Army probes five slayings linked to soldiers in Colorado brigade

• http://m.cnn.com/cnn/lt_ne/lt_ne/detail/184245;jsessionid=4DCA9664FC2A169FD573FE2DA9EA0CEF

Just another way this war is affecting us. If they are acting like this over here, what do you think they were doing and saw over there?

I support our troops but I personally know cases and soldiers who have gone way too far. Some can be attributed to the soldiers themselves, a lot can be attributed to leadership and political entities intruding in the scope of our soldiers work. The commands for brutal treatment has come from high up, the troops are following orders, and while most troops will hate it. Some will enjoy it and continue. The Bush Administration has created an environment of Brutality and our troops and Country as a whole are getting sucked into it.

You can see this in another way by looking at the recent attack ads against Obama and Democrats by Republicans. Brutality whether through ads, rumors, actions or speech is rampant. This is a huge problem and the only way it will stop is if the American people stand up and say,

This is not what our Country is about...

U.S. Agrees To Have Troops Out Of Iraq Cities By June

• http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=241134&f=20

I guess this kills McCains line against Obama about pulling out and losing the war...

Source of Iraq WMD intelligence tells his story

• http://m.cnn.com/cnn/lt_ne/lt_ne/detail/180950;jsessionid=6380F9131A97909B9149DCC809D6D8B9

This guy is why we went to War?
I know its not but it just shows how blatant the Iraqi invasion was considering this what the Bush administration used as its excuse. Bush and Cheney and all the others should be jailed.

Period.

Satellite Imagery Casts Doubt On Surge's Success in Baghdad

http://m.usatoday.com/detail.jsp?key=900614

The surge was only about getting the amount of troops that should of been there in the first place, into Iraq. We went there in the beginning without enough troops there. The Surge was only making up for their mistake. They still haven't gotten the political goals taken care of. Bottom line as long as our troops are there, there will be violence. The majority do not want us there, and that is the Straight Talk...

Because of John McCain this was
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An End To The Surge?

A major component of the decrease in violence in Iraq, is now being arrested.

Dick Cheney's Mad Dash To War

Dick....

Former GOP House leader says Cheney misled him on Iraq

http://mobile.latimes.com/news.jsp?key=180981&rc=nation

Better late than never ?

Dick is a lying little bastard. . .

Palin Links Iraq to 9/11, A View Discarded by Bush

http://twp.com/news.jsp?key=277042&rc=to

Like I said before she is the female George Bush, and after these comments, Palin just might be worse.

Bush Get's Irritated By Iraqi's

John McCain Admits Troops Sent To Die In Iraq For Oil

Listen to his stump speech, he states no more troops will be sent to foreign lands for oil. We will get our oil here by drilling.

No more troops will be sent to die in the middle east for oil.

That is what McCain says in making his case for drilling.

He admits our troops are over there dying for oil, and he wants to still keep them there?

I guess maybe he thought no one would notice.

Well I hope America notices. Because if John McCain is elected, our troops will die in more foreign countries in pursuit of oil. Bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran? Remember that one?

Like John McCain said in his speech at St. Paul. Sometimes I pick fights for fun.

John MccCain everyone.

The more you know...

Ron Suskind : How The White House Lied To Invade Iraq

Remember Ron Suskind is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. He also has tapes of all the interviews of his sources.





The White house of course denies any of this...

CBS Edits Another Major Gaffe By McCain

So when John McCain cry's that the press is in love with Obama, Does he not factor in the fact that the media has actually given him pass after pass. Like this second omission by CBS of a major McCain gaffe. A gaffe that really highlights his lack of thought and lack of knowledge of the situation. He touts this foreign experience yet a consistently gets it wrong on many foreign issues. Gaffe after gaffe ignored by the MSM. Gaffe's I might add if Obama were to commit it, would be covered like the OJ trial.

CBS News omitted a second McCain falsehood:
his characterization of Iraq war as
"the first major conflict since 9/11"


On the July 22 broadcast of the CBS Evening News, while airing portions of an interview anchor Katie Couric conducted that day with Sen. John McCain, CBS News did not air McCain's response to a question in which he characterized the Iraq war as "the first major conflict since 9/11," apparently disregarding the war in Afghanistan, which Couric addressed in her question and which began in October 2001. As Media Matters for America and others documented, CBS News also did not air McCain's false assertion that the 2007 U.S. troop surge "began the Anbar Awakening" and instead aired spliced video of McCain's interview with Couric, expunging the false statement and tacking on a response he gave to a different question.

