They've been Evil for a Long Time

Bad Ol' Rummy & Big Time.

Tiger Force, we've written about it before.

Women and children were intentionally blown up in underground bunkers. Elderly farmers were shot as they toiled in the fields. Prisoners were tortured and executed - their ears and scalps severed for souvenirs. One soldier kicked out the teeth of executed civilians for their gold fillings.

Two soldiers tried to stop the killings, but their pleas were ignored by commanders. The Army launched an investigation in 1971 that lasted 41/2 years - the longest-known war-crime investigation of the Vietnam conflict.

The case reached the highest levels of the Pentagon and the Nixon White House.

Investigators concluded that 18 soldiers committed war crimes ranging from murder and assault to dereliction of duty. But no one was charged.

But Cheney & Rumsfeld observed their crimes being covered up, as if it never existed and no one ever heard about it.

It was the Toledo Blade that exposed it.

Thirty years later.

Now those same two individuals have been around for the pretext of war; Abu Ghraib, John You, Waterboarding, Guantanamo, Steven Green, Haditha, and the never ending declarations of "progress", "stand down as they stand up", "no one anticipated (fill in blank)" and "last throes".