Showing posts with label Baghdad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baghdad. Show all posts

Saturday, May 24, 2008

We Love Lists


PerrspectivesBlog: John McCain's Top 10 Out-of-Touch Moments

Go to the post at the link above for a full description of McLame's gaffes and positions.

1. Economic downturn is "psychological."

2. "Great progress economically" during the Bush years.

3. eBay is the answer for poverty and recession.

4. "Tear down" New Orleans?

5. Irresponsible, undeserving homeowners.

6. Work a second job, skip a vacation.

7. "Protect the privacy" of Cindy McCain's tax returns.

8. Opposed to SCHIP expansion, McCain speaks at children's hospital.

9. Baghdad safer than some American neighborhoods.

10. "I'm not running on the Bush presidency."

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Wednesday, April 09, 2008

McCain Still Delusional About Iraq

Remember McCain's "stroll" through a Baghdad market? When he dared to say it was safe to go to the market, when he went there with 100 armed men and 5 combat helicopters?

He's still nuts. He gave a speech on Iraq yesterday extolling the progress of the surge.

Coverage of the speech was interrupted by news reports of bombings of the Green Zone in Baghdad.

Keith Olbermann parses the speech & McCain's delusions:

Friday, January 11, 2008

Perfectly Normal

It's thundering outside my windows, in January...

and it snowed in Baghdad today, for the first time in almost 100 years.

But there's no global warming.

Thursday, April 12, 2007

News Round-Up, Thursday, April 12, 2007

Thick smoke rises from the site of an explosion at Baghdad's Al-Sarafiyah bridge where a suicide bomber blew up a truck, 12 April, 2007. A suicide bomber has blown himself up in the Iraqi parliament canteen in Baghdad's Green Zone, killing three people in a major breach of security at the country's most heavily guarded site.(AFP/Ali Yussef)


A suicide/homicide bomber blew himself up in the Iraqi parliament cafeteria this morning. That would be in Baghdad, which the surge is supposed to be making safe, and within the heavily fortified U.S. Green Zone. George Bush's disaster continues.

The real story behind the US Attorney Purge, from Talking Points Memo. It's a giant Karl Rove operation designed to keep poor and black and Democratic voters from exercising their right to vote:

Republican party officials and elected officials use bogus claims of vote fraud to do three things: 1) to stymie voter registration drives and get-out-the-vote efforts in poor and minority neighborhoods, 2) purge voter rolls of legitimate voters and 3) institute voter ID laws aimed at making it harder for low-income and minority voters to vote.
The White House claims that all those off-the-books emails on the RNC/GWB43 servers have just disappeared. How convenient. Jesselyn Radack, a Justice Department lawyer who was hounded out of the department for challenging the prosecution of John Walker Lindh, has a dailykos diary on how emails are forever. (She found emails the Justice Dept. had erased in order to keep from producing them in response to a federal discovery order; when she revealed this, she was fired! Justice, Bush style.) 50 White House officials have used the RNC accounts; of course Karl Rove is one of them.

George Bush's Pentagon announced yesterday that EVERY U.S. Army soldier's tour will be extended from 12 to 15 months. George Bush is breaking the Army.

George Bush is looking for a 'war czar', but three generals he's approached have turned him down. As many bloggers have pointed out, isn't that his job? Or the Secretary of Defense? For a guy who complains about the bureaucracy all the time, Dubya sure does love to create it.

Media Matters for America has a timeline of the decline and fall of Don Imus. It took seven days. I think the timeline shortchanges the impact of the Rutgers women's basketball press conference. They made a powerful statement.

BoingBoing
has some good links to audio and video of the late Kurt Vonnegut.

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

McCain's Fantasy Revealed


John McCain took his heavily armored little walk in Baghdad's Shorja Market on Sunday then proclaimed:

“Things are better. There are encouraging signs,”

Yes, Johnny Mac feels safe while wearing a flak jacket, surrounded by 100 armed men and five combat helicopters.

The 21 Shorja Market workers who were ambushed and executed yesterday didn't feel quite so safe. They aren't encouraged at all. They're just dead, more wasted lives on the altar of the Madness of King George and all his preening sycophantic courtiers like St. John McCain and his Bullshit Express.

The 21 Shiites, together with six Kurdish colleagues still missing, worked in Baghdad's popular Shorja market where 60 people were killed in a double suicide bombing targeting Shiites last Thursday. Medics said their handcuffed and blindfolded bodies were found near a water-treatment plant in the village of Morariyah after daybreak.