Petraeus: Resignation has nothing to do with Benghazi
In off-camera and apparently rather poignant conversations with Kyra Phillips of CNN and Headline News, David Petraeus has made it clear that his resignation as CIA director has everything to do with his own personal failings, and nothing whatsoever to do with the tragedy in Benghazi and its aftermath:
As Phillips recounted the conversations:
“He has said this has nothing to do with Benghazi and he wants to testify. He will testify. He has maintained to me all along this was a personal failing, Robin, which, as I said, to me was quite stunning and to many other people. He’s not the type of person that I’ve ever known to fail at anything, knowing [him] as long as I have over the years. And so he has made it very clear that this was about an extramarital affair and not over classified information or Benghazi.”
Of course, there is no expectation that such statements will quell the conspiracy theorists. The hunger to believe overwhelms rationality for some. But there it is nonetheless.
– Jay Bookman
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Get Real
November 15th, 2012
8:10 pm
Generals are generals, you are avoiding my point which tells me you do nor care….so very sad
Recon 0311 2533
November 15th, 2012
8:10 pm
Corbin,
Then you should really be applauded because your ideological brothers during the 60’s beat feat up to Canada or managed to find ways to become professional students or take advantage of other loop holes to avoid getting shot at. In more recent times with an all volunteer military those on the left for the most part prefer to enjoy the comforts of staying home and pontificating.
getalife
November 15th, 2012
8:11 pm
If you can’t beat him join him.
You are Americans.
godless heathen
November 15th, 2012
8:11 pm
Both:
Great call and reminder to support local business Saturday and whenever possible.
It’s always nicer to go into a store where they are glad to see you.
RB from Gwinnett
November 15th, 2012
8:11 pm
Carry the water, Jay, it’s what you do best…
You know absolutely no more than everybody else reading whatever news this adminsitration is willing to feed us and you have deemed it Bengazi free. Thanks, Jay, but we’ll wait for less partisan sources to look into what’s really going on.
So, new unemployment numbers increased more in Ohio and Penn than in storm ravaged NJ. Funny, libs, I wasn’t aware Sandy wiped out Ohio and Penn to that level.
USA Patriot
November 15th, 2012
8:11 pm
Get – key word you used “was” very enjoyable! AFM!
getalife
November 15th, 2012
8:12 pm
get real,
I stand with our President and troops to get the ones that attacked us in Libya.
USA Patriot
November 15th, 2012
8:13 pm
Correction, was buying a car on Mecum – “AMF”!
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
November 15th, 2012
8:13 pm
Del,
Look at Mitt…he took a missionary deferral and spent the war in that hell hole called Paris France writing love letters in the sand to Ann…in other words it was just liberals who ran.
getalife
November 15th, 2012
8:14 pm
USA.
I will enjoy it for the next four years.
What will you be doing?
Hating it?
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think
November 15th, 2012
8:14 pm
RB,
Do you get off on other peoples misery? It sure does seem so.
Nero
November 15th, 2012
8:15 pm
Getalife,
Please stand in front when you do.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 15th, 2012
8:16 pm
Robert Brown is melting down.
Just sayin’.
They BOTH suck
November 15th, 2012
8:17 pm
Recon
Did you vote for either Isakson or Chambliss?
Recon 0311 2533
November 15th, 2012
8:17 pm
Get Real,
You have me confused with the real Scout who blogs here. Scout is really a nice guy who attempts to blog with leftists in a kindly manner. I myself am not a nice guy, I’ve tried being a nice guy but it’s never worked out particularly well for me. I’m disliked and maybe even hated on here but I’m unaffected and happy.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 15th, 2012
8:18 pm
Generals are generals
Repetition is repetition.
Tautology is saying the same thing, only using different words.
getalife
November 15th, 2012
8:18 pm
“but we’ll wait for less partisan sources to look into what’s really going on”
You will swallow every rw media lie like you always do.
RB from Gwinnett
November 15th, 2012
8:19 pm
Tell us how this increase in UE claims is a good thing like you did the week before the election.
You voted for it, libs. Be happy. You’re getting exactly what you voted for. If you thought employers would roll over and fork out 2K fines without a fight, you thought wrong. Own the UE numbers. They’re all yours.
