Geez Robbie, spin much?

Here’s some snippets from the article you probably “forgot” about:

“…and Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd said investigators “have no information whatsoever” any of them knew the trip was underwritten by Saddam.”

If even our republican run Justice Department says they didn’t know, it seems like you’d buy that.

“Thompson released a statement Wednesday saying the trip was approved by the State Department.”

Hmmm…the State Department (R) said it was ok and the Justice Department (R) says there’s no evidence that they knew anything. The question now is, how do you spin this back around on Democrats? I mean aside from continuing to ignore evidence that doesn’t support you.

Left by kit churchill on March 27th, 2008 at 9:38 am

Our vaunted (and corrupt) military keeps on winning:

[Editor --- Our "corrupt" military? Go fuck yourself. Seriously. I have one simple rule on my blog --- no slandering our military. You can go do that to your pink-heart's content on any number of Liberal blogs. Not on this one.

What ever it is you do for a living, Pat --- let me guess, school teacher or something-ambiguous at a non-profit --- is a magnitude of order more corrupt than any branch of our military.]

House sleuth Henry Waxman (D-CA) read the news today, oh boy. And he wants 22 year-old AEY President Efraim Diveroli, his 25 year-old VP (and masseur) David Packouz, and the company’s general manager, also 25, to testify before Congress about how they managed to get a $300 million U.S. contract to supply (sometimes forty year-old) ammunition to the Afghan Army, among other contracts. Waxman also wants officials from the Department of Defense and Department of State to appear as well. He’s set the date of April 17th.

Dude, where’s my pork barrel?!

Left by Pat on March 27th, 2008 at 2:24 pm

McClatchy reports civil war violence in Iraq for Wednesday:

‘ Baghdad

At least 20 people were killed and 115 wounded in clashes that broke out on Tuesday evening and lasted until Wednesday morning between Mahdi army militia and the Iraqis security forces supported by the American forces in Sadr city in east Baghdad.

US embassy in Iraqi said that three US officials were wounded seriously in one of the attacks that targeted the green zone on Wednesday morning.

[Editor --- The rest of this massive copy and paste without attrition has been deleted. Please don't whole-sale copy and paste other people's work in here without the proper cite --- and even then, I would prefer you to use a link to the bulk of the content, with perhaps a brief summary of it in your own words.]

Left by Pat on March 27th, 2008 at 3:21 pm

And that’s all just in one day. Semper Cheetos!!

Left by Pat on March 27th, 2008 at 3:22 pm

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. government employee was killed and four others were wounded in Baghdad this week by rocket attacks on the Green Zone diplomatic and government compound, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday.

[Editor --- Breaking news --- people die in war. The fact that it happens so infrequently in historical context in this war is news.]

Left by Pat on March 27th, 2008 at 3:24 pm

HAHAHA! Wingnuts on crack:

The American Enterprise Institute held an event on Monday entitled “Iraq: The Way Ahead.” They convened a panel as diverse as the ones typically convened among the Beltway establishment to talk about Iraq. It featured war cheerleader genius Fred Kagan of the AEI and war cheerleader geniuses Michael O’Hanlon and Ken Pollack of the Brookings Institution (the always in-sync, pro-war AEI and Brookings are, along with the Council on Foreign Relations, the most quoted and most-cited “think tanks” in the American media).

To commence the discussion to show us all “The Way Ahead” in Iraq, here is the very first thing that Fred Kagan said:

The first thing I want to say is that: The Civil War in Iraq is over. And until the American domestic political debate catches up with that fact, we are going to have a very hard time discussing Iraq on the basis of reality.

One has to watch the video to fully appreciate how pompously he sits there on his war throne issuing his decree about “reality” in Iraq.

Less than 24 hours after Kagan decreed the Civil War in Iraq over — and lectured Americans that we must accept this if we are to understand reality in Iraq — McClatchy News Service reported:

With Iraq’s top leaders directing the battle, Iraq’s army and national police pressed a major operation Tuesday to wrest control of the southern port city of Basra from the Shiite Mahdi Army militia. Fighting between government forces and the militia quickly spread through Iraq’s south and into Baghdad.

Today, long-time, highly prescient Iraq correspondent Patrick Cockburn reported in The Independent: “A new civil war is threatening to explode in Iraq as American-backed Iraqi government forces fight Shia militiamen for control of Basra and parts of Baghdad.”

