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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
You might want to check this out too, on the subject of McCain's "straight talk." From an AP story I just saw:
McCain, appearing on NBC's "Today" show Wednesday from Orlando, Fla., said the war "was badly mismanaged. But there are signs of progress everywhere. ... I am confident that given the opportunity, we can have success. The consequences of failure are catastrophic because if we come home, bin Laden and Zarqawi, they are going to follow us."
Really? bin Laden is in Iraq? And Zarqawi is going to come back from the dead?
How can reporters report on any improvements in Iraq or in Baghdad, when it is still too dangerous for them to move about, as well? Instead, they must rely on Iraqi reporters to act as stringers, and even for them it is becoming too dangerous...
Good grief! Where is Joseph Heller when we need him? He has missed all of this!
has to be satire. Right? If not, someone should straight out ask this nitwit, why did you lie about General Patraeus?
is SO screwed by Iraq. And he knows it. There is just a real poetic beauty in the way his suck up to this administration on his hoped-for way to the white house is ultimately going to doom his candidacy.
Here is an alarmist Russian article on the U.S. buildup directed against Iran:
http://en.rian.ru/...
Here is an Indian journalist who reports that Sheik Khalifa of the UAE has just assured Iran that the UAE would not permit attacks to be launched from UAE territory against Iran. The UAE, by the way, is where the U.S. runs a theater air operations center out of Al Dhafra Air Base.
http://www.indiaenews.com/...
Note also Jim Hoagland's editorial in today's WaPo. Hoagland reports that Saudi King Abdullah has dissed Bush by declining an invitation to a White House Dinner in April and a state visit in September. Given the intertwined policy and business interests of the Bushes and the Saudi royals over the years, this signal is a very loud one.
In the swirl of self-serving propaganda spewing from all sides, it is difficult for us mere citizens to puzzle our way through the chaff to make judgments. But such signals as the ones above do seem to demonstrate that our Boys in the Bunker are frightening the entire planet, including erstwhile "friends." The only lingering support for the Boys in the Bunker seems to be among their obedient Republican apparatchiks serving in the House and Senate.
I would feel a lot better if there were some sign of adult supervision emanating from the bunker, but there is none. And each day both Bush and Cheney appear, in speech and appearance, to disintegrate further before our very eyes.
The only thing standing between us and an accelerating geopolitical death spiral may be Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Although Gates carries some baggage as an ideologue not above "fitting the facts to the policy" and as a loyal Bush family retainer, he does seem to be tethered to reality. He seems even now, as he operates under constraints imposed on him by the Boys in the Bunker, to reflect the reality-based GOP faction of Brent Scowcroft and James Baker.
Scrutinize every word Gates utters in coming days. Carefully.
This is leading up to a medical announcement of some kind re McCain. He's clearly not well in the head. Hopefully it's not anything dangerous, just some loose wiring. But he's clearly deteriorating mentally. After all he's been through, I hope there's a way for him to fade quietly out without too much embarrassment, away from the public eye.
In a radio interview Monday, McCain said that "there are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods, today."
Well, you know, he's right. He could take a walk in any Baghdad neighborhood right now. Never mind that by the end of the walk his head and his body would likely end up in separate places, but yes, he could take that walk.
And in a CNN appearance Tuesday, McCain told Wolf Blitzer that he "ought to catch up on things." Even outside the Green Zone, McCain said, Iraq is safe enough that Gen. David Petraeus "goes out there almost every day in an unarmed Humvee."
You see, what he means is that the Humvee itself is not armed. It is just an inanimate object. Now the people on the Humvee could be armed. And all the other Humvees around the General could have armed personnel on them. But the Humvee itself would not be armed.
So once again it's just a case of the liberal media twisting St. John's blessed words in order to spread lies about this glorious war he has so fondly embraced. Bill Bennett sees right through it, I'm sure.
Straight Talk McCain, what an oxymoron.
If we had the technology, we could power the Eastern Seaboard from McCain's spin.
has flipped. Let's take up a collection and buy him a one-way ticket to Bagdad. Then let's follow him to the " blast gates" of the Green Zone and watch through high powered binoculars as he is either demolished, kidnapped, or worse, and then wait till nightfall to go and retrieve what is left of him.
What a story. What a hero he would be. What an idiot...
There's a simple way for the straight talker to prove how straight he's talking.
For the next couple of weeks, let's send Old Straight out for solitary evening strolls on randomly selected sidewalks of Baghdad, just him and his white hair and American face, being welcomed as a liberator. That should prove it.
Better yet, he could take Bush and Cheney.
McWishWash still thinks Zarqawi is alive even though U.S. forces liquidated him last year. So it's no surprise he thinks outdoor volleyball is a viable recreation activity in Baghdad. Maybe he'll have extricated his swollen head out of Jerry Falwell's ass in time for the New Hampshire primary.
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Perhaps McCain, Lieberman, and their ilk should come over for a walking tour of Baghdad to prove their point. Bring the whole family. Stay for a week or two. You only have to listen to a brief presentation by one our our associates. Won't take more than an hour of your time. And, once you've been here, I bet you'll want to keep coming back over and over again just like the rest of our troops. Show us some of that famous straight-talking McCain spunk. Walk the walk, John. Think what a clear message it'll send to the folks back home.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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