Friday Reads: Some Things Just Never Change
Posted: June 13, 2014 Filed under: Hillary Clinton, Iraq, morning reads, right wing hate grouups 78 Comments
Good Morning!
Do you remember the picture over there on the left? It’s our country getting out of Vietnam in 1975. That happened during my first year at university. My high school graduation was overshadowed by Watergate and the resignation of Nixon. My coming of age was basically full of these kinds of things that jade you. I won’t even go into the amazingly bad economy full of stagflation and unemployment. It’s amazing to me that my daughters now get to experience my Déjà vu with their fresh eyes. The photo down there on the right is the US leaving Iraq. The similarities are frightening. So look at these photos and then we will talk about Iraq which has been a singularly unpleasant topic for quite some time. It’s more unraveling of very bad U.S. Policy. Rachel Maddow covered it very thoroughly last night. Iraq is basically splitting into three distinct entities. It appears Baghdad will fall shortly. 
Iraq is completely and fully experiencing a civil war.
Iraq was on the brink of falling apart Thursday as al-Qaeda renegades asserted their authority over Sunni areas in the north, Kurds seized control of the city of Kirkuk and the Shiite-led government appealed for volunteers to help defend its shrinking domain. The discredited Iraqi army scrambled to recover after the humiliating rout of the past three days, dispatching elite troops to confront the militants in the central town of Samarra and claiming that it had recaptured Tikrit, the home town of the late Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein, whose regime was toppled by U.S. troops sweeping north from Kuwait in 2003. But there was no sign that the militant push was being reversed. With the al-Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and Syria now sweeping south toward Baghdad, scattering U.S.-trained security forces in its wake, the achievements of America’s eight-year war in Iraq were rapidly being undone. Iraq now seems to be inexorably if unintentionally breaking apart, into Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish enclaves that amount to the de facto partition of the country. As the scale of the threat to the collapsing Iraqi state became clear, Obama administration officials met to discuss options for a response, including possible airstrikes. An Iraqi official in the office of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said the United States had committed to carrying out airstrikes against the militants, but U.S. officials said no decision had been reached. President Obama indicated there would be some form of intervention, though he did not specify what. “It’s fair to say . . . there will be some short-term things that need to be done militarily,” he said.
Iraqi Kurds have taken the oil-rich city of Kirkuk while radical Sunnis head for Baghdad. Shia radicals aligned with Iran and Syria have also moved into the embattled country.
In Mosul, Sunni militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) staged a parade of American Humvees seized from the collapsing Iraqi army in the two days since the fighters drove out of the desert and overran Iraq’s second biggest city. Two helicopters, also seized by the militants, flew overhead, witnesses said, apparently the first time the militant group has obtained aircraft in years of waging insurgency on both sides of the Iraqi-Syrian frontier. State television showed what it said was aerial footage of Iraqi aircraft firing missiles at insurgent targets in Mosul. The targets could be seen exploding in black clouds. Further south, the fighters extended their lightning advance to towns only about an hour’s drive from the capital Baghdad, where Shi’ite militia are mobilizing for a potential replay of the ethnic and sectarian bloodbath of 2006-2007. Trucks carrying Shi’ite volunteers in uniform rumbled towards the front lines to defend the capital. The stunning advance of ISIL, which aims to build a Caliphate ruled on medieval Sunni Islamic principles across Syria and Iraq, is the biggest threat to Iraq since U.S. troops withdrew in 2011. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes in fear as the militants seized the main cities of the Tigris valley north of Baghdad in a matter of days. The security forces of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish north, known as the peshmerga, or those who confront death, took over bases in Kirkuk vacated by the army, a spokesman said.
There were no jihadis in Iraq when Dubya et al lied us into war. There certainly are jihadis there now.
As the U.S. pullout began under the terms of a treaty signed in 2008 by then-President George W. Bush, Maliki, the leader of a Shiite political party, promised to run a more inclusive government—to bring more Sunnis into the ministries, to bring more Sunnis from the Sons of Iraq militia into the national army, to settle property disputes in Kirkuk, to negotiate a formula on sharing oil revenue with Sunni districts, and much more.
