Challenge Of The Super Duper Heroes

Check out this video from You Tube courtesy of The Brad Blog

Rice Dismissive of Russian

Rice, while peddling the U.S. missile defense plan in Oslo, backfired. The plan would put 10 missile interceptors in Poland and radar in the Czech Republic to defend against what it perceives as a potential future threat from Iran.” (see 4/24 post on plan),

“President Vladimir Putin’s threat to pull out of a Cold War-era arms control treaty, as the strategic confrontation between the two former enemies escalated. Putin stopped abiding by a 1990 conventional arms pact and said Russia might abandon it altogether, accusing the U.S. of upsetting Europe’s strategic balance by widening its military presence on former Soviet territory.”

Of course Rice in her usual flippant way tossed Putin’s statements aside by stating “The idea that somehow 10 interceptors and a few radars in Eastern Europe are going to threaten the Soviet strategic deterrent is purely ludicrous, and everybody knows it.

Rice obviously doesn’t care that Poland doesn’t want the missiles or the radar in their county; but that irrelevant. So now we have a wider gap between the U.S. and Russian, for a perceived threat from Iran. Between Bush and his great missile defense plan and Rice’s lack of diplomacy we just might be heading for another cold was.

Impeach Bush Poll

Below are recent poll results from Capital Hill Blue. Now if we could just get Pelosi on board.

 

Should Congress initiate impeachment proceedings against President George W. Bush?

 

 

Absolutely 91% (936 votes)

No way 7% (73 votes)

Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn. 2% (21 votes)

Total votes: 1030

Democratic Debate Tonight

Tonight is the first Democratic debate in the race for President. The debate will take place at South Carolina State University and the eight candidates will be able to distinguish themselves from the pack. I’m sure they won’t take any slaps at each other; it’s too early for that.

MSNBC will host the debate live from 6:00-7:30 pm (central). You can stream the debate live on MSNBC.com.  

Rice Will Respond Via Mail

Rice will respond to the committees questions via mail. Rice feels that she has already answered questions about Iraq.  Well there is truth in that, but Rice answered questions to the 109th committee was chaired by a rebuplican who asked nothing probing.  I’m actually shocked that the 109th questioned her.  I’m sure the 110th will have serious questions for her. Once again it’s the subornance and arrogeance of this administration that will fight her appearance.

Bush To Veto Bill

The Iraq funding bill is now on its way to Bush’s desk to be vetoed. Bush, who doesn’t seem to get that the American people want the troop’s home.  He doesn’t seem to care that Congress is finally doing what we asked. HE made his mind up to veto the bill before both houses of Congress ever voted.

Timetables are not going to make or break the violence that Bush has created in Iraq. The timetable in this bill is something that Americans want. The idea that a timetable will tell Al-Qaeda “hey, where leaving tomorrow, it’s all yours” How ridiculous.  Al Qaeda is there and will always been in Iraq, thanks to Bush, his failed policy and delusional thoughts of grandeur. It’s easy to throw Al Qaeda in the mix as a distraction, since almost all of the current violence has been Sunni and Shia. 

I am sick and tired of listening to Bush, his administration and Dana Perino stating “remember it took our country several years to get the government up and functioning, we’ve got to give the Iraqi government a chance”.  I would probable buy that if the Iraqi government was actively participating from the beginning. Maliki has been poked and prodded to do something for years.  The Iraqi training is years behind schedule. The police are corrupt and not dependable. The infrastructure has never been completed because of contractor corruption and shoddy work.

Words from Lieberman in a CNN report have to make your jaw drop “Before the vote, Lieberman condemned the bill — which he said laid out “a strategy based on catchphrases and bromides rather than military realities” — as a guarantee of failure in the war in Iraq.”

The military realities of Iraq are that all of the generals have stated that peace will not come to Iraq through the military but through diplomacy.

From the same CNN report: Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, argued before the vote that continuing the war defies the will of the American people and that the U.S. military “should not police Iraq’s civil war indefinitely.” He defended the need for a deadline to withdraw troops, calling it “the only realistic way to encourage the Iraqis to take responsibility for their future.”

Funding is not running out. The Pentagon has stated many times in words and in their recent report that they have fund trough June. The 109th Congress actually took over 1o0 days to get the last funding bill to Bush’s desk.  So I really disgusted to keep hearing that the 110th Congress is dragging their feet on funding is it’s at the 80 day mark. This just amounts to is more lies, exaggerations and scare tactics from the White House and the right wing.

In a press conference today Dana Perino said “the Senate had passed “defeatist legislation”.  “Defeatist”, another catch word the GOP has clung to in recent days.  When asked that how can Bush veto the bill when over 60% of Americans polled wanted the troop’s home. Perino said Bush doesn’t go by the polls to make decisions. It’s obvious that Bush doesn’t care what we say. He never has. 

So where do we draw the line? Do we continue to send troops indefinitely until one day the Iraqi government wakes up and starts governing? The citizens of Iraq are dying at an astounding rate. However, the true numbers of Iraqi’s deaths are unknown because Maliki can’t or won’t tell the U.N. the truth.  Iraqi’s want peace and they are trying to make the best life they can out of the chaos around them. How can the Iraqi people expect peace when Maliki does nothing? How can they expect peace when their government won’t step up to the plate? Timelines are not bad they will force the Iraqi government to start governing. Maybe then the Iraqi people can live the lives they deserve.