Collected Thoughts

On 60 Minutes tonight Andy Rooney called out the President. I don't remember his exact words, hopefully this will end up on YouTube or Crooks and Liars, but he said the President needs to come out and tell the truth about the Iraq war. He also mentioned the number of American soliders killed -- about 2800, to paraphrase he said: about because there isn't an exact number every day 6 or 8 more men are killed.

I hope that conservative Americans who would normally dismiss someone like Keith Olberman will listen to Rooney and really start to queston the President and how this was handled.

Also Pat Tillman's brother released a letter speaking out agains the war. It's a powerful letter that everyone needs to read. I've seen articles about this letter on espn.com and Fox sport's website. The espn.com article only used excerpts from the letter but the quotes used are: "Somehow, the more soldiers that die, the more legitimate the illegal invasion becomes," and "Somehow, the same incompetent, narcissistic, virtueless, vacuous, malicious criminals are still in charge of this country. Somehow, this is tolerated. Somehow, nobody is accountable for this.".

It's a short piece byt a good one. Again, I think this will reach people who are more conservative and think of liberals as being a dirty word. Hopefully Kevin Tillman's words will speak to them.