Maliki has since backpedaled on all of these commitments and has pursued policies designed to strengthen Shiites and marginalize Sunnis. That has led to the resurgence of sectarian violence in the past few years. The Sunnis, finding themselves excluded from the political process, have taken up arms as the route to power. In the process, they have formed alliances with Sunni jihadist groups—such as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, which has seized not just Mosul but much of northern Iraq—on the principle that the enemy of their enemy is their friend.Something like this has happened before. Between 2005 and 2006, jihadists who called themselves al-Qaida in Iraq, led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, took control of Anbar province, in the western part of the country, by playing on the population’s fear of the anti-Sunni ethnic-cleansing campaigns launched by Maliki’s army.* ISIS, an offshoot of Zarqawi’s organization, is following the same handbook, picking up support from one of northern Iraq’s leading Sunni militias, Jaysh Rijal al-Tariqah al-Naqshbandia, or JRTN. That is a risky move for a group like JRTN, which shares neither the millenarian goals nor the extremely violent tactics of ISIS (which, it’s worth noting, was expelled from al-Qaida because even current al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri considered the group too violent). But JRTN’s leaders have accepted the risk for now to advance their own goal of overthrowing Maliki. (They boast that they have been fighting alongside ISIS, but disavow involvement in the killing of civilians.)The fall of Mosul is particularly poignant because that was the city where peace and prosperity seemed most likely in the early days of the American occupation. David Petraeus, then the three-star general who commanded the 101st Airborne Division, applied his theory of counterinsurgency to all of Nineveh province, of which Mosul was the capital. And, for a while anyway, it worked.
While most U.S. commanders in post-Hussein Iraq were ordering their soldiers to bust down doors and arrest or shoot all men who seemed to be insurgents, Petraeus and his team took steps to create a government. Using funds pilfered from Saddam Hussein’s coffers, they vetted candidates for a citywide election (selecting leaders from all factions and tribes), started up newspapers and TV stations, coordinated fuel shipments from Turkey, and reopened businesses, communication lines, and the university. This game plan was classic “nation-building,” a phrase anathema to most Army generals and the secretary of defense at the time, Donald Rumsfeld. The idea was not to make the people of Mosul love America, but rather to make them feel invested in the future of the new Iraq.
So, it seems Dubya et all have not only brought on a civil war in Iraq, they planted the seeds for a civil war in the Republican Party. More than ever, it’s important to vote in the midterms this year. We cannot afford to have this battle fought on the floor of our Congress. The Tealiban are fed up with lip service. They want to make sure that women wear their versions of the head-to-toe burkhas, that gays are stoned, and that we have no federal government to stand in the way of a new NeoConfederacy.
The GOP’s leadership crisis extends beyond Congress. In recent cycles, Republican presidential primaries have been relatively orderly affairs where the party establishment rallies around a frontrunner—often the person who came in second the last time (Bob Dole, John McCain, Mitt Romney)—who holds off right-wing challengers on his way to the nomination. This year, however, that kind of elite control looks unlikely. Chris Christie, the first choice of many GOP leaders, is so wounded that even if he runs, he will not be the frontrunner. Some donors are rallying behind Jeb Bush. If he does not run, they may turn to Marco Rubio. But the road to the GOP nomination runs through Iowa and South Carolina, whose Republican activists resemble the anti-establishment, talk-radio-powered folks who knocked off Cantor. If those activists helped defeat Cantor merely for supporting citizenship for undocumented immigrant children, think how they’ll react to Bush or Rubio, who support a path to citizenship for their parents as well. In the Democratic Party, by contrast—which has enjoyed a reputation for organizational anarchy since the days of Will Rogers—party hierarchies are clear and largely unchallenged. A February Pew poll found that Democrats were more than 20 points more likely than Republicans to say their party’s leaders stand up for party principles. And the consequences are plain to see.
Even though a lot of us–including me–are not really Democrats or Republicans, it is important that the extremists in the Republican party go no further. We could spend the next two years with a right wing radicalism we’ve never seen before in this country.
American political parties always face a tension between their establishment and ideological wings. On the Republican side, going back more than a hundred years to the Teddy Roosevelt era, that was a struggle between moderate progressives and conservatives. Now it is different. There are no moderates or progressives in today’s GOP; the fight is between hard-line conservatives who believe in smaller government and radical nihilists who want to blow up the whole thing, who have as much disdain for Republican traditional conservatives as they do for liberals.
Meanwhile, the urban-rural, reactionary-progressive split seems more pronounced than ever. An extremely interesting Pew Poll was released 
yesterday that shows exactly what it means to live in a divided America.
