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EVER.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME???
I am not upset it's just I NEVER SAID IT. EVER!!!
I AM NOT PISSED OFF!!!!
I NEVER said it.
I am SURE my friend HILLARY will back me up on that.
NOW WE ARE DONE.
http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives...
I'm happy Bob Barr is jumping into the fray. I think half the Republicans will vote for that hater! He is much more in line with their brand of hate than McCain. SPLIT THE VOTE, BARR!
McCrazy's failing at understanding foreign policy, the economy, and other matters needs to be stressed to the nth by the Dems, and since Clinton seems to be more favorable to McCrazy, perhaps that's the chink in her thinking as well.
Obama knows this country is probably at its weakest point in decades, and it will be up to the next president to repair the damage that has been done by those who believe that "might is right" and that manifest destiny to rape and pillage another country for its resources is this country's obligation.
So does America
Busboy
Seems like the country is ready for a "one term" president.
Seems like the country is ready for a certain president serving of a life time term in a federal institution.
his new best friend W. has gotten by all these years with no military knowledge whatsoever, so why shouldn't McMyTurn?
not a DRUNK...only partially senile!!
mcAiNUS!!mcAiNUS!!mcAiNUS!!!!
Bwa ha ha...
let's see if we hear McCain's BS repeated by beck, limbaugh, and hannity beginning tomorrow. That's how the GOPers get the sheep to fall in line...
Yep tlsintx....
GOP = The Dumbing Down of America
Is he slipping?
Rocket strikes follow overnight clashes that left 20 dead in Baghdad
updated 1:01 p.m. PT, Sun., April. 6, 2008
BAGHDAD - A rocket attack on the U.S.-protected Green Zone on Sunday killed three American soldiers and wounded at least 31 people, a military official said. The strike came after heavy fighting in a Baghdad neighborhood that left 20 dead and more than 50 wounded in the worst violence here since a cease-fire was declared a week ago.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23977964
McCain is WRONG on everything.
This link provides text and audio of Howard Dean's comments:
http://inewstube.com/content/view/102/64/
It's past time for our troops to come home.
According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, Russia and China. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain "will make Cheney look like Gandhi."
He's one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires. The Associated Press reports he and his wife own at least eight homes! Yet McCain says the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing foreclosure to get a "second job" and skip their vacations.
His reputation is built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/04/06/face-t...
"Chris Wallace seemed strangely fact oriented, there.
Is he slipping?"
Nope. Just has the flu.
Looks like "ObamaMiracle" has returned as "Jamra".
Rapid Withdrawal Is Only Solution
TESTIMONY BEFORE THE SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE ON IRAQ
By William E. Odom, LT General, USA, Ret.
2 April 2008
Good morning Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. It is an honor to appear before you again. The last occasion was in January 2007, when the topic was the troop surge. Today you are asking if it has worked. Last year I rejected the claim that it was a new strategy. Rather, I said, it is a new tactic used to achieve the same old strategic aim, political stability. And I foresaw no serious prospects for success.
I see no reason to change my judgment now. The surge is prolonging instability, not creating the conditions for unity as the president claims.
Last year, General Petraeus wisely declined to promise a military solution to this political problem, saying that he could lower the level of violence, allowing a limited time for the Iraqi leaders to strike a political deal. Violence has been temporarily reduced but today there is credible evidence that the political situation is far more fragmented. And currently we see violence surge in Baghdad and Basra. In fact, it has also remained sporadic and significant inseveral other parts of Iraq over the past year, notwithstanding the notable drop in Baghdad and Anbar Province.
More disturbing, Prime Minister Maliki has initiated military action and then dragged in US forces to help his own troops destroy his Shiite competitors. This is a political setback, not a political solution. Such is the result of the surge tactic.
No less disturbing has been the steady violence in the Mosul area, and the tensions in Kirkuk between Kurds, Arabs, and Turkomen. A showdown over control of the oil fields there surely awaits us. And the idea that some kind of a federal solution can cut this Gordian knot strikes me as a wild fantasy, wholly out of touch with Kurdish realities.
Also disturbing is Turkey’s military incursion to destroy Kurdish PKK groups in the border region. That confronted the US government with a choice: either to support its NATO ally, or to make good on its commitment to Kurdish leaders to insure their security. It chose the former, and that makes it clear to the Kurds that the United States will sacrifice their security to its larger interests in Turkey.
