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If there's one thing I'm hating about this election cycle is that it's making me feel like a paranoid loon.

McCain suspending his campaign is making my spidey sense tingle in a really fucked up way. I wouldn't bet anyone $20 that something totally outrageous isn't about to happen.

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[zillah975]

So, since Army Times is quoted in the story I thought I'd look and see what they had to say about it. I didn't do an exhaustive search, but in the first three searches the only thing I could find is this article, from 10/17/2006: U.S. Army North up and running.

It says, in part:

Located at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, USARNORTH achieved initial operating capability in September 2005, and is responsible for specific missions, including:

• Execute homeland defense and defense support of civil authorities missions.

• Provide training and readiness oversight of certified weapons of mass destruction--civil support teams.

• Conduct the Army-to-Army portion of the theater cooperation mission with Canada and Mexico.

• Coordinate the activities of defense coordinating officers and their elements assigned in each Federal Emergency Management Agency region.

• Organize up to two task forces that, with augmentation, can become joint task forces and deploy within the operational area to command and control Department of Defense forces responding to homeland defense or civil support operations.

Now I'm NO expert on the military, and I'm certainly pre-disposed to assume the worst about the current administration (and am very inclined to believe they'll steal or cancel the election if they can), but that sounds to me like just what we're talking about here. That they've been doing this since '05 or '06, just as part of the whole Homeland Defense thing.

So, I dunno...? I dunno. Anyway, I thought I'd mention it.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

On the face of it, it seems to be one of the few things this administration has done that actually does make sense in light of 9-11 and Katrina.
If I saw signs that troops were being vetted for "patriotism" I'd worry. I don't.