Get Real
November 15th, 2012
8:19 pm
Getalife….what a douche, I gave you opportunities but you chose Summer’s Eve instead…what a loser
USA Patriot
November 15th, 2012
8:20 pm
Get, nah, no problem, been with these idiots “leading” the country before, just gotta weather the storm. Rig the sails down, stay the course, and watch the MF’s shoot themselves in the foot.
LSU has Ole Miss? In TS? Better win that one!
getalife
November 15th, 2012
8:20 pm
Two melt downs.
TaxPayer
November 15th, 2012
8:21 pm
The tax hikes are coming, the tax hikes are coming. – Paul’s Book of Revered Slogans
getalife
November 15th, 2012
8:21 pm
“LSU has Ole Miss? In TS? Better win that one!”
They will.
getalife
November 15th, 2012
8:23 pm
Own it, own it, own it , blah, blah , blah.
USA Patriot
November 15th, 2012
8:24 pm
18 1/2 spread, should be able to pull it off. Enjoy the game! Always good sparring with you champ!
getalife
November 15th, 2012
8:24 pm
You too USA.
Recon 0311 2533
November 15th, 2012
8:26 pm
Corbin,
I was in Cannes France when the Gulf of Tonkin erupted. Prior to that incident it was Oo La La with the ladies the next day after the incident it was OO La La get the hell out of here with the ladies. Six months later back stateside we got our orders for the Nam. The rest is history in some form or another for all who served during that era.
Nero
November 15th, 2012
8:28 pm
getalife need a hug too. C’mere buddy.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 15th, 2012
8:29 pm
Princesses are princesses.
RB from Gwinnett
November 15th, 2012
8:32 pm
Misery, Corbin? How can they be miserable when they got exactly what they voted for? They fully anc oompletely supported these companies doing this to avoid the fleecing. Be happy. All is well….
Get Real
November 15th, 2012
8:43 pm
Recon….my apologies, do not let the turkeys get you down…endeavor to pursevere…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 15th, 2012
8:47 pm
pursevere?
Would that be Birkin?
Louie Vuitton?
Hermes?
Marc Jacobs?
Only a Princess would know.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 15th, 2012
8:49 pm
Heard this today ……………
“Definition of a Jewish Holiday:
1) They tried to desroy us.
2) They failed.
3) Let’s eat !”
Tundra Dude
November 15th, 2012
8:49 pm
Skip:
I’m happy to see there are so many things more important than some silly old Cliff. Guess it can wait
Right, it can wait. It’s also portable, can be moved down the road, or simply erased from the calendar.
This cliff is no more scientific than that Mayan calendar.
Washington’s Fiscal Cliff Notes
http://bit.ly/PPGHGS
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 15th, 2012
8:57 pm
Maxine on the military:
“Let me see if I have this correct.
We spend $600 billion a year on the military. We’ve got over 5,000 airplanes, 8,000 tanks and 1.5 million soldiers, and the terrorists murder our ambassador and three of our military in Benghazi, Libya, because we can’t defend one building.”
JamVet
November 15th, 2012
9:02 pm
get, it was not just a defeat, it was a rout. An old fashioned ass kicking. A beatdown, a clobbering, a drubbing, an embarrassment, a romp, a trashing and a thrashing.
And this makes the third time in the last four elections that the GOP has gotten crushed.
And now the neocons are reeling as their fake conservative ideology is in BIG doggy doo trouble.
Hell, even some of the more lucid con leaders themselves are FINALLY starting to acknowledge that if they don’t change their nasty, backwards, bigoted ways and soon, things are going to get even worse for them.
I do not feel sorry for the most intransigent and intolerant of them. At all. The have worked relentlessy for thirty years to get where they are and now they can lick their self-inflicted wounds and stew in their own trickle down, globally cooled bile for awhile.
And blame everybody but themselves for this hopelessly hijacked GOP debacle they have created..
Of course Romney and Ryan were gonna get splattered!
So for me, the most enjoyable aspect of last Tuesday night’s smackdown was how almost every single one of the worst of their extremists and 1950s nutjobs got sent packing – Walsh, West, Mourdock and Akin among others.
And their new motto for 2014?
Keep Hating Obama Alive!
