The funny thing is that they used a bunch of lines straight from Palin’s Couric interview.
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McCain has flip-flopped and decided to follow the Obama position on Afghanistan. He’s a tool.
Good rundown of some of the opportunity costs of the Iraq War, specifically dealing with Afghanistan.
I have to say, I had this image in my head of what good we could do when the Afghanistan war was fought. Improving communications, building better roads, improving farming and industry — with smart grassroots development projects similar to the billboard-based development projects that showed some success.
Instead, we did what the Russians did, fight a war to defeat an enemy but not win the people. We’re now going to pay the price in two countries.
AW sends me this screen grab of Fox News, which is the headline on FoxNews.com right now.
The irony is that the military won’t comment without a unit designation and time frame, and Fox News spoke to the Captain that Obama cited and he confirms he told Obama’s campaign the story being referenced. Not only that, but other folks have looked into this and found out that this is a more common occurrence than people like to talk about. I give you Phil Carter, who’s actually served in our current mission, and he relates other anecdotes as well. ABC News also confirmed the story, though I was reluctant to link to them without other confirmation.
Update: I corrected one detail above, that the captain spoke to the campaign, not Obama himself, about this. As Obama himself said, he heard from a captain, but didn’t speak to him.
When you sit around imagining the good that America could do in Afghanistan (and I had high hopes in 2002 that we could’ve brought Afghanistan forward a few decades), these are the kind of programs you imagine. Sadly, the Bush administration is cutting back on these programs and spending a ton of resources next door in Iraq. We could get a nice 2-for-1 return on the failed state lottery…
CNN’s terrorism analyst and Taliban expert lists out the 10 avoidable mistakes the Bush administration made in Arghanistan.
Worth the read about how the White House is stalling on documents about Pat Tillman’s death. It’s a good complement to the post on Pelosi’s blog below. Impeachment should be on the table.
Even more lies. Impeachment should be on the table. The White House isn’t above the other branches of government. They should be reminded of that.
