Category: Politics

Fact checking Bush’s speech on Iraq

From NPR:

This week, President Bush and members of Congress have been focused on the war in Iraq and how well it is — or is not — succeeding. Both sides have made a lot of sometimes competing claims about the situation there. On Thursday night, it was President Bush’s turn, as he addressed the nation from the Oval Office. NPR has this analysis of some of the president’s assertions.

Read the analysis and listen to the story.
Think they were one sided? Think the missed something vital? Let me know.

Had to share this one

President Bush and the Pope are fishing in the middle of a lake in Rome. Suddenly a gush of wind blows the Pope’s hat into the water. President Bush quickly jumps up, steps out of the boat and walks on to the water to retrieve the Pope’s hat. The next day the newspapers and TV commentators report – ‘Bush can’t swim!’

energy independence in America

“None of us would write a check to Osama bin Laden, slip it in a Hallmark card and send it off to him. But that’s what we’re doing every time we pull into a gas station. We’re paying for both sides in the war on terror – our side with our tax dollars, the terrorists’ side with our gas dollars.” – Mike Huckabee

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Thompson turns down Huckabee’s invitation

From the Fred Thompson campaign: “We have the greatest respect for Gov. Huckabee and respect his desire to elevate the discourse in this campaign. But there are nine people running for the GOP nomination and an arbitrary pairing of just two of them does a disservice to the voters. We will push hard for Lincoln-Douglas style debates once we get into the General Election, when there are only two candidates running.”

Chicken.

Latest bin Laden video a fake?

I haven’t seen this covered anywhere else, but just noticed an article on Booman Tribune (thanks to Digg) suggests the latest bin Laden video is a fake after the video freezes from 1:58 to 12:30, while the audio continues.

Osama Bin Laden’s widely publicized video address to the American people has a peculiarity that casts serious doubt on its authenticity: the video freezes at about 1 minute and 36 58 seconds, and motion only resumes again at 12:30. The video then freezes again at 14:02 remains frozen until the end. All references to current events, such as the 62nd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan, and Sarkozy and Brown being the leaders of France and the UK, respectively, occur when the video is frozen! The words spoken when the video is in motion contain no references to contemporary events and could have been (and likely were) made before the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Wonder why ABC News, the CIA and others either refused to report his, ignored it or if someone else produced a different video with the video frozen.
You can download the entire video here