The overall share of Americans who express consistently conservative or consistently liberal opinions has doubled over the past two decades from 10% to 21%. And ideological thinking is now much more closely aligned with partisanship than in the past. As a result, ideological overlap between the two parties has diminished: Today, 92% of Republicans are to the right of the median Democrat, and 94% of Democrats are to the left of the median Republican. Today 92% of Republicans are to the right of the median Democrat, and 94% of Democrats are to the left of the median RepublicanPartisan animosity has increased substantially over the same period. In each party, the share with a highly negative view of the opposing party has more than doubled since 1994. Most of these intense partisans believe the opposing party’s policies “are so misguided that they threaten the nation’s well-being.”
I guess I do agree that today’s Republican party is a threat to this country. It’s definitely a threat to American women.
Here’s a Fresh Air interview with Hillary Clinton if you’re interested.
Hillary Clinton is on a national book tour for her new memoir, Hard Choices. The book outlines her four years as secretary of state during President Obama’s first term, when she met with leaders all over the world.
One of her priorities was to campaign for gay rights and women’s rights. She says she saw the “full gamut” on how women were treated, and in some cases it was “painful to observe.”
“It has become — and I think will continue to be — a very important issue for the United States to combat around the world and to stand up for the rights of all people,” she tells Fresh Air‘s Terry Gross.
The only thing that gives me hope is that the average Fox viewer and Republican are older than me. Let’s hope our daughters and sons, our granddaughters and grandsons see the insanity of repeating these same mistakes. The polls of our future citizens look a lot more hopeful than the polls based on the old guard.
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Good post Dak. And I loved Maddow’s segment on Vietnam last night. Sadly too few people remember the circumstances of Vietnam. Perhaps that’s because in the case of Iraq and Afghanistan too few people had any skin in those wars consequently many American citizens didn’t feel personally impacted or affected by them. It all boils down to the difference between a war of choice fought by conscripts from a military draft and a war of choice fought by an all voluntary Army.
I thought they explained it all very well and you can see the parallels.
Don’t you just love how the war mongers are now so concerned about the Iraqi citizens? They insist that the U.S. must do something right now to protect those poor Iraqis. Those are the same war mongers who were pounding their willies over Shock and Awe when we decimated entire cities and murdered tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi citizens. The same war mongers who don’t lose a wink of sleep over collateral damage when we send in the drones. Now suddenly they care about Iraqis suffering during the civil war we all predicted when G.W.Bush first invaded Iraq without cause.
GWB got access to their oil and that’s all he really wanted. All the chest pounding from the GOP over Iraq is about their fear of a collapsing business infrastructure. He wants us to forget that the Iraq government didn’t want an American presence in Iraq when the war officially ended. Never mind that American citizens have shed blood, lost lives and spent 100’s of billions of dollars on training, equipment, infrastructure and arming their military while their PM Al-Maliki, contrary to the advice of the U.S. , refuses to have a representative government. Nothing fuels a civil war faster than entire segments of the population feeling as if they have no voice. And I agree, considering the long history of this region of the world this outcome (civil war) was predictable from the onset.
“He wants us to forget that the Iraq government didn’t want an American presence in Iraq when the war officially ended.”
The “he” referred to in that sentence is John McCain
John McCain wants to Obama to fire every one and bring back the neocon Bushies.
That’s the truth, he thinks he is the President, and neocon the experts.
I listened to a Psycho McCain interview on Morning Joe this morning and came away convinced this guy has some severe mental issues to go along with his abject bitterness of losing the 2008 election.
If it were up to him we would have troops stationed in every country forever. He refuses to discuss the folly of invading a country that had nothing to do with WMDs or 9/11 in the first place but is quite happy to blame Obama for the mess over there today.
Why they keep dragging his sorry ass out for comment – along with his insane former running mate who hasn’t a clue – is beyond my comprehension. This guy is all about “war, war, war” and won’t rest until we commit more blood and treasure to a civil war that was predicted when we eventually pulled out from Iraq when we should have never been there in the first place.
If the Iraqi army and police refuse to defend themselves why is it up to us to do it for them? We have spent billions on weapons and training only to watch them throw down their arms and run away.
One can only imagine the future if the GOP manages to grab both houses and the WH in a few years which will bring the neo cons to their feet once more.
