4 27 2007
Senate Dems Join House in Effort to Save Our Troops from the Madness of King George and Darth Vader Cheney. "The president has failed in his mission to bring peace and stability to the people of Iraq," said Sen. Robert Byrd. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070426/ap_on_go_co/us_iraq;_ylt=Agv4bfUR.b2Pefn2FMT_.8.s0NUE
So Much for the "Short-term Surge": Petraeus eyes long commitment in Iraq 4/26
Petraeus: Iraq needs enormous commitment http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070426/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iraq_military;_ylt=ApnzTTX4iqJa9BtBy4QZY9ys0NUE
Republican Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) demands Senator Harry Reid leave office, calls him un-American for saying that Iraq is toast; Read how disturbed Inhofe has been while in office. 4/27
Republican Senator demands Senator Reid leave office, calls him un- American for saying that Iraq is toast
As we mention often on AMERICAblog, when the Republicans speak about Democrats they're speaking about themselves. It's called a "tell" in poker. A nervous twitch that gives away the kind of hand you have. In Republican politics, it's a verbal twitch - they simply can't help but describe themselves when attacking Democrats. http://americablog.blogspot.com/2007/04/republican-senator-demands-senator-reid.html
Brent Budowsky: Bill Moyers on Media and Iraq: When Lies Become Truth, Soldiers Die 4/27
http://pundits.thehill.com/2007/04/26/bill-moyers-on-media-and-iraq- when-lies-become-truth-soldiers-die/
McClatchy Reporters Answer Questions Online After Moyers' PBS Report on Press and Iraq 4/27 http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003576745
Mary MacElveen: Message to Rudy Giuliani: Are you certifiably insane? 4/27 http://www.marymacelveen.com/blog/_archives/2007/4/26/2906935.html
Yes, Dennis Kucinich did a brave thing and filed articles of impeachment against Dick Cheney. So what was the response of the Washington Post's Dana Milbank? A piece that basically made fun of Kucinich with not one word on why Cheney should be impeached. 4/26 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/24/AR2007042402341.html
Bush Lied, Soldiers Keep Dying. 3,334 U.S. Military Fatalities in Iraq 381 U.S. Military Fatalities in Afghanistan 24,912 U.S. Military Maimed in Iraq (source: DoD Update as of April 25, 2007) 68,428 Iraqis Reported Killed (source: Iraq Body Count) 655,000 Iraqis Reported Killed (source: The Lancet) =x=x= x==x=xx=
April 27, 2007 George J. Tenet, the former director of central intelligence, has lashed out against Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials in a new book, saying they pushed the country to war in Iraq without ever conducting a “serious debate” about whether Saddam Hussein posed an imminent threat to the United States. He contends that the urgent appeals of the C.I.A. on terrorism received a lukewarm reception at the Bush White House through most of 2001. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/washington/27intel.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Put Bush's 'puppy dog' terror theory to sleep Does the President think terrorists are puppy dogs? He keeps saying that terrorists will "follow us home" like lost dogs. This will only happen, however, he says, if we "lose" in Iraq.
The puppy dog theory is the corollary to earlier sloganeering that proved the President had never studied logic: "We are fighting terrorists in Iraq so that we will not have to face them and fight them in the streets of our own cities."
Remarkably, in his attempt to embrace the failed Iraqi adventure even more than the President, Sen. John McCain is now parroting the line. "We lose this war and come home, they'll follow us home," he says.
How is this odd terrorist puppy dog behavior supposed to work? The President must believe that terrorists are playing by some odd rules of chivalry. Would this be the "only one slaughter ground at a time" rule of terrorism?
Of course, nothing about our being "over there" in any way prevents terrorists from coming here. Quite the opposite, the evidence is overwhelming that our presence provides motivation for people throughout the Arab world to become anti- American terrorists.
Some 100,000 Iraqis, probably more, have been killed since our invasion. They have parents, children, cousins and fellow tribal clan members who have pledged revenge no matter how long it takes. For many, that revenge is focused on America.
