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An amazing story of government incompetence.

Last week, the U.S. Army soldier spent four days of his two-week leave from Iraq sitting in a cell at the Greene County Jail because he did not appear in court for his March 13 initial hearing on a misdemeanor charge of failure to stop after an accident resulting in damage to an unattended vehicle. He didn’t show up because he was at Speicher Camp in Tikrit, Iraq, 100 miles north of Baghdad on the Tigris River.

Howard had been deployed five days after the accident.

His father, Jeff Howard, said he called the Monroe County court system and offered to fax his son’s orders for Iraq. He said a woman agreed to postpone the hit-and-run case until his son returned home from war.

But that didn’t happen. Instead, a warrant was issued for his arrest the day of the scheduled hearing.

And when he got stopped on Ind. 231 north of Worthington this past Friday on a charge of speeding, the outstanding warrant popped up on the police officer’s computer. He hauled Nathan Howard off to jail and left Howard’s fiancee crying in the truck.

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If I had a dollar for every time that I heard some anti-war liberal complain about Mitch Daniels’ estimate for the cost of the Iraq War, I could probably pay for a good chunk of the cost of the war. At the very least, I could buy an entire island someplace tropical and retire.

This week, Brian Howey has taken a break from his usual worship of the Obamassiah to run some drivel by one of his columnists slamming Mitch Daniels for his estimate of the cost of the Iraq War.

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