The only good thing I can think of at the moment is there is no statute of limitations for war crimes against humanity. Maybe someday …
He screams the macropolicy version of “get off my lawn!” That appears to be his only role on the news circuit.
Last night on Chris Hayes show there was a long, very negative analysis of Hillary’s response to Terry Gross’ question on same sex marriage. I don’t think MSNBC will be pushing Hillary the way it did Obama.
I am glad Hillary asserted herself and her tone. I don’t know why Terry Gross didn’t do her homework, or why she took the path that lead to the “twisting of her comments, insisting it was politics”. Hillary wasn’t trying to jump her (or as the media said, Hillary was being testy), she was being spot on about her response. Get ready, now that her book is out, we are going to see underreactions, overreactions, the ups and and downs, and everything else they will thrown into the mix. Hillary will be up against the Ducks, the Rick Perry’s who thinks gays are alcoholics, the tea party candidate who says the Bible tells me to stone gay people to death, and Rich Gohmert who debates at congressional hearings about who is and who is not going to heaven. She’s been around the block a couple times.
BB, you remember when Chris Hayes was attacked by a republican woman, she hammered his ass, and it was all because they “disagreed”. Hillary was NOT being nasty like this woman. She handled it well, I thought.
Let’s get back to Hillary’s history. She was speaking out against the oppression by the Uganda Bill “Kill the Gays”. She gave a hell of speech at George University. That was early in 2009.
Did Chris and Terry forget 2009 when she said:
“On behalf of Department of State and USAID, I want to congratulate the gays and lesbians in foreign affairs agencies on winning the Employee Resource Group of the Year Award by Out and Equal Work Place.”
It was Hillary who changed the policy at the Dept. State, to help provide benefits for same sex partners of those work were in foreign service. It was after this that Obama followed with other federal agencies. Obama had been nodding his head, while she was actually changing the laws, and the records are there for everybody to see. Terry and Chris refused to see.
Hillary Clinton also developed policy on transgender employees at the state department. She said stand up and be who you are. Keep in mind, she said “the struggle for equality is never ever finished”…. and she is right.
Hillary has been advocate for LGBT community for long time. She knows that they (we) are all flustrated because change is slow to come. It coming but very slowly. It was Hillary who marched in Pride Parade when June was declared Pride Month, she was right there with them, while Obama was working out.
Chris is getting lazy, get up off his ass and speak to those she has helped for many many years.
I wish Hillary had cited those achievements. She did sound defensive.
She does but that may be because she’s out of practice in dealing with those people.
I wish Hillary had been less defensive too, especially since there was no need to be. She should have given a long list of her advocacy for the LGBT community, which is irrefutable, and laughed off the prodding and pushing of the interviewer. She has always been great at downplaying criticism and attempts to goad her into confrontation. Just my opinion but I think she would be better served by stating facts, avoiding be pulled into confrontation and allowing the press to fall on their collective faces.
I have no doubt that if she runs that some segments of the party with a big assist from the ratfuckers will once again attempt to tie her to Bill Clinton’s decision to sign DOMA and DADT. There’s no doubt that Bill’s decision to sign both was totally political. He was dealing with a GOP controlled House and Senate and he knew they might be able to muster the votes to override a veto of DOMA. DADT, on the other hand, was supposed to be a better deal for L/G’s serving in the military. Instead it turned into a system of loopholes and was ultimately used as a hammer to drive L/G’s out of the service.
I have to disagree that she sounded defensive. I think she sounded decisive. Gross kept stupidly pushing her agenda again and again. Clinton was polite for as long as humanly possible and then she just had to put the idiot in her place. I’m glad she responded as she did. Until then she was sounding like a politician. Once she cold cocked her, Madame President sounded like a leader.
I read or heard somewhere that Hillary had already decided to not mince words or play nice with the press this time around. I suppose she meant it so I’m expecting to see more of it. I’m totally behind her if she jumps into the race, so I hope it’s a good strategy.
There are some people she will just never please. I hope she stays aggressive anyway.
She will never get the swooning that Obama got from the media. I hope she stays forceful too.
There’s a lot of us who still remember 2008 and don’t think Hillary needs to suffer fools gladly.
I remember 2008 all too well, I just don’t want Hillary to punch herself out before she climbs into the ring. It’s a long time until the next Presidential election.
