Letters to the Editor
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You can fool some of the people...
...all the time.
I was surprised Cheney didn't say once al-Qaida "captured" the Iraq oil reserves, the next thing they were going to do was come to America and capture Washington, or at the very least Walmart.
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Closer than Usual
This statement is closer than usual to the truth. Cheney has legitimate concerns about how the U.S. withdrawal would result in oil revenues going to a group that he doesn't want them to.
But the group in question is the Iraqi people, which - as a result of the Friedmanist coup that privatized Iraq's oil interests - are presently controlled by foreign, predominantly American interests.
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"the quality of WR stories... has indeed gone up" - Or Not.
Not that Mr. Benen writes bad stories, he often has valid points, but the idea of War Room isn't some partisan McCain-bash. It's supposed to be a bulletin on the campaign news of the day, along with insightful but nonpartisan analysis. Who's winning superdelegates, what the polls in PA show, the astonishing fact that Obama's polling behind McCain in New York state - that kind of thing. Sort of like the Caucus blog on the Times or the Ben Smith/Jonathan Martin blogs on Politico. Instead, Benen spends half of his time bashing Bush, who as far as I know isn't running for re-election, and the other half taking shots at McCain, when what the blog is supposed to be about is the election, and the only one going on at the moment is the Democratic primary.
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Lightweight liberals
If you defeatists got your way we'd be out of Iraq - opening the door for Iran and al-Qaida to takeover the oil,
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I don't know about WR as the official McCain "basher"
but Asher, given the fact that the rest of the MSM seems to spend most of its "McCain coverage" time fighting over who gets to sit on his lap that day --- I don't mind hearing what McCain is really saying when he is actually asked a question. However infrequent that may be.
Good stuff lately, Steve.
JT
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If you're starving, and can not see further than the nose on your face...
You don't eat your nose.
You clear the fog.
The war is between the left and the right.
War Room prior to Benen focused too much (In my opinion, and clearly in the opinion of many others) on parsing the minutia between Obama and Clinton, which resulted in long, virulent, vindictive, unproductive letters sections which went round after round with the same posters saying the same things over and over again.
Nationwide (And here exeplified) it seems the Dems are eating their own, and that needs to stop.
I'm not saying that this is no place to examine the differences between the Democratic canididates - But it was getting ridiculous, when nearly every post was about the dems bashing each other..
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thank God
the LAPD has contained the war between the Crips and the Bloods. Otherwise, if it spead, they could take over Hollywood! I shudder to think what nefarious plans they would have for us if they got their hands on our entertainment industry!!
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WR targets
I would rather have War Room focused on the Big Lies (Cheney-Bush et al) than the small lies (Hillary's sniper fire). Let's remember who's fucking up the world and not get sidetracked by Obama-Clinton. End of the day, Obama'll be elected if we keep exposing the truth about Iraq and Bush-Cheney-McCain.
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Why should he even try?
Maybe by repeating such a ludicrous "argument," Cheney is just illustrating that all he and the president (and every other Administration apologist) can do at this point is preach to the converted. They're going to do what they're going to do, and 65%-70% of the American public has rejected it and isn't going to believe whatever they say or accept any line of reasoning from them, and the remaining 30%-35% is going to stick by them no matter what. So why should Cheney make some great intellectual, or even intelligent, effort to sell stay-the-course at this point? If this were a basketball game, we'd be in garbage time. Of course, if this were a basketball game, taking a shot wouldn't kill you.
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@ Asher Steinberg
"It's supposed to be a bulletin on the campaign news..."
Like, how McCain is getting a free pass on basically, everything? Shouldn't you be somewhere accusing someone of anti-Semitism? Oh yeah, must defend Bush's war on brown people that might not like Israel...
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Oh, Dana
You know, while Cheney's idiocy on this subject and many others is obvious, and while it's clear the reporter's question has no good answer, I have to point out that just because Dana Perino couldn't come up with a one doesn't actually prove anything except it's a day that ends in "y".
Sometimes I miss Tony Snow, his answer would have been deviously clever and, while still utterly wrong to the point you want to throw things, would have found a way to blame it all on the Democrats.
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But What If They Did?
I'm of the opinion that IF Al Qaeda did take over the oil reserves, their religious fanaticism would be overwhelmed by the profit potential, and they'd fall apart squabbling over who was gonna be in charge. At best, they'd wind up like Saudi Arabia: the fact that the Great Satan is their biggest customer, while galling to them, would serve as a major disincentive to wiping us off the planet. Nobody wants to destroy the hand that feeds them, and we're the ones paying $4.00 a gallon for oil.
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what's mysterious?
Nothing, that's what. Once the war went south, years ago (I'd say when Bremer disbanded the Iraqi army and the neocons figured they'd create a capitalist paradise in Iraq, that was the point of no return), Bush and Cheney and their cabal have had one goal:
Lie, lie, and lie some more, with whatever lies would work, to get re-elected, and to stay in Iraq until 2009. That's it.
Remember, they're NEVER talking to us. They're talking to the idiot 51% who voted for them. The Base, plus independents who barely know what time of day it is.
So, there's nothing mysterious here when you realize that they're not talking to us. They never have been.
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Just to Add...
... the reporter in question is Eric Brewer currently from Raw Story formerly of BTCNews. He usually has excellent questions, which is why he almost never gets to ask them.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Bush_Al_Qaeda_in_Iraq_stealing_0320.html