Why is the GOP bragging about illegal delegates?

:wtf:

Lately there has been a lot of buzz around my (military) office about involvement in partisan politics. There has even been official "training" on the subject. Some political activities are okay. Some are not. The DoD directive 1344.10 (recently reissued by the Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz) spells out that "a member on active duty shall not participate in partisan political management, campaigns, or conventions (unless attending a convention as a spectator when not in uniform)." Last I checked, delegate was different from spectator, making these delegates in direct violation of the DoD directive! The whole reason this directive exists is that the military as an organization is not supposed to be loyal to any political party... only to the nation it serves. When the GOP boasts that 3% of their delegates are active military, they make a mockery of the idea of military non-partisanship.

See the DoD directive I'm talking about:

http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/html2/d134410x.htm

See the article where I noticed 3% of GOP delegates are active military:

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-16-2004/0002232715&EDATE=

Has this issue been brought up yet?
Has the GOP issued a response regarding possibly illegal delegates?

that even when their perfidy comes to light, nothing bad is gonna happen.
It's that goddamn self assured arrogance they have because they know they'll never be called on their shit.

then he asked a GOP spokesman about it, who said there were no active duty military at the convention--and then the PR piece about it that you mention got edited to remove the "active duty" phrase (so it seems--apparently the version on the GOP website got changed) and I wrote Alterman about it, and now we are waiting to see what happens. I have told all my media contacts about it.

developing

read more here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x706155

I caught your postings on the earlier thread. Thou art a little bigger than life, to me.

think it should be looked into more closely. I hope you didn't mind.