That’s what the Republicans love to say about Iraq. Here’s a fact – 28 Iraqi army recruits were killed by a suicide bomber.
This is interesting, and Andrew Sullivan sums it up best: How fuck-you to McCain-Lieberman is that? Amen!
Barack Obama forgets to mention Hillary’s debt in a speech and goes back and asks people to help with it. The media makes a huge deal out of it. John McCain forgets who are enemy is in Iraq and the media brushes it off. Yeah – those are serious priorities there.
So he is now tying himself to the regular GOP stance on the wars also. Thanks for telling us the truth for once McBush! (h/t Aravosis)
Well when you are trying to save your career then that’s the case. Oregon Senator Gordon Smith is trying to align himself with Obama in his latest ad: To be fair, Smith has been an outspoken critic of Iraq, but the Obama campaign isn’t buying into this attempt of Smith’s to save his butt: Barack […]
DSC_2008 Originally uploaded by intoxination This was a “Out of Iraq” truck parked at Yellow Springs, Ohio during their street fair this weekend. Yellow Springs is the home of Antioch University, a liberal Haven buried deep in red Ohio. Great times to be had there!
That’s how John McCain characterized getting the troops out of Iraq today: First it was 100 years in Iraq, then it became “out by 2013” and now we get “it’s not that important”. This ranks right up there with Boehner’s characterizing the dead soldiers as a “small price to pay”. It might not be important […]
Following up on Christian Coin-gate that I reported on yesterday, the Army is now conducting an investigation: The US military said on Friday it was probing complaints that marines handed out coins inscribed with a verse from the Bible to a group of Sunni Muslims in Iraq, sparking outrage among local residents. It said a […]
Truly disturbing statistics out by the Army today: Pentagon officials say there were fewer Army suicides last year than they had feared. But it was still the highest number in almost two decades. Two defense officials said Thursday that 108 troops committed suicide in 2007, the most since 1990. The officials spoke on condition of […]