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From Think Progress:
This morning, Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) held a press conference to express their “pleasure” about President Bush’s statement this morning regarding what he described as “encouraging news from Iraq” and “the success of the surge.”

Warning! - malarkey levels unsafe for logical comprehension:
LIEBERMAN: That’s why Senator Graham and I [...]

President Bush now wants a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq. I assumed you would read this while sitting, otherwise I apologize and I’ll give you a moment to get up off the floor…

“Kilroy was here”

Remember when anyone who favored withdrawal was accused of wanting to “surrender,” and betray the troops?
Senator [...]

I don’t know how many times we have to tell you people. The idea of fighting terrorism with law enforcement agencies belongs to an outmoded, naive September 10 mentality. People who think that Al Qaeda’s attacks on the USA could have been stopped by the FBI (if the top brass listened to their [...]

The parade of phony Iraq experts appearing on TV lately has treated us to nonstop blather about “conditions on the ground” and “facts on the ground.” Usually the magic words are said with a satisfied smirk, implying that the Average Americans wouldn’t be so keen on getting our troops back home if only they [...]

Via Talking Points Memo and Think Progress: Yesterday, Senator McCain told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that Maliki’s 16-month timetable for withdrawal from Iraq is a “pretty good timetable.” He only adds that “they have to be based on conditions on the ground.”
In other words, Barack Obama’s 16-month timetable is a catastrophe but Maliki’s is “pretty good”. [...]

Rocky was great also in subsequent testimony. This session lasted SIX HOURS!
Here are more segments of the hearing.
The last hour of the hearing was the most compelling argument for why we MUST impeach Bush to save the Constitution…literally.

Thanks, Raw Story. The House Judiciary Committee has released a witness list for its hearing on the impeachment of President George W. Bush.
Late Thursday afternoon, the committee released the full witness list, broken down into two panels.
Panel One
The Honorable Dennis Kucinich, Representative from Ohio
[...]

The House of Representatives usually takes Fridays off, but the leadership considers the impeachment of President George W. Bush to be such a high priority that the Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing is scheduled for Friday, July 25. /snark
Except that Chairman John Conyers isn’t calling it an impeachment hearing, despite the fact that this [...]

Here’s the story:
During a CBS interview on Tuesday, John McCain made a stone cold error on a subject about which he claims expert knowledge: the “surge” strategy in Iraq. In an interview with anchor Katie Couric, the Arizona Republican said, inaccurately, that the surge strategy was responsible for the much-touted “Anbar Awakening,” in which Sunni [...]

If you haven’t seen Marshall Thompson’s documentary about his walk through Utah, this is your chance. Tomorrow evening, 7 pm at the Salt Lake City Main Library.

Previous One Utah posts:
A Soldier’s Peace: The Movie (February 19, 2008)
Marshall Thompson Spoke at USU on Wednesday (February 2, 2007)
Marshall Thompson in D.C. (November 22, 2006)
Marshall Thompson Update [...]

Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri, Saddam’s successor, now claims the title, “leader of Resistance and Liberation, general secretary of the Socialist Baath Party.”
Al-Douri’s latest statement reiterates what the Iraqi resistance is fighting for: national self-determination. Despite a one-time alliance of convenience, he now regards the al-Qaeda agenda as a disastrous diversion. Bear in [...]

Geographers like me are used to our fellow Americans’ inexhaustible reservoir of ignorance about the world. After all, it’s a big planet that offers a vast array of little-known information.
Yet, surely we could be expected to know something. How hard can it be?

Only 37% of young Americans can find Iraq on [...]