Turning to the apparent success in Anbar province and a few other Sunni areas, this is not the positive situation it is purported to be. Certainly violence has declined as local Sunni shieks have begun to cooperate with US forces. But the surge tactic cannot be given full credit. The decline started earlier on Sunni initiative. What are their motives? First, anger at al Qaeda operatives and second, their financial plight.
Their break with al Qaeda should give us little comfort. The Sunnis welcomed anyone who would help them kill Americans, including al Qaeda. The concern we hear the president and his aides express about a residual base left for al Qaeda if we withdraw is utter nonsense. The Sunnis will soon destroy al Qaeda if we leave Iraq. The Kurds do not allow them in their region, and the Shiites, like the Iranians, detest al Qaeda. To understand why, one need only take note of the al Qaeda public diplomacy campaign over the past year or so on internet blogs. They implore the United States to bomb and invade Iran and destroy this apostate Shiite regime. As an aside, it gives me pause to learn that our vice president and some members of the Senate are aligned with al Qaeda on spreading the war to Iran.
Let me emphasize that our new Sunni friends insist on being paid for their loyalty. I have heard, for example, a rough estimate that the cost in one area of about 100 square kilometers is $250,000 per day. And periodically they threaten to defect unless their fees are increased. You might want to find out the total costs for these deals forecasted for the next several years, because they are not small and they do not promise to end. Remember, we do not own these people. We merely rent them. And they can break the lease at any moment. At the same time, this deal protects them to some degree from the government’s troops and police, hardly a sign of political reconciliation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/articl...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/weekinreview/...
McCrazy is confused and befuddled by everything. He's looking for his car keys as we speak.
Nothing to worry about folks, just a malfunctioning chip or dementia setting in.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/06/sullivan-ru...
I'll believe it when I see it....
3 soldiers killed and 31 injured today in Iraq.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080406/ap_on_re_mi...
2 of the soldiers killed and 17 of the injured from an attack on the Green Zone. Must have been that two bit security guard who fucked that up right Senator Henry. You got your fat ass out of there just in time didn't you. How about we have a lottery. All the names of Senators and Representatives are put into a hat. 25 at a time are picked out and they spend 4 weeks in Iraq doing what the troops do, not in the Green Zone, not surrounded by helicopters and Special Forces. Just day in day out patrols, driving in Humvees (only the poorly armored) living the romantic life of an American soldier bringing democracy and peace to some rag heads in the Middle East.
Since you love it so much John, you are in the first plane load to make the trip. Hell I can't wait for this lottery to be on network tv.
I want one of the bonehead right-wing wackos that are still out there to please explain to me as to why this fool is your candidate and choice to be president? But, please, no faux news idiots. If I wanted a lemming response, I will make myself vomit and watch faux news myself.
meanwhile...according to Sen Biden Bush is just muddling til he can pass it on to the next pres.
We have lost Iraq and we are not getting it back.
Time for us to go.
I suspect that will change once the Dems have decided on a candidate.
81 % of Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction......so why anyone of those 81% would vote for more of the same is beyond me.
Yes...it is past time for us to get out of Iraq.
mccain is in a statistical dead heat with both hillary and obama. he's polling in the 40s. and mcsame is 4 more years of failed chimpy repuke policies.
I think there's a disconnect between the 81% of Americans who think we are on the wrong track - Chimpy has derailed us - and the 40% that McCain is getting for supporting those same "wrong track" policies.
One of those numbers has to be wrong, and I'm betting it's McCain's.
If Petraeus told Bush tomorrow that he should admit failure and open up a regional dialogue on how best to manage an American withdrawal from Iraq, suddenly his privileged position would be gone.
http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives...
if you come here to challenge our opinions, let's hear something substantive from you.
we've heard war hero, true hero, great american.
that's nice. is that it?
well, I think Senator McCain was doing a great job bombing the Vietnamese for whatever it was they did wrong back then.
The crime for which McCain was dropping Napalm on Vietnamese civilians was that they wanted to run their own country free from interference by foreign imperialists who were trying to run it through corrupt puppet rulers.
I don't know why people STILL consider this old and senile McCain even the slightest possible candidate for President.
He will be like Bush or Reagan. He will be an empty suit to smile for the photographers while the corporations rob the treasury and turn us all into serfs. That's all they want.