absolutely

NO comments are necessary EXCEPT this one: is losing 4,101 of our men and women's lives (these are DEATHS only. that figure doesn't include the tens of thousands of men and women who are still alive but whose souls and bodies and minds were ruined in iraq) worth it?

Big Oil Firms Ready to Sign Agreements With Iraq

Two-Year, No-Bid Contracts Aimed at Boosting Production

don't like particular reports on how the situation in iraq is going?

well then, make shite up! switch things around. make things better.

don't you wish you could do this in real life?

we can't make all of the soldiers who have died in iraq come back to life. we can't make all of the iraqis who have lost their lives come back to life. we can't make all of the iraqi children who have seen things we can't even dream about - well we can't erase their memories.

we CAN stop this shite RIGHT NOW. demand king george and his court bring OUR MEN AND WOMEN HOME NOW

General’s Iraq Progress Report Has Competition

By DAVID E. SANGER and THOM SHANKER

WASHINGTON, June 23 — Last month, Congress set a deadline for the American commander in Iraq, declaring that by Sept. 15 he would have to assess progress there before billions more dollars are approved to finance the military effort to stabilize the country. The commander, Gen. David H. Petraeus, said in recent days that his report would be only a snapshot of trends, strongly suggesting he will be asking for more time.
But even before he composes the first sentences of the report, to be written with the new American ambassador in Baghdad, Ryan C. Crocker, the administration is commissioning other assessments that could dilute its findings about the impact of the current troop increase. The intent appears to be to give President Bush, who publicly puts great emphasis on listening to his field commanders, a wide range of options...........

sen boxer bitchslaps (figuratively) sen graham

i WISH it was literally.........

(partial transcript and video found at the link)


Lindsey Graham: Escalation Critics Are Calling The Troops ‘Losers’

Today on CNN, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Bush’s Iraq critics are calling the troops losers. “Let’s don’t undercut [Bush’s escalation plan],” he said. “Let’s don’t declare this war lost because you’re telling all these soldiers and Petraeus that they’re losers.”
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) immediately ripped into Graham’s characterization, stating, “I don’t know anyone who opposes this war that ever said our troops are losers. Our troops are winners.”
Boxer continued, “Lindsey, just be careful what you say. The bottom line here is that the losers are the ones who have engineered this war, made a huge mistake — Dick Cheney we’re in the last throes, the war will last six months — and all of you who have supported this escalation and have turned us away from fighting al Qaeda into putting us in the middle of a civil war.” ....

...........BOXER: I don’t know anyone who opposes this war that ever said our troops are losers. Our troopers are winners.
GRAHAM: Harry Reid did.
BOXER: Excuse me. He never said our troops are losers. Now, Lindsey, just be careful what you say. The bottom line here is, the losers are the ones who have, you know, engineered this war, made a huge mistake, Dick Cheney, we’re in the last throes, the war will last six months, and all of you who have supported this escalation and have turned us away from fighting al Qaida into putting us in the middle of a civil war.
Now, the fact is I want to be very clear on this, Wolf. I’ve lost in California 21 percent of the dead troops. You understand that? Twenty-one percent either were born in California or were stationed in California.................

two headlines from today's wapo

this was the title of one story in today's wapo Eight U.S., Four British Soldiers Die in Scattered Attacks in Iraq

right under it, i mean RIGHT under it, THIS is the next title Defense Secretary Sees Encouraging Signs in Baghdad