"We don't have enough federal translators to handle even a fraction of the data coming out of Iraq."
Does anyone have an opinion about the administrations sacking of some guy arabic language military translators several years ago. So far as I know they were just thrown out for being gay, not for bothering anyone. I could understand this happening years ago when being a closeted gay was easily blackmailable, but this century?
I'm aware that they have to get the documents translated, and that jveritas has been working overtime translating them and posting his results here.
What I'm confused about is 'why', since this is such an important issue, we (our government) doesn't have enough federal translators. We've only been in this war since 2003. Why haven't enough translators been hired by now? The impression I get from the Bush administration is that translating these documents, this PROOF, is just not a priority. But, if it can win the war of words and verbal assaults against Bush and his credibility and integrity, coming from the enemy within, why the heck "isn't" it a priority? I just don't get it.
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It's not that they have to vet in order to release it- it's released already- it's that they have to get it translated before they even know what it says. Jveritas here is one of the people translating these things and sometimes he's the first to do so since they left Iraqi hands- knowing what they say even before our own gov does. We don't have enough federal translators to handle even a fraction of the data coming out of Iraq.
Please see my post 86 that addresses the government translators issue.