Well, I told you it wouldn’t take long before the Iraqi Prospectives Project report that the Pentagon refused to make available online, made it online. As we all sit and wait for our copies to be delivered by the U.S. Mail, ABC News already got theirs and posted it.
94 pages about the suspected link between Saddam and al-Queda, which reaffirms there was no link. Enjoy the read!
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s response to Bush’s claims that “voting for this bill would make our country less safe,” she shows signs that somewhere she has a pair of cojones, and calls the the President a liar.
QUESTION: Don’t you think the president is lying?
PELOSI: Am I saying the president is lying?
QUESTION: Yes.
PELOSI: That’s the same question I got in 2001 when they asked me — when I said the intelligence on Iraq does not support the threat of — an imminent threat to our country that the administration is contending.
That’s what they said to me then. They said, “Are you saying the president is lying?” I said then and I say now, “I am stating a fact.”
Will President bush spend his last ten months in office quietly flying under the radar with his war drum tucked away in his closet? Surely the least popular President in history will be happy to spend his remaining days in office doing anything other than getting involved in making his already failed foreign policies worse, right? Think again.
All one has to do is do a simple search on Goggle to realize that Bush and Cheney have been rattling their sabers about war with Iran for a long time. The reason it probably hasn’t happened yet is due to one man. He is Admiral William Fallon, head of U.S. Central Command. Fallon has privately stated that an attack on Iran “will not happen on my watch.”
Well it seems his ‘watch’ might be ending sooner than Bush’s. According to an article in Esquire Magazine due out next month, Thomas P.M. Barnett writes:
…well-placed observers now say that it will come as no surprise if Fallon is relieved of his command before his time is up next spring, maybe as early as this summer, in favor of a commander the White House considers to be more pliable. If that were to happen, it may well mean that the president and vice-president intend to take military action against Iran before the end of this year and don’t want a commander standing in their way.
The war sabers have been rattling with the beat of the war drums in the background for some time against Iran. If Adm. Fallon is replaced as commander of Central Command before Bush leaves office, it could mean that President Bush doesn’t intend to leave office quietly.
John McCain’s honeymoon after getting his party’s nomination came to a screeching halt today as he received President Bush’s endorsement at the White House.
John McCain looked very uncomfortable and at times agitated as the President was speaking, and I can’t say I blame him, as Bush sounded like he was going to be passing the torch to himself as the next President! After rudely cutting McCain off during his acceptance speech, Bush put himself in center stage and acted like this was his day in the spotlight.
As the press was asking questions, Bush hardly let McCain get a word in edgewise. A reporter asked the pair how McCain would make the case that you’re going to provide the change that the voters seem to want. Bush quickly and rudely cut in and declared “McCain is not going change.”
To be fair, I’m not a McCain supporter, but seeing as he’s the man who will be trying to keep the White House in Republican hands next year, the best thing he can do for himself and the Republican party is stay as far away from Bush as possible. If the conduct of the President today is any indication of what McCain can expect from him in terms of endorsements, he’s doomed. Bush is going to be McCain’s kryptonite.
Watch the press conference from the White House in full, and watch McCain’s face and mannerisms as Bush steals his glory.