Wow, it's nice to have money. You can say things like this and no one will be able to refute him.
The Donald bashes Bush and all his cronies:
3-18-2007 Trump: "Bush is the worst President in history of U.S., the Iraq War is a catastrophe"
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1-1-07 3,000 American soldiers dead
11-27-06 Iraq called "Civil War" now by everyone except "The War President"
Which is it??? Now with Poll
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New question - Will the U.S. be out of Iraq before Bush leaves office?
Obviously something would force the issue because Bush insists he will not pull the troops out of there while he is in power.
Last throes - Mission Accomplished:
3-14-2007 Pentagon says violence in Iraq "civil war" for the first time
WASHINGTON - The U.S. military for the first time Wednesday said in a new report that some of the violence in Iraq can be described as a civil war
Members of the Bush administration have been loath to say that the U.S. military is struggling to quell a civil war, and the report agreed that the term does not capture the complex situation there.
But it added, "Some elements of the situation in Iraq are properly descriptive of a 'civil war,' including the hardening of ethno-sectarian identities and mobilization, the changing character of the violence and population displacements."
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A concerned AT member sent me this link that the Washington Post is putting out on Sunday.
Looks like Americans are finally starting to want to no longer give a free pass to the Republican establishment that has ruined the U.S. like a dictarship.
It's too early to tell as the November Election results will be the gauge as to whether or not there will be a sea change.
I understand there is always some Nepotism but traditionally at least qualified people were used however this series shows the Bush regime has taken Nepotism to a whole new level.
We must throw the baby out with the bath water to affect change or history will simply show the U.S. as becoming as corrupt as a Dictatorship.
9-17-2006 Best-Connected Were Sent to Rebuild Iraq
After the fall of Saddam Hussein's government in April 2003, the opportunity to participate in the U.S.-led effort to reconstruct Iraq attracted all manner of Americans -- restless professionals, Arabic-speaking academics, development specialists and war-zone adventurers.
But before they could go to Baghdad, they had to get past Jim O'Beirne's office in the Pentagon.
To pass muster with O'Beirne, a political appointee who screens prospective political appointees for Defense Department posts, applicants didn't need to be experts in the Middle East or in post-conflict reconstruction.
What they needed to be was a member of the Republican Party.
O'Beirne's staff posed blunt questions about domestic politics:
Did you vote for George W. Bush in 2000?
Do you support the way the president is fighting the war on terror?
Two people who sought jobs with the U.S. occupation authority said they were even asked their views on Roe v. Wade .
Many of those chosen by O'Beirne's office to work for the Coalition Provisional Authority, which ran Iraq's government from April 2003 to June 2004, lacked vital skills and experience.
A 24-year-old who had never worked in finance -- but had applied for a White House job -- was sent to reopen Baghdad's stock exchange.
The daughter of a prominent neoconservative commentator and a recent graduate from an evangelical university for home-schooled children were tapped to manage Iraq's $13 billion budget, even though they didn't have a background in accounting.
The decision to send the loyal and the willing instead of the best and the brightest is now regarded by many people involved in the 3 1/2 -year effort to stabilize and rebuild Iraq as one of the Bush administration's gravest errors.
Many of those selected because of their political fidelity spent their time trying to impose a conservative agenda on the postwar occupation that sidetracked more important reconstruction efforts and squandered goodwill among the Iraqi people.
The Donald bashes Bush and all his cronies:
3-18-2007 Trump: "Bush is the worst President in history of U.S., the Iraq War is a catastrophe"
===================================================
1-1-07 3,000 American soldiers dead
11-27-06 Iraq called "Civil War" now by everyone except "The War President"
Which is it??? Now with Poll
=====================================================
New question - Will the U.S. be out of Iraq before Bush leaves office?
Obviously something would force the issue because Bush insists he will not pull the troops out of there while he is in power.
Last throes - Mission Accomplished:
3-14-2007 Pentagon says violence in Iraq "civil war" for the first time
WASHINGTON - The U.S. military for the first time Wednesday said in a new report that some of the violence in Iraq can be described as a civil war
Members of the Bush administration have been loath to say that the U.S. military is struggling to quell a civil war, and the report agreed that the term does not capture the complex situation there.
But it added, "Some elements of the situation in Iraq are properly descriptive of a 'civil war,' including the hardening of ethno-sectarian identities and mobilization, the changing character of the violence and population displacements."
========================================================
A concerned AT member sent me this link that the Washington Post is putting out on Sunday.
Looks like Americans are finally starting to want to no longer give a free pass to the Republican establishment that has ruined the U.S. like a dictarship.
It's too early to tell as the November Election results will be the gauge as to whether or not there will be a sea change.
I understand there is always some Nepotism but traditionally at least qualified people were used however this series shows the Bush regime has taken Nepotism to a whole new level.
We must throw the baby out with the bath water to affect change or history will simply show the U.S. as becoming as corrupt as a Dictatorship.
9-17-2006 Best-Connected Were Sent to Rebuild Iraq
After the fall of Saddam Hussein's government in April 2003, the opportunity to participate in the U.S.-led effort to reconstruct Iraq attracted all manner of Americans -- restless professionals, Arabic-speaking academics, development specialists and war-zone adventurers.
But before they could go to Baghdad, they had to get past Jim O'Beirne's office in the Pentagon.
To pass muster with O'Beirne, a political appointee who screens prospective political appointees for Defense Department posts, applicants didn't need to be experts in the Middle East or in post-conflict reconstruction.
What they needed to be was a member of the Republican Party.
O'Beirne's staff posed blunt questions about domestic politics:
Did you vote for George W. Bush in 2000?
Do you support the way the president is fighting the war on terror?
Two people who sought jobs with the U.S. occupation authority said they were even asked their views on Roe v. Wade .
Many of those chosen by O'Beirne's office to work for the Coalition Provisional Authority, which ran Iraq's government from April 2003 to June 2004, lacked vital skills and experience.
A 24-year-old who had never worked in finance -- but had applied for a White House job -- was sent to reopen Baghdad's stock exchange.
The daughter of a prominent neoconservative commentator and a recent graduate from an evangelical university for home-schooled children were tapped to manage Iraq's $13 billion budget, even though they didn't have a background in accounting.
The decision to send the loyal and the willing instead of the best and the brightest is now regarded by many people involved in the 3 1/2 -year effort to stabilize and rebuild Iraq as one of the Bush administration's gravest errors.
Many of those selected because of their political fidelity spent their time trying to impose a conservative agenda on the postwar occupation that sidetracked more important reconstruction efforts and squandered goodwill among the Iraqi people.