At the same time, investing time, energy and resources in Iraq takes our eye off two far more urgent tasks at hand: one, guarding the homeland against terrorism much better than the pork-dispensing Department of Homeland Security currently does the job; and two, systematically dismantling Al Qaeda all over the world, from Canada to Asia to Africa. On both these fronts, the Bush administration's focus is sorely lacking.
Yet in the fantasyland of illogic in which the President dwells, shaped by slogans devised by spin doctors, America can "win" in Iraq. Then, we are to believe, the terrorists will be so demoralized that they will recant their beliefs and cease their terrorist ways.
In the real world, by choosing unnecessarily to go into Iraq, Bush not only diverted efforts from delivering a death blow to Al Qaeda, he gave that movement both a second chance and the best recruiting tool possible.
military raids in Iraq have uncovered evidence that Iraqis are planning attacks in America, perhaps to be carried out by terrorists with European Union passports that require no U.S. visas. But such attacks here over the next several years are likely now no matter what happens next in Iraq - and that is because of what Bush has already done, not because of any future course we choose in Iraq.
But we can be sure that when the next attacks come in the U.S., if Bush is down on the ranch cutting trees, he and whatever few followers he retains by then will blame his successor. You can almost hear them now: If only hissuccessor had left enough U.S. troops in the Iraqi shooting gallery to satisfy the blood lust of the enemy, as Bush did, then they wouldn't have come here.
The truth: If not for this administration's reckless steps to push America into war - and strategic blunder after strategic blunder that has satisfied the blood lust of the enemy - fewer evildoers would follow us home like the dogs that they are.
Clarke served as chief counterterrorism adviser on the U.S. National Security Council under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. He is now chairman of Good Harbor Consulting http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2007/04/25/2007-04-25_put_bushs_puppy_dog_terror_theory_to_sle.html
Rudy Giuliani is the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week: "Rudy claimed a couple of days ago that any Republican presidential candidate would prevent another 9/11, while any Democratic presidential candidate would not. Beyond being plain stupid, as Keith Olbermann noted, 9/11 happened during the administration of George W. Bush, a Republican, in a city where the Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, was a Republican."
What do Newt Gingrich and Rudy Giuliani have between them?
Six marriages – and a lot of philandering. Oh, did we mention that Rudy's third wife has been married three times too? (Until reminded recently by a reporter, she forgot one of her marriages.)
As Olbermann also pointed out, beyond walking around the city looking defiant because the emergency command center he had placed in the twin towers against professional advice had been destroyed, Rudy G's chief memorable post-9/11 contribution was threatening to cancel the NYC mayoral elections.
Why? Because Rudy felt the city couldn't do without him in a crisis.
In fact, the city could do much better without him, considering how he helped cover up the environmental health risks that came as a result of 9/11.
Rudy G. is a legend in his own mind, an arrogant S.O.B. who deserves to be sent into permanent retirement, preferably in another country.
In a political party ripe with hypocrites, Rudy Giuliani's gross hypocrisy on 9/11 is right up there with the criminal Tom DeLay's assertion that Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi were close to treason for trying to save the lives of our GIs. http://gophypocrites.com/2007/04/hyp07017.html
Dems fault Bush over Iraq in 1st debate
ORANGEBURG, S.C. - Democratic presidential hopefuls flashed their anti-war credentials Thursday night, heaping criticism on President Bush's Iraq policy in the first debate of the 2008 campaign. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070427/ap_on_el_pr/democrats_debate;_ylt=AhA_6PoBRunBSb1M29K2mBys0NUE
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Rice rebuffs congress on Iraq war subpoena US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signalled Thursday that she would not comply with a subpoena to appear before Congress to testify about discredited assertions on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Rice_rebuffs_congress_on_Iraq_war_s_04262007.html
Human medical research excluded from life sciences grant Public schools, universities, health care providers and state employees all seem assured to get more money next year under a $21.5 billion state budget that senators passed Wednesday.
