Laden. A few days later, John McCain called bullshit, declaring that torture played no role in finding bin Laden. Today, Leon Panetta lays out the facts even more clearly, explaining that torture actually led to false information that delayed finding bin Laden.

Senator Burr is either a grandstanding opportunist, a simple liar, or so badly misinformed as to be criminally negligent in doing his job.

I vote for all three.

Pat posted a video that violated security, people died, he took it down.

Now he says nobody told him not to . . . but the Pentagon says otherwise.

Vote Vets calls for censure. I'd like a Congressional investigation.

A summation of the whole bragging, pandering, lameass debacle.

Use this (and thoreau's post) to write a letter to the editor to at least one newspaper serving NC's 10th District. Unless you're on-line (and many in the 10th are not), you probably have no idea what Pat's been up to lately. We can write and link and blog and comment, but unless we get into the local press, Republicans who might bge quite happy with Daniel Johnson won't even know McHenry needs to be replaced. Scroll to the bottom of the post for links to most 10th District newspapers that have websites.