Couric asked: "Sen. [Barack] Obama also told me, Sen. McCain, that the money spent on those additional troops, on the surge, might have been more effective had it gone to Afghanistan or even to a better energy policy in the United States. What's your response?" McCain replied: "The fact is we had four years of failed policy. We were losing. We were losing the war in Iraq. The consequences of failure and defeat of the United States of America in the first major conflict since 9/11 would have had devastating impacts throughout the region and the world." In fact, nearly a year and a half before the Iraq war, the United States initiated Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in order to "counter terrorism and bring security to Afghanistan." According to the Department of Defense, 554 Americans had lost their lives as a result of OEF and 2,257 had been wounded as of July 19.

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Obama Speaks Before 200,000 While John McCain Rewrites History

When I say rewrites history I mean literally rewriting what has already happened. This and more great stuff in today's Countdown Recap. We have Obama in an impressive speech in Berlin. Also an excerpt of a Brian Williams interview with him right after, and I got to tell you it's great it's unscripted and it really shows how genuine he really is.

I guarantee anyone with any doubts about what his intentions are will or should be able to put them to rest by watching this. There is no wild blinking and awkward cackles like you see with John McCain, like a puppy waiting to see if hes done good. Instead today you saw a passion an unblinking, unwavering, confident discussion with the World on how we can all come together. It was unprecedented for a candidate of any type.

It is impressive I can tell you that. Sadly John McCain is breaking down. Slandering Obama in a sad attempt to get some attention. Saying he(Obama) would rather lose a war and risk our country's safety, than lose an election. Pretty much calling him a traitor. This from the man who promised no negative campaigning. He is pretty much starting out going as low as you can go. Well there is lots of other good stuff too, it's a good one...

Obama In Berlin, Brian Williams Interview.



Obama responds to McCains slander



McCain attempts to rewrite how the Surge started.



Duncan Hunter wants to shoot (himself) the endangered Wildabeast in Africa, and feed them to natives.



Robert Novak hits old man and leaves in his corvette.



Bushed! FEMA wants immunity, State Dept. tells employees in Germany they can't go to Obama speech.

The Countdown Recap

Voila!


Al-Maliki And Obama sitting in a tree, and a swoosh heard round the world, Oh and the White House lies become more blatant then ever...



McCain and his Iraq Issue



Obama over seas looking good so far...



McCain blames Obama for the high gas prices??...



Bushed! Coat Boy is Bush's new Deputy Chief of Staff...

N.Y. Times Rejects McCain Iraq Piece

All I can do is laugh about this...

N.Y. Times Op-Ed Page Rejects McCain Iraq Piece

Updated 3:55 p.m.
By Howard Kurtz
Prospective authors don't usually make a big announcement when their prose is rejected by the New York Times Op-Ed page. But John McCain's campaign is telling the world that the liberal opinion and commentary page turned down his submission on Iraq, just days after publishing a similar piece by Barack Obama.
The Obama article made the case that his administration could "safely redeploy" most U.S. forces from Iraq over a 16-month period. The McCain camp, sensing an equal-time opportunity, submitted its Iraq piece Friday.
"The success of the surge has not changed Senator Obama's determination to pull out all of our combat troops," it said. "All that has changed is his rationale. In a New York Times op-ed and a speech this week, he offered his 'plan for Iraq' in advance of his first 'fact finding' trip to that country in more than three years. It consisted of the same old proposal to pull all of our troops out within 16 months."
About two hours later, David Shipley, the paper's opinion editor, wrote:

I'd be very eager to publish the Senator on the Op-Ed page. However, I'm not going to be able to accept this piece as currently written. I'd be pleased, though, to look at another draft. Let me suggest an approach. The Obama piece worked for me because it offered new information (it appeared before his speech); while Senator Obama discussed Senator McCain, he also went into detail about his own plans.

It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama's piece. To that end, the article would have to articulate, in concrete terms, how Senator McCain defines victory in Iraq. It would also have to lay out a clear plan for achieving victory -- with troops levels, timetables and measures for compelling the Iraqis to cooperate.

Sounds like a pretty high bar.

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Iraq's Prime Minister Supports Obama's Withdrawl Timetable

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

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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The Countdown Recap

Another good one tonight...

Obama & McCain's campaign cash



Obama putting Red Sates in play



The Media and Obama



McCain thinks joking about Rape makes him more Authentic...



The Worst!



Bushed! Bush's Library funding



John McCain's connection with the Porn industry



American Idol writers go on a tour of truth...



62 year old heavy metal Monk..

The Countdown Recap

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

The Countdown Recap

Tonight was a good one...


Obama, McCain and Iraq



McBush?



It's The Economy Stupid ...



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...