Despite the flush budget, one area seemed assured to get nothing. Human medical research was intentionally excluded from the state's first appropriation from a new life sciences research fund - a result of Missouri's continued controversy over embryonic stem cell research. http://newstribune.com/articles/2007/04/26/news_state/249state34research.txt
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THE CHENEY DOCTRINE: UNINFORMED AND MISLEADING Dick Cheney's attacks on Harry Reid are as disturbing as they are disingenuous. No one has been more wrong about Iraq from day one than Vice President Cheney.
The Cheney Doctrine has been a recipe for disaster in Iraq that has put American troops in unforgivable danger and made America less secure. The Vice President has only been consistent in his miscalculations and misdirection. http://www.johnkerry.com/standingwithharry/
Standing With Harry Reid They're at it again. When I came here to the Huffington Post and supported Speaker Pelosi when she was attacked by the right-wing, I said, "They thrive on destroying our leaders - we can't let them." I take no pride in my prognostication. READ MORE http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-kerry/standing-with-harry-reid_b_46910.html
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On May 1, 2003, aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of San Diego, President George W. Bush gave his infamous "Mission Accomplished" speech stating major combat operations in Iraq had ended. Today, four years later, nationally renowned spoken word artist Steven Connell joins forces with Robert Greenwald and Brave New Foundation to ask what, exactly, was ever accomplished.
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After the Lawyers It can be hard to tell whom the Bush administration considers more of an enemy at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp: the prisoners or the lawyers.
William Glaberson reported in The Times yesterday that the Justice Department had asked a federal appeals court to remove some of the last shreds of legal representation available to the prisoners. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/opinion/27fri1.html?th&emc=th
Crippling Government From Within The Bush administration has proved indefatigable at finding industry foxes to upend the regulatory chicken coops. The result has been an undermining of restraints on everything from strip miners to long-haul truckers and corporate executives intent on consumer-unfriendly mergers.
One of the most zealous of the antiregulatory ideologues is Edwin Foulke, tapped by President Bush last year to run the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. As South Carolina’s Republican Party chairman and an anti-union stalwart, Mr. Foulke worked tirelessly to weaken the agency’s enforcement authority on workplace safety. Now that he is OSHA’s chief, he is moving even more aggressively away from regulations in favor of corporations’ pledges to police themselves. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/opinion/27fri2.html?th&emc=th
Corporal Tillman Haunts the Pentagon Despite multiple investigations and hand-wringing by the Pentagon, the full truth has not emerged about the death of Cpl. Pat Tillman, the football star turned infantryman who was accidentally gunned down by other Americans in Afghanistan. Details dribble out about how quick Army brass were to burn his battle uniform, concoct tales of heroism and go into a full public relations blitz. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/opinion/27fri3.html?th&emc=th
Reflections on the New Abortion Ruling and the Roberts Court By DOROTHY SAMUELS When justices play doctor, watch out for women’s health. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/opinion/27fri4.html?th&emc=th
Politics During Wartime By MICHAEL DELONG In the case of Pfc. Jessica D. Lynch, overzealous politicians and a frenzied press distorted the facts http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/opinion/27delong.html?th&emc=th
Stop the Carnage, Ban the Cluster Bomb! Sign the petition below to ask President Bush, Secretary of State Rice, your state's U.S. Senators and your Member of Congress to restrict and limit the use, transfer or sale of cluster bombs. http://action.atfl.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=6966&track=signclusterbombpetition_17772784
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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. -Abraham Lincoln "There's an old saying in Tennessee. I know it's in Texas, probably Tennessee.. that says, fool me once, shame on... shame on you. Fool me... you can't get fooled again." - George W. Bush - http://snipurl.com/1ibs8 "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on." - George W. Bush
Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America's War On Iraq - At Least 655,000 + + http://tinyurl.com/usq4x Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America'sWar On Iraq 3,324 http://icasualties.org/oif/ The War in Iraq Costs $420,480,871,714 See the cost in your community http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
