Rumsfeld: If you don't support neo-con agenda we'll kill this puppy ...

But oh, what the hell, let's just kill the puppies whatever you do.

The new policy from on high is that mascot puppies adopted by US troop units be "hunted down" and killed. Here is a picture of puppy Conner who was hunted down and killed less than 24 hours before he was to be sent to the US:



You can read the soldier's blog and reactions to the euthanasia, here:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/itsacountry/76081.html

and more, here:

http://www.metafilter.org/search_comments.cfm?user_ID=18064

<edited for more doomed puppy pics>

While this is horrible, is it really surprising coming from this admin?

after all, he supplied most of them.

and have something to remind them that they're human, while in the hell of Iraq. We just want them to kill, kill, kill. If it were me, I'd frag the officer that killed my pup.

THAT sounds like killing. Look, if you can't keep your righteous indignation lined up straight, maybe it would be better to just READ the blog rather than to participate.

THAT sounds like killing. Look, if you can't keep your righteous indignation lined up straight, maybe it would be better to just READ the blog rather than to participate.

why is anyone surprised?

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:kick::cry:

That would mean actually doing something to help a companion animal instead of trying to interfere in meat eaters lives.

sos, eh?

about Bush, Cheney, Frist, Santorum, Rummie, Wolfie, Feith, Perle, Cambone, Chu, Myers, Boynton, Condi, Gonzales, 6666666666666666 Ashcroft, Rove.

As to Myers and Boynton - they are the personification of conduct unbecoming an officer and conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline.

and a sadist.

I hadn't heard this before. Rumsfeld wants to destroy mascot animals? Why?

:shrug: :shrug:

and to be fair, it is not clear that this goes all the way up to Rumsfeld, according to some of the military blogs that have commented on this.

"disease carrying vermin" by the military PTB.

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We can't have Iraqi Spy Puppies running wild in America! What if they disclose secret information to the Chinese Spy Puppies!

could have incited Barney and "Miss Beazley" to "bite the hand that feeds them." <sarcasm off>

I don't know how much more of this I can bear.

could distract from the "mission"?

I read this. I can grasp man's inhumanity to man more than I can man's inhumanity to helpless creatures. I hope there is a special place in hell for Rummy et al.

because thousands of Iraqis are being killed and it seems almost racist to worry about puppies. But they just seem so innocent (but so are many Iraqis). I'm conflicted. But that puppy was so, so cute.