Iraq's Prime Minister Supports Obama's Withdrawl Timetable

Saturday, July 19, 2008

So today I woke up to this good news from the Prime Minister of Iraq...

When asked in and interview with SPIEGEL when he thinks US troops should leave Iraq, Maliki responded "as soon as possible, as far as we are concerned." He then continued: "US presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes."

Maliki was careful to back away from outright support for Obama. "Of course, this is by no means an election endorsement. Who they choose as their president is the Americans' business," he said. But then, apparently referring to Republican candidate John McCain's more open-ended Iraq policy, Maliki said: "Those who operate on the premise of short time periods in Iraq today are being more realistic. Artificially prolonging the tenure of US troops in Iraq would cause problems."

I wonder how John McCain and the White House will try and spin this one? Is McCain now going to say he can get the troops out in 12 months? I'm sure the Prime Minister will be getting a phone call from the White House soon demanding answers. Most likely after some pressure there will be a retraction or claims of a misquote, that is until the next one. Maybe this is politics to gain more leverage with the White House in their current U.S. troop status agreements. Maybe he is being serious. I think he is being serious, and the pressure from the White House did come because he is now claiming he was "misquoted", unlikely, his statement seemed real clear to me.

So this brings about a great question why do the Republicans want to keep staying there? I mean if the "surge" worked so well and things are so great and the Prime Minister and the people want us gone, Why are we trying to stay? Oil, Permanent Bases I think are the reasons why and the whole purpose of this new status agreement. To lock the next President in just in case he doesn't share bush's crazed ideology. We have not locked up the oil yet. I guarantee as soon as our companies have the oil locked up and there is a few permanent bases there. The Republicans will finally want to leave. But at what costs? How many deaths should we accept for oil before we finally put our foot down?

John McCain Gives Out Details Of Obama's High Security Trip To Iraq

Friday, July 18, 2008

I'll Do Anything To Win




Today at a Republican fundraiser John McCain had this to say about Obama arriving in Iraq...

"I believe that either today or tomorrow -- and I'm not privy to his schedule -- Sen. Obama will be landing in Iraq with some other senators" 

This like the title stated is a High Security Trip To Iraq for Obama.  News reports had said this weekend but no details.  John McCain's camp said he was just talking broadly.  I really can't believe he did that.  That is one of the most irresponsible comments he could have made.  What if someone was or is targeting him, You give a timeline to when he might arrive?  What would John McCain of done if the same had been done to him?  I know what would of happened he would of cried like a baby.  Right fully so however because you just don't give out details like that.

Obama has kept the days secret for security reasons.  I don't believe that this was a mistake either.  John McCain and his staff have military contacts who would know when Obama would be there.  He knows and when he says he doesn't he is lying.  Why would he even say that.  This is just more proof of what a horrible person this man is and what a horrible choice he would be for any public office really.  This is also the same man who assailed the media for reporting on his son's whereabouts in Iraq, Now giving the same information about his opponent.

He knows exactly what he did, and if he doesn't then he is too senile to hold office.  There really is no excuse and giving his comments like "Bomb-Bomb Bomb Iran" and "Maybe they (Iran) will kill themselves with cigarettes" I do not accept the fact that this was just an innocent passing of information.  His sense of humor and his words and actions show you how he thinks,  his continuous lies and lies about the lies shows a man who will do anything to win, and I think that means even putting his opponents in danger.  He is a military man, Kill Or Be Killed has been beaten in to him.  I think he takes that seriously sometimes.

It's not that far out there.  Here is a man that protected Charles Keating.  A man that defines war as an event that can be won.  A man that would keep our troops over there as long as it took to have full control of Iraq's oil and a permanent base in a central part of the middle east.  A base that could be used for future possible wars over that very oil that lies there.  This is a man who would let his son go to a war that was waged on lies and do nothing to stop it and continue to support it even.  This is a man who just told the world that Barack Obama will be landing In Iraq Today or Tomorrow.  I find it disgraceful that he would stoop this low,  But he is scared because he knows that he doesn't have a chance in November.  That's right I said it,  I don't think he does.

I see these people say oh John McCain was a prisoner you can't say anything bad about him he is a hero.  Well so are some of those guys on the side of the freeway with cardboard signs asking for money.  Should we elect them to office because they fought?  He might of fought in Vietnam, but his actions before and after have been severely unbecoming and misguided, to say it politely, for any person.  The fact that this man is at present still an elected official, I believe is a disgrace to our Country.  His statements today just furthered my opinion of him. 

