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Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann discuss McCain decrying Republican ad he doesn’t want run. Rigggghhhhttttt!
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CARTER SAYS RICE NOT TELLING THE TRUTH (gee, who ya gonna believe?) THE BAGHDAD EMBASSY, A W HOTEL SENATE REPUBLICANS BLOCK PAY DISPARITY MEASURE BAGHDAD FIGHTING SPREAD BEYOND SADR CITY CIA FORESAW INTERROGATION ISSUES U.S. TO TAKE THIRD SHOT AT PROSECUTING MIAMI 7 (most ridiculous!) HOUSE VOTES TO BLOCK MEDICAID CUTS HUNDREDS OF EPA SCIENTISTS REPORT POLITICAL INTERFERENCE OVER LAST FIVE YEARS EDWARDS BACKERS TEAM UP WITH OBAMA ABBAS SEEKS U.S. PRESSURE ON ISRAEL (good luck with that one) MUSHARRAF BOLSTERS PAKISTAN/CHINA BOND IRAQIS SEE RED AS U.S. EMBASSY OPENS Club Blue
Rod Stewart - Broken Arrow The Battered ConsumerAs your average, everyday consumer, I hate always being on the low end of the totem pole. As prices keep rising, as with the following story, wages are staying pat - for those lucky enough to keep a job. The wealthy business owner demands increases to make up for shortages. The rest of us have to suck it up.
Will They Still Call It “The Dollar Menu?”
Public Service AnnouncementPetraeus Set To Head Central Command
As always, the worse you do your job, the more incompetent you are….. the higher up the chain you will go in this administration. Here’s the guy who had the job of training the Iraqi military………and failed miserably on that count. And what do they do with him…..give him promotion after promotion. Competence isn’t a requirement for promotion in this administration……being a Bush hack is. Petraeus is good at being a Bush hack. Well deserving a promotion on that qualification. From Tom Engelhardt: No, the Iraqi army will never “stand up”: It can’t. It’s not a national army. It’s not that Iraqis can’t fight — or fight bravely. Ask the Sunni insurgents. Ask the Mahdi Army militia of Muqtada al-Sadr. It’s not that Iraqis are incapable of functioning in a national army. In the bitter Iran-Iraq War of 1980-88, Iraqi Shiite as well as Sunni conscripts, led by a largely Sunni officer corps, fought Iranian troops fiercely in battle after pitched battle. But from Fallujah in 2004 to today, Iraqi army (and police) units, wheeled into battle (often at the behest of the Americans), have regularly broken and run, or abandoned their posts, or gone over to the other side, or, at the very least, fought poorly. In the recent offensive launched by the Maliki government in Basra, military and police units up against a single resistant militia, the Mahdi Army, deserted in sizeable numbers, while other units, when not backed by the Americans, gave poor showings. At least 1,300 troops and police (including 37 senior police officers) were recently “fired” by Maliki for dereliction of duty, while two top commanders were removed as well.
Though American training began in 2004 and, by 2005, the President was regularly talking about us “standing down” as soon as the Iraqi Army “stood up,” as Charles Hanley of the Associated Press points out, “Year by year, the goal of deploying a capable, free’standing Iraqi army has seemed to always slip further into the future.” He adds, “In the latest shift, the Pentagon’s new quarterly status report quietly drops any prediction of when local units will take over security responsibility for Iraq. Last year’s reports had forecast a transition in 2008.” According to Hanley, the chief American trainer of Iraqi forces, Lt. Gen. James Dubik, now estimates that the military will not be able to guard the country’s borders effectively until 2018. No wonder. The “Iraqi military” is not in any real sense a national military at all. Its troops generally lack heavy weaponry, and it has neither a real air force nor a real navy. Its command structures are integrated into the command structure of the U.S. military, while the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy are the real Iraqi air force and navy. It is reliant on the U.S. military for much of its logistics and resupply, even after an investment of $22 billion by the American taxpayer. It represents a non-government, is riddled with recruits from Shiite militias (especially the Badr brigades), and is riven about who its enemy is (or enemies are) and why. It cannot be a “national” army because it has, in essence, nothing to stand up for. You can count on one thing, as long as we are “training” and “advising” the Iraqi military, however many years down the line, you will read comments like this one from an American platoon sergeant, after an Iraqi front-line unit abandoned its positions in the ongoing battle for control of parts of Sadr City: “It bugs the hell out of me. We don’t see any progress being made at all. We hear these guys in firefights. We know if we are not up there helping these guys out we are making very little progress.” StupidityWas just visiting YouTube, watching Obama’s “after losing Pennsylvania primary” speech, and found the following comments:
People, we’ve really got to get Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck off the airwaves. This high level of stupidity cannot be allowed to continue. Clinton Takes PennsylvaniaJuan Cole’s take: Hillary Clinton’s win in Pennsylvania just was not big enough to allow her to hope to win the elected delegate count. She is increasingly using dark and exaggerated rhetoric and 2/3s of Democrats complain that she has gone too negative (less than half say that about Obama). Her exaggerations yesterday extended into the realm of international politics in a most unfortunate way. It seems clear to me that she cannot win the nomination via elected delegates and that she is hoping to win by scaring the super delegates about Obama. This strategy is counterproductive for the Democratic Party and for the country. Clinton needed to win by well into the double digits in Pennsylvania (which is how she began in the polling there months ago) in order to remain credible. 10 points doesn’t do it. Obama actually won Texas, which will be a headline in June when all the counting is done there (don’t ask). It is over. She should stop before more damage is done.
A little humor for the day……. Tiresome And Frustrating Yahoo! News - Getty Image
“Shut out of the black vote?” I’ve been reading that, yet nearly every time I see an image or video of Clinton, I can’t say she’s surrounded by all-white supporters. |
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has recommended the top military commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, be appointed head of US Central Command. Army Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno will be his replacement as the top U.S. commander in Iraq. 
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