re: speaking of gnats...
And yet a vice president who once ran a company that once acquired two other companies that once legally sold oil drilling equipment to Iraq through another French company is somehow of vital and critical interest.
For the record: "Desertion" and "AWOL" have exact meanings. Use them accurately or don't use them at all. For people who get their panties in a bunch every time the word "treason" is tossed around indiscriminately, you aren't that precise with your rhetoric either.