Does he really think he’s fooling anyone other than that crappy twenty’something-percent that walks among us? You can’t get more delusional than this (Mitt Romney runs a close second in that race).

Bush: Iraq strategy sees good results

President Bush pauses as he listens to a reporters question during a news conference, Thursday…

KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine - President Bush, presiding over a nation dispirited by wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, on Saturday cast both conflicts in terms of “encouraging news.” In stating his case, the president emphasized enemy deaths.

“Our new strategy is delivering good results,” Bush said of Iraq in his weekly radio address, taped at his parents’ summer home on the rocky coast of Maine.

The president said his buildup of U.S. forces in Iraq, designed to provide security for the Iraqi government, was taking hold and showing gains. He acknowledged again, though, that Iraq has made frustratingly slow political progress.

Bush’s comments came as Washington, like much of the nation, has shifted into vacation time. He said that in an otherwise slow news month, the war against terrorists rages on.

Bush’s address amounted to another appeal for patience and upbeat view of events.

BEN FELLER, Associated Press Writer

Source: Yahoo! News

In my opinion, this story alone is enough to send our present administration packing. How does it make you ‘patriotic’ trolls feel to know your messiah literally drops his trousers and takes dumps like this on our troops? You people really are morons! You better like America. I have a feeling no other country would welcome you.

Documents show Pat Tillman’s last words were to Spc. Bryan O’Neal, who was at Tillman’s side as he was killed. Tillman told his panicky comrade to stop ’sniveling.’

New documents shed light on Tillman’s death

GI’s last words, lawyers- congratulatory e-mails made public in testimony

SAN FRANCISCO - Army medical examiners were suspicious about the close proximity of the three bullet holes in Pat Tillman’s forehead and tried without success to get authorities to investigate whether the former NFL player’s death amounted to a crime, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
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The doctors - whose names were blacked out - said that the bullet holes were so close together that it appeared the Army Ranger was cut down by an M-16 fired from a mere 10 yards or so away.
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The medical examiners- suspicions were outlined in 2,300 pages of testimony released to the AP this week by the Defense Department in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.

Among other information contained in the documents:

  * In his last words moments before he was killed, Tillman snapped at a panicky comrade under fire to shut up and stop “sniveling.”
  * Army attorneys sent each other congratulatory e-mails for keeping criminal investigators at bay as the Army conducted an internal friendly-fire investigation that resulted in administrative, or non-criminal, punishments.
  * The three’star general who kept the truth about Tillman’s death from his family and the public told investigators some 70 times that he had a bad memory and couldn-t recall details of his actions.
  * No evidence at all of enemy fire was found at the scene - no one was hit by enemy fire, nor was any government equipment struck.

Complete story at MSNBC.com

Sorry, not buying it. Jury is still out.

BAGHDAD - The U.S. command announced on Wednesday the arrest of an al-Qaida leader it said served as the link between the organization’s command in Iraq and Osama bin Laden’s inner circle, enabling it to wield considerable influence over the Iraqi group.

The announcement was made as the White House steps up efforts to link the war in Iraq to the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, with a growing number of Americans opposing the Iraq conflict. Some independent analysts question the extent of al-Qaida’s role in Iraq.

Khaled Abdul-Fattah Dawoud Mahmoud al-Mashhadani was the highest-ranking Iraqi in the al-Qaida in Iraq leadership when he was captured July 4 in Mosul, U.S. military spokesman Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner said.

Bergner told reporters that al-Mashhadani carried messages from bin Laden, and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahri, to the Egyptian-born head of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri.

“There is a clear connection between al-Qaida in Iraq and al-Qaida senior leadership outside Iraq,” Bergner said.

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