"Two to three years are needed to build our security forces and say goodbye to our friends."
- Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on how soon he believes the US will be out of his country
Remember when every Republican was blowing their top about Hillary Clinton? About "how dare she try to rule when she was not elected" and other such crap? Yeah. I almost wish one of those Republican Neanderthals would now tell Laura Bush to shut up and go back to the kitchen.
Yeah, I'm talking to you caveman.
First off, she insists that her hubby has never misled the country about the Iraq War or the War on Terror in general. (She doesn't parse them, but I refuse to be bullied into merging the two.)
Now she is "cautioning" people to be "civil" when discussing the Iraq War in campaign speeches, debates, and stories. Basically, the library lady is telling you to "shhhhh" when bringing up the fact that her husband and his cronies have no plan for Iraq, condone torture and false imprisonment, strip away civil rights, and abuse power any chance they get. Not to mention tanking the economy and pissing on 60 years of international good will. I'm sure I've missed something there, but you know the drill.
Meanwhile, in Iraq, the PM al-Maliki has sided with Fat Bastard Militia Bitch al-Sadr and has had us take down checkpoints to Sadr City we had set up to help find a kidnapped US soldier.
Ralph Peters is a military specialist and has been behind the Iraq invasion since Day One. Unlike the late David Hackworth, Peters is prone to putting politics and rhetoric before the troop's interests. Which is why I always respected Hack more than Peters, even when I didn't agree with him. That said, Peters has nobly admitted that Iraq is not going well, and spreads the blame in the (mostly) appropriate places. Here is his op-ed mea culpa and credit to him for rolling this out before election day.
The Pentagon talks a good line about it's progress in Iraq, but their behind-the-scene intel speaks for itself:
Back to the elections. ComputerWorld has a study on electronic voting in all 50 states. Check it out here.
NPR follows a study on young voters that is hopefully instructive and correct.
Zogby discusses the Arab-American vote.
Bill Maher covers other BushSpeak idocies that should go since "Stay the Course" has been retired.
Also a retrospective since the last election: remember when Bush had a "mandate"?
Plus, no matter what happens next Tuesday, we're still stuck with Cheney and Rumsfeld.
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