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Wing Music!

Thursday, July 17, 2008
Think you have seen and heard it all? Think again, I introduce to you the lyrical stylings of Wing. You have got to check out the site and listen to the samples. You will not believe your ears.  I included a link to her singing AC/DC, plenty more on the site.

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Wing Sings AC/DC

The Countdown Recap

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The Countdown Recap

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Keith is back.  The show is great.  In fact i'm posting all of it, although I think it's more for my convenience but if you missed it here it is.

Obama and his Iraq plan, and a great clip of John McCain really uncomfortable getting called out on a pretty important flip flop.  Must see...



The "Surge"



George Bush's abuse of power.



Worst Persons and the Please Don't Vote For Democrat's Billboard



Keith on what happened while he was gone.



Bushed! Bush's about face on Iran



 Truck gets trashed trying to go under overhang.



Jib Jab

Jib Jab : Time For Some Campaignin'

 Hilarious ...



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Bush Follows Obama's Lead And Will Send Envoy To Iran

Tuesday, July 15, 2008
For months now the White House, George Bush, John McCain, Republicans Etc. have been saying how dumb Obama is for suggesting that we send people to talk with Iran.  I mean they have called him naive, said that he doesn't know what he is doing, that it is a terrible idea that will embolden the enemy, blah blah blah.  Well guess what?  George Bush is sending someone to talk with Iran.  I wonder how John McCain will try and weasel his way out of his previous statements on the subject.  Should be fun!



American Envoy To Join Iran Talks
Move Is Departure From Prior Policy

Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 16, 2008; Page A12


The Bush administration will send a senior envoy this weekend to international talks with Iran about its nuclear program in what U.S. officials described as a "one-time deal" designed to demonstrate a serious desire to negotiate a solution to the impasse over Tehran's ambitions.

In a significant departure from long-standing policy, Undersecretary of State William J. Burns will join a scheduled meeting in Geneva between European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana and top Iranian nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, according to a senior State Department official.

Burns will not negotiate with the Iranians nor hold separate meetings, the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the decision had not yet been announced. Instead, Burns will advance the White House's position that serious negotiations can begin only after Iran suspends uranium enrichment.

Administration officials have long insisted that U.S. representatives would not join even preliminary discussions with Tehran until it suspends its enrichment of uranium -- a distinction that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has called counterproductive. 
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George Bush and his magic wand.  This guy makes my head hurt.



Bushed!



Cindy McCain says the only way to get around Arizona is by private plane & Phil Gramm (McCain's National Co-Chair) attempts to finance a softcore porn movie...

Obama's NY Times OP-Ed "My Plan For Iraq"

Monday, July 14, 2008
For those of you who did not have a chance to see Barack Obama's OP-Ed in the NY Times today here it is in it's entirety.


My Plan For Iraq



By BARACK OBAMA
Published: July 14, 2008

CHICAGO — The call by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki for a timetable for the removal of American troops from Iraq presents an enormous opportunity. We should seize this moment to begin the phased redeployment of combat troops that I have long advocated, and that is needed for long-term success in Iraq and the security interests of the United States.

The differences on Iraq in this campaign are deep. Unlike Senator John McCain, I opposed the war in Iraq before it began, and would end it as president. I believed it was a grave mistake to allow ourselves to be distracted from the fight against Al Qaeda and the Taliban by invading a country that posed no imminent threat and had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks. Since then, more than 4,000 Americans have died and we have spent nearly $1 trillion. Our military is overstretched. Nearly every threat we face — from Afghanistan to Al Qaeda to Iran — has grown.

In the 18 months since President Bush announced the surge, our troops have performed heroically in bringing down the level of violence. New tactics have protected the Iraqi population, and the Sunni tribes have rejected Al Qaeda — greatly weakening its effectiveness.

But the same factors that led me to oppose the surge still hold true. The strain on our military has grown, the situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated and we’ve spent nearly $200 billion more in Iraq than we had budgeted. Iraq’s leaders have failed to invest tens of billions of dollars in oil revenues in rebuilding their own country, and they have not reached the political accommodation that was the stated purpose of the surge.

The good news is that Iraq’s leaders want to take responsibility for their country by negotiating a timetable for the removal of American troops. Meanwhile, Lt. Gen. James Dubik, the American officer in charge of training Iraq’s security forces, estimates that the Iraqi Army and police will be ready to assume responsibility for security in 2009.