Left by Pat on March 27th, 2008 at 3:30 pm

Virtually all of our revered experts — including the Great and Honorable Commanding General David H. Petraeus — have similar records as Kagan. Time and again, their pronouncements are proven to be wrong — humiliatingly and disastrously so — and yet they continue to prance around as Serious Experts who are entitled to credibility, and are treated as such. Is there any point at which someone of this sort loses credibility?

[Editor --- yeah. You've lost any credibility as a person who supports this country or it's military (or that lives in a reality-based world). I don't know how someone who hates the freedoms provided by our military so much can even stand to live here.]

Left by Pat on March 27th, 2008 at 3:32 pm

“arranged by Muthanna Al-Hanooti”

I don’t know about anyone else, but if this is the name of the guy making the arrangements… I would be suspicious! They just probably wanted to talk to Saddam about his Food for Oil program that was lining his pockets!

McCain sheds some light on what is going on in Iraq… sounds like Al Qaeda is getting desparate. They have been calling for recruits and Bin Laden has issued more threats… what does one expect?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080325/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_iraq

Left by HoosierArmyMom on March 27th, 2008 at 3:40 pm

The statement that the DOJ reports that it had no info that the useful idiots were aware of who funded their trip does not equate to the useful idiots were unaware of who funded their trip or that they should have known who funded their trip.

And could we stop with the long copy and paste jobs that are in violation of copyright laws by the latest moonbat troll? Also, why doesn’t it surprise me that he gets a hard-on at the report of an American being killed in a rocket attack?

Left by Anonymous on March 27th, 2008 at 3:54 pm

that’s true anonymous, the DOJ (R) saying there’s no proof that they knew doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t have looked into who was financing the trip. But as is usually the case with these types of trips, the State Department (R) actually should have known, since its their job to make sure that groups like this aren’t paying for junkets.

it looks like this is a pretty clear case of both sides of the aisle screwing up. but that’s not what the post implies, and that’s what i was trying to point out.

Left by kit churchill on March 27th, 2008 at 4:04 pm

Two, actually, you stupid anonymous prick.

Left by Pat on March 27th, 2008 at 4:07 pm

HoosierArmyMom, I would like to offer one correction in terms, for accuracy. It was the UN’s Oil For Palaces program, in Iraq under Saddam.
If any of you haven’t, Michael Yon’s latest piece is excellent.
Stake through Their Hearts-Killing al Qaeda.

Al Qaeda is still trying to spin Iraq into civil war, but whereas in 2005-2006 al Qaeda was succeeding, today al Qaeda is being shredded.
——————–
Times have changed for al Qaeda here. Too many Iraqis have decided they are not going to take it anymore. Al Qaeda in Iraq is still fighting, and they are tough and wily, but al Qaeda Central seems to realize there are easier targets elsewhere, perhaps in Europe, where many people demonstrate weakness in the face of terror.

That last sentence is lost on those in this country, that are consumed with BDS.

Left by no2libverals on March 28th, 2008 at 8:08 am

Thanks for mentioning it was through the UN, I had forgot that detail. I think the UN is corrupt and America hating, so I’m sure they knew Saddam was the only Iraqi benefitting from the program. I hadn’t read Michael Yon’s latest report yet, so I will do so. There are places to gain info about “the real truth about what is going on”, but Yon’s dispatches are one of my favorites.

The trolls seem to be having a meltdown because the War we were supposed to be “losing” has turned full circle and their Presidental candidates have shown their marxist butts… so now it is time to whine, whine, whine!!!

I hope Robbie has a big ole supply of “Purina Troll Chow” because they will be jumping and biting soon! *wink* Did anyone happen to notice that all those rockets being fired into Baghdad were made in “Iran”… the trolls really hate it when the Right is Right.

Left by HoosierArmyMom on March 28th, 2008 at 11:04 pm

With the Iraqi government actively engaging in ridding Basra of the criminal gangs, and the shiia militias, it won’t be long before the people of al Basra start forming their own concerned citizen groups, to end the fighting.
As the battle for Mosul develops, AQ will be cut off, and have no where to go but to their 72 goats. Mosul is AQI’s last stand. They have no real organization left, are struggling to raise money or foreign fighters, their leaders are getting killed, and all they are left with are desperation tactics to kill as many as they can to try and make headlines, and give the liberals in this country hope; hope that for once they won’t be proven wrong again.
BTW, I was making a joke about the Oil For FoodPalaces UN program. The UN is a corrupt and irrelevant debating society.

Left by no2liberals on March 28th, 2008 at 11:39 pm