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MickC @ August 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Obama admits drop in Iraqi violence was more than he had anticipated - Los Angeles Times
Earlier Sunday, in an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Obama acknowledged that he had failed to anticipate the sharp decline in attacks in Iraq, but he contended that President Bush and McCain had made the same mistake.
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Addressing what has [...]
MickC @ July 19, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Valerie Plame Wilson’s case against Vice President Richard “Dick” Cheney, White House political adviser Karl Rove, former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby and former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage was dismissed today. Fortunately for you, I have found the Memorandum & Opinion.
[UPDATE: I've gotten a couple of messages and emails asking [...]
MickC @ February 19, 2007 # No Comment Yet
War - what it is good for is likely the best story you’ll read in a long time.
It’s the story of an 8 year old’s birthday party. The young man was an avid follower of Band of Brothers and requested a World War II theme party for his birthday, of the uproar that followed, [...]
MickC @ June 22, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Some months ago, I tested John Kerry’s website to see if they were using confirmed opt-in for their mailing list. They weren’t, and they’ve been mailing “Mr. Waffles” ever since. So, today I open my email and find “Here’s How They Voted” about Big John’s attempt to have Congress assume the mantle of [...]
MickC @ May 2, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Joe Biden is now pitching a division of Iraq. The hallmark of this is the “dividing Iraq into three separate regions held together by a loose central government.”
Haven’t we been here before?
Oh yeah. It was in the 1700s. Right after winning our independence from England, we lived for a period of time [...]
MickC @ January 24, 2006 # One Comment
It might be hard to appreciate a political humor columnist sometimes. They have a difficult job that has them trying to say something serious in a light, humor-laced way. Today, I found one such article that I thought I’d share with you.
In the cleverly titled essay “Warriors and wusses“, LA Times humor columnist [...]
MickC @ January 8, 2006 # No Comment Yet
According to the National Review Online, Rep. John Murtha has now fully cast his lot with the ‘America must lose” crowd.
Here’s what he said:
I worry about a slow withdrawal which makes it look like there’s a victory when I think it should be a redeployment as quickly as possible and let the Iraqis handle the [...]
MickC @ December 18, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Sheehan Leads War Protest in Spain
Sheehan, whose soldier son was killed in Iraq, called Bush a war criminal and said, “Iraq is worse than Vietnam.”
Sheesh. Will this woman ever give up? Given the elections that just happened, the only way that Iraq is worse than Vietnam is if you’re rooting for America’s enemies.
MickC @ November 7, 2005 # No Comment Yet
On April 18, 1971, John Kerry either admitted to being a war criminal or committed treason on national television. As time went on the rhetoric toned down. As more time passed by, it changed so that during the 2004 campaign, he had not committed any war crimes, he was only relating the stories [...]
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