Why are we in Iraq?

A [recent] survey found that 51% of Americans say the President is doing a poor job handling the situation in Iraq. That perception is keeping his Job Approval Ratings near the lowest levels ever recorded.
ed. - that's the lowest recorded for ANY war time president in American history.

If the President refuses to even set benchmarks for troop withdrawal it can only mean one of two things:

1. He wants to keep US troops there for all time and won't admit it to the American people.

2. He has no idea why he invaded in the first place. Benchmarks don't equal deadlines. They are just goals. Any realistic military action uses benchmarks or goals to determine progress and set flexible timelines for further action.

He won't set benchmarks. He won't set deadlines.

He won't tell us why we invaded except that there were supposedly WMDs. There weren't. Most of the intelligence at the time that has since come to light show there weren't. If he genuinely thought there were WMDs, he was fooling himself.

Looking at the two options above, he's either a horrific tyrant, or a complete imbecile. I hope it's the latter but fear that it's the former.

There is one alternative. It's all about partisan politics. Meaning, he cares more about appearing to be right and continuing the current Republican dominance inside the beltway than he cares about the lives of our best and bravest: American military men and women.

Funny

Ok, it's been awhile since I posted... Basically so much has been happening with W and so little time to write. His senior officials are under sever scrutiny, he shocked the world with his utter incompetence in appointing Harriet Myers (or was it a ruse to ensure an ultra-conservative would definitely be approved?) and his failure to even come up with a plan for Iraq (if we don't' know what it will take for us to leave it means we don't know why we invaded in the first place - our bravest and best are dying in the fight for ambiguous partisan politics).

BUT... Here is proof (not so positive) that Bush is a failed president.

Go to Google, type "Failure" in the search window and click the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button.

Try it. Now you know what failure means.

The real meaning of No Child Left Behind

Now we see that "No Child Left Behind" is actually a front for shady military recruiting tactics.

No Child Left out of the military...

No Child allowed to have privacy (no parents either).

No Child Left the freedom to choose.

http://www.leavemychildalone.org/index.cfm?event=tellAFriend&tcid=1

Humor with a point

Naturally, no President can be the worst President all by himself. He needs to make dozens of horrible appointments to key positions. And Bush has come through in spades. No matter how unqualified the candidate, he's ready to make the appointments that will keep our government from functioning.

Here is a humorous page listing just a few of his horrible appointments.

www.cronyjobs.com

Words of Wisdom

The man who legitimately won the Presidency in 2000 speaks out.

Words of wisdom from former Vice President Al Gore.

9/11 Report

Reuters

CIA weighs requests for release of Sept 11 report

Torture revisited

Reuters today:

One observation, taken from interviews of military personnel in the 4th Infantry Division, said officers "engaged in interrogations using techniques they literally remembered from the movies."

Anthony Romero, executive director of the ACLU, said the documents were evidence of widespread abuse.

"When troops rely on movies to learn interrogation techniques rather than proper training, our government has failed and the blame is on Washington, not Hollywood," he said.

Another observation of the same infantry division noted, "There was no specific training on the treatment of detainees; the MPs relied on their common knowledge in this area."

John G. Roberts hearings underway

Well, the President who appointed Michael Brown as director of FEMA (we all saw how well that worked out...) has taken Roberts's original Supreme Court nomination away, and given him a nomination to the Chief Justice chair.

The scary fact is that the American people know next to nothing about his views.

Click here for information about him.

I'm frankly terrified... because I don't know whether to be scared or not. About the only worthwhile or telling piece of information is that George Bush nominated him, and Bush only seems to nominate/appoint people who are incompetent, or politically fanatical.

Everyone agrees that Roberts is a brilliant legal mind.

Which means he's probably a fanatic. That's my opinion of course. However, I challenge anyone to name a person nominated/appointed to any job by Bush that is not either incompetent or fanatical. The one person that comes to my mind is Colin Powell, and they ran him out of town at the reelection.

Anyway, it appears that little can stop Judge Roberts's confirmation at this point, so strap yourselves in ladies and gentlemen. We're in for a bumpy three years with a one party federal government in which all the really powerful jobs are controlled by the extreme right wing.

The other way to say that is "right wing extremists."

I don't know about you, but for me, November 2008 can't get here fast enough.