John McCain has a lock on his party's nomination in part because he
supported the "surge" and, Johnny says it is working! Don't you wonder
what he is on? I'd like some.
GOP
Senator,John Warner, a former hawk said yesterday, "By any fair
standard the level of progress to date has fallen below expectations."
Take that John McCain. By any "fair standard." And the costs? Gates testified yesterday. He is asking for $685 billion for Defense--$170 billion for the occupation of Iraq and the nutty war in Afghanistan. Cost of these two mistakes? $275,000,000 per day and
Gates said, and I'm not making this up, "I have no confidence in that
figure." He is not warning that it will be less...that you can take to
the bank.
How are things going in the land of Rummy, Wolfie, and
Cheney? Well, Cost of war says we have spent $492 billion; 700,000
Iraqis have been killed; almost 4,000 U.S. soldiers killed and 60,000
injured. And for that John McCain deserves the brass ring? Whoa Nelly!
Gates
added that Afghanistan is half-again the size of Iraq with 3 million
more people. So? Read carefully, Afghanistan is "under-resourced" and
you know what that means. More money, more troops, more death. I can
hardly wait to hear McCain's take on our "under-resourced" ally.
Dan
Bice reports on a lawyer disciplined for using an inmate as a paralegal
and claiming his work. Bice missed the rest of the story. The State of
Wisconsin reimburses lawyers for public defender work $40 per
hour--second lowest in the United States, blue or red. That is a
disgrace and the Legislature should act. No, I'm not excusing the
disciplined attorney.
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