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Instapundit links to midwife training in Afghanistan. it was suppressed under the Taliban.

one in nine women die related to childbirth there.

but it's finally starting to change.

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Instapundit links to midwife training in Afghanistan. it was suppressed under the Taliban.

one in nine women die related to childbirth there.

but it's finally starting to change.

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no, calling for a military coup isn't hysterical or irrational at all. a good prosecutor could probably make a solid sedition case out of it, though.

"conduct unbecoming" is a Uniform Code of Military Justice charge. you can't arrest someone that isn't in the miltary for a UCMJ violation, because if they aren't in the military then the Code doesn't apply....cuz, they aren't in the military. wicked circle, that.

Ed Morrissey's smackdown about it is certainly worth a read.

Secondly, the President does not serve at the pleasure of the Joint Chiefs -- and indeed, the military is subservient to the civilian command structure. They do not have arrest authority over the President -- nor over anyone else in the US other than military personnel, as the Posse Comitatus Act stipulates. Civilian oversight keeps the military from seizing power and is a long and vital tradition in this nation. It's what keeps us from becoming a banana republic, run by military strongmen.

Instapundit updates his original pointer post with further:

Bill Maher can't get an NYT correspondent to join in the Bush Bashing.

Alas, you have to wonder what kind of a person puts vindication and political opportunism ahead of America and Iraq's future.

yes you do.

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no, calling for a military coup isn't hysterical or irrational at all. a good prosecutor could probably make a solid sedition case out of it, though.

"conduct unbecoming" is a Uniform Code of Military Justice charge. you can't arrest someone that isn't in the miltary for a UCMJ violation, because if they aren't in the military then the Code doesn't apply....cuz, they aren't in the military. wicked circle, that.

Ed Morrissey's smackdown about it is certainly worth a read.

Secondly, the President does not serve at the pleasure of the Joint Chiefs -- and indeed, the military is subservient to the civilian command structure. They do not have arrest authority over the President -- nor over anyone else in the US other than military personnel, as the Posse Comitatus Act stipulates. Civilian oversight keeps the military from seizing power and is a long and vital tradition in this nation. It's what keeps us from becoming a banana republic, run by military strongmen.

Instapundit updates his original pointer post with further:

Bill Maher can't get an NYT correspondent to join in the Bush Bashing.

Alas, you have to wonder what kind of a person puts vindication and political opportunism ahead of America and Iraq's future.

yes you do.