No Honor among Thieves?--------------

Breaking News!!

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from Bloomberg news:

Warner Says U.S. Should Start Withdrawing Troops on Sept. 15

By Bill Roberts

Aug. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Virginia Senator John Warner said President George W. Bush should begin withdrawing troops from Iraq on Sept. 15 to show the Iraqi government that the U.S. commitment there isn't open-ended.

Bush should announce that ``we will start an orderly, carefully planned, thought-out redeployment,'' said Warner, the No. 2 Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Warner said the number of troops to be withdrawn and the timing of the withdrawal would be up to the president.

Warner suggested Bush should pick a few thousand soldiers out of the 162,000 U.S. combat troops now in Iraq, or ``whatever number he wants,'' Warner said.

``Say 500 could begin to redeploy and be home not later than Christmas of this year,'' Warner said.

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Or is this the Republican version of "good cop. bad cop"?

So-called Petraeus Report

Whose Report Is It, Anyway?

By Dan Froomkin

Special to washingtonpost.com
Thursday, August 16, 2007; 12:26 PM

The "Petraeus Report" -- the supposedly trustworthy mid-September reckoning of military and political progress in Iraq by Army Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker -- is instead looking more like a White House con job in the making.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/08/16/BL2007081601003.html?hpid=topnews

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The conventional wisdom circulating around Washington and the talking heads is that General Petraeus will give a "report" written by Bush flunkies in the White House.

If this is true, and the General is an honorable man, he will RESIGN, before this report is even written.

Bushrove

I can put the Bush-Rove legacy into very simple terms. They knew how to win elections. They knew not how to govern.

Karl Rove, Minister of Propaganda

Joseph Goebbels

                 The Karl Rove of Nazi Germay

I want to say GOOD RIDDANCE, but I'm afraid we haven't seen the last of Karl, aka "Turdblossom", as Dubya calls him.

Minneapolis "crime scene"

Shortly after the Minneapolis bridge collapse, a local law enforcement official said that they were treating it like a crime scene. Well, it is a crime scene, the criminals are in positions of power, and they have been derelict in their duty to protect innocent citizens.

How do you charge an incompetant official with manslaughter?

Bridge problem solution

Dick Cheney is working on the problem. As soon as he can figure out how to give all the infrastructure maintenance to Halliburton, there will be plenty of money to upgrade and replace bridges. Of course, we will borrow this money from China.

Minneapolis bridge collapse

 

The wolf is at the door. For decades we have squandered our national resources on foolish foreign adventures, and now the neglect of critical domestic infrastructure is going to cause untold grief.

The Minneapolis bridge collapse is a clarion call to warn us of more impending disasters. "therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls" (John Donne). It tolls for each and everyone of us.