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since the United States government has seen a person this evil in such a high office.

Night Twister • Veterans For McCain

Apparently the Iranians have been exceptionally magnanimous in allowing the Great Satan to look good.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
--Aristotle

   Nothing against my fellow Red Staters living in the land of fruits and nuts, but with their more (ahem) "enlightened" neighbors sending up such dubious characters to represent us in the Congress and Senate, I've considered jettisoning the state as soon as possible just to make sure we're no longer inflicted by such petty turncoats.  The woman, like those people who support her so vigorously, must either be insane or is an active supporter of those regimes which have made it their reason for being to insult and injure the United States at every opportunity.  I strongly suspect the former, since being gathered together in one place for a number of years with fading or no influence from more level-headed people has given the California Left a case of what I dub "collective insanity".

"Straight Talk Express"? My bum feet! -- Me, on Senator McCain and other "moderates"

As inept, corrupt, & ignorant as this congress' Democrat leadership is, we don't have a Republican congressional campaign in any shape to use things like this to win.

How much of a poultroon can one be?

Hmmm...I wonder.

"The government's view of the economy can be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." ~ Ronald Reagan

I think she is a shinning example of the current liberal leadership! You can't buy this kind of help in destroying a party from the inside out. Leave that twit in there, this is comedy, and those morons in congress are proof of how meaning less a group of liberal politicians can be as long as the GOP is in the WHite House, and the best part is, that eventually the electorate will tire of it, and it will guarantee us another decade without having to worry about those goofballs!

because he knows he'll have to work with her once he's POTUS, and she's still Speaker.

So, Pelosi will skate. Yet again.

Oh, I DO hope that McCain has thought to outsource some serious Pelosi-bashing to someone else in the GOP political world!

For, if the party doesn't go after Pelosi, and make her an issue in a serious way, that will be demoralizing to our base. If your leaders won't fight---no, if your leaders won't attack obvious targets!---then how can you motivate yourself to fight?

"Who will stand/On either hand/And guard this bridge with me?" (Macaulay)

Oh my god... (this coming from an Atheist)

I cannot express my disgust at Pelosi right now. The ultra distubing thing about all this, she lives in a district that might just agree with her and then love her more when they get wind of this quote.

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Every American enemy is just misunderstood but the Republicans and all the soldiers fighting the good fight are evil. Pelosi has me so close to becoming a vigilante, if it weren't for my moral upbringing I would seriously consider doing bad things to bad people. But I digress, I pray that God will lift the veil from the eyes of those who "serve" in our government. Sorry if this was threatening, but I just can't take losing a friend in Iraq and Pelosi saying this tripe in the same week. I may have to take a break for a bit.

"Land of the Free and Home of da Whopper" Peter Griffin...Family Guy

conform and celebrate diversity....or else!!!

Asked if she saw any evidence of the surge’s positive impact on her May 17 trip to Iraq she responded:

....some of the success of the surge is that the goodwill of the Iranians--they decided in Basra when the fighting would end, they negotiated that cessation of hostilities-the Iranians.

Nancy Pelosi isn't thinking strategically.

Iran has been manipulating things in Basra, yes. But it's not due to their "goodwill." Rather, it's a temporary and freaky confluence of interests that finds Iran and America on the same side for once:

U.S. Teams Up With Iran in Basra?
By Noah Shachtman
Danger Room from Wired.com
March 27, 2008

....in the battle for Basra, the U.S. suddenly finds itself in the odd position of being, in effect, Tehran's ally against a common foe.

Basra has become the epicenter of a fight between Shi'ite factions. On one side, there's Moktada al-Sadr, the homegrown firebrand and long-time thorn in the side of American forces. On the other, there's the team of Da'wa (the party of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki) and the former Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (which runs most of the country's security services). Both SCIRI and Da'wa have decades-deep connections to Iran. "Shiite rivals, particularly the party loyal to the cleric Moktada al-Sadr, regularly accuse the Supreme Council of being a tool of the Iranian intelligence service. The party's top officials, including its leader, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, lived in Iran for decades and still frequently return," the Times observes....

But, ultimately, "the Sadrist movement has always been about Iraq for the Iraqis," Batle Bull writes. "They might accept help from Iran - and I saw Iranian supplies in their compounds in Najaf in 2004 - but the movement is not for sale. Mr. Sadr gets his strength from the street. And the Arabs of the Iraqi street have no time for Persian bosses."

And now, after a long period of cease-fire and halting negotiations, Tehran's old, old friends, in the prime minister's office and in the security forces of Iraq, have decided to move against Sadr. These old friends are America's allies, as well. The U.S. military have spent billions of dollars, and thousands of lives, to strengthen the government in Baghdad. But that government has other backers.

So it looks what has happened here, is that Iran has decided to back the al-Maliki government over the Sadrists, because they have found al-Sadr to be too independent. I'll bet that visit that Ahmedinijad made to Iraq on March 3 to meet with the Iraqi government, may have helped seal this deal.

As Paul Harvey would say,
"And now you know--the REST of the story."

And now I have a comment of my own:

The fact that major elements of the al-Maliki government may actually have deeper (and more secretive) ties to Iran than al-Sadr does, should tell you that it is a dubious policy for the U.S. to be shedding its blood to go after Sadrists--without simultaneously purging the pro-Iranian elements in the al-Maliki government. All we're doing is helping Iran pick its winners among the Shiites. An Iraqi government shot through with Iranian sympathizers isn't going to be a reliable ally of America.

You can just add that one on to the list of stupid strategic decisions made by the Bush Administration. Petraeus doesn't make those kinds of strategic decisions at his level. That can only come right from the top.