You know these so called lefties are really starting to piss me off. I didn’t see the Hayes show because I just can’t stand him but if he has issues with Clinton’s answers to Gross’ ridiculously slanted questions then I would have to ask him where all of his concerns were in ’08 when Obama came out and said he was still “evolving” on the issue of same sex marriage and the freakin’ progs were all fine with that? WTF? There is such a blatant double standard already in place in the media that it appears they are just dusting of their old ’08 scripts. Why don’t they ask the State Department employees what they think of how Clinton treated the LGBT community?
Yup, he was waving his hands all over, while she was doing the work.
I only saw Hayes segment by accident, but to answer your question the participants said that Obama was lying when he said he opposed gay marriage in 2008 and they claimed everyone new he was lying. The said Hillary should have done what Obama did. However Obama never admitted that he always favored gay marriage and I’m not sure it’s true.
{gag}
The Hillary hate is coming on strong. I hope the progs don’t get a Republican elected.
I can’t forget that MSNBC Krystal Ball moment a few months ago when Ball basically called Hillary a has-been hag with too much baggage and said Elizabeth Warren should run instead. Double gag!!! Even though I like Warren, she does not have the qualifications to be POTUS that Hillary has. I knew then that the MSNBC crowd was not going to be our friend in 2016. Again.
Krystal Ball pretty much made a fool of herself, especially with her thinly veiled expression of ageism. Considering that Warren is just 2 years younger than Hillary it made Krystal look like a total dunce. Not to say I don’t love Elizabeth Warren, to my mind she is much more of a liberal on the issues that matter to me than anyone else in the Democratic Party, but Hillary is ready to be POTUS in a way that no one else in the Dem Party is, male or female.
RUN HILLARY!!!!
I’ve basically stopped watching MSNBC since the Kristal Ball thing.
These are the same people who didn’t believe Obama when he campaigned as a moderate democrat who would bring republicans in with him. They thought because he was african-american he must be Malcolm X. Their political analysis skills are laughable.
You’re not kidding. The progs are the left’s Tea Party. The fools will take down a strong leftist candidate to prove a point and then lose the general election. Look at Virginia 07, we had the next Speaker of the House in our district and we traded him in for a barely marginal player. Brilliant.
Speaking of Brat, here’s a nice dissection of the crazy.
Charles P Pierce: Introducing the New Liberal Icon (With Extra Plato)
RalphB, Thank you for the Pierce link. This comment made me laugh out loud…
Bart Laws · Top Commenter · Assistant Professor at Brown University
The fusion of Christian Dominionist with Randianism, which is what Brat represents, would drive Ayn Rand and Jesus to a suicide pact.
Good link Ralph. The crazy getting ready to get busted in VA
The comments at Pierce’s are always half the fun. 🙂
I hope someone has saved all those videos of Brat saying stupid ass things because they will come in handy very soon.
And hey, I tried to learn on a rock but it only hurt my ass. 🙂
Well, come to think of it, maybe I did learn something on a rock, but that was a long time ago and I can’t remember it anymore.
Lord, that Pierce article shows just how vile Brat really is! A traditional conservative seminary like Princeton Theological is going to want to distance themselves as far as possible from this nut job.
I feel really sorry for his students. This guy taught for 18years with 500k of Koch money and it appears he knows less about economics than your average high school graduate
Yes, and if you look at headlines of the Gross response, it is the same shit over again.
Hillary gets “testy” “snaps” “lashes out” at Gross. While at least more headlines have “awkward exchange” “tense exchange” “contentious exchange” “spars”.
Just annoying.
(I am so out of it, nothing I am writing or say makes any sense.)
Oh JJ, you make perfect sense. Remember the description when the woman editor at NYT was fired? She was “testy” or “snappy” or some such women-shouldn’t-be-that-way word, while the man replacing her had “strong” feelings when he had a tantrum and pounded his fist into a wall. Which I bet hurt.
things have been so stressful lately, don’t make much sense in the first place. Lol. Our power went out, may be out for a while, so comics may be real late.
Urgh, that’s so aggravating to lose power. Technology not working is hard now that we’re used to it.
Hope it gets back on fast.
JJ you are always very good with words………we approve, you clearly understand Hillary’s day at the races……..Run Hillary.
