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

To: jlallen who wrote (82368)	7/19/2007 12:17:47 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

49 US troops killed in Iraq this month. You guys are well on your way to making this the bloodiest July for our troops in Iraq. But then, the genius Dumbyasshole had already promised that this will be a bloody summer for US troops in Iraq (I am quite sure he will break that record next year). What a brilliant guy!

To: jlallen who wrote (82368)	7/19/2007 12:21:15 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

David Corn blasts Bill Kristol's idiotic puff piece on the Dumbyasshole to smithereens : Who knew Bill Kristol had such a flair for satire? How else to read his piece for Outlook on Sunday, in which he declared, "George W. Bush's presidency will probably be a successful one"? Surely Kristol, the No. 1 cheerleader for the Iraq war, was mocking himself (and his neoconservative pals) for having been so mistaken about so much. But just in case his article was meant to be a serious stab at commentary, let's review Kristol's record as a prognosticator. On Sept. 18, 2002, he declared that a war in Iraq "could have terrifically good effects throughout the Middle East." A day later, he said Saddam Hussein was "past the finish line" in developing nuclear weapons. On Feb. 20, 2003, he said of Saddam: "He's got weapons of mass destruction.... Look, if we free the people of Iraq we will be respected in the Arab world." On March 1, 2003 -- 18 days before the invasion of Iraq -- Kristol dismissed the possibility of sectarian conflict afterward. He also said, "Very few wars in American history were prepared better or more thoroughly than this one by this president." He maintained that the war would cost $100 billion to $200 billion. (The running tab is now about half a trillion dollars.) On March 5, 2003, Kristol said, "We'll be vindicated when we discover the weapons of mass destruction."