Archive for the 'Iraq' Category
Update: the source of the leak is a hoax, but the fact remains: for the GOP to send up John McCain and Sarah Palin to the batter’s box after George Bush’s disastrous tenure shows how reckless the POW (Party of War) is. I do not see how America’s shifting demographics will allow for the GOP […]
Jeffrey Hart becomes the latest conservative to endorse Barack Obama: A speechwriter for Reagan and Nixon—who worked at the National Review for four decades—on why he’s voting for Obama.
Read on:
Republican President George W. Bush has not been a conservative at all, either in domestic policy or in foreign policy. He invaded Iraq on the basis […]
When Congresswoman Crazy Michele Bachmann began to foam at the mouth about anti-American congress members, it reeked of McCarthyism.
Even the Republicans, usually with no shame, knew it was appalling and have pulled their funding for the nutwing from the North.
Yet it’s only been a few years since the Neocons sold out America’s future and egged […]
People like Edward N. Luttwak should not be allowed to talk, let alone morph policy. When talking about the obstacles John McCain faces, he notes:
But the particular Republican president in office happens to be very unpopular. At this point in history, all of George Bush’s achievements have been forgotten or discounted, including the defeat of […]
Hum… memo to Sarah Palin: if you will try to quote a General, try to get his name right:
Here is what was said:
The new top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said yesterday that more U.S. troops are urgently required to combat a worsening insurgency, but he stated emphatically that no Iraq-style “surge” of forces will end […]
Via YouTube, not sure how long this clip will stay up, so enjoy it while you can:
Wow. Folks, remember:
“There’s an old saying in Tennessee - I know it’s in Texas, it’s probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on … shame on you. It fool me. We can’t get fooled again.”
Star Liberal candidate and current foreign affairs critic Bob Rae has accused Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper of plagiarism involving a 2003 speech made about the Iraq war. At a campaign stop in Toronto, Rae showed this video of a speech given by Harper in 2003 (before he was Prime Minister) calling for Canadian […]
From Peter Bergen:
Lost in this discussion [of the surge] was the fact that while the surge of some 30,000 American soldiers certainly put more American boots on the ground in neighborhoods from Anbar province to Baghdad to “clear, hold and build” them and was clearly an important element in the sharp decline in violence […]