Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki: Give Us Guns

From Times Online

America’s refusal to give Baghdad’s security forces sufficient guns and equipment has cost a great number of lives, the Iraqi Prime Minister said yesterday.

Nouri al-Maliki said the insurgency had been bloodier and prolonged because Washington had refused to part with equipment. If it released the necessary arms, US forces could “drastically” cut their numbers in three to six months, he told The Times.                          Entire Article

    Of course Bush will not give the Iraqi's the weapons that they need! Hell, that would take money out of Halliburton's pocket as well as other war profiteering corporations. On the flip side of the coin, he can't even supply our troops with the right materials!

 

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Politics Snags Ethics Reform Bill

   Leave it to the Republicans to screw up a good bill!

    The Democrats ethics and lobbying reform legislation was derailed over a dispute with Republicans all because the Democrats were blocking an amendment that would have given the president authority, with the approval of Congress, to single out individual spending items in legislation for elimination.  (AP)

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    The vote (51-46) was nine short of passage as sixty were needed.

    Now the GOP is making the claim that the Democrats are claiming fiscal responsibility but are not showing any by blocking this amendment.

   The fact of the matter is that if this bill were passed with the amendment attached to it, Bush would more than likely scratch out any Democrat spending that did not go along with his warped sense of values or any kind of spending that would hurt his position or the Iraq war that he insist on losing at any cost.

    The only thing worse than having an idiot in the White House is a psychotic idiot in the White House!

    Meet Mr. George Bush.

 

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