General David Petraeus, the new top military commander in Iraq, told a Republican Senator that the troop surge has only a one in four chance of succeeding…
Purge of US Attorneys reaches highest levels of Department of Justice as well as Republican Congressmen…
Attorney purge even reaches the White House…
U.S. Pressed Germany not to issue warrants for CIA-backed abduction of a German Citizen and subsequent torture - later “accepted as a mistake by the US government.”
Fox news devoted 12 times the coverage to Anna Nicole Smith (deceased for three weeks) than to the unfolding Walter Reed Hospital scandal…
Apparently even less important, a congressional committee determined that the National Guard’s ability to respond to crises is hindered by the fact that ninety percent of National Guard Units are considered ‘not ready’
Laura Bush on Iraq:
“This is their opportunity to seize the moment—ahhh—to build a really good and stable country. And many parts of Iraq are stable ahh..now. But, of course, what we see on television is the one bombing a day that discourages everybody“
As Jon Stewart asked: “Laura, you do just realise that it’s not just happening in the TV, right?”
But life in Iraq becomes even more real when you read this Iraq story from an American journalist’s blog::
“For the last three years we had to read, listen and report daily news. The problem lies in this news because it is sad and full with grief. One of the days that I can not forget was when a car bomb exploded near New Baghdad and I had to go. More than 30 children were killed. I had to talk to the families and look to the limbs of angels all over the place hanged on the power lines, blood covering the place, their shoes and that smell.
A father tears can easily tear your heart and a mother sobbing sound will never and ever leave your ears. The echo of that kid who came to his father crying and a river of tears was covering his face … his words still torturing me. Here I am alone at dawn in Baghdad, and here is he in front of me saying to his father “I want my brother back”… he couldn’t understand that his brother is not coming back again.
The other kid that i can not forget was in Fallujah, he is laying down suffering bullets injuries and his father, mother and aunt were killed in the car behind him and he can not see them… he refused to let the ambulance take him to the hospital only if I swear to him that his family are alive… he pulled my shirt and said “don’t lie to me”.. I was looking at them all killed in front of me and he is laying down, an American sobbing soldier beside him was treating him till the ambulance arrived, and I had to swear to him that they were alive and he will find them in the hospital if he allowed the ambulance to take him, he and his one year old sister who were covered with here mother’s blood all over her body…
I am sorry but I had to write this down…”
Ever wonder why half of America doesn’t know who Scooter Libby is? Or thinks things are going well in Iraq? Or is unaware that our constitution is being raped?
Well here is what passes for “Breaking News” for the last hour!
It would be comical if it wasn’t so sad:
