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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: longnshort who wrote (81850)6/26/2007 9:52:38 PM
From: sea_biscuit  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 93284
 
Whoa, we have EIGHTEEN TIMES that number of US soldiers being blown up in Iraq this month alone.



To: longnshort who wrote (81850)6/28/2007 3:45:43 PM
From: sea_biscuit  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 93284
 
The 3rd anniversary of "Let freedom reign"

Bush ... was passed a note from National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice that put it this way: “Mr. President, Iraq is sovereign.”

Bush wrote “Let freedom reign!” on the note and passed it back, according to White House spokesman Scott McClellan.

A few hours later, U.S. viceroy Paul Bremer, who had ruled the country for 14 months, “snuck out of the country” with a goodbye wave. Bremer had reporters photograph him entering the Air Force C-130 pictured above for the ceremony, “but after the Iraqis leave, because of security concerns, [he] gets out of that plane and moves to, I think it was a Gulfstream IV that then flies him out.”

858 U.S. soldiers had been killed in Iraq at that point. The number is 3,571 today...