Obama's "Mission Accomplished" Speech?
President Obama, Feb. 27, 2009: "Let me say this as plainly as I can: by August 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end..."Bush, May 1, 2003: "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the...
View ArticleHappy Mission Accomplished Day
Just because the President who inaugurated this auspicious day has mercifully left us, doesn't mean we won't mark the occasion. The idiot may be gone, but so are the Iraqis and GIs he sent to die.On...
View ArticleJohn McCain's Wartime Reign of Error
When it comes to matters of war and peace, over the past decade no American political figure outside of Dick Cheney has been as egregiously and frequently wrong as John McCain. Yet despite his almost...
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Speaking of "demonstrably false ..."
Honest to God, the effort to rewrite history by various members of the Bush administration has gone beyond ridiculous.During Sunday's interview on "60 Minutes," President Obama explained why his speech...
View ArticlePerino Forgets Bush Called His War Rhetoric a Mistake
As she makes clear with alarming frequency, former Bush press secretary Dana Perino knows very little and seems to remember even less. In 2007, Perino admitted her ignorance of the Cuban Missile...
View ArticleObama's "Mission Accomplished" Moment
This morning, the United States Senate passed legislation that is still sometimes called health care reform, though it is not. Now Obama is saying that the government is delivering on "the promise of...
View ArticleUnCrashing NCTC: Name_Search Is Political Dynamite
There are always going to be suicidal mad man. al-Qaeda's business plan is to use them to kill us.National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) is political dynamite.Bushie sycophant Michael Leiter burned...
View ArticleLeaving the 'No Fly List' Busted is Political Suicide
No Fly List is a subset of law enforcement's Terrorist Watch List. Meanwhile, the White House will do well to remember this:"I, (NAME), do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution...
View ArticleLeaving 'No Fly List' Busted is Political Suicide
No Fly List is a subset of law enforcement's Terrorist Watch List. Meanwhile, the White House should never forget this:"I, (NAME), do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of...
View ArticleLeaving the 'No Fly List' Busted => Political Disaster
No Fly List is a subset of FBI's Terrorist Watch List. That system is not up to commercial standards. Several new parts, called RAILHEAD, are flat-out busted: NY Times "the flaws discovered are...
View ArticleThe Real Mission Accomplished - Revised & Expanded
In President Obama's State of the Union address, he raised the profoundly important issue of public trust. He cited a lack of public trust in our institutions, in our government and in the media. He...
View ArticleRove: No Bush War for Democracy in Iraq
As millions of Iraqis braved bomb blasts and threats of violence to vote this weekend, voices across the political spectrum in the U.S. praised the democratic elections. But while President Obama...
View ArticleVentura Low Way
With apologies to Cenk Uyger and Jesse Ventura (and to the band "America"), all of whom I like and respect, but lemme see if I've got this straight:When I returned to MSNBC in 2003 I was a...
View ArticleObama's "Mission Accomplished" Moment?
Everybody is celebrating this health care reform legislation like we just won the Super Bowl. Or just beat Iraq. All that's missing is the "Mission Accomplished" sign.
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Open thread for night owls: Mission (still not) Accomplished, 16,000 staff to...
Greg Mitchell reminds us of a big anniversary coming up on Sunday, the 8th birthday of George W. Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech from the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln.Mitchell dredges up...
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HEMMED In - Casualty of War: A Person ... Not a Number
Today's output from Blogistan Polytechnic Institute’s state-of-the-art HEMMED (High-Energy Meta Mojo Elucidation Detector) machine is the "liquid product of the process of crying" or tears (as a...
View ArticleGOP/Media response to Iraq withdrawal
Over the past week or so President Obama's accomplishments have been documented here and on other sites. Last evening without fanfare or declaring Mission Accomplished another promise was kept (as...
View ArticleWar in Iraq is over
President Obama will announce the end of the 7 year war in Iraq tomorrow. However, 50K troops will remain in theater.
View ArticlePresident McCain Speaks on Iraq
In the wake of President Obama's speech last, the neoconservative architects of the Iraq Warpredictably reemerged to claim credit for the national disaster they portray as success. But one of them,...
View ArticleAnyone Remember the 'Mission'
Doubt if many have it marked on their calendars, probably don't want to be reminded that some 70plus% supported it and the drum beating from Washington and the Media outlets, all of them!But Greg...
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