Hard to believe, but two years into it, the second phase of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on prewar intelligence remains incomplete. Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., told The Christian Science Monitor that Democrats “keep moving the goalposts and asking for more information.” Not surprisingly, committee member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., put the blame on Republicans: “It’s like the marquee on an old movie house that always reads: ‘Coming soon.’ ” Roberts now expects the report to be finished next month.
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“Free beer tomorrow!”
Senator Roberts, stop stonewalling and sandbagging. Do your Constitutional duty and issue the report.
Gunboat Diplomacy
Bush did little more than show-us what Prime Minster Olmert had told him in “locking-down Baghdad,” “You must be ruthless,” so how many Iraqis must die to pump-up the Bush ego?
Eric Bernie told us all about a Bush Type in the “Games People Play” and age has not improved its line of thought or the methodology.
Although that applied to his upcoming treatment of the Mexicans defeating the “wall” between the US and Mexico, it signaled that brutality is better than peace.
“Dying for Democracy” is the theater behind this Iraqi debacle and all the circus in the world won’t change the spots on the leopard.
Karl Rove got in his “cheap-shot” and that’s all that matters to the Bushco bunch.
That and piling-up the dead innocents for both Americans and Iraqis to grieve, along with the sane world’s good conscience.
Ruthlessness wins and peace suffers yet another day.
Not anytime soon will the world forget a family’s “beach party” being turned into a nightmare by an artillery shell fired from an off-shore Israeli gunboat.
With a child’s scream heard around the world.
Ed Friedemann published 17 June 2006
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=17§ion=21&d=17&m=6&y=2006&mode=dynamic§ionlist=no&pix=interact.jpg&category=Interact
Roberts intent to was frame the investigation as narrowly as possible, and write a one line summary report “Nothing to see here”. Damn Democrats just wouldn’t play ball!
The Republicans had hoped to be out of Iraq by the time this report is issued.
Roberts knows that, if we’re still in Iraq when the anatomy of President Bush’s decision making (decision to wage war over the existence of WMD in Iraq) is released under the imprimatur of a Congressional investigation, then given events to date, support for the war will drop like a lead balloon.
As will President Bush’s political support AND that of Congressional incumbents who voted to grant the president warmaking powers but since have proceeded to abandon their constitutional duty to oversee the executive.
Hence the foot dragging; it’s a threefer nightmare for the GOP.
In fact, IF this report is released any time prior to November I’ll be shocked; any time prior to our leaving Iraq is equally unlikely, imo.
What’s the matter patty? Don’t like the idea you losing your job? Don’t like the idea that your political party has very effectively screwed America? All of your bullshit about family values and seeking the truth and we find out that you can’t handle the truth. Or more to the point you can’t handle the public, and your voters, knowing the truth. 2500 american soldiers have died because of the piss poor leadership provided by the republikans. Hope to see you in the unemployment lines with the rest of the US people you helped to screw.
k
The current price of Gasoline is breaking the middle-class budget.
The turmoil in the Middle East has got to stop. The hostilities threaten the supply of oil, which in turn keeps the price of crude too high.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002689569
In an email interview with John Hawkins at the Right Wing News web site, Coulter was asked, among other things, to offer short comments on several individuals. . . . she said of Rep. John Murtha, the hawkish ex-Marine and now antiwar congressman: “The reason soldiers invented ‘fragging.’”
Fragging, which became a well-known expression — and occasional occurence — during the Vietnam war, means soldiers attempting to kill their own officers for one reason or another.
This was so over the top that conservative Mike Krempasky at RedState.org posted, “I’ve said before that’s its kind of ironic that just about every phrase Stewie from Family Guy uses to describe Lois could easily be applied to Ann Coulter. Well — once again, Ann proves us right.” He went on to call her “fragging” remark absolutely “disgusting. … there’s no excuse — NONE — for the allusion to soldiers who kill other soldiers. It’s despicable — and frankly, so is Coulter.”
Well, Anon, at least one repug has a modicum of decency. But one among the many won’t stop the insanity.
Heh, yup, RD.
I’m sure Nathan and Hank will tell us she was “just kidding.”
Kidding about fragging, now that’s some funny stuff!
When it comes to Pat Roberts’ name, I wouldn’t mind seeing the words “Phase Out” next to it.
Once the Report is out, I wonder what the Demcrats are going to say once they get dissappointed yet again when the Report won’t go their way.
There is only one way the Republicans will let the report go, and everybody knows it. So it will be a report with dissenting views since Roberts has kept it partisan.
Like Ive said before. Roberts, BrownHack, Ryun, and HairGel(Tiahrt) need to take a hike. They have done nothing but undermine the citizens of KS and the U.S. and have been the obedient Lapdogs for Bush and Company.