Good times…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 15th, 2012
9:05 pm
Heard this today:
Electoral College
Obama 332
Romney 206
Welcome to the Occupation
November 15th, 2012
9:08 pm
Sandwich: “As a result, lib ilk allies Hamas and Hezbollah are in for some hard times.”
Uh, not necessarily there pardner. Israel may have overplayed its hand here very seriously. That is still a real possibility.
appleseed
November 15th, 2012
9:14 pm
Yes and the whole world the size of Texas.I thought Romney a better person.Cryng Obama won with gifts to certain voters.He appealed to every industry,in every swing state promising more jobs,big cry baby.Never did I expect him to be a poor loser.Obama should send him an OBAMAPHONE as a pacifier.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
November 15th, 2012
9:16 pm
Well, I see the Chinese Commies named a new leader. Turns out he’s alot like Mitt was. You know, him and his wife started out eating on a ironing board and wearing hand-me-downs and in a couple years they had millions of bucks. I just wish this Won Hung Lo, or whatever the heck his name is—nobody can pronounce those Chinese names—would get together with Mitt and write a book called “How to Be a Multi-millionaire in Two Years While Having Five Kids and Living in a Broom Closet.” Dang it, Mitt could of taught us alot!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 15th, 2012
9:16 pm
Andy got banned next door at Kyle’s?
JamVet
November 15th, 2012
9:22 pm
Brother Kam, yep. I didn’t see the post, but Daddy Kyle was not amused.
So now Andy Sinkwich is stuck here for the time being.
He also put Lil Barry on a very short leash.
(Methinks he is tiring of the numbskulls!)
Romney blaming Those People for his drubbing was a wee bit off.
Turns out that some really, really white states voted against him too. (As in 5 of the 11 most white.)
The top five:
Maine, 94% white: Obama
Vermont, 94% white: Obama
New Hampshire, 92% white: Obama
West Virginia, 93% white: Romney
Iowa, 88% white: Obama
Keep Hating Obama Alive – 2014!
They BOTH suck
November 15th, 2012
9:22 pm
Heard this one not so long ago:
Reagan / Carter
@alex
November 15th, 2012
9:25 pm
Note to our President, NEVER tell a former POW of the Hanoi Hilton to “Man UP”
As for “The ” General : which head were you thinking with during the interview…No doubt about it,C.I.A. Director having an affair, Army smart, Person stupid.
Man this is great , with this election we can rid ourselves of gender,age , and race quotas- my children will compete on performance and ability, a meritocracy !! No reason not to start this right away…..Man this is great!
godless heathen
November 15th, 2012
9:26 pm
So for me, the most enjoyable aspect of last Tuesday night’s smackdown was how almost every single one of the worst of their extremists and 1950s nutjobs got sent packing – Walsh, West, Mourdock and Akin among others.
Me too. That’s why the Republican Party will be around to cause you angst for some time to come.
As I have stated before, I only wish we had nominated a thumper like Santorum this cycle to take an even worse drubbing. Instead, the CCRWR (that’s Conservative Christian Right-Wing Republicans) sect will be out there in 2016 claiming that the reason we lost the WH in 2012 was that Romney wasn’t Christian enough.
http://youtu.be/si0WTCMrksw
@alex
November 15th, 2012
9:29 pm
Jamvet-you support my final point, right on, pass the Mogen David, shalom…..
Great Times…..
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 15th, 2012
9:31 pm
As I have stated before, I only wish we had nominated a thumper like Santorum this cycle to take an even worse drubbing.
As it was stated before several times on this site, Elmer Fudd could defeat Obama. Maybe y’all should’ve nominated him instead.
godless heathen
November 15th, 2012
9:35 pm
As it was stated before several times on this site, Elmer Fudd could defeat Obama. Maybe y’all should’ve nominated him instead.
Now Kam, I don’t know about Elmer Fudd, but Bugs Bunny, definitely.
@alex
November 15th, 2012
9:38 pm
@Heathen: agree, but let the left-nut nuts gloat, the pendulum will swing and the arrogant party always overplays it’s hand.History speaks, the politicians play deaf.
Obama to GM, thanks for reciprocating for my presents to you (please try to make a decent car,I don’t think any more bond holders are in the mood to give more “gifts”)
JamVet
November 15th, 2012
9:39 pm
alex, sure after we rid ourselves of misogynists, ageists and bigots, we can work on that!
A HUGE win for the Attorney General and we the people. (People are people, my friends.)
BP will plead guilty to manslaughter charges stemming from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and agreed to pay $4.5 billion in government penalties, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Thursday.
Of the penalties, $4 billion will resolve criminal charges. An additional $525 million will be paid to resolve claims brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission that BP lied to investors by understating the amount of oil flowing into the Gulf.
Separate from the corporate manslaughter charges, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging the two highest-ranking BP supervisors on board the Deepwater Horizon on the day of the explosion with 23 criminal counts. The two men were charged with seaman’s manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter for each of the 11 men killed in the blast, as well as a criminal violation of the clean water act.
The grand jury also charged BP’s second-highest ranking representative at the company’s unified command post with hiding information from Congress and allegedly lying to law enforcement officials.
The company also will plead guilty to a felony count of obstruction of Congress, a misdemeanor count under the Clean Water Act and a misdemeanor count under the Migratory Bird Treaty.
Holder said the dollar amount of the penalties and the criminal charges against both the company and individuals are unprecedented.
BP reported a $17.2 billion loss in the quarter when the explosion took place. But it has been profitable since then, booking total profits of $43 billion over the course of the subsequent nine quarters. It will not be able to use the fines to reduce the amount of taxes it owes, Holder said.
BP identified the remaining $1.256 billion of the settlement as a “criminal fine.” More than $1 billion of that fine will go to the U.S. Coast Guard’s Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, to be available for cleanup — and compensation for those affected by — oil spills in the Gulf .
It is single largest criminal fine on record. The previous record was $1.195 billion criminal fine paid by Pfizer.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 15th, 2012
9:39 pm
Earlier today it was alex, and now it’s @alex.
Note to alex, it’s always a good idea to check the spelling of your nom-de-blog after doing the sock-puppet thingie.
Shalom……
Great times…..
@alex
November 15th, 2012
9:40 pm
What about Porky Pig: “th.th..that’s all folks……
godless heathen
November 15th, 2012
9:41 pm
@Heathen: agree, but let the left-nut nuts gloat, the pendulum will swing and the arrogant party always overplays it’s hand.History speaks, the politicians play deaf.
Yup.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 15th, 2012
9:42 pm
The country is divided roughly 49 to 51.
We will fight on !
godless heathen
November 15th, 2012
9:44 pm
Jam:
Where are getting this? I’ve read several news reports about 2 BP employees being indicted on manslaughter charges but nowhere other than here have seen that BP has been indicted.
alex
November 15th, 2012
9:45 pm
Kam, buddy,different laptop–my mistake–you can call me Sasha, I too have taken “the long walk’
@jam, we can start now…since you are a confirmed bigot , but we want to keep you around, please change……..
godless heathen
November 15th, 2012
9:46 pm
The country is divided roughly 49 to 51.
Unless your world view is based on what you read here. According to our JB experts, it’s 99.9 to 0.1.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 15th, 2012
9:48 pm
Kam, buddy,different laptop–my mistake–you can call me Sasha, I too have taken “the long walk’
That’s the best you got?
Next time why don’t you try, “The dog ate my smartphone”?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 15th, 2012
9:49 pm
godless heathen:
LOL !
TaxPayer
November 15th, 2012
9:49 pm
I predict republicans will be forced to actually start paying for their unfunded wars and tax cuts and drug company benefits, etc., instead of passing them off for their children and grandchildren to pay as they had hoped to do.
JamVet
November 15th, 2012
9:50 pm
heathen,
http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/15/news/bp-oil-spill-settlement/index.html?hpt=hp_t4
Fight on, Scout. But the Lily White Party is looking more and more like the modern day Whig Party. With a distinctive McCarthyesque aroma.
Keep up the good work; it is very much appreciated!
TaxPayer
November 15th, 2012
9:52 pm
Obama won,
Cons zero.
appleseed
November 15th, 2012
9:53 pm
Warren Buffett,thinks Hillary Clinton 2016.Also he lived well through the higher taxes of past,and the rich can well afford to pay more.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 15th, 2012
9:54 pm
“Petraeus: Resignation has nothing to do with Benghazi”
……… but everything to do with “Bengettin”.