Only by redeploying our troops can we press the Iraqis to reach comprehensive political accommodation and achieve a successful transition to Iraqis’ taking responsibility for the security and stability of their country. Instead of seizing the moment and encouraging Iraqis to step up, the Bush administration and Senator McCain are refusing to embrace this transition — despite their previous commitments to respect the will of Iraq’s sovereign government. They call any timetable for the removal of American troops “surrender,” even though we would be turning Iraq over to a sovereign Iraqi government.

But this is not a strategy for success — it is a strategy for staying that runs contrary to the will of the Iraqi people, the American people and the security interests of the United States. That is why, on my first day in office, I would give the military a new mission: ending this war.

As I’ve said many times, we must be as careful getting out of Iraq as we were careless getting in. We can safely redeploy our combat brigades at a pace that would remove them in 16 months. That would be the summer of 2010 — two years from now, and more than seven years after the war began. After this redeployment, a residual force in Iraq would perform limited missions: going after any remnants of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, protecting American service members and, so long as the Iraqis make political progress, training Iraqi security forces. That would not be a precipitous withdrawal.

In carrying out this strategy, we would inevitably need to make tactical adjustments. As I have often said, I would consult with commanders on the ground and the Iraqi government to ensure that our troops were redeployed safely, and our interests protected. We would move them from secure areas first and volatile areas later. We would pursue a diplomatic offensive with every nation in the region on behalf of Iraq’s stability, and commit $2 billion to a new international effort to support Iraq’s refugees.

Ending the war is essential to meeting our broader strategic goals, starting in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the Taliban is resurgent and Al Qaeda has a safe haven. Iraq is not the central front in the war on terrorism, and it never has been. As Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently pointed out, we won’t have sufficient resources to finish the job in Afghanistan until we reduce our commitment to Iraq.

As president, I would pursue a new strategy, and begin by providing at least two additional combat brigades to support our effort in Afghanistan. We need more troops, more helicopters, better intelligence-gathering and more nonmilitary assistance to accomplish the mission there. I would not hold our military, our resources and our foreign policy hostage to a misguided desire to maintain permanent bases in Iraq.

In this campaign, there are honest differences over Iraq, and we should discuss them with the thoroughness they deserve. Unlike Senator McCain, I would make it absolutely clear that we seek no presence in Iraq similar to our permanent bases in South Korea, and would redeploy our troops out of Iraq and focus on the broader security challenges that we face. But for far too long, those responsible for the greatest strategic blunder in the recent history of American foreign policy have ignored useful debate in favor of making false charges about flip-flops and surrender.

It’s not going to work this time. It’s time to end this war.

The Countdown Recap

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John McCain VP Candidate Sanford Draws Blank On Differences With Bush

John McCain's surrogate and VP candidate Mark Sanford, Drew a blank today when asked what would be the differences of a John McCain economic policy, and Bush's. So the man who could be his VP pick could not even think of a difference between John McCain's economic policies and Bush's economic policy. Sounds good don't it? I mean look theses guys are sooo prepared. I mean think how great it would be if this lack of preparation was unleashed on the White House. Oh wait it has George Bush... Ok well just another example then of John McCain being a continuation of George Bush. Here is some video enjoy...

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Arnold On McCain : Its What He Does, Not What He says...


There is a Great story with Video Here about Arnold's interview this weekend. Where he tells people to not listen to what John McCain says but watch what he has done and what he does to see what kind of candidate he will be. That is right on. If people really start looking into that they will find that the Straight Talk Express is really nothing more than a huge fraud.

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Snowjob

KARMA



Yes that is cruel. What is more cruel though is going in front of the American people everyday and lying. So I believe that Karma is in full effect here. I also expect more of this in the future. You can't do as many horrible things as this administration has and escape unscathed. Either way Karma will get them.

An Analogy of The Bush Foreign Policy

Here is a great story, That has a little more meaning to it then just the story that it is about. It is in essence a GIANT analogy of the Bush Foreign Policy. It is sad but it is news we need to hear.

The Wedding Crashers: A Short Till-Death-Do-Us-Part History of Bush's Wars

by: Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com


It was a tribal affair. Against a picture-perfect sunset, before a beige-colored cross and an altar made of the very Texas limestone that was also used to build her family's "ranch," veil-less in an Oscar de la Renta gown, the 26 year-old bride said her vows. More than 200 members of her extended family and friends were on hand, as well as the 14 women in her "house party," who were dressed "in seven different styles of knee-length dresses in seven different colors that match[ed] the palette of... wildflowers - blues, greens, lavenders and pinky reds." Afterwards, in a white tent set in a grove of trees and illuminated by strings of lights, the father of the bride, George W. Bush, danced with his daughter to the strains of "You Are So Beautiful." The media was kept at arm's length and the vows were private, but undoubtedly they included the phrase "till death do us part."

