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- Spentlife, on 10/10/2007, -2/+57"Iraq has failed to meet all but three of 18 congressionally mandated benchmarks for political and military progress, according to a draft of a Government Accountability Office report."
ok lets wait for the "official" version .. :/ - theNazz, on 10/10/2007, -4/+43The White House's defense is that the 'test was too strict'... I'm glad the truth got out before the Bush Administration vermin could propaganda their way out of this grim report.
- Stonedonkey, on 10/10/2007, -4/+36Well, that's what happens when the opposition filibusters everything you try to do:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/congress/story/18218.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/11/AR2007061101623.html
http://www.soapblox.net/belowboston/showDiary.do?diaryId=971
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-06-21-gopblocksoil_N.htm
Just a random sampling. - thefirstenemy, on 10/10/2007, -5/+30The White House has a record of doctoring negative reports. It isn't biased when it's just the truth.
- KroniKlepto, on 10/10/2007, -1/+25How amusing is it that anyone that prefers truth and facts is automatically labeled a liberal or democrat, when they could possibly be neither?
- RollFizzlebeef, on 10/10/2007, -1/+241. I'm the submitter
2. This same story was promoted earlier by someone who posted the story *after* I did
3. The title is not misleading (RTFA), and the State Dept, White House, and Pentagon did, in fact, bitch about the GAO's findings today: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070831/ap_on_go_co/us_iraq - yomamaisfat, on 10/10/2007, -3/+23Chaney is going to use that man-sized safe to store the remains of whoever leaked this report without doctoring it.
- fnaqzna, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20The war is over. This is the occupation.
- BowieX, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19Calm down, please. The title is NOT biased or extreme.
According to the article, the report WAS actually leaked specifically IN ORDER TO AVOID the White House "watering down" the nonpartisan group's negative report, thus:
Doctor, v. 1. Alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive.
If there's any time to use the phrase "Doctor It," it is here, especially considering it is more concise and specific than "Water It Down," which technically would need to employ an additional pair of quotation marks. - moocow1452, on 10/10/2007, -2/+21Is the "Mission Accomplished" yet?
- fnaqzna, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17We could just settle with the abridged version.
Q U A G M I R E . - RollFizzlebeef, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17Congrats on what will probably be the dumbest argument of the thread.
- zengonzo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14The USA is footing the bill .. It's in some small group's financial interest not to end the war.
It's definitely in the USA's financial interest to end the war. - luskin, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14Could this war be going any worse?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14If you promise to do 18 things and only accomplish 3, that is bad. Even if we stay there another ten years and accomplish a few more benchmarks, we still can't afford to do so.
- aroq, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13It's continually laughable to see how people think you must be a liberal if you don't agree with Bush. What's even funnier than that, is people that think you're either a liberal, moderate, or conservative, and that's all there is.
Oh America. So funny, so funny. - theeEqualizer, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13I'm glad you get a kick out of it. The idea of kicking you appeals to me. Its sad that Republicans trying to deflect attention from their failures by pointing fingers and saying "what have you done", when in fact, they have directly and systematically thwarted any attempt to fix this mess such as a) Holding current leadership accountable for their illicit actions and failures, and b) taking steps to fix those ill-advised blunders. So your heroes tripped Democrats who were trying to respond to this quagmire and you think that's funny? What, are 12 years old? This isn't a game, son. This is serious business. Why don't you move along... Grown ups have a job to do here.
- JD52, on 10/10/2007, -8/+19So all of you want to see how full of ***** Bush and his lackeys are? Wait for the official report and compare the differences. I would pay speshul attention to the speling errors, drool stains, and crayon markings.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12At this point I just hope that the next world power learns from our mistakes.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+13so the Repubs aren't filibustering?
- sodoh, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Wow! A report that actually says the Bush administration are messing things up. I am both surprised and shocked by this!
:) - Rodman930, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10RTFA or GTFO.
- hierophantus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Let me help you:
A filibuster makes it impossible to accomplish anything if you don't have the supermajority you need for cloture. A bully picking on you punches you in the face and/or makes fun of your mother.
Now can you tell the difference?
BTW, yes, Pelosi and Reid suck. But you can make that point without acting like a tool. - siszam, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10The answer to violence is not more violence. Now more than ever people hate Americans and America has killed more of our own people than terrorists ever dreamed of. Way to go. War with an innocent country is not the answer to a few extreme people staging a random attack.
- InetRoadkill, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10As a matter of fact, a plane carrying 4 congresscritters was nearly shot down leaving Baghdad yesterday. But other than that, well the trip sucked.
- archiesteel, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11Stop freakin' spamming the thread, please.