Just sayin’ …………..
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 15th, 2012
9:54 pm
Obama won.
America lost.
godless heathen
November 15th, 2012
9:54 pm
Taxpayer: What is an unfunded war? Did the soldiers and suppliers in recent wars not get paid? My recollection is that the Congress authorized the expenditures for the wars.
Doggone/GA
November 15th, 2012
9:56 pm
“start paying for their unfunded wars ”
Not unfunded. Unbudgeted
appleseed
November 15th, 2012
9:57 pm
Breaking from Newsmax.com
Buffett Wants Clinton White House in 2016
Legendary investor Warren Buffett would like to see Secretary of State Hillary Clinton elected president in 2016.
“I don’t see how you could have anybody better qualified,” he told CNN Wednesday. “I like what she believes in. I think she’s extraordinarily able and energetic for that matter in pushing those beliefs.”
godless heathen
November 15th, 2012
9:57 pm
appleseed: …and the rich can well afford to pay more.
And so can you. Be prepared to pony up.
The voters have spoken. “Thank you sir. May I have another?”
Mick
November 15th, 2012
9:58 pm
I’d rather be with the majority in this cycle.
Recon has flipped his lid, what he doesn’t seem to realize is that weeks before the election he was spewing garbage faster than a disposal could shred.
In the end all his noise and predictions were just that, yet he continues on as if he should be taken seriously.
All talk is just that – talk. It’s ok if your actually right about an outcome but when your wrong, just a lot of hot air…
JamVet
November 15th, 2012
9:59 pm
Obama won.
America lost.
I LOVE that strategery!
Talk about paying dividends!
Keep Hating Obama Alive!
godless heathen
November 15th, 2012
9:59 pm
Not unfunded. Unbudgeted
Tell TaxPayer, he claims they were unfunded.
What is Obama’s budget for a major ME conflict?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 15th, 2012
10:00 pm
“Thank you sir. May I have another?”
Who doesn’t want yet another Nutter Butter Peanut Butter Sandwich cookie?
Doggone/GA
November 15th, 2012
10:01 pm
“What is Obama’s budget for a major ME conflict?
All unbudgeted means is that the costs were not included in the normal allocation bills passed by Congress. They were paid for by the medium of supplemental spending bills.
godless heathen
November 15th, 2012
10:02 pm
And every time the subject of the debt comes up, we are reminded here that Congress controls the purse strings. The President can’t spend a dime without Congressional approval.
So which is it?
alex
November 15th, 2012
10:03 pm
Kam, sometimes the simplest answers are the most truthful,like Patreus was horny, Kam is a narcissicist, and Jam is a bigot, nothing complicated-I don’t have a hungry dog, glad to humor you…
Jam, beg your pardon, I have a nice , healthy tan and McCarthy was from Wisconsin, a state you happen to like, good cheese and brats. Agree on the smell though, the ketosis is sickly
taxpayer;something about drug company benefits? whoa man, your heading toward the MENTAL cliff to say nothing of the fiscal cliff….
godless heathen
November 15th, 2012
10:04 pm
They were paid for by the medium of supplemental spending bills.
Meaning they were paid for. Included in the annual, never-shrinking deficit spending. Right?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 15th, 2012
10:06 pm
Kam, sometimes the simplest answers are the most truthful…
Sometimes I hook up with Candace Swanapoel, at the Holiday Inn Express.
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
godless heathen
November 15th, 2012
10:07 pm
Who doesn’t want yet another Nutter Butter Peanut Butter Sandwich cookie?
I do. And if I can get someone else to pay for it, I’ll take two.
godless heathen
November 15th, 2012
10:09 pm
Kam I had to google Candace Swanapoel. You lucky dog!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 15th, 2012
10:10 pm
Deficits?
Which brings us to the economic level. The deficits that Bush ran up in the years in which the country was teetering on the verge of a serious recession had the beneficial effect of righting the economy. In that sense, deficits not only didn’t matter, but were a force for economic good.
