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Hours before vetoing a war spending bill, President Bush said Tuesday that Democrats who made the legislation a showdown over withdrawing U.S. troops could turn Iraq into a terror-spreading "cauldron of chaos" with their approach.The guy is simply a liar. A dumb as a post, messianic liar. And actually, it's worse than that. The White House knows Iraq is lost. They're simply trying to run out the clock so that when the next president takes over they can say "Iraq was going great until YOU took it over." Read More......
Bush to veto Iraq spending bill, will make statement at 6:10 pm ET: White HouseYep, he's vetoing the bill on Mission Accomplished Day. Priceless. Read More......
The commission accused him of having decided hastily to go to war, neglecting to ask for a detailed military plan, refusing to consult outside the army and setting “over-ambitious and unobtainable goals.”His name would be... George Bush?! No. Well, yes, this clearly does apply to Bush - but in fact, it's a new report about the Israeli Prime Minister's ill-fated venture into Lebanon. And in Israel, unlike America, when the head of state screws up a war, his cabinet members start to resign (rather than publicly defend him and then later write "oops" books) and the head of state himself has to publicly explain why he shouldn't have to resign.
Today marks the fourth anniversary of President Bush’s jet landing on the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln and his speech declaring major fighting in Iraq over, all in front of a giant “Mission Accomplished” banner.Check out this nugget from the NYT at the time:
At the time, it was heralded by the mainstream media as a fitting moment of triumph. "He won the war," boomed MSNBC's Chris Matthews. "He was an effective commander. Everybody recognizes that, I believe, except a few critics."....
When Bush spoke, the U.S. had 150,000 troops in Iraq; the number now stands at 160,000 or more. American casualties at the time were 139 killed and 542 wounded. A year ago they stood at 2,400 killed and now it's 3,300 dead.
The president declared an end to major combat operations, White House, Pentagon and State Department officials said, for three crucial reasons: to signify the shift of American soldiers from the role of conquerors to police, to open the way for aid from countries that refused to help militarily and -- above all -- to signal to voters that Mr. Bush is shifting his focus from Baghdad to concerns at home….A lie doesn't get any clearer than that. They lied to us. And 3,000 more US troops are dead as a result. Read More......
''This is the formalization that tells everybody we're not engaged in combat anymore, we're prepared for getting out,'' a senior administration official said….
The number of terrorism incidents in Iraq -- and resulting deaths, injuries and kidnappings -- skyrocketed from 2005 to 2006, according to statistics released by U.S. counterterrorism officials yesterday.Mission Accomplished! If you're Osama bin Laden. Read More......
Of the 14,338 reported terrorist attacks worldwide last year, 45 percent took place in Iraq, and 65 percent of the global fatalities stemming from terrorism occurred in Iraq. In 2005, Iraq accounted for 30 percent of the worldwide terrorist attacks.
Democratic leaders in Congress are planning a special ceremony on Tuesday afternoon to send President Bush a bill that sets timetables for troop withdrawal from Iraq.This isn't about theater. It's about a war that Bush started without a plan. It's about a war where over 3,000 U.S. soldiers died after George Bush said major combat operations were over (only 139 American troops had been killed by "Mission Accomplished" day). We've seen plenty of Bush's theatrics. We need to see some rational thinking and a plan to end the war. Bush and his team should put as much time in to thinking about ending the war as they put in to the theatrics and politics of the war. Read More......
The timing is no accident. It comes on the fourth anniversary of the day Mr. Bush stood on an aircraft carrier under the banner “Mission Accomplished” and declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended.
The Democrats’ ceremony, featuring the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, is part of the elaborate political theater at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue surrounding the Iraq spending bill, which is destined to produce only the second veto of Mr. Bush’s presidency.
But with Mr. Bush planning to spend Tuesday in Florida talking with military commanders, the White House was being coy on Monday about what kind of theatrics of his own — if any — he might stage. Democrats, however, said they expected the veto to come Wednesday.
An Interior Department spokesman, Hugh Vickery, said the proposed rules the senators questioned were part of an old document not now under consideration. He said the department is looking for recommendations on how to administer the Endangered Species Act more consistently.Q: How do you tell when a GOP political appointee is telling a lie? A: When their lips are moving. I can't wait to hear the Interior Department answer the question about how scraping the protection system benefits endangered wildlife. That's going to be a priceless moment and a response worth saving. Read More......
Environmental activists raised alarms about the draft rules change last month, saying the revisions would weaken the act so much that about 80 percent of the 1,300 species now on the endangered list would lose protection.
The activists also said government documents they obtained indicate revisions were being made as recently as February.
The U.S. government said on Monday 38 poultry farms in Indiana were given contaminated feed containing melamine in early February, with some of the animals likely to have entered the food supply.Since they say it's a "low risk" for humans, let's see the leaders of the FDA eat that tainted glop and then tell us about their own guinea pig experience. Let them eat three eyed fish. Read More......
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