Jose Padilla and the Zucchini Prosecution By Mike Whitney Get this: Jose Padilla just spent 5 years in solitary confinement for a crime, which the government now admits, never took place. The notion that a man can be imprisoned without proof of a crime is "preemptive justice", which is no justice at all. It denies the "presumption of innocence" and cedes absolute power to the state. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17607.htm
Senate Orders Iraq Troop Withdrawal To Begin By Oct. 1 By Anne Flaherty Associated Press A defiant Democratic-controlled Senate passed legislation Thursday that would require the start of troop withdrawals from Iraq by Oct. 1, propelling Congress toward a historic veto showdown with President Bush on the war. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17604.htm
Knee-deep blood in the land of make-believe By Carla Binion A nation that doesn't care enough about the truth to investigate tenaciously and impeach Bush and Cheney if the probe warrants, is a nation divorced from reality and conscience. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17605.htm
Dying for W By Robert Parry George W. Bush admits he has no evidence that a withdrawal timetable from Iraq would be harmful. Instead, the President told interviewer Charlie Rose that this core assumption behind his veto threat of a Democratic war appropriation bill is backed by "just logic." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17606.htm
Republicans Equal Life; Democrats Equal Death? Keith Olbermann: A special comment about Rudolph Giuliani We - Democrats and Republicans alike, and every variation in between - We Americans! - are sick to death of you and the other terror-mongers trying to frighten us into submission, into the surrender of our rights and our reason, into this betrayal of that for which this country has always stood.. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17601.htm
Iraq: At least 67 killed in another bloodt day of U.S. occupation: Ten Iraqi soldiers were killed and 15 wounded, including civilians, when a suicide bomber rammed his car into an Iraqi army checkpoint in the town of Khalis, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KAM628193.htm
Petraeus Eyes Long Commitment in Iraq : Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said Thursday that conditions in Iraq may get harder before they get easier and will require ''an enormous commitment'' over time by the United States. http://snipurl.com/1ibqa
U.N. report and Times data paint grim Iraq picture: Academics are being assassinated, prisoners are being tortured, women are being murdered by their own families in so- called "honor killings," and civilians continue to be cut down by rampant violence, the United Nations said today in a report painting a grim picture of life in Iraq. http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fairenough/latimes965.html
Bush Veto Of Iraq Bill Could Come 4 Years After 'Victory' Speech : President Bush next week is expected to receive, and swiftly reject, legislation ordering U.S. troops to begin coming home from Iraq this fall. The veto could fall on the fourth anniversary of the president's Iraq 'victory' speech. http://snipurl.com/1ibqf
In case you missed it: Senator McCain argues for immediate troop withdrawal from Somalia 1993: 2 Minute Video: http://snipurl.com/1ibqn
Andrew Cockburn: The puppet who cleared the way for Iraq's destruction: Paul Wolfowitz must bear a large part of the responsibility that is usually laid at the door of his superior alone http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2065440,00.html
US officer in Iraq charged with aiding the enemy: The officer in charge of a key U.S. military detention camp in Iraq has been charged with "aiding the enemy" and having improper relationships, including one with a detainee's daughter, the military said on Thursday http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L26503062.htm
Somalia: Eye Witness Account: 'The smells and sounds are unbearable. There are so many wounded people; from babies to 90-year-olds. They are brought to the hospitals near my house in wheelbarrows and donkey carts, bleeding, missing limbs. http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2066450,00.html
British think-tank blasts Ethiopia, US over Somalia: US and Ethiopian military intervention in Somalia has hampered international efforts to bring peace to the war-torn country, an independent British report said Wednesday. http://snipurl.com/1ibrf
Sheehan Wants Bush, Cheney to Pay for 'Destruction of the World': Anti-war activists Wednesday urged Democratic leaders in Congress to pursue articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney, introduced the previous day in the House of Representatives. http://snipurl.com/1ibrh
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Judge Says 'Dirty Bomb' Case Is 'Light on Facts': The allegations of a dirty bomb plot are nonexistent in the government's court papers, and the two sources who made those allegations most likely will not be witnesses for the prosecution http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070423/23padilla.htm
The Buck Doesn’t Even Stop By For Visits know that GW Bush says all kinds of strange stuff, but is this the strangest (I don't mean most mendacious, that's different) remark of his current term in office?
