should go have an up close look at the situation in the Middle-East. Maybe he would end up like Daniel Pearl, God rest his soul.

Ah so we get a peek behind the LEFTY LIB excuse machine. Now it will
be Bush's fault that Iran and NKorean and whomever else grew un deterred as problems because of Iraq.

So Obama and the LEFTY LIBS will be able to say, "It's too late to do
something drastic, they did all this under Bush and we can't do anything
drastic so we are going to have to use diplomacy and try to minimize its
growth not reverse its threat...why we can't reverse its threat...that would mean the use of force...we can't do that...we can't initiate force we can only continue what Bush has done and blame him".

A long, long time ago...
I can still remember
How that freedom used to make me smile.
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those people dance
And, maybe, they’d have freedom for a while.

But Mr. Murtha made me shiver
With every victory I’d deliver.
Bad news on his doorstep;
Was all he would accept..

I cant remember if I cried
When I read about the widowed bride,
But something touched me deep inside
The day our freedom died.

So bye-bye, miss american pie.
Drove my chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
And them good old boys were drinkin BDS and rye
Singin, cuz of Bush we all must die
It's all his fault please believe my lie

Reality is the good friend of the strong and perception is the cruel
master of the weak.

Next Please!

normally, i don't watch john stewart. but in this case it was simply to see how weak the show was without  bush to bash. after all, better not be too strident in your criticism of pres."o".  that will make you racist and possibly earn you a trip to a re-education camp. after all why do you think they're emptying gitmo....

Sanger says:

SANGER: Well, the Iranians are building nuclear weapons because we were off in Iraq. The North Koreans went out and built six or seven nuclear weapons right at the time that we were off in Iraq. Afghanistan, obviously a big problem. And the more people I interviewed, the more I discovered that as they came in to go deal with the Taliban, they discovered all our forces were off in Iraq. There’s a story out here.

One can argue persusively that:

1. The Iranians and North Koreans are building nuclear weapons because they believe it is in their own self interest. Their actions predated anything the Bush Administration did
2. Iran faces are more dangerous strategic situation now, because the United States can effectively deploy forces from, Turkey, Iraq and Afghanistan to counter Iran.
3. If Saddam was left in power, he too could be developing nuclear weapons and Iran and Iraq could be locked in an anti-American nuclear arms race.
4. The United States military can carry out more than one task at a time. More troops in Afghanistan may not lead to better results. The effective application of force is what works, not numbers.

The quote above from Sanger leads one to conclude that his book is nothing more than an emotional diatribe against President Bush.

SANGER: Well, the Iranians are building nuclear weapons because we were
off in Iraq. The North Koreans went out and built six or seven nuclear
weapons right at the time that we were off in Iraq. Afghanistan,
obviously a big problem. And the more people I interviewed, the more I
discovered that as they came in to go deal with the Taliban, they
discovered all our forces were off in Iraq. There’s a story out here.

Oh, please.

The Iranians and North Koreans didn't give a flying fig what we were doing in Iraq.  They paid zero attention to what the US Presidents thought long before we went into Iraq. (In fact North Korea started during the Clinton administration....was that because he was pre-occupied in Bosnia?)

Will Sanger soon complain that all these places are going to hell in a handbasket because Obama is focused on the economy?  

what he's missing is the fact that our enemies either learned or had their suspicions confirmed:

 1 - Any conflict that is begun with a Republican in office will be met with fierce opposition from the left

2- Democrat leaders will go out in public and either not back their President in the war, or worse yet, take the enemies side in the conflict.

3 - The media will become the de-facto arm of the opposition.

Clearly the war in Iraq was won early on, yet when our forces began suffering casualties and the terrorists began a guerilla war the Democrats together with the media gave aid and comfort to our enemies by assasinating the POTUS' character in public and in Jimmy Carter's case, on foreign soil.  

The media then began a campaign of non-stop negative reporting from Iraq which played directly into the enemies hands, giving the terrorist a public forum to  to weaken the public's resolve.  The media also gave up secret information that helped the enemy and hurt the us.  Their final assist was to the Democrats by propogating the well repeated, but never proven, assertion that the President lied to get us into war, the Republicans were a corrupt party through and through, and never held any Democrats accountable for their votes or decisions or corruption.

Therefore, Korea and Iran both KNOW that the Democrats and the Media will provide them with suitable cover.   Also, any enemy of the US knows that if they can bog down US forces in any way, shape or form, they can win the PR battle and defeat a US that is more concerned with how it looks to the world than whether it does the right thing in protecting it's people. 

It will be amusing to watch the liberal jokewriters for guys like Leno, Letterman, Stewart and the rest scramble to come up with new jokes for their diva bosses. For eight years they have had the Bush-is-dumb-doesn't-read-books lines to recycle endlessly. Now that he's gone and Obammy is for the time being untouchable, what to do?

PS Jay Lame-o had an exit interview with a fake President Bush this week, so he's still working the old material.

PPS Open season on the hapless Joe Biden. He is going to be Quaylized.

What these two men don't know about geo-politics, military capability and the war on terror could fill volumes. The lack of understanding, arrogance, the revisionist history and simplistic approach are simply appalling.

Many comments above about the obvious lack of ammo that the liberal media is suffering. I remember when Nixon left, the National Lampoon Radio Hour went OFF THE AIR because... as the man said it himself... "You won't have Richard Nixon to kick around any more."  Wonder what he would say if he saw the bashing Bush has taken for 8 years. We have made jokes about it.. but the honest to goodness truth is that I don't think they can maintain the liberal HATE without Bush in office. Unless they bring back Orwell's 1984 prediction, and have all of Hollywood gather in front of their monitors twice a day and chant HATE! HATE! HATE until pictures of O'Buckwheat come on and they can gush again.  O'Buckwheat say... because...I WON"

I will NEVER forget that quote