i hope everybody either already knows

or remembers THERE WAS NO AL-QAEDA IN IRAQ until WE brought them there. yes, WE did. WE illegally, immorally and unjustly invaded a foreign land who did NOTHING to us (iraq did NOT destroy the world trade center. yes, loads of people STILL believe they did). sure saddam was evil and had to go but do did and do a lot of other killers and despots. we don't invade THEIR lands (although we actually SHOULD be helping out with the people of these many lands)

this is SO effing bizarre. the cia director now says that the threat from al-qaeda (in iraq) isn't that big a deal. REMEMBER - IT WAS NO 'DEAL' AT ALL UNTIL WE PROVOKED THEM TO BE THERE. it's ALL on us. ALL of it

and remember 4,196***

CIA Chief: Iraq Not Main Front
But Hayden Says Al-Qaeda Remains Greatest Threat to U.S.

By Walter Pincus

Washington Post Staff Writer

CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said yesterday that al-Qaeda remains the single greatest threat to the United States but that Iraq is no longer the central front in the broader war on terrorism.

"Today, the flow of money, weapons and foreign fighters into Iraq is greatly diminished and al-Qaeda senior leaders no longer point to it as the central battlefield," Hayden told an audience at the Atlantic Council, a bipartisan group that deals with international affairs. But he warned that al-Qaeda remains "a determined, adaptive enemy" that is resilient and operating "from its safe haven in Pakistan's tribal areas."

"If there is a major strike on this country, it will bear the fingerprints of al-Qaeda," he said. While law enforcement and diplomacy have their place, Hayden said, "this war -- and no one should mistake it as anything else -- is far from over.".......

***united states deaths in iraq (as of 11/14/2008)

all of their asses

should be in jail. they are all evil. they are all liars. they are all criminals. NONE of them will be prosecuted. i don't understand that. i don't understand why.


(and crisis? crisis? WHO CREATED THE 'CRISIS'?)

Cheney Shielded Bush From Crisis

By Barton Gellman

Washington Post Staff Writer
This is the second of two stories adapted from "Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency," to be published Tuesday by Penguin Press.

Vice President Cheney convened a meeting in the Situation Room at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, March 10, 2004, with just one day left before the warrantless domestic surveillance program was set to expire. Around him were National Security Agency Director Michael V. Hayden, White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales and the Gang of Eight -- the four ranking members of the House and the Senate, and the chairmen and vice chairmen of the intelligence committees.

Even now, three months into a legal rebellion at the Justice Department, President Bush was nowhere in the picture. He was stumping in the battleground state of Ohio, talking up the economy.

With a nod from Cheney, Hayden walked through the program's vital mission. Gonzales said top lawyers at the NSA and Justice had green-lighted the program from the beginning. Now Attorney General John D. Ashcroft was in the hospital, and James B. Comey, Ashcroft's deputy, refused to certify that the surveillance was legal.........

so when IS someone going to reign in this madman?

in my masthead i refer to myself as a madwoman. i rather am most of the time. madwoman in a different way than he is a madman though. i have not sent thousands of our men and women to their deaths (FOR NO REASON i might add. well i've not sent them to their deaths for ANY reason. oh yeah, NOR WOULD I). i don't lie to the american public (nor would i about things such as terrorism, war, our constitution, the lives of people on the gulf coast, education, health, stem cell research, birth control, veterans, veterans health oh the list goes on)

he caused and continues to cause great harm, hurt, death, destruction, the dissolution of our legal system and our constitution. i don't do ANY of those things

CIA Said Instability Seemed 'Irreversible'


By Bob Woodward Washington Post Staff Writer

Early on the morning of Nov. 13, 2006, members of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group gathered around a dark wooden conference table in the windowless Roosevelt Room of the White House.
For more than an hour, they listened to President Bush give what one panel member called a "Churchillian" vision of "victory" in Iraq and defend the country's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki. "A constitutional order is emerging," he said.
Later that morning, around the same conference table, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden painted a starkly different picture for members of the study group. Hayden said "the inability of the government to govern seems irreversible," adding that he could not "point to any milestone or checkpoint where we can turn this thing around," according to written records of his briefing and the recollections of six participants............