Back when Clinton had our troops in Somalia, McCain made a speech from the Senate Floor demanding we get our troops out of there immediately because of the “Blackhawk Down” incident. Hey Johnny, how many more have died in this IRAQ SURGE which you support compared to Blackhawk Down?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8TFKXHiefs

Then we find out on Think Progress that (1) Boehner voted to reduce troop timeline in Somalia from one year to six months getting our troops out of Somalia and voted against the funding, (2) Boehner voted to move up the deadline to bring troops home from Somalia and (3) Boehner voted against $1.8 billion in funding for the operation in Somali.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/27/boehner-somalia/

I wonder if Boehner and McCain would be making the same speeches now (including all the tears) if Hillary Clinton was in the White House?

How ironic that ABC did that interview with “Osama been Forgotten” in 1998 IN SOMALIA from ‘An Undisclosed Location’ known as a Cave. Gee, I wonder if Cheney was there?

Now these “John-Johns” along with McConnell and Sessions want to keep our troops in harms way and wait until September. Excuse me but how many more “Republican Pawns” are going to die in an Republican Chess Game known as the Iraq War for these “election worried” politicians? Thats all they care about! Whats their re-election chances if we are still in Iraq while they could give a damn about the safety of our soldiers.

Now we read in the NY Times that the very Iraqis our soldiers are training during the day are trying to kill these same US soldiers at night! Great, just what our soldiers need!

The soldiers have accomplished everything they were told to do. Saddam is Dead, The Iraqis have a Government and they now have their Constitution!! What more can we ask of them?

Gaza baby treated at Israeli hospital

MDA ambulance transfers baby with heart defect from Gaza Strip to Sheba Medical Center for life-saving operation

9 Qassams fired at Negev since Monday morning

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3405551,00.html

Man Killed by rocket attack in Sderot, Hamas claims responsiblity

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&ncl=1116765642

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=one+dead+sderot+&btnG=Search+News

Statement of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton Condemning Recent Attacks on Israeli Civilians

http://clinton.senate.gov/news/statements/details.cfm?id=275186

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/28/iran.us.talks/index.html

U.S., Iran begin first formal talks in 27 years

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — U.S. diplomats and their Iranian counterparts met at the residence of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki Monday for talks about Iraq’s security, even as other issues threatened to overtake the agenda.

Aide Hasan al-Sneid told CNN that Al-Maliki is calling for dialogue on Iraq between Washington and Tehran, urging them to clear contentious issues between them, with the hope that Monday’s meeting will pave the way for broader talks.

Al-Sneid also said the prime minister will reiterate that Iraq will not be used as a launch pad for terrorism in the region.

But ahead of the talks — the first public and formal meeting between U.S. and Iranian representatives since the United States cut off diplomatic relations 27 years ago — U.S. diplomats insisted that unresolved issues of detained Americans in Iran and the Islamic republic’s nuclear program were not up for discussion.

Tehran said on state-run media over the weekend that it has uncovered several U.S.-run spy rings inside Iran and would release more details in the coming days. There was no immediate response from the White House. (Full story)

Tehran recently charged Haleh Esfandiari, one of four Iranian-Americans detained in Tehran, with conducting activities against the Iranian government, a charge dismissed by Washington.

The State Department has repeatedly called for Esfandiari’s release, as well as for more information about three other Iranian-Americans who have been detained, imprisoned or had their passports revoked.

In addition, Robert Levinson, an American and retired FBI agent, has been missing since March 8, when he was last seen on Iran’s Kish Island.

Washington’s attempts to obtain information have been hampered by the lack of diplomatic ties between the two countries.

Answer that one Neo-con fools.

LOL!!!

The democracy exporters allowed the Iraqi government to be unoccupied for about four years. That is likely the dumbest move an exporter of democracy could make. It makes absolutely no sense.

And if those exporters of democracy had let it be known in 2003 that they planned to allow insurgents to “patrol the streets of Baghdad”, America would have been in an uproar.

The Bush team, perhaps, does too much of its thinking outside the box where rules, laws, common sense and other constraints don’t apply.

Mainstream asked, in 2003, about the low troop count the Bush team was using. Mainstream wanted more troops – the Bush team did not.

The Bush team is different.

But in 2007 the Bush team, wanted more troops while mainstream did not.

The Bush team is different.

But it does look like the Bush team was wearing the white hat (in a war). Rather than take that “surge” back in 2003, when the task of keeping Iraq’s streets tame was easier, it waited until the insurgents got well trained, well dug in, well equipped with weapons and fiercely anti American before it chose to increase its troop count.

The Bush team is different.

I know of no significant task that the Bush team has accomplished with an “atta boy”. I know of no task the Bush team has put in front of the electorate as an example of their professional capability. Rhetoric is their “strong suit”. Performance is not. And the theme for the Bush team’s administration appears to be:

BE AFRAID
BE VERY AFRAID

Quite unlike that President who told America:

YOU HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR
BUT FEAR ITSELF.

A nation’s army was heading our way.

Accordingly, the term does not imply that the Republicans in question are Democrats, Libertarians or independents – they are still recognized GOP members, unlike Senator Jim Jeffords (VT), who was called a RINO until he left the party in 2001.

The term is often used to describe politicians at the congressional level, but can be applied to members of any governmental branch or electoral constituency.

Some GOP members who use the term to criticize other party members claim loyalty to the principles of conservatism before the party. Sometimes these conservatives threaten to bolt the party or boycott an election if a supposed RINO is nominated, thus punishing the party by defeat.

you’re wrong on this one – conservativesw were NEVER fiscal conservatives – they just hated spending money on people in need and were desperate to shift the spending (and increase it) to their corporate pals. Case in point – the conservative iconic reagan administration.

A woman who worked for the CIA became the target of Republicans. And that looked like “sins of the husband were visited upon the wife”.

A President used what looks like a phony reason to start a war. And the Republicans are not thinking impeachment. Not even is there a clamor to search for the truth of yellow-cake.

The Joints Chiefs of Staff upbraided a U.S. newspaper for a political cartoon and there was a “business as usual” attitude displayed.

The validity of the American vote seems to be in jeopardy while those whose job is to protect that vote hums: dum, dum, dum, dum dee dee, dum, dum, dum.

Wise people, like EX President Carter, whose skills in diplomacy run rings around the Bush team’s diplomacy is called IRREVELANT.

This group of neo-cons never saw a buck they did not want to spend. And as a result some 300,000,000 Americans are in hock for about $30,000 each. And these are “CREDIT CARD” dollars. The OLD CONSERVATIVES would disown this group of wild spenders.

This group of neo-cons seems to believe they derived their authority from HE HIMSELF. Therefore it made perfect sense to demand that the American electorate “BACK -OFF” while the Bush team administered to their Iraq war.

Not even the BIG STICK wielded by the American electorate on 11/7/2006 has affected the Republicans behavior. Nothing can deter the Bush team – when Mr. Bush believes he is right.

And Mr. Bush has believed he was right throughout this WMD era. And Mr. McCain will not stray far from the Bush team’s ideas.

I think it is totally repugnant that they can’t make that kind of decision because it is the right thing to do. They will make that kind of a decision to save their political skins. They really don’t care that another 3 to 4 hundred more men and women in uniform will die because of their inability to do the right thing. The deaths of all these men and women will stand squarely on the shoulders of the Bush Crime Family and their RepubliCON enablers.

I hope that the American public will not be lulled into voting for these people again if they finally do the right thing in September. Every Democrat running against these RepubliCONs needs to remind the public how many people died while they dithered.