“President Bush said he believes the Iraq war was a success…
Three bomb attacks in Baghdad killed at least 20 people today…”

Chicken George WTF has a strange standard by which to measure success. If it were 200 people per day would he again claim “Mission Accomplished?:
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If it were 2,000 a day he would still say mission accomplished. For Bush its all about the photo op. Reality just doesnt enter into it

Saxby-evil
Lieberman-bad
Carlyle Group-free pass

My retired military friends are quite progressive. They are concerned about the direction of America’s military leadership. It seemed worthy of sharing on a progressive website.

stateofthedivision Says:
Once again, they shook my faith. “He doesn’t have the power. The military is controlled by the religious right.”

What is this crap state? If the religious right controlled the military then there never would have even been don’t ask don’t tell………

not to mention several other unresolvable situations.

They call the president: Commander in Chief. That specifically means the military.

November 24th, 2008 at 10:54 am
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I disagree. Democracy can thrive even in the absence of a middle class, though it may not look like U.S.-style democracy. In Mali, one of the poorest countries of the world, where per capita income is about $3/day, there is a quite vigorous democracy – from national elections down to local commune and village councils.

It seems as if democracy and a middle class are intertwined from an American/European perspective, since the growth of the two coincided historically. However, this was also a conequence of the industrial revolution, which created a new middle class and increased population movements to cities, two conditions more favorable to a democratic system.

They shook their heads no. The repeal is going the other way, the military will be asking and excluding those they don’t like.

I said “but we just had an election. A progressive Commander-in-Chief will be in the White House.” Once again, they shook my faith. “He doesn’t have the power. The military is controlled by the religious right.”

People by the millions voted for progressive change. It’s up to the people who put the Blue team in charge to hold them accountable.

Democracy is a middle-class phenomenon. Without a middle-class, more or less independent of the aristocracy/oligarchy, Democracy is meaningless, and probably impossible…

In Bush’s case, the word “elect” means appointed by the Supreme Court.

Simple. It’s not the same country…It hasn’t been anything like the same country, surely, since 1980…

Because of the brain power operating out of the public view in hidden back rooms.

That reminds me of JFK’s comment at dinner with his cabinet, “never before has there been more brain power in this room, except when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”

How could the same country elect both JFK and George Bush!

British Foreign Minister David Miliband called Iran’s nukes and immediate threat.
You’ll remember Bush 41 started an incursion in Somalia just weeks before leaving office in late ‘91.

These fu(king busheviks are trying to arrange an Israeli attack on Iran before Obama takes over…

the White House intervened “at the last minute” to weaken last month’s EPA ruling limiting toxic metal particles in the air. The White House changed an EPA plan to require lead monitors next to any factory emitting at least half a ton of lead a year, raising the threshold to a ton of lead or more.

This is what Dumbya calls killing two birds with one stone.

Careful, Nevar, you’ll summon up Dick Morris with that toe talk!