Markos Moulitsas, founder of The Daily Kos, chastised the former GOP Congressman Tom Tancredo for not answering his call to duty. Tancredo having obtained 1-Y status in 1970, after his student deferments ran out, on the grounds that he had been "diagnosed with depression when he was 16 or 17 and received medication for five years for panic attacks and bouts of anxiety and depression." Tancredo was 24 at the time. Hats off to Moulitsas!

If Bush didn't have the courage to serve, he doesn't have the courage to lead.

If Cheney didn't have the courage to serve, he doesn’t have the courage to lead.

A US missile strike in Somalia, aimed at a man described by the Pentagon as a "known al-Qa'ida terrorist", succeeded only in hurting six civilians and killing three cows and a calf, the IoS has learned. At least one Tomahawk missile was believed to have been fired from a US submarine off the Somali coast on Monday... Our ChickenHawk-in-Chief can now boast of blasting bovines, an enemy, at last, that he has a chance to defeat.

Michelle Obama, who often has decried "the fear bomb'' that opponents have used against her husband for his middle name -- Barack Hussein Obama -- said in Canton, Ohio, today that it is happening again and shows why it's so important that he wins election as president. "They threw in the obvious, ultimate fear bomb," Obama said today of her husband's 2004 Senate race. "We're even hearing [that] now. … 'When all else fails, be afraid of his name, and what that could stand for, because it's different.'"

In 2007, Sheldon Adelson was one of the founders of Freedom's Watch; a right wing political attack machine that is intent on continuing the war in Iraq and with any luck, moving forward and starting another war in Iran.Sheldon Adelson owns both the Venetian and the Palazzo in Las Vegas, when they make tens of millions of dollars on gamblers and conventions, Sheldon makes millions of dollars.Does he invest that money for the good of the country?No, he invests it in war. (And lwyrs.fees; he's being sued & is in court in Israel this wk.)

In this article, the author argues that unless pro-war "patriots" are willing to fight in the war themselves, they should just shut up.

This is a nice bookend to the story about none of his five sons joining the military to fight the war their father supports--the inherited their cowardice from him.

Mitt Romney said that his five privileged elite stockbroker/real estate boys are supporting our nation by helping get their father "elected." We could dispute the allegation of how getting a pandering, war-mongering, born-again abortion foe elected is good for our country, but that's not the point.

As Steve Benen noted, Bush’s remarks to the soldiers yesterday hardly produced the rally-like atmosphere of years past. Reuters reported that troops “sat quietly at their lunch tables, some joined by family members, as Bush spoke.” The Houston Chronicle’s Julie Mason described the event as “less than a rally, more than a stare-down,” and said the troops were “strangely quiet.”