Joke making the rounds among veterans' advocates sick of the Bush administration's incompetence and outright hostility towards veterans.

Ray & Bubba 
 
Mechanical engineers were standing at the base of a flagpole,  looking up. A woman walked by and asked what they were doing. 
 
"'We're supposed to find the height of  the flagpole," said Bubba,  "but we don't have a tall enough ladder."

The woman took a wrench from her purse,  loosened a few bolts, and laid the pole down. Then she took a tape measure from her pocket, took a measurement, and announced: "Eighteen-feet, six-inches," and walked  away. 
 
Ray shook his head and laughed. "Ain't that just like a woman!" 
 
"We ask for the height and she gives us the length!" 
 
Bubba and Ray are currently working for the VA in benefits adjudication.

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Via MAL Contends
As Attorney General Alberto Gonzales testified before the House Committee on the Judiciary today, veterans mobilized on behalf of jailed Air Force vet Keith Roberts, indicted and convicted by the controversial US Atty Stephen Biskupic.

In several e-mail trees, the veterans urged veterans and supporters to phone members of the Judiciary Committee questioning Gonzales on the recent firings of US Attys, and what US Attys who had kept their jobs may have done to remain in their positions.