and just today Gen. Petraeus saying he thinks US troops can be out of Baghdad in the next few months.

-- T. Suare

Just Baghdad? Oh well.

Yeah, Petraeus likes those Friedman Units. They come in handy about every six months.

It is finally dawning on him that he has zero credibility and he is fighting back the only way he knows how.

-- adnoto

Considering just about every damn thing I said about the troubles in the Twin Cities is going to be dead spot on.

And speaking of having one's ass handed to them...

I'm not going to cut and paste Glenn's take down of you. I'm sure he isn't particularly fond of me lately but you really need some help, adnoto. And I do mean that sincerely. It's another skill I have. Spotting nutbars.

;-)

Take care, bro.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/world/middleeast/30contract.html

U.S. Advised Iraqi Ministry on Oil Deals

By ANDREW E. KRAMER

Published: June 30, 2008

"A group of American advisers led by a small State Department team played an integral part in drawing up contracts between the Iraqi government and five major Western oil companies to develop some of the largest fields in Iraq, American officials say."

"The disclosure, coming on the eve of the contracts’ announcement, is the first confirmation of direct involvement by the Bush administration in deals to open Iraq’s oil to commercial development and is likely to stoke criticism."

Hand over control - wow, that sounds great.

Are you going to sit there with a straight face and claim that U.S. military bases have been removed from the region? Is there no more U.S. military presence in Anbar province? Have those troops packed up and headed home?

Just a political stunt, repeated by the "liberal media" verbatim, without analysis.

Kind of like the claim that Sarah Palin's $500 million subsidy gift to Transcanada (backed up by $18 billion in loan guarantees from the U.S. Congress) is for "the lower 48".

It's not - it's for Albertan tar sand production. Yes, the media does lie to the American public on a rountine basis. That's what they're paid to do.

"All Biden has to do is ask Palin who the President of Pakistan is

slam--DUNK!

-- BeatnikBob "

I think Beatnik Bob was being facetious. After all, Dubya blew this exact question in 2000, and look what that ignerrence cost him....

Cheers,

Hey Chris do you think he [lwm/Paulic] is too stupid to realize he is doing it or do you think he is just engaging in rank lies and deceit because that is what comes most naturally to him?

I tend to think it is the latter but sometimes I wonder. After outing himself the other day and having had his ass handed to him you would think he would crawl back in his hole but instead he attempts to use the Rovian tactic of projecting onto his enemies his own traits and failings. Yeah... it has to be the latter. It is finally dawning on him that he has zero credibility and he is fighting back the only way he knows how.

-- adnoto

I think we are looking at mental illness. He does not care what is said or what the facts are as long as he is in the middle. Or, is this a trait of undercover-cops who are big government fascists?

Perhaps he just is a Republican. He does slimy stuff and then accuses other people of it even as we can all see the real truth in front of us. Hmmmmm. I think that is it. After all, he tries his damnedest to make Glenn's bog look bad via his crap.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/business/economy/05stox.html?em

They're scratching their head over this, but the math would seem easy if I worked for FOX news. It was of course, the hideous speech of Sarah Palin that caused a mass wave of panic throughout the markets.

Well, yeah, seeing as it's the capital of the country and that's where most of the insurgent activity took place.

Here are the ads we need to see:

Harry Reid saying, "The war is lost."

Obama saying the surge would fail.

Various other Dems saying similar things ...

All while showing US troops handing over Anbar to the Iraqi army, of captured documents from al Qaeada in Iraq begging for help from Osama because they were being crushed by the Americans, of Iraqis with purple fingers after voting ...

And then ending the ad with, "These are the defeatists you want to lead us in a time where Islamic terrorists have sworn to kill all Americans?"

Hmmmm.

I think you should post Glenn's bitch slap of you. He asked why you still posted here.

Why do you?

HAHAHA. You crack me up. Especially with the Fox Business section inclined to blame any drop in the DJ on something the Democrats did/didn't do.

Seriously, I'm thinking the pounce is going to begin fairly soon. But really, they tried this crap in 2006 during the Congressionals... and it blew up in their face.

I think 2008 will be a similar animal. I'm almost tempted to tune into O'Reilly tonight to see Obama speak there, which should be interesting.

All Obama/Biden need to do is actually address issues, while McCain and Palin fume, and they should pull this out. Though I do think that Obama sent a coded message today that if Palin wants to lash out like that, then she's going to have to take it.

I'd look for a good attack ad against Palin coming out on Friday.

I wouldn't be so quick to compliment Obama for discussing "issues" (did he say anything about the brutal behavior of riot cops at the RNC?) Yes, he dresses his rhetoric in clothes suited to the problems that we face in our daily lives, those of us who aren't rich or well-connected. And maybe he will help us avoid some of the suffering we would otherwise endure (give blankets and wal-mart groceries and maybe a little healthcare to the plebes to keep them quiet). But what substance lies beneath that stuff? I find that a pendulum swings from radical support of the wealthy (GOP), to tepid support of the middle-class/poor (Demos), and back again, election after election, while what actually happens behind the scenes remains constant. Behind the scenes government servants cede ever more power to corporations and wealthy oligarchies (at the cost of our liberties, our environment, our health and wealth) while serving them further by sending troops (our fellow citizens) and secret ops to foreign countries to ensure the wealth-generating plans of those oligarchies succeed. It is all a shell-game and the only reason it succeeds is that we keep playing in the same game. It's time to change not just the rules, but the game itself.