But damn this is bad. From our local newspaper: U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-West Chester Twp., visited Iraq today, Feb. 6, and praised American progress after the war-torn nation successfully held provincial elections last week. Not only did they get Boehner’s position wrong, but they totally screwed up which party controls Congress. This is […]
Of course the cable news networks is still relatively silent on this (except Olberman last night): Iraq’s prime minister on Wednesday gave gunmen in the southern oil port of Basra a three-day deadline to surrender their weapons and renounce violence as clashes between Shiite militia fighters and Iraqi security forces erupted for a second day. […]
On the same day that John McCain and Dick Cheney are there humping each other because they think this war was the best damn thing in the world. Maybe McCain and Cheney will meet up in the Baghdad airport later, to celebrate the way all good Republicans do
Last night Bush told America that he would start drawing down the surge in Iraq. Today that looks like another lie Bush told the American people.
Instead of debating Iraq, they choose to go after a political ad. A political ad has never killed anyone. Iraq has killed thousands. Now there is even more evidence that they should have done their job on debating Iraq. Today’s Washington Post has a front page article on how Petraeus did cook the books. He […]
There was a lot of attention give to General Petraeus saying he didn’t know if Iraq was making us safer. For those that missed it, here it the clip from yesterday’s Senate hearing: This was a very damming answer and could be detrimental to the warring morale of our troops. For their commander to say […]
Nancy Pelosi gave a great speech today on the House floor, stating why Bush’s surge should be stopped. The Huffington Post has the transcript up. The vote is coming soon on this resolution and it will pass. It has been frustrating watching it. The Republican’s talking points have been such: If we leave Iraq today, tomorrow […]
Five more soldiers were killed in Iraq today, bringing the October’s toll to 96 soldiers lost. The last time we had this many soldiers killed in Iraq in one month was last October, and that number is certain to go higher. Sidney Blumenthal also has an interesting piece up at Salon regarding Bush and the […]
Yup – that is a big news alert. Phil Angelides, a gubernatorial candidate in California says he would bring the National Guard home and FOX considers that a major news item. I wonder if FOX considers the two soldiers that died in Iraq today a “news alert”? Nah – they don’t even deserve to be […]
One thing Bush can not hide from this election season is the plethora of problems facing our forces in Iraq. Today has been another very bloody day: Police said Wednesday they found the bodies of 65 men who had been tortured, shot and dumped, most around Baghdad, while car bombs and mortar attacks killed at […]