You may have read about the letter sent to the Washington Post from the Joint
Chiefs in response to a cartoon. If not then head over to

AMERICABlog for the details.

I am not in total agreement on this issue. I believe in the freedom of speech
and that the Joint Chiefs should also be allowed to express that freedom.
However, if they are going to show outrage over a political cartoon in a
newspaper, then they should also show outrage to groups like
Westboro Baptist Church.

The Joint Chiefs make the point that the families and individuals who are
hurt feel great pain and loss. That pain and loss is also great during the
funerals of fallen soldiers but there is no proof the Joint Chiefs have
expressed any outrage over this. How about outrage when right wing pundits also
insult Casey Sheehan because his mother is a war protestor? Those pundits
deserve the same type of outrage that the Washington Post was given.

Last night our President mentioned the word “freedom” a total of 17 times.
Cindy Sheehan had her freedom taken away last night when she was arrested at the
Capital Building. Now we find out her only crime was being in the same place as
a Capital police officer who was ignorant to the rules and laws of the land.
Outrage should be expressed from the Joint Chiefs to the officers who arrested
Cindy and also escorted

Mrs. Young out last night. The Joint Chiefs are leading the fight to spread
freedom and that fight doesn’t stop here at home.

So I don’t really think they are being dictators or putting up the iron
curtain on our news media. Instead, my take is that the Joint Chiefs are
exercising a purely partisan hypocrisy. If your going to use the power of your
pen and letter head to express outrage then you must do it fairly.