A Fact For George Bush, John McCain, and Rudy Giuliani

Bush in a speech to troops at California's Fort Irwin on Wednesday, "this is a war in which, if we were to leave before the job is done, the enemy would follow us here."

   We've heard that same old lame line in speech after speech from the Commander Moron and it is really getting tiresome.

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U.S. military, intelligence and diplomatic experts in Bush's own government say the violence in Iraq is primarily a struggle for power between Shiite and Sunni Muslim Iraqis seeking to dominate their society, not a crusade by radical Sunni jihadists bent on carrying the battle to the United States.

Foreign-born jihadists are present in Iraq, but they're believed to number only between 4 percent and 10 percent of the estimated 30,000 insurgent fighters - 1,200 to 3,000 terrorists - according to the Defense Intelligence Agency and a recent study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a center-right research center.

"Attacks by terrorist groups account for only a fraction of insurgent violence," said a February DIA report.

While acknowledging that terrorists could commit a catastrophic act on U.S. soil at any time - whether U.S. forces are in Iraq or not - the likelihood that enemy combatants from Iraq might follow departing U.S. forces back to the United States is remote at best, experts say.

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Giuliani Not Fit to Flip Burgers Much Less To Be President Of The U.S.

On April 7, 2007 - 12:05pm marcNYC said:

Greg, it's absurd that the media cedes Rudy the expertise on anything having to do with what it would take to run the White House. I've said this before, the media has conveniently forgotten that fact that on September 10, 2001 Rudy Giuliani had poll numbers that rivaled the current occupant of the White House.

The media also does not like to discuss that the reason he looked so heroic wandering around downtown Manhattan is that he had no place to go -- his emergenct response center was destroyed because he moved it into the world's biggest terroris target. He did this after ignoring the advice of every competent security person who looked at the issue. The media also gives him a pass on his insane attempt to alter the New York City Charter and appoint himself mayor beyond his term, even though he was legally barred from continuing in office. (I hope this doesn't give Carl Rove any ideas). And, let's not discuss his abuses of office while he was US Attorney.

Why does it seem like the MSM is afraid of him?    TPM

  This comment was in response to an article from TPM discussing what would appear to be Rudy Giuliani's ignorance in the difference between Sunni and Shiite groups in Iraq and whether he is fit to be a president.

   Since the MSM doesn't see fit to remember the bad side of dear old Rudy, maybe the blogoshpere should refresh their memory.

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