Author Archives: Ryan Chartrand

Florida recount, Katherine Harris, “Bin Laden determined to attack within the U.S.,” “Bush Doctrine,” no WMD, the “last throes of the insurgency,” “Mission accomplished,” no post-invasion planning, George Tennet’s “slam dunk,” Rumsfeld’s five month war, their Medals of Freedom, corruption, Tom DeLay, fake journalist Jack Gannon, Jack Abramoff, Randy “Duke” Cunningham, Ted Stevens, scandal, Larry Craig, Mark Foley, secretive government, Rove, Cheney, rendition, secret prisons, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Halliburton, Blackwater, KBR, signing statements, recess appointments, John Bolton, stove-piping information, “Kenny Boy” Lay, Enron, John Yoo and the “quaint” Geneva Accords,” legalizing torture, Harriet Myers’ and Rove’s refusal to testify, “executive privilege,” belief in a “unitary executive,” the “disappearance” of administration e-mails, Terri Schiavo, unsigned Kyoto accord, obstacles to stem-cell research, denial of global warming, systemic incompetence, Hurricane Katrina, “heckuva job” Brownie, telecom surveillance of citizens and immunity for spying, suspension of habeas corpus, political firing of U.

In response to Patrick Molnar’s June 3 article, “Support Our Troops”: Stop hiding behind the military to bash our president. I am in the Marine Corps Reserve, I’ve spent nine years at Cal Poly, I’ve deployed overseas four times and was in Iraq in 2003. For my service, I receive $440 a month for my GI bill – one-quarter of the active duty amount – but that’s the way things go.