Translation: IOKIYAR
godless heathen
November 15th, 2012
10:10 pm
Enter your comments here
godless heathen
November 15th, 2012
10:11 pm
or don’t. I was try to add a line to my handle.
godless heathen - Support Small Business Saturday
November 15th, 2012
10:14 pm
Kam, And because GWB ran up deficits, Obama should continue to do the same.
Doggone/GA
November 15th, 2012
10:15 pm
“Meaning they were paid for. Included in the annual, never-shrinking deficit spending. Right?”
Spending is spending. But supplemental bills are not included in the official budget. And one of the first things Obama did was put the wars ON the budget, as they should be.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 15th, 2012
10:18 pm
Kam, And because GWB ran up deficits, Obama should continue to do the same.
And because it was OK for GWB to run up deficits while teetering on the verge of an economic recession, it’s not OK for Obama to do the same?
alex
November 15th, 2012
10:19 pm
“the” express,,,I AM impressed….
The left is touting the opinion of a lily white old rich guy, Hmmmmm:well if the brilliant one from omaha says so, I say if Hillary were an IPO,I’d buy her………You think she would raise the taxes on her rich old white guy husband, Hmmmmmmmmm
godless heathen - Support Small Business Saturday
November 15th, 2012
10:19 pm
Obama did was put the wars ON the budget, as they should be.
Well goodie for him. If we have another 9/11 we’ll see what happens.
Doggone/GA
November 15th, 2012
10:20 pm
“If we have another 9/11 we’ll see what happens”
Well, we can be pretty damn sure we WON’T invade a country that had nothing to do with it.
Doggone/GA
November 15th, 2012
10:21 pm
And now I’ve got to go. Early day tomorrow.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 15th, 2012
10:22 pm
Alright, Lucy Liu is on the small screen playing Dr. Watson to Sherlock Holmes and my attention is divided.
Lucy Liu wins that contest every day and twice on Sunday.
Toodles.
alex
November 15th, 2012
10:25 pm
Wars on BUDGET…something about that just sounds wrong…….I like PEACE on BUDGET! Here’s to getting the hell out of Afganastan, if Alex(ander) the Great couldn’t control the area and the brits (the great game)and the Ruskies,we have no business still being there..))
godless heathen - Support Small Business Saturday
November 15th, 2012
10:25 pm
And because it was OK for GWB to run up deficits while teetering on the verge of an economic recession, it’s not OK for Obama to do the same?
Fine with me. I want to see every penny the Feds spend “on the books”.
Here is a GOA report from March of 2011 outlining ways to control Fed spending a little bit.
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11318sp.pdf
Recommendations have been ignored by the Obama administration. Hopefully, now that he is not burdened with campaigning 24/7/365 he can put some effort into these recommendations.
Jm
November 15th, 2012
10:27 pm
Freeeeeeedommmmm!
And Benghazi.
Jm
November 15th, 2012
10:29 pm
“toodles”
Good riddance
TaxPayer
November 15th, 2012
10:30 pm
Tax cuts do not pay for wars any more than they pay for themselves. Republicans will now have the privilege of actually paying for the wars and tax cuts, etc. You can continue to play semantics all you want so long as you pay up. Your children and grandchildren will then be free to create and pay for the debts of their choosing instead of paying for yours.
TaxPayer
November 15th, 2012
10:34 pm
Obama won,
Scout lost.
appleseed
November 15th, 2012
10:35 pm
Private placement probably be better.4 yrs. long time to look ahead.
godless heathen - Support Small Business Saturday
November 15th, 2012
10:35 pm
Well, we can be pretty damn sure we WON’T invade a country that had nothing to do with it.
Post 9/11, GWB identified an axis of evil that he considered a threat to the safety of America. Iraq was one of them. With the bi-partison support from a Democrat Congress and the American people, Saddam Hussien was removed. Picked the low hanging fruit, but it was a fight that was going to be fought one day or another, as Saddam thumbed his nose at UN sanctions imposed after the first Gulf War.
No desire to beat that old horse again, but President Obama should be glad that he doesn’t have to worry about Saddam Hussein.
godless heathen - Support Small Business Saturday
November 15th, 2012
10:37 pm
Republicans will now have the privilege of actually paying for the wars and tax cuts, etc.
And Democrats will have the privilege of actually paying for the welfare state. Have fun.