I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried.

MR. RUSSERT: If General Petraeus says, “Senator, in September you called the surge the suspension of belief. It has worked, and you know it’s worked”–let me finish–”you can see on the ground. I’m saying to you, Senator, or president-elect Clinton, don’t destroy Iraq. It’s working, the surge is working. Keep troops there just a few more months to get this reconciliation complete.”

SEN. CLINTON: …The point of the surge was to quickly move the Iraqi government and Iraqi people. That is only now beginning to happen, and I believe in large measure because the Iraqi government, they watch us, they listen to us. I know very well that they follow everything that I say. And my commitment to begin withdrawing our troops in January of 2009 is a big factor, as it is with Senator Obama, Senator Edwards, those of us on the Democratic side. It is a big factor in pushing the Iraqi government to finally do what they should have been doing all along.

(hat tip: Allah)

Nevermind the fact that she and the others have opposed the surge the whole time.

Or the fact she disgracefully told General David Petraeus, to his face and on the record, that to believe his progress report on the success of the surge in Iraq would “require a willing suspension of disbelief.”

Or the fact she voted against a bill expressing support for General Petraeus.

Or the fact she and the others voted against a bill to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Yeah, in spite of all of that, SHE deserves credit for the success of the troop surge.

Remember the bogus study that claimed 655,000 Iraqis had been killed because of the U.S.-led invasion? It was mostly debunked before the ink was even dry. And that was just based on the methodology… not even accounting for the obvious bias surrounding the study and its release.

Well this latest news should come as no big surprise:

A STUDY that claimed 650,000 people were killed as a result of the invasion of Iraq was partly funded by the antiwar billionaire George Soros.

Shocker.

Just add this to the long list of lies the Left has tried to propagate to oppose the Bush administration.

That’s apparently the amount of money owed to Hurricane Katrina victims by God… though they’re suing the Army Corps of Engineers as a proxy defendant.

Three quadrillion dollars.

The quadrillion-dollar figure represents a fraction of the roughly 489,000 claims that residents and business owners filed against the federal government over damage from the failure of levees and flood walls following the Aug. 29, 2005, storm.

Officials said some residents may have grossly exaggerated their claims to send a message to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which has accepted blame for poorly designing the failed levees.

To put the number into perspective, just $1 quadrillion would dwarf the U.S. gross domestic product and a stack of 1 quadrillion pennies would reach Saturn. It would’ve been cheaper to remove every upright structure in New Orleans by hand, brick by brick, and rebuild a city of gold in its place.

Imagine the number of school buses they’d be able to not utilize for evacuation next time with this kind of money.

Hillary?

So sayeth the nutroots… (hat tip: Cadillac Tight)

Atman (1000+ posts) Tue Jan-08-08 08:30 PM

So let me get this straight…Obama’s been winning all day up until the polls close
Then suddenly the race switches and it becomes “too close to call.” Just like certain other major elections of recent years.

Hmmm. Call me Mr. Cynical…but something stinks.

Cheney Killed Bambi (1000+ posts) Tue Jan-08-08 08:29 PM
Does NH use Deibold???????
What the H-e-double-hockey-sticks is going on??? How could Hillary be leading after being so far down in all the polls????

antiimperialist (1000+ posts) Tue Jan-08-08 08:18 PM
Nobody is mentioning the fact that NH voting machines are easy to hack
Edited on Tue Jan-08-08 08:20 PM by antiimperialist
There is no evidence that anyone did this, but the possibility is there.
A post here in DU informed that Black Box Voting’s hacker Harri Hursti was able to hack the Diebold optical scanners in NH this week.
With no polls predicting Clinton’s win, could we speculate that she stole the elections?/blockquote>

cyberpj (1000+ posts) Tue Jan-08-08 08:51 PM
New Hampshire Primary - All Diebold. All the Time. Your thoughts?

The news really isn’t that the nutroots are again blaming electoral defeat on conspiracy theories… but that they’re highlighting the fact that Democrats are out there trying to commit election fraud today. Quite the admission.

No wonder Hillary doesn’t often answer non-scripted or non-preapproved questions. While she continues to claim mountains of “experience” from her time as first wifey and her brief stint as junior Senator from New York, look how she fumbles basic facts about globally-significant events:

Blitzer: This is a damning indictment of President Pervez Musharraf. Some are calling on him to step down, do you believe he should step down?

Clinton: What I believe is that he should meet certain conditions and quickly. We should immediately move to free and fair elections. Obviously, it’s going to take some time for Benazir Bhutto’s party to choose a successor. Nawaz Sharif has said that he won’t participate at this time. I believe again some kind of international support for free and fair elections in a timely manner would be incredibly important. If President Musharraf wishes to stand for election, then he should abide by the same rules that every other candidate will have to follow.

Psst, Hillary, Musharraf was actually reelected in October, and the upcoming Pakistani elections are parliamentary, not presidential.

Of course, Hillary’s campaign tried to pretend the gaffe wasn’t a gaffe at all:

The Clinton campaign has not yet returned a request for comment on Biden’s comments, but said yesterday the New York Democrat was referring to Musharraf’s party, not himself in particular.

Oh really? That’s interesting considering when George Stephanopoulos asked Hillary on ABC’s This Week show about the possibility that Pakistan’s (Parliamentary) elections scheduled for January 8th might be postponed, she said:

STEPHANOPOULOS: So we don’t need the elections on the 8th?

CLINTON: Well, I think it will be very difficult to have a real election. You know, Nawaz Sharif has said he’s not going to compete. The PPP is in disarray with Benazir’s assassination. (Musharraf) could be the only person on the ballot. I don’t think that’s a real election.

Hillarys’ foreign policy experience was unavailable for comment.