Again some more loving from Bush for our vets: A top White House official weighed in Thursday with renewed veto threats against rival House and Senate Iraq funding bills, saying add-ons for veterans and the unemployed were unacceptable. Most significantly, Jim Nussle, director of the White House budget office, said that a plan by House […]
Yesterday John McCain told a townhall meeting this: “My friends, I will have an energy policy which will eliminate our dependence on oil from Middle East that will then prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East.” Luckily we also got video of this […]
As our troops are bogged down and getting killed in Iraq. And as our administration prepares for a war with Iran. Wouldn’t it be nice if we actually went after the people who caused 9/11? Instead Bush has handed them a gift for killing all those people.
Because it might increase how long the war goes on. That’s what the Bush administration is telling Congress. Isn’t it sad that at a time when record numbers of Americans are losing their homes, our President is worried about aiding another country and not our own citizens? That should be considered a crime against the […]
He won’t support the Webb GI bill, and is instead offering his own that will give the greatest benefits to those that have served 12 years or more. Hey – sorry if you got your legs blown off in Iraq, but we don’t want to do anything for you! That is exactly what will happen […]
During Petraeus’ testimony on the Hill, he constantly referred to the terrible state Iraq was in during 2006, and even went as far as referring to it as a “civil war”. Last night Dan Abrams took us down memory lane to 2006 and showed how many times Bush, along with the rest of the administration, […]
If you ask any right winger they say it is. I admit violence has dropped in Iraq, but was that the purpose of the surge? No. The purpose was to give the government “breathing room” to come to political reconciliation. Well they were given this breathing room and it hasn’t happened. That means that only […]
Of course what they are paying attention to is a poll that says McCain leads Obama and Clinton on the issue of Iraq by 14%. They also seem dumbfounded by the results. Really? I’m not. Here’s why McCain is doing good in that part of the poll. The fault lies in the same people who […]
Time for things to heat up even more in Iraq: But a defiant al-Sadr called on his followers Saturday to ignore the order, saying that his Mahdi Army would turn in its weapons only to a government that can “get the occupier out of Iraq,” referring to the Americans. This fight is Shiite on Shiites. […]