Was Afghanistan not major enough for him? It almost reminds you of when Rumsfeld was not impressed with invading Afghanistan because it did not provide a rich enough target environment.
This is not controversial history. It is history that anyone trying out for president must understand when there are 150,000 U.S. troops stationed in Iraq. It is an essential element to the story of the past two years.
McCain's belief that the surge "won the war" contradicts the substance of the "status of force" agreement the Bush administration has been trying to ram down the Iraqi government's throat.
This type of insulting nonsense will not go unnoticed or unchallenged by the Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who've fought in both McCain's war in Iraq, and in the other war in Afghanistan.
As Obama's plane touched down in Afghanistan, Maliki's comments had a far-reaching effect on the war and presidential politics, with the Maliki government withdrawing from Bush and making McCain appear foolish.
It isn't just the American people who want us to leave Iraq. Now it's the U.S.-backed Prime Minister of Iraq. That leaves Bush, McCain and the neo cons as the only people still committed to this war.
In his speech Thursday in Philadelphia, the Dalai Lama explained that to reach a point where nations would outwardly disarm, people must first inwardly disarm.
John McCain is having such a bad July -- I turned (as I often do) to the wisdom of Jay-Z -- and listed the first 99 of his collective woes that came to mind.
What would you do differently in Iraq? Say it up top and be specific. Get readers and morning commuters to spill their coffee, what I call the "shock and awe" lede. Ok, maybe a bad pun.
Why have the media been so reluctant to acknowledge Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki's all-but endorsement of Obama's Iraq plans?
Any one of the embarrassing incidents and comments this week would dominate the news cycle if they came from the Obama campaign. Yet McCain barely gets a mention.
As reported in these pages, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has endorsed Barack Obama's 16-month withdrawal timetable. The McCain campaign is effectively over.
McCain, the former press darling who once referred to the media as "my base," is so upset that press is following Obama, he's become whining and petulant about it.
From Kabul to Baghdad to Jerusalem, in Berlin and now in Paris, Obama's conduct abroad has earned him the right to be considered a respected presumptive commander-in-chief.
Anyone who thinks Blackwater is in serious trouble is dead wrong. Even if -- and this is a big if -- the company pulled out of Iraq tomorrow, business has never been better and its future looks bright.
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This is just another one of the many astrocity commited by this adminstration ...Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch used to further sell this so call war. Soldier committing suicide at alarming numbers and they chose to hide the numbers. Suppressing the flow of information comming from the frontlines. Injuried solider recovering in disgraceful condition. No comprehensive plans to treat solider returning home with horrific injuries and life changing mental health issues. Soldier languishing in a sea of red tape waiting to be treat with the dignity they earned and deserve. No wonder the world and this country is looking past this despicable adminstration toward the greatest of possibility of hope and change.
BitterBetty is in usual bitter form tonight.
All it can post are slurs.
Don't you mean "all she can slur are her posts"?
http://www.zoriah.net/blog/suicide-bombing-in-anbar-.html
Finally decided to address the topic and not use the thread to attack the Democratic nominee?
I know!!! I literally had to do a double-take.
The global left at work, taking no action, doing nothing....ever....
http://www.virginia.edu/insideuva/2001/37/collins.html
Darfur anyone?
Totally off topic in an attempt to divert. Is that all you W supporters have left?