- siszam, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Yes. Bush will include attacking Iran to his long list of failures before leaving office.
- BambinosKrib, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Brainwashed much?
- fnaqzna, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8How's the kool-aid?
- jutl, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Yes, please stop spamming your ***** site,
- hierophantus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Don't you understand that filibustering is great, and the majority must be failures if they can't break it? Unless, of course, you're trying to put conservative judges on the bench. Then it's time to whine "Why can't we get an up or down vote?"
- SheilaNoya, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6What is "Anti-American" about wanting to know the truth? When did conservatives decide that we should all just keep our heads buried in the sand and never question any government officials, even though they have already lied to us repeatedly?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -6/+12The reality is that war is about making money from people's misery. The total worldwide causalities during World War 2 is estimated at 75 million. Stalin obliterated 25 million Russians which makes Hitler look lame.
Regardless of the accuracy and the actual figure, you only have to look at the destruction in Europe and compare it to Iraq. Europe was almost totally destroyed and on a bigger scale than Iraq. Someone made a fortune rebuilding Europe, and the same with Iraq.
It is in the USA's financial interest NOT to end the war in Iraq. - archiesteel, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Islamic extremism wouldn't exist if the US hadn't helped topple the democratically-elected government of Iran in 1953.
Who cares, anyway? American foreign policy after WWII has caused much more damage that Islamic extremism ever will. - down4twenty, on 10/16/2007, -1/+6"Iraq has failed to meet all but three of 18 congressionally mandated benchmarks for political and military progress, according to a draft of a Government Accountability Office report."
Final version:
"Iraq ------------ meet all --- three ----------------- mandated benchmarks for political and military progress, according to a ---------- report. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" - UglieJosh, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Turnips.
- AbsurdParadox, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8Who are we at war with?
- Waiting2awake, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7No they can't.
- br0ck, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4"Stalin obliterated 25 million Russians which makes Hitler look lame"
Actually more were killed in Russia by Hitler than by Stalin. 26.6 million Russians that dies fighting Hitler in WWII. "Losses for the USSR, within post war borders, are now estimated at 26.6 million." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties - dontera, on 10/10/2007, -4/+8okay, I dislike Bush as much as the next liberal, but that was just childish
- Nerys, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4so anyone got a link where we can download this report ?
- Swift2, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Yeah, so has the Ku Klux Klan, Neo-Nazis, and neocons. Been around for decades. Is the KKK a fair image for the Southern United States? Should the Army and the Marines invade the south and keep it under occupation, searching for the cells of the white supremacists? No. In fact, the KKK, and every kind of right-wing crank in the world, would have a field day. Every day the 101st spent shooting suspected KKK members in Alabama would be good for its recruitment.
What "Islamo-Fascism" definitely isn't is a global threat like Hitler was. The way to defeat a guerrilla force is by relying on the general population. And one of the ways to do this is to withdraw the thing that unifies the population like nothing else: the American occupation. Lots and lots of Iraqis -- the great majority, by the polls I've seen -- want us to leave.
So, who's the "Islamo-Fascists" in Iraq? The Ba'athists, the secular party of Sunnis? The various Shi'ite militias, which are deeply embedded into the national police force and the army? Or al Qaeda in Iraq, which was at best a tiny splinter organization before our invasion, and even now is being pushed back hard by the Sunni tribes, who were our enemies but now are our friends until-- The situation is completely chaotic. The ideology of al Qaeda is something like fascism, with its appeal to a religious authoritarianism, but then again, if that's a fair portrait of Islam, I guess you'd have to call the religious right Chrisofascism. They want so many of the same things, after all. - diggbot7, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5You have to admit, however that doing nothing/very little is leagues better than needlessly murdering a lot of people and spending @ssloads of money to no good purpose.
- ryllharu, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5It never was a war in the first place. Only Congress can vote to declare war, and they never have against Iraq.
- AgentDale, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Because if it doesn't come from Rush, Drudge, or Fox it's just sensationalist *****.
- zeusthemoose, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4That's right! You keep that head buried now.
- MoeBlaksBrother, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3omg rofl
- MacEnvy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3No, it's because you would have said it in a way that was unappealing to the people digging you down. Seen it happen.
Persuasive writing requires that you be persuasive, not just right. - Stormflux, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Oh, believe me, when a Democrat makes a gaffe, Republicans can't hold him accountable fast enough. Not only that, but many of them stockpile weapons and food "just in case" a little domestic terrorism becomes necessary. It's only when there is an (R) in the White House that you're supposed to shut up, stop questioning, or end up in Gitmo.
- MacEnvy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3That just means it was an illegal war. It doesn't mean it wasn't a war.
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