Bush said (he is) sympathetic to Tillman family. President Bush hopes someone is held responsible for the U.S. military's mishandling of information about the death of former football star Pat Tillman in Afghanistan, the White House said Wednesday.
That sound you hear is brains leaking out all over America. See, the Tillman case involves many high-ranking people in the Army - Colonels and Generals and perhaps even high-ranking civilian officials - engaged in a knowing and willful conspiracy to cover up and then lie to the public about the circumstances of Pat Tillman's death. There is a chain of command here, and someone is a the top of it, either someone in a uniform or someone in a Pentagon. And either way, they report to one GW Bush. http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/26/the-buck-doesnt-even-stop-by-for-visits/
Riverbend is leaving Iraq This just makes me so sad, though I doubt very much that I would have lasted as long as she and her family have. On a personal note, we've finally decided to leave. I guess I've known we would be leaving for a while now. We discussed it as a family dozens of times. At first, someone would suggest it tentatively because, it was just a preposterous idea- leaving ones home and extended family- leaving ones country- and to what? To where? http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/26/riverbend-is-leaving-iraq/
Moyers on the Neocons and William Kristol
often call Bill Kristol–"William the Bloody," a vampire character from Buffy because he's a first degree warmonger who seems to love death and destruction. These bastards sold the Iraq war to the public every minute of everyday regardless of the consequences. In Kristol's case—he is one of the worst. Moyers outlined what PNAC is and their obsession with Iraq.
BILL MOYERS: No one got more air time from an arm chair than Bill Kristol, editor of THE WEEKLY STANDARD And a media savvy Republican strategist. In the 1990s Kristol organized a campaign for increased military spending and a muscular foreign policy. In 1998 he and his allies wrote President Bill Clinton urging him 'to remove Saddam Hussein from power.
And now, just days after 9/11 with many of their allies serving in the administration, they wrote an open letter to President Bush calling for regime change in bagdad. Over the coming months Kristol's Weekly Standard kept up the drum beat.
And what does he get for his dead wrong assertions? A new column in TIME magazine. When you see the carnage this war has caused you understand why I write about them the way I do. (full transcript below the fold) http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/26/moyers-on-the-neocons-and-william-kristol/
Moyers and Russert and Cheney Oh, My! Moyers exposes Timmeh for the inside the beltway, message delivery system that he is. Ron Popeil would be proud. The Scooter Libby trial gave us a look into the way Cheney used Meet the Press to control the message and Moyers confronts him on it. Russert's response was 'absurd." This clip has the smoking gun/mushroom cloud talking head embarrassment… http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/26/moyers-and-russert-and-cheney-oh-my/
Daily Show: Bush’s Band of Idiot-Geniuses
From Monday's show, an instant classic: Jon Stewart and John Oliver evaluate Alberto Gonzales' performance before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week
Stewart: John, doesn't the President want us to feel that the people that he hires are competent?
Oliver: No, no, absolutely not. No, he wants you-and the American people-to leave him the f@%# alone. Now, Jon, legally, Gonzales had to appear before Congress. So his choice was either to expose the administration's political machinations or appear to be a functioning pinhead. He went with pinhead. And if I may say: NAILED IT! http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/26/daily-show-bushs-band-of-idiot-geniuses/
Montana Rep. Michael Lange’s “Potty Mouth” in Action This is what happens when Democratic leaders in Red States stand up for their beliefs…Republicans go insane…via Scarce: House Majority Leader Michael Lange, R-Billings, attacks Gov. Brian Schweitzer with an angry tirade…
"My message to the Govenor is to stick it up your ass." Kos: Schweitzer drives his state's Republicans bat-shit insane. Now I can't wait for the blogosphere's corps of Miss Manners wannabees to start tsk tsk'ing the incivility of Montana's top Republican. http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/26/montana-rep-michael-langes-potty-mouth-in-action/
Stats Hurting Your Case? Change The Criteria Mark Twain's famous quote "There are lies, damned lies and statistics" has never been more true than now. Particularly in the way the occupation in Iraq is spun by the White House and their flunkies. However, this is just ridiculous:
McClatchy: U.S. officials who say there has been a dramatic drop in sectarian violence in Iraq since President Bush began sending more American troops into Baghdad aren't counting one of the main killers of Iraqi civilians.
