Support the Troops, GOP Style

David Iglesias, on one of his numerous taxpayer-funded junkets.

I was unaware that Iglesias was also a Naval Reserve JAG Officer (and evidently the inspiration for Tom Cruise's role in A Few Good Men, but I won't hold that against him)...anyway, Hullabaloo pretty much speaks for me. No, I'm not going to shed too many tears for David Iglesias or any of the other fired attorneys--it's not like they're innocent babes in the woods. They chose to be members of the GOP, which, as we now clearly see, embraces the philosophy of "we'll eat our own if it's politically convenient...even if only for short term, nominal gain."

And hey, the fired attorneys went along with the program, at least until THEIR characters were assassinated, and until they realized that if they didn't retaliate quickly and forcefully, that they'd forever have a big old ugly black mark on their resume: FIRED.

And "US Attorney" isn't exactly something you leave off your vitae.

So...Team Bush has been spinning like crazy since TPM managed to put this on the map. Good. Let 'em sweat. But one thing I find so ironic about this latest example of touche merde on the part of Team Bush is that not in a million years could ANY senior player in the administration survive the kind of performance review they're claiming--or not claiming, depending on the day/hour/minute--anyway, that they're claiming singled out the Gonzo-8 for early termination. Not one of them.