Pete Stark is an anti-war Dem superdelegate with a history of outrageous behavior. He is a congressman from Fremont, Ca, and has endorsed Barack Obama. .The latest Pete Stark stunt came a few days ago, when Stark realized a group of US military officers were in the House gallery, watching congress debate a spending bill. Stark looked up in the gallery and saw uniformed officers. Stark took offense. (Right there is your clue he is a crazed nutjob.) He fired off a letter to the Secretary of Defense, demanding an investigation. Here is the letter.
May 16, 2008
The Honorable Robert Gates
Secretary of Defense
1000 Defense Pentagon
Washington, DC 20301
Dear Secretary Gates:
Yesterday, while voting on the war supplemental spending bill in the House of Representatives, I couldn’t help but notice a contingent of approximately 20 flag rank Army officers sitting in the House Gallery watching the debate and vote for a couple of hours. I was looking from below so I thought they were Army, but there could have been other branches present.
It’s possible they were on leave time or vacation. If so, I obviously have no concern. However, if they were doing this on military time, I want an explanation of why they were there.
At a time when our nation is at war, our troops are over-extended, and the Administration is literally asking for emergency military spending, what good to the “war on terror” is having US Generals and other top ranked officers - who were likely accompanied by staff and escorted by their chauffeurs - spending hours sitting in the gallery of the House of Representatives?
Please provide for me the name, rank, branch, and duties of each of these officers, as well as the number of additional staff and drivers that were used to facilitate their attendance yesterday. I would like this information by Monday, May 19th.
If they were here on official duty, this was an abhorrent misallocation of our military resources at a time of war.
Sincerely,
Pete Stark
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It turns out the officers were a class of officers from the Army War College. They all had served in either Iraq or Afghanistan, with multiple deployments. They were taking part of a tour of Congress, officially approved and part of the Army War College curriculum. (AP photo/Terry Ashe) Hat tip: Gateway Pundit
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The upside to this episode - the officers got an object lesson in how moronic Dem superdelegates can be.