Car bombs and other explosive devices have killed thousands of Iraqis in the past three years, but the administration doesn't include them in the casualty counts it has been citing as evidence that the surge of additional U.S. forces is beginning to defuse tensions between Shiite and Sunni Muslims.
Bush administration officials have pointed to a dramatic decline in one category of deaths - the bodies dumped daily in Baghdad streets, which officials call sectarian murders - as evidence that the security plan is working. Bush said this week that that number had declined by 50 percent, a number confirmed by statistics compiled by McClatchy Newspapers.
But the number of people killed in explosive attacks is rising, the same statistics show - up from 323 in March, the first full month of the security plan, to 365 through April 24
UPDATE: Evidently, the US isn't the only country who doesn't want to be open about the death toll in Iraq: Human Rights Watch: Iraq Must Release Civilian Casualty Data To U.N. http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/26/stats-hurting-your-case-change-the-criteria/
How many times have we heard… By: John Amato on Thursday, April 26th, 2007 at 9:52 AM - PDT …a variation on this theme?—- "It may get worse before it gets better," as a description of the violence in Iraq by Bush or one of his Military leaders? Gen. David Petraeus said the same thing today.
"…conditions in Iraq may get harder before they get easier and will require "an enormous commitment" over time by the United States."
Thanks for that new revelation General. I wish I had kept count of the number of times I've heard this before… http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/26/how-many-times-have-we-heard/
Oregon Governor Lives On Food Stamps For 1 Week If Gov. Ted Kulongoski seems a little sluggish this week, he's got an excuse: he couldn't afford coffee.
In fact, the Democratic governor couldn't afford much of anything during a trip to a Salem-area grocery store on Tuesday, where he had exactly $21 to buy a week's worth of food — the same amount that the state's average food stamp recipient spends weekly on groceries.
Kulongoski is taking the weeklong challenge to raise awareness about the difficulty of feeding a family on a food stamp budget. Read more…
This is so refreshing to see from a politician. I applaud Governor Kulongoski and his wife for doing this and wish more would follow suit. The gap between the wealthy and working class in America keeps getting wider and we know Bush and the Republicans don't give a damn. He's never had to worry about making choices that many of us are forced to make every day such as choosing food and shelter over health insurance and medications. How long do you think King George would last in the real world, forced to live like the average American? http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/26/oregon-governor-lives-on-food-stamps-for-1-week/
MSNBC: Yet the poll shows that 56 percent say they agree more with the Democrats in Congress who want to set a deadline for troop withdrawal, versus the 37 percent who say they agree with Bush that there shouldn't be a deadline. What's more, 55 percent believe that victory in Iraq isn't possible. And 49 percent say the situation in Iraq has gotten worse in the last three months since Bush announced his so-called troop surge. Thirty-seven percent say the situation has stayed about the same, and just 12 percent think it has improved.
According to the poll, only 22 percent believe the country is on the right track. That's the lowest number on this question since October 1992, when Bush father's was running for a second term — and lost. http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/26/america-hates-the-iraq-war/
Tell Congress: Stand firm on Iraq Congress has passed a bill to end the war by funding the troops with a clear timeline for bringing them home. Bush’s inevitable veto will probably happen in less than 4 days.
The question is: what will Congress do next? The answer is up to you.
Congress must stand firm. When Bush vetoes, Congress must send him another funding bill with a binding plan to end the war. And that means we’ve got to speak out now. Sign the petition today. http://johnedwards.com/action/sign-petitions/standfirm
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