Posted on 02/24/2011 10:05:09 AM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan is calling for an investigation into charges that an army unit trained in psychological operations was improperly ordered to manipulate American senators to get more money and troops for the war.
A senator allegedly targeted said Thursday that he's confident there will be a review of the facts, but played down the idea that he was manipulated.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., Jack Reed, D-R.I., Al Franken, D-Minn., and Carl Levin, D-Mich. Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y., of the House Appropriations Committee; the Czech ambassador to Afghanistan; the German interior minister, and a host of influential think-tank analysts, the story said, without identifying the international figures by name.
“These aren’t the droids you’re looking for...”
Assuming anyone on that list has a mind is a stretch..
You got that right. FRanken ? lolol
Is that the same goat used on the Capital One commercials?
It rates a star on the Hollywood walk of fame.
Why didn’t this squad get mustered back when Sen. Murtha was tossing around wild, ill-researched claims about Marine misconduct?
Excellent reference!
beat me to it.
“..improperly ordered to manipulate American senators...”
Waterboarding?
Those nasty soldiers, not like the Teachers’ Union holding schoolkids and their family hostage. With the teachers it is about important things like money, pensions life long health insurance...., but with the military it was about unimportant things like their and their men/women lives.
Toying with retards is wrong, but fun.
According to Mitt’s papa, George Romney, this was going on back in the sixties when he was dumb enough to use the word “brain washing” in relation to how the Army handled him when he visited Viet Nam. Maybe or even probably cost him the 1968 Republican nomination.
Your Jedi mind-tricks won't work on me!
You got that right. FRanken ? lolol
Franken would be the last person on earth I would target - first you have to have some brain matter to work with LOL
The Army only had to use their child unit and dangle shiny things in front of them.
The Senator should be very careful. The “brainwashing” thing didn’t work too well for Mitt’s dad.
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