Salus populi suprema est lex*

Christy at Firedoglake posted the Sunday Talking Head's Thread and keenly noted:

I would love to hear Jack Murtha and Lindsey Graham talking honestly about the mess that our military is in at the moment — and about what that means for our national security. And about the abysmal treatment our vets have been getting at Walter Reed and elsewhere.

Well, Christy - I think Jack Murtha did not let you down. Think Progress has the video:

Murtha pointed out that Cheney “just does not listen to what I’m saying.” Cheney ignores the military’s readiness crisis and the fact that “the future threats to this country significantly increased in the last year because we have no ground strategic reserve. … He doesn’t talk about the policy and the results of what I’m saying.”

And just look at who is complaining over at Faux Noise. Brit Hume called "the neglect and deplorable conditions at the military hospital a “potential” political firestorm suggesting that the Bush administration would not have demanded resignations from the Army Secretary and the chief of Walter Reed had the Democrats not taken control of Congress last November."

Think Progress has that video too.

*Salus populi suprema est lex - The safety of the people is the highest law.

Decay, Mismanagement and Redirection

Newsweek writes about how the government is struggling to care for an increasing number of injured soldiers.

Carl Levin spoke this morning of the deplorable conditions at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. "we need a surge is not in Iraq. We need a surge of concern for our troops, for the veterans, for the injured, for the wounded, for the families of those who have lost loved ones. That’s the surge of concern and that’s the surge that we need," Levin said.

Think Progress has the video.

Meanwhile, SEYMOUR M. HERSH writes about "The Redirection - The Strategic Shift" toward Iran.

Some of the core tactics of the redirection are not public, however. The clandestine operations have been kept secret, in some cases, by leaving the execution or the funding to the Saudis, or by finding other ways to work around the normal congressional appropriations process, current and former officials close to the Administration said.

Crooks and Liars has the video of Sy Hersh with Blizter on CNN.

We are simply in a situation where this president is really taking his notion of executive privilege to the absolute limit here, running covert operations, using money that was not authorized by Congress, supporting groups indirectly that are involved with the same people that did 9/11, and we should be arresting these people rather than looking the other way…