Only eight more years?U.S. Will Be Out Of Afghanistan By 2017
'The U.S. will not be in Afghanistan eight years from now, the White House said on Wednesday, as President Barack Obama prepared to explain to Americans next week why he is expanding the war effort.'
What a disaster. The odds were never good that Barack Obama would make the right decision. But the very fact that Obama has to make a decision at all on Afghanistan eight years after we went there is the real crime.So did Bush and Cheney
Blair knew Iraq had no WMD before war
The former Prime Minister was told 10 days before the March 20, 2003 invasion that the dictator did not have usable chemical weapons or the warheads to launch WMD missiles, the Iraq inquiry was told. ...The inquiry heard that Saddam was not even close to developing WMD with much intelligence "patchy, sporadic" and "simply wrong".
Weapons of mass destruction had nothing to do with the invasion of Iraq. Even the good liars can't say that with a straight face anymore. Three trillion dollars wasted, 4,684 needless deaths, 31,557 wounded and shamelessly ignored the Taliban and al-Qaeda all the while, the wingnut sheep said nothing.
She didn't care either
LONDON — Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice raised the issue of Iraq with the U.K. hours after the Sept. 11 attacks, Britain's former ambassador told an inquiry into the Iraq war Thursday. Christopher Meyer, who served as then-Prime Minister Tony Blair's envoy to Washington between 1997 and 2003, said he spoke with Rice on Sept. 11, 2001. "She said there's no doubt this was an Al-Qaida operation, we are just looking to see if there could possibly be any connection with Saddam Hussein," he told the panel.Condi knew that day how badly she had screwed up.
Give or take 7,684 deaths
‘We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term.’
Right Dana. Bush may as well use 9/12/01 as his first day in office considering how little his administration did before that.
That's a joke, right?
Blackwater lawyers accuse Justice Dept. of ‘disturbing’ misconduct
The prosecution of five Blackwater employees over the notorious 2007 Nisoor Square massacre hit a snag Wednesday, when lawyers for one of the five accused federal prosecutors of "misconduct" in the case.
Blackwater complaining about 'disturbing' conduct?
He said he'd do that
Lobbyists pushed off advisory panels
Hundreds, if not thousands, of lobbyists are likely to be ejected from federal advisory panels as part of a little-noticed initiative by the Obama administration to curb K Street's influence in Washington, according to White House officials and lobbying experts.
No Gipper?
GOP purity test would have banished Reagan
...'A new GOP "purity test" named for Ronald Reagan moves the line even farther to the right, and a liberal website has found that the test -- if used in the past -- would have screened out President Ronald Reagan and President George W. Bush as viable conservatives. The test was conceived by conservative attorney Jim Bopp... Bopp's litmus test, titled the "Resolution on Reagan's Unity Principle for Support of Candidates," includes the following guidelines: (1) Smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits ...STOP!Wingnuts are conveniently delusional when it comes to Ronald Reagan's 'real' record; he grew government, he tripled the national debt and had eight huge consecutive budget deficits. Jimmy Bopp needs to rename his club.
What a fucking ego
Bloomberg Spent $102 Million to Win 3rd Term
'To eke out a narrow re-election victory over the city’s understated comptroller, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg spent $102 million of his own money, or about $183 per vote, according to data released on Friday, making his bid for a third term the most expensive campaign in municipal history. Mr. Bloomberg, the wealthiest man in New York City, shattered his own previous records: he poured $85 million into his campaign in 2005, and $74 million on his first bid for office in 2001.'
We did stay at a Holiday Inn...
Michaele and Tareq Salahi during the White House state dinner
