(You will have to go to C&L to watch the video, I'm having player issues at the moment)
The other day on Hannity and Colmes, Tom DeLay blamed the American public for the failure in Iraq citing our lack of "will" that's prohibiting the military from doing it's job. Colbert picked up on this last night and took it a few steps further.
Colbert: "Well said, Congressman. American people: you are losing this war! Now, I don't like to say that. I wish there was someone else to blame…The President, the Vice President, Congress, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Bremer, George Tenet, Colin Powell, Tommy Franks, Paul Wolfowitz, Bill Kristol… if only they had made one mistake! Some way we could pin this thing on them."
Nobody does it better than Colbert
via Crooks & Liars
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Heyyy. Will you quit being unpatriotic and stuff. Grrrrr. ;)
These have to be nothing but lies lies lies.
Military Budget About Half a Trillion and the Army is Broke
And it doesn't help when that bastion of liberalness, the Wall Street Journal, speaks truthiness as mentioned here.
OMG, why wasn’t this the headline on every newspaper yesterday???
Congrats Alex, you’ve rendered me speechless. And that’s not an easy feat.
Great, thanks a lot Alex (that was sarcastic, it’s hard to type sarcasm). I wasn’t going to post today. Now I’ll never get my Christmas presents wrapped!
And last year in the Stars and Stripes, Rummyfeld was laying off Air Force officers because of budget concerns.
Strange. If this was Clinton, we'd never hear the end of it. Since it's Bush, we never hear about it. Or about the Lincoln bedroom. Or about Arlington National cemetary.
I give up. Does this qualify them as bad business people (y'know...privatisation and all that jazz), or just crooks and liars.
Hey if we know anything, we know the Bush WH is full of nothing but good business men. They will all leave office MUCH richer for having, um, served.
That leaves crooks and liars.
Don't forget to read this too.
A couple of other things to consider too that I haven't seen anyone mention.
1) That's just the Army it seems...not the Marines, the National Guard, the Air Force, the Navy, or others. So they may be short similarly too.
2) I suppose those costs are the "variable" costs of the Iraq & Afghanistan adventures. The "fixed" costs are are what is normal day-to-day costs to associated with having an military even if they are not deployed. And I doubt the "fixed" costs show up anywhere (and are probably off the books), and as with any project, they can usually run 1/3 to 1/2 of the "variable" costs. So the "total" costs of Iraq & Afghanistan are not being disclosed.
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