PittsburghThoughts

These guys would drag you down into hell rather than admit they are wrong, 

John McCain and his handlers, like the peasant's daughter in Rumpelstiltskin's tale of deceit and woe, have been and are busy, night and day, spinning straw into gold, only it's their last straw and fool's gold.  You'd have to be a fool to ignore what's actually transpired in favor of McCain's version of an always victorious and just America. 

The man, the hand picked Prime Minister of Iraq, Nouri-al Maliki, was twice coroneted, once in our minds by the Iraq People and once by President Jalal Talabani.

Former United States Ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, has stated that  Ibrahim al-Jaafari, who was also a candidate for Prime Minister of Iraq, was forced to withdraw his nomination for premiership for the permanent government because of accusations of weak leadership from United States President George W. Bush.

Bush, who says, and has said all along, that al-Maliki is our man, now, probably wishes he hadn't and that some secret operative could quickly and quietly put a bullet his head, because ... Maliki agrees with Obama:

In an interview with Der Spiegel released on Saturday, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki made international headlines when he endorsed Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq within 16 months.

But, then, for political reasons, Maliki, through a spokesman, denied he fully agreed with Obama:

On Sunday, however, the U.S. military distributed a vague statement from Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh, saying that Maliki’s words had been “misunderstood and mistranslated.” The clarification, however, failed to cite specific examples of errors.

But, lots of buts in this story, huh?

Yesterday, the New York Times casts further doubt on al-Dabbagh’s excuse. The interpreter for the interview worked for Maliki’s office, not Der Spiegel. The Times also double-checked the translation by obtaining an audio recording of Maliki’s interview, which was conducted in Arabic. Directly translated, it reads:

Obama’s remarks that — if he takes office — in 16 months he would withdraw the forces, we think that this period could increase or decrease a little, but that it could be suitable to end the presence of the forces in Iraq. … Who wants to exit in a quicker way has a better assessment of the situation in Iraq.

We're gone, gone, gone, solid gone. McCain combats this by making fun of Obama's stance on the surge. He maintains that it's worked but for whatever reason we shouldn't reap the fruits of its success by leaving. In fact, succeeding only makes him want to stay longer and longer. WTF does McCain want?

Bush wants a legacy that doesn't contain the words, "War criminal," and to stay out of jail. That's clear. But McCain???

In this world of faux conservative foregone conclusions gone wild, facts are irrelevant and the irrelevancy is redundantly expressed simply by either ignoring the facts or acting like their non-facts trump everything else. I'd like to slap a whole bunch of these war mongering politicos across their two faces, they are monsters and sociopaths created in the laboratories of the rich, by the rich and for the rich.  

It turns out we went to war, just to go to war. Hey, all you dead and maimed motherfuckers, all you mothers and fathers scratching to find gas money, food, housing, health care and a reason to keep trying ... the jokes on you.  Gene