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How's Them Wars Goin'?
| Mon, 10-20-2008 - 6:28pm |
A fair bit of interesting news out of both Afghanistan AND Iraq over the weekend and today. Let's start with everybody's favorite armed conflict, Iraq!
Hmmm....."thousands" doesn't really accurately describe EXACTLY how many hearts and minds we're winning over there. Oh, well.....surely, things must be better in Afghanistan, right? Erm.....maybe not so much:
I dunno....not sure this is where we wanna be, when considering offering St. Senator Maverick "Bomb-Bomb" McBush the Oval Office. Or, said in reverse, I don't think we wanna be offering the Oval Office to McSame, when THIS is where we are right now, whether we want to be or not.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Thousands of people marched in central Baghdad on Saturday to protest a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security agreement that would extend the presence of U.S. troops in the country after the end of the year.
The political party of Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called for the rally. At one point, several speakers at a podium addressed the mass of people, urging the Iraqi government to reject the proposal.
Protesters clogged several streets in the capital, waving Iraqi flags and kicking up dust. The demonstration, the largest in Baghdad in several months, was largely peaceful.
Hmmm....."thousands" doesn't really accurately describe EXACTLY how many hearts and minds we're winning over there. Oh, well.....surely, things must be better in Afghanistan, right? Erm.....maybe not so much:
TALIBAN militants have seized a civilian bus in volatile southern Afghanistan and executed up to 31 passengers, beheading some of them.
The attack took place in Kandahar province, which was the home base of the militant Islamic movement before it was toppled by a US-led invasion in late 2001.
The incident illustrated the extreme danger of travel in the Afghan countryside, even along main roads such as the one where the bus was commandeered, officials said on Sunday. Many of those aboard the bus were women and children.
I dunno....not sure this is where we wanna be, when considering offering St. Senator Maverick "Bomb-Bomb" McBush the Oval Office. Or, said in reverse, I don't think we wanna be offering the Oval Office to McSame, when THIS is where we are right now, whether we want to be or not.


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Hey - how about my BIL, who's a senior FBI counterterrorism analyst at the Hoover building in DC, and says you'd have to waterboard him to get him to vote for McCain.
Is HE "doing a great job?"
Or are only the people who serve our country but ALSO agree with the increasingly narrow authoritarian-cultist-GoOPer worldview deserving of thanks or an "attaboy" from you?
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