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A protester uses his shoe to strike an effigy of U.S. President George. W. Bush, in an expression of contempt, as thousands of followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr converged on Firdos Square in central Baghdad, Iraq for a mass prayer to protest a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security pact on Friday, Nov. 21, 2008.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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Bush lost the battle AND the war. This man does not deserve the pity he is going to get. He deserves the place in history he earned.

President Bush, May 1, 2007 (emphasis added):
It makes no sense to tell the enemy when you plan to start withdrawing. All the terrorists would have to do is mark their calendars and gather their strength — and begin plotting how to overthrow the government and take control of the country of Iraq. I believe setting [...]

Capitalism seems to be failing in all directions
“Fresh worries about the job market have emerged after weekly claims for unemployment benefits rose to a 16-year high rather than decreasing as had expected. The Labor Department has reported that new applications for jobless benefits rose to a seasonally adjusted 542,000 last week.”
“Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) — U.S. [...]

Pure free-marketers argue that the automakers should be allowed to fail and go bankrupt without any taxpayer aid. I’m predicting this lame duck congress will do nothing, but that as soon as the new president and congress are seated in January, help for the industry will be forthcoming.
As I listen to various [...]

I know nothing about this story except what I read on KSL.com. Certainly of interest.
President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have been indicted on state charges involving federal prisons in a South Texas county that has been a source of bizarre legal and political battles under the outgoing prosecutor.
The indictment returned [...]

National Review contributing editor Andrew J. McCarthy imparts the following words of wisdom:
INCONVENIENT FACT: THE IRAQIS DON’T LIKE US

Thousands of American lives and hundreds of billions in taxpayer funds have been expended to provide Iraqis the opportunity to live freely. And this despite the facts that (a) the U.S. interest in [...]

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is doing whatever it can to help the Bush administration wreck our public lands. Back in February, I wrote:

They can’t be serious…. The federal government has come back to the idea, sensibly abandoned in the early 1980s, of extracting tar sands and oil shale in Utah. These are [...]

At today’s White House press conference, Press Secretary Dana Perino tried to claim that the Bush administration has not really agreed to a “surrender date” (the term she used last year to describe a deadline for troop withdrawal from Iraq).

QUESTION: The President has said for months that he opposes [...]

H/t to Kos.
The New York Times produced a map after the election showing which counties voted more Republican and which more Democratic in 2008 compared to 2004. That map showed a swath of red counties in the highland south voting more Republican than four years ago - just about the only counties that did [...]

The U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Regiment at the Pentagon
The U.S. Defense Department’s FY 2008 budget was $623 billion, over a hundred billion more than the military budgets of every other country in the world put together. This does not include emergency supplemental appropriations for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Why is the budget so bloated? [...]

BAGHDAD (Reuters)
Iraq’s cabinet approved a pact on Sunday that will let U.S. troops stay in the country until 2011, setting a final date to end a military presence that began with the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.c
It puts a closing date on a war that has been one of the defining political issues [...]