Run Hillary, Run
Terry Gross interview with Hillary Clinton:
Hillary on transgender rights:
Terry Gross should be ashamed of herself. All of her questions about Clinton’s position on same sex marriage or transgender rights were designed to frame Clinton as a calculating, scheming politician. These interviews should be featured in broadcast journalism classes as examples of yellow journalism in a broadcast interview.
Agreed!
That was awesome. She is awesome. I hadn’t heard that yet. Thank you so much for posting it.
Yes, thank you, Fannie! xoxo
Yes, thank you! I missed this when it aired. Though I’ve thought Terry Gross was rather superficial for a long time. The other week she interviewed Glenn Greenwald and practically oozed adoration.
She certainly deserves the recognition. I love to hear her, and love it when we praise her. She’s achieved a lot in her lifetime. It’s not been easy.
Back in the day it was illegal to be in mixed relationship, to sit at the front of the bus, to vote, and it was a crime to be gay. I am proud of her, and she is OUR treasure.
Nice post, Dak. We all knew this would happen in the end–all the way back when Bush first went into Iraq. I thought I’d never have to live through another Vietnam, but I was wrong.
Thanks BB.
Fareed Zakaria: Who lost Iraq? The Iraqis did, with an assist from George W. Bush
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/fareed-zakaria-who-lost-iraq-the-iraqis-did-with-an-assist-from-george-w-bush/2014/06/12/35c5a418-f25c-11e3-914c-1fbd0614e2d4_story.html
That’s a good article and dead right. Juan Cole’s predictions are all coming true.
Even a non-scholar like myself knows the history of that region well enough to understand that the outcome was going to be civil war. Civil war flared and simmered all through the reign of Saddam Hussein,(who by the way the U.S. assisted in his rise to tyranny). And who ever thought that Al-Maliki had a snowball’s chance in hell of uniting Iraq? What a total waste and tragedy for the soldiers who served, for the lives lost, for the lives destroyed and for the money of the U.S. taxpayer that was thrown down the Iraq shitter!!!! It just makes me sick.
BTW, Obama gave a good address about this about an hour ago. He basically said, “it’s up to Iraq” to save itself.
I hope whatever Americans are left they have headed north to the Kurds.
Dak, thank you for sharing your thoughts, and news about what’s going down in this country. I feel like we have given years and years, many have been killed over these years, money that we can’t pay has been flying out the window left, and right. If Iraq can’t stand on it’s two feet, then that is for them to deal with, I am sick of kids being killed for nothing. We can’t do this as a “forever” war.
People refuse to read history, do their homework. Especially the GOP, who like you say “planted the seeds of destruction”. Bush himself had signed into effect the war would be ending at certain time, and that we would leave a status of forces over there, and Iraq refused to sign the deal. And we sure the hell weren’t going to subject our soliders to Iraq’s laws.
We gave everything, everything.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%E2%80%93Iraq_Status_of_Forces-Agreement
Heck here it is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%E2%80%93Iraq_Status_of_Forces_Agreement
Great advice from John Fogerty, then and now…
Another great song.
Paraphrasing: The GOP blames Obama (of course because GWB had nothing to do with any of this) and Obama tells Iraq if you want help from the U.S. shit or get off the pot
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/13/us/iraq-us/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
This makes me feel good. When you fear no one, you can do whatever you like!
http://www.salon.com/2014/06/13/beyond_the_war_on_science_why_the_right_embraces_ignorance_as_a_virtue_partner/
Great examples of republican stupidity.
It’s a strawberry moon!!!
better than a blood moon because that’s a signal from jeebus that the end times they are a comin.
I’ve been picking a handful of ripe strawberries daily this week!
I was going for the cherries but ended up babysitting a dog instead.
ROFLMAO…..wiping tears from eyes…. LOL. Hypothetically indeed!
That is preyty damn funny. 🙂 Hypothetically.
Contractors going back into Iraq to give Al Qaeda a run for the money: Professional Overseas Contractors – FYI
http://www.your-poc.com/news/
I am thinking they are going in to get people out of IRAQ……..could be another situation, but I didn’t realize how many contractors we have, and how involved they are. I appreciate their work, and I hope they all come home safely. Noticed they have job openings……….anybody?
Shep Smith crapping on Fox’s story line again.
tpm: Shep Smith: The Same People Who Were Wrong About Iraq Now Want Us To Go Back (VIDEO)