And HRC tells us:

“‘We’ve begun to change tactics in Iraq, and in some areas, particularly in Al Anbar Province, it’s working,” [she said]… ‘We’re just years too late changing our tactics. We can’t ever let that happen again. We can’t be fighting the last war; we have to be preparing to fight the new war.’”

Nothing. She’s got nuthin’.

egregious @ 60

NASA tv link for the space shuttle landing in a half hour at 12:32edt

They landed safely, thank God! The hole in the tiles was not catastrophic, though I haven’t seen any info yet on whether the skin of the shuttle underneath the tiles was damaged.

Bob in HI

msnbc showed a live shot from after the landing of the damage: it looked good, ie same as in space.

NASA tv link for the space shuttle landing in a half hour at 12:32edt

They landed safely, thank God! The hole in the tiles was not catastrophic, though I haven’t seen any info yet on whether the skin of the shuttle underneath the tiles was damaged.

Bob in HI

MitchmcC, Hatch, Stevens, Gramm

make rattlesnakes look sweet-tempered.

showin’ my bias? yup!

Gramm in the bag. Next? How ’bout a 3-per?

pigboy @ 25

Here’s what my Democratic Rep thinks about the Iraq mess:

“Brad Shannon
The Olympian

U.S. Rep. Brian Baird said Thursday that his recent trip to Iraq convinced him the military needs more time in the region, and that a hasty pullout would cause chaos that helps Iran and harms U.S. security.

“I believe that the decision to invade Iraq and the post-invasion management of that country were among the largest foreign-policy mistakes in the history of our nation. I voted against them, and I still think they were the right votes,” Baird said in a telephone interview from Washington, D.C.

“But we’re on the ground now. We have a responsibility to the Iraqi people and a strategic interest in making this work.”

In other words he has his head up his ass.

I’ve seen this more than once — what DO they have in the water over there?

It’s not the water…each visiting congresscritter gets to leave with his or her very own shopping bag of missing US Treasury loot from the shipment from the NY Fed that went missing.

make rattlesnakes look sweet-tempered.

showin’ my bias? yup!

OKKiddo,

Did HRC make that statement recently? This new war thingie IS bothersome, eh?

yes — this is from her speech yesterday to vets of foreign wars. hillary doing her best to scare all of us …

QuakerGirl @ 9:31 am -

Thanks for this post Stephen.

You’re welcome. I’m hoping that Mr. Bush thinks of his Quaker ancestors as he considers how best to proceed in Iraq.

Nixon didn’t.

http://english.aljazeera.net/N…..F3EC31.htm

And soon Bibi will be calling the shots.