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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (62227)	6/1/2005 3:29:20 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 81568

We are already there. You are too dense to get it. Eventually, you will get it. And then, of course, you will begin blaming, not the ones who got us into this, but people like us who advised against it from the start.

To: longnshort who wrote (62227)	6/1/2005 4:27:34 PM
From: microhoogle!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

As it is there is some talk about getting boy scouts involved in defence of the country. There is reports that they have been volunteered to Customs department on John Batchelor show last night. You got any kids ? Uncle Bush needs em.

To: longnshort who wrote (62227)	6/1/2005 5:52:02 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 81568

The last throes of truth in Iraq THE WHITE HOUSE is searching for weapons of mass deletion. By Derrick Z. Jackson, Globe Columnist \| June 1, 2005 06/01/05 "Boston Globe" - - On CNN's ''Larry King Live" on Monday, Vice President Dick Cheney said of the violence in Iraq, ''I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency." This is after May became the deadliest month for US forces since the January elections, with 76 US military casualties. At a press conference on Tuesday, President Bush was asked about the US casualties and the deaths of 760 Iraqis since the new Iraqi government was named April 28. A reporter asked Bush, ''Do you think that the insurgency is gaining strength and becoming more lethal?" Bush responded, ''I think the Iraqi people dealt the insurgents a serious blow when they, when we had the elections." Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers was asked on ABC's ''Good Morning America" about the deaths. ''Myers said, 'Well, first of all, the number of incidents is actually down 25 percent since the highs of last November, during the election period. So, overall, numbers of incidents are down. Lethality, as you mentioned, is up. . . . I think what's causing it is a realization that Iraq is marching inevitably toward democracy." [...] All that is missing is a banner behind them saying, ''Misinformation Accomplished." Bush, Cheney, and Myers are saying all these things as their invasion of Iraq is closing in on a dubious milestone. The number of soldiers who died in the invasion and occupation, 858, is about to be passed by the number killed after the United States handed over sovereignty to hand-picked Iraqi leaders. The latter number just crossed the 800 mark. Soon, the number of US soldiers who have died in the ''free" Iraq will surpass the number who died dismantling the tyranny of Saddam Hussein. The two-deaths-a-day average suffered by the US-led forces is the same as during the period from when Bush stood under the banner ''Mission Accomplished" until the handover. The number of Iraqi police and guardsmen who have been killed is 880 this year alone, according to the Iraq Coalition Casualty Count. At the current pace, this year's deaths will easily outstrip the prior 1,300. Yet Bush says, ''I'm pleased with the progress." If the Iraqi people have already dealt the insurgency a serious blow, as Bush claims, or if it is in the final throes, as Cheney claims, one shudders to consider what Iraq will look like if they are wrong.