In wondering where to go with this, I will give you an example.
"the government had short-term strategies such as a memorandum of understanding to keep US troops in the country under existing rules."
"Progress cited on security deal; Iraq says pact nears on US troops" by Doug Smith and Raheem Salman, Los Angeles Times | July 3, 2008
BAGHDAD - Iraq's foreign minister said yesterday that concessions by both sides had advanced the prospects for a new security agreement needed for US forces to remain in the country beyond the end of the year.
Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari described those as examples of issues on which progress was being made but said they were still being negotiated.
Acknowledging that differences on some points could delay the negotiations, he said the government had short-term strategies such as a memorandum of understanding to keep US troops in the country under existing rules.
US officials have made it clear that American forces would not remain in Iraq without some legal foundation, he said. The United Nations mandate for US presence expires at the end of this year.
Another option would be to seek an extension of the mandate, he said. "The United States delegation showed a great deal of flexibility," Zebari said.
Yeah, I'll bet they have!
Elsewhere, US and Iraqi forces in Maysan Province arrested three members of the provincial council and 18 of the governor's guards as part of the campaign to restore government control in the provincial capital, Amarah.
Yeah, that's right, AmeriKan MSM!
Hide that war and hide operations!
Please see: Shocking Report on Civilian Deaths in Iraq
Then there is Bush on Afghanistan.
"We're going to increase troops by 2009," Bush said, without offering details about exactly when or how many."
Yup, gonna be sending more troops (coupled with Obama's national service speech, the stench of a DRAFT is DEFINITELY in the air), but not gonna tell us how many or when.
Despite the American people being FED UP with BUSH and HIS LYING WARS!!!!
"Bush vows to bolster forces in Afghanistan "Bush vows to bolster forces in Afghanistan" by Ben Feller, Associated Press | July 3, 2008
WASHINGTON - Grappling with a record death toll in an overshadowed war, President Bush promised yesterday to send more US troops into Afghanistan by year's end. He conceded that June was a "tough month" in the nearly seven-year-old war.
In fact, it was the deadliest month for US troops in Afghanistan since the conflict began.
"One reason why there have been more deaths is because our troops are taking the fight to a tough enemy, an enemy who doesn't like our presence there because they don't like the idea of America denying safe haven" to terrorists, Bush told reporters. "Of course there's going to be resistance."
Bush said it was a tough month, too, for the Taliban. But the ousted Islamist regime in Afghanistan has now rebounded with deadly force. More US and NATO troops have died in the past two months in Afghanistan than in Iraq, a place with triple the number of US and coalition forces.
Last month, 28 US troops died in Afghanistan. That was the highest monthly total of the entire war, which began in October 2001. For the full US-led coalition in Afghanistan, the death toll was 46, also the highest of the war.
Bush confronted the grim direction of the Afghanistan conflict during a sun-splashed Rose Garden appearance. The president used the event to tout his agenda for an upcoming Group of Eight meeting in Japan with world leaders, then addressed Iran, climate change, and gasoline prices in a short session with reporters.
The Pentagon predicts that the pace of attacks in Afghanistan by a resurgent Taliban is likely to rise this year, despite US-led efforts to capture key leaders.
"We're going to increase troops by 2009," Bush said, without offering details about exactly when or how many.
He said coalition forces have doubled in size over two years, and pledged that the twin strategy of fighting extremists and supporting Afghanistan's civil development "is going to work."Really, I'm just sick of the guy and his damn lies!
I want the lying, law-breaking, torturing mass-murderer in a jail cell -- along with the rest of his criminal cabinet!
And this certainly isn't news, but it is shoveling the lies fast and furious!
"Globe Editorial: Pakistan's problem, and ours July 3, 2008
"If there is to be another terrorist attack on America on the order of Sept. 11, it is likely to originate from those camps."
"It will be up to the next president to develop a coherent long-term strategy for coping with Al Qaeda and affiliated terrorist groups."
"Bush's inflating of the terrorist threat to the scale of a third world war has helped Islamist ideologues propagate the notion that America is waging a war against Islam. To win a war of ideas with violent Islamists, the next president must counter this dangerous propaganda."
You read crap like that and you just see a lying, war-promoting agenda-push!
And I'm tired of it. I want to write other things.
Another reason is because I have to finish up Ron Paul's most important chapter -- money -- before it's too late.
Something Big is Going On
New format today, readers.
