Iraqis Crap On Bush’s SOFA, Update III

Well, it looks like the Cheney Administration‘s attempt to handcuff the next US president to it’s depraved Iraq agenda has, like a John McCain piloted fighter jet, gone down in flames. McClatchy reports that: Iraq’s prime minister won’t sign U.S. troop deal By Roy Gutman | McClatchy Newspapers October 24, 2008 BAGHDAD — Fearing political division in the parliament and …

Bulldog Mauls Pitbull

“She’s got my vote and my heart,” says Joe Dirt LOS ANGELES — So what if it’s predictable and strains credulity— Joe Dirt loves Sarah Palin.  “She may be an airhead and what not, and she was pretty much mauled by that Bulldog Biden guy, but she’s still the pitbull who like stole my heart when she winked directly at …

The Difference Between Palin and Bush?

Lipstick. To the apocalypse lobby, Sarah Palin is everything that they had hoped George W. Bush would be; and more. Making what a lot of fundies consider a downpayment on the rapture, Bush told Palestinian leaders at the White House in June ’03 that he was instructed by God to remove Saddam from power: “God told me, ‘George, go and …

China, Iraq Sign $3 billion Oil Deal

Finally. We now know why we’ve lost over 4150 troops, suffered 10ks of thousands of grievously wounded, murdered a million Iraqis, created refugees out of millions more, destabilized the Middle East, squandered our remaining moral standing in the world, and saddled our children’s children’s children with trillions of dollars of crushing debt. The neoconmen must be apoplectic. Iraq Signs Oil …

Iraqis Crap On Bush’s SOFA, Par Deux

WASHINGTON (C.U.News)  Proving that he was a maverick all along, President McCain, on the anniversary of his first week in office, has ordered the re-invasion of Iraq. “The agreement reached by the previous US president and the current Iraqi prime minister to pull US troops out of Iraq on a timetable is not in the best interests of the country,” …

Sow The Wind, Reap The Economic Whirlwind

A number of significant economic statistics were announced yesterday: inflation hit a 71/2 year high; consumer earning power declined 3 1/2% from last year; and home foreclosures rose 55%. Fueling these economic fires has been the soaring cost of the Iraq war and occupation. Using credit cards, American taxpayers bought huge amounts of stock in Corporate America‘s colonization of Iraq. …

Is McSame a Hypocrite Or Merely Senile?

At a press conference today meant to display John McSame‘s superior foreign policy credentials, the Rethuglicans‘ reality challenged presidential candidate either had a senior moment, or he believes that the corporatist media is so in the tank for him that he is free to utter even the most egregious hypocritical pronouncements and escape scrutiny. Case in point: the roiling Russia-Georgia …