That was early May of this year. Less than two months later, halfway across the world, another tribal affair was underway. The age of the bride involved is unknown to us, as is her name. No reporters were clamoring to get to her section of the mountainous backcountry of Afghanistan near the Pakistani border. We know almost nothing about her circumstances, except that she was on her way to a nearby village, evidently early in the morning, among a party 70-90 strong, mostly women, "escorting the bride to meet her groom as local tradition dictates."

It was then that the American plane (or planes) arrived, ensuring that she would never say her vows. "They stopped in a narrow location for rest," said one witness about her house party, according to the BBC. "The plane came and bombed the area." The district governor, Haji Amishah Gul, told the British Times, "So far there are 27 people, including women and children, who have been buried. Another 10 have been wounded. The attack happened at 6.30AM. Just two of the dead are men, the rest are women and children. The bride is among the dead."

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George Bush Hates The Enviroment


How could you take his actions any other way? It seems to me that he is preparing for his retirement from Ruining our Country. Give all the oil companies what they have been salivating for, More places to drill. This overture by him to the oil companies will make sure he has lot's of options and donations when he is replaced. Donations to his Library and whatever else. I guarantee energy companies will be paying him for this until he dies.

Not only is his decision today completely ludicrous, But it also negates the only good thing his father did as President. Which was to sign the Presidential Moratorium against offshore drilling. So now it is up to Congress to push back on this and slap Bush into reality. I hope, I really hope they don't stand up for this like they did for F.I.S.A. (Which was not at all). Bush is doing this in hopes that he can fool the American people and bully Congress into going along. By framing Congress as being detached from the needs of Americans by drowning the media with the Lie that this will help us and bring down gas prices. It will not. if Congress caves on this as well it will be unforgivable.

George Bush is a liar, a criminal and many many other negative adjectives. His priority is not the average American. His actions prove this on an almost daily basis. Many have been fooled and many still actually think he has done good. You will also hear John McCain say what a great idea this is. Do not be fooled. This will not help us in any way, Unless you drill oil. Gas prices will not be reduced and production would not even be seen for 10 years. Not to mention that the oil companies are sitting on land already that is available for drilling. However the oil companies have found that holding on to this land and not drilling makes it even more valuable. They have plenty of places available to them to drill right now, It is just bad for their profits to drill on all the available land. By speculating how much oil could be on a particular piece of land they can make tons of money off it. As soon as you start drilling though it loses it's value.

This is all about making the disgustingly rich even richer before Bush leaves office. I do not have faith that Congress can be strong enough to level with the American people that Bush is lying. It is therefore up to us, It is up to us to tell Congress exactly what we want them to do. Let them know we have their back. Write your Representative or call him/her and let them know you will not stand for more offshore drilling. This is not even about us, This is about our future, our environment and our children and the world we leave them. Anyone that tells you more drilling will not affect the environment, Is either working for oil or uneducated or severely misinformed. We can stop this even if Congress is at first unwilling.

Instead of spending that money on drilling. These energy companies should be spending their money on alternative solutions. We need to pretend that oil is no longer a viable option. Give tax breaks to auto companies and gas stations to start converting their fleets and stations to alternative fuel. If we are to really move on there will be loss of profit; It is unavoidable. While there will be loss of profit for many auto companies and oil companies at first. The new jobs created to overhaul our automotive and energy infrastructure will quickly start to reverse those losses though. The profits will start to roll in also as soon as consumers find that alternative fuel vehicles are easy to buy, and fueling them is just as easy. To get to that point will take dedication, money, willpower and strength. If we Americans really are as strong as we say we are, then we should be able to do this.

Continuing the idea that more oil is going to help is insanity though. It will not, and more drilling just makes it that much longer we keep our dependence on oil, and that much less of an incentive for energy and auto companies to move on. Until we make new regulations that weens us off oil into new energies, We will be held hostage by the energy and automotive industries. We can change this, We don't have to sit by and watch and complain. It just takes a call, an email a letter. Some form of communication with your elected officials. If enough of us do just that, They must listen.

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