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Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people in a shooting spree at Fort Hood and wounding dozens of others, begins an arduous legal process today that could end in his death. The Article 32 proceeding, as it is called, could run for more than a month with Col. James Pohl sifting through the evidence. Pohl's task will be to gather evidence and then tell higher-level commanders if a trial should be ordered. It isn't clear how Hasan's lawyer, himself a former military judge, will counter testimony, likely from GIs in a crowded Fort Hood deployment...

I don't know if I invented this idea or not... Maybe I heard it after Abu Ghraib, or after the world was aflutter over Baghdad Bob, or after they canonized Rachel Corrie, or any of the numerous occasions the MSM goes out of their way to endanger Americans and promote terrorists.

MIDI - PROUD MARY They're meeting in their committee...Democratics, Republicans...non-partisan One group can't be trusted...we find their memo...Reagan said it, "There you go again" This stuff may well be treason...politics is the reason Rollin', rollin'...heads ought to be rollin' One man steps forward, Zell Miller...he is sick because of what his party's done Anything for power...it doesn't matter...what rules do they follow...there are none This stuff may well be treason...politics is the reason Rollin', rollin'...heads ought to be rollin' (musical interlude) Rollin', rollin'...heads ought to be rollin' Their actions hurt our brave soldiers...they are doing damage but they just...

Iraq Toll Hits a Nerve With Murtha Veteran Hawk Says Some Bush Strategists Have to Go By David S. Broder Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, September 27, 2003; Page A07 John P. Murtha, who came to the House of Representatives in a 1974 special election, was the first Vietnam War veteran to enter Congress. A Bronze Star holder, the old Marine has been one of the Pentagon's best friends, looking out for the military budget as ranking Democrat on the Appropriations subcommittee on defense. It was, therefore, anything but a routine moment when the normally publicity-shy Pennsylvanian joined dovish House...