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Let's see bush achievements since 9/11;

A ten trillion dollar debt with no plan to pay it down.


Osama Bin-Laden still free five years after bush invaded Afghanistan.

The Talabin control more of Afghanistan than the government in Kabul.

Al-Qaeda is right back to the same level of power that it was before bush wasted a trillion dollars in the "War on Terror".


Over 6 billion in military aid given to Pakistan.

How did Musharraf reciprocate?

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, Bush's best friend in the war on terror, called a truce with Al Qaeda that allows Bin Laden free movement inside the remote mountains between his country and Afghanistan as long as Bin Laden doesn't come after him.

As well as not punishing Pakistan for providing N. Korea with the plutonium it used to build it's nukes.

Plus the unelected dictator is once again threatening to suspend elections to keep Benazir Bhutto and moderate PPP from regaining controll of Pakistan

Total chaos in Iraq and the only solution that is offered is in Jan.,2009 "It's someone else's problem".


China's military flush with cash because of the billions in interest paid to them annually due to bush's borrowing.
we are number 42 in life expectancy, 14th in infant mortality, and the number 1 debtor nation.

Russia is redeploying long range bombers and playing war games with China.


Bush has to renege on it's claims that N.Korea is a Terrorist nation or it will walk away from peace talks.

Radical Shiites have more power than at any time in history.


33% rise in violent crime.

11% rise in poverty.


13% drop in average salaries.


Oh But Saddam is dead and Baghdad is less violent than last year.

What Levin said:

[T]he whole purpose of the surge was to reduce violence so that the Iraqi leaders would have the breathing room to reach political settlement. That was the stated purpose of the surge.

Well, that purpose has not been achieved, even though the level of violence has been reduced in a number of areas. The purpose of the surge, by its own terms, was to have the " give the opportunity to the Iraqi leaders to reach some political settlements. They have failed to do that. They have totally and utterly failed.

By using the repukelietard "spin this thing until Jan.2009" filter you get:

Well, that purpose has been achieved, the level of violence has been reduced in a number of areas. The surge have give the opportunity to the Iraqi leaders to reach some politicical settlements. They have do that totally and utterly.

ANything anyone says about Iraq is bullshit.

Because they cannot even admit there is a 1,000 year old religious war going on between 2 sects of the same religion who whant to kill each other in their gods name. And we ain't going to stop that, no one will.

I'm not optimistic about American political progress either. Not a single arrest or impeachment hearing.

It seems like these dems are spokesmen for Iran and Al Quada...

someone should check their campaign contributions and see who's been contributing...

New military tactics in Iraq are working but the best way to honor U.S. soldiers is "by beginning to bring them home," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton told war veterans Monday.

Not every Democrat has come back from Iraq supporting a drawdown of U.S. forces in the coming months, as party leaders have advocated. Staking out positions that could complicate efforts to achieve party unity in September, a few Democratic lawmakers have returned expressing support for a continued troop presence. One of them, Rep. Brian Baird (Wash.), said yesterday that he will no longer vote for binding troop withdrawal timelines.

Last Friday, Baird told the Olympian, a newspaper in his district, that he now believes the United States should stay in the country as long as necessary to ensure stability.

That followed comments by Rep. Jerry McNerney (D-Calif.) suggesting that his trip to Iraq made him more flexible in his search for a bipartisan accord on the future U.S. role in the conflict. "If anything, I'm more willing to work to find a way forward," he told reporters late last month.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Al+Qaeda?tid=informline
Rep. Tim Mahoney (D-Fla.), who was with McNerney, told his local paper that the troop increase "has really made a difference and really has gotten al-Qaeda on their heels."

Levin was unambiguous. Like other Democrats, he hailed the work of U.S. forces and an increasingly capable Iraqi army. Ten of the Iraqi army's 12 divisions are now trained, Levin said, and by year's end, an 11th will be ready.

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The real headline and the new Dem message....

"SHIT!!!!!!!!!

THE SURGEGE IS WORKING.......

BU, BBU, BUT WE'RE PULLING OUT ANTWAY DAMNIT!!!!"

Iraq is just another failed state in a long line of failed middle east states. All we have achieved in Iraq is to waste 500 Billion dollars and 4,000 American lives.

Durbin,Clinton,Levin,Warner "the surge is working " but lets get rid of the iraq govt . It also seems a ploy to cover their twofaced flip flopping rears when the Petreaus reports come out showing the progress in this just cause. Oh and by the way according to Gallup the Congress has the lowest approval rating ever , the next was the Democratic 1992 congress. Even with Pres Bush and VP Cheney's low approval they are 57% above the LIBDIMS

Two small problems with the U. S. telling the Iraqis to replace al-Maliki --

1) They're a sovereign country, remember? With much ballyhoo We gave them their sovereignty back several years ago. We can rant and rave all we want to, but unless we stage a coup ourselves (BAAAAD news) or find someone among the Iraqi armed forces we've trained who will, we can't make them do anything. (Witness the August vacation.)

2) Who would do a better job a Prime Minister? Would we recycle one of our old stooges like Allawi or Chalabi who have no popular support? Unless they get a Saddam-type strongman, the individual in the office of PM is not the problem. The real problem is the complex and intractable political situation that will take years to sort itself out.

Im not optimistic over the congress of the United States nor of the President. There is no progress in our government.

Carl Levin is flat-out rooting against political progress in Iraq - it would boost the Reps and all that.

John Warner is an idiot.

" WARNER " when will you and your party start acting like leaders and stop this CANCER BUSH & CHENEY from KILLING ( YES I SAID KILLING ) any more of our BEST.
OR are you a part of this " NEW WORLD ORDER "
of continued DEATH AND DISTRUCTION.

So we have really stupidly opened Pandoras box.

Now we are surprized and angry thay Pandora's a bitch and the stuff in her box is even worse.

From Crooks and Liars, A media watchdog group.Today.
Bill O"Reilly, on June 20, talking about the war in Iraq:

"I"m gonna tell you that the big picture is, the Iraqis have two more months. They"ve got two more months. And if they don"t step up and help more than they"re helping " and by help, I mean, they have to pass oil legislation so everybody gets a piece of the oil pie." He added, "Their armed forces have to fight more aggressively and bravely alongside us, and if they don"t do it in two months, it"s over."

O"Reilly, on August 20, on the same subject:

Silence.