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Daily Kos —
Sundays are a great day to abbreviate. Tom Friedman: If Iraq can keep improving — still uncertain — and become a place where Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites can write their own social contract and live together with a modicum of stability, it could one day become a strategic asset for the United States in the post-9/11 effort to promote different politics in the Arab-Muslim world. But even if it does, I was still wrong enough about Iraq that it would be despite what I've said, and not because of it. ...
NY Times Scurrying To Give Obama Victory Credit For Their Shared Defeat In Iraq
Confederate Yankee —
NY Times Scurrying To Give Obama Victory Credit For Their Shared Defeat In Iraq Barack Obama and his Democratic allies have famously done everything in their power to try to lose the Iraqi War while President Bush is in office, but now that everyone with any understanding of the conflict knows that the war is effectively won, Democrats are trying to steal credit for the victory they fought so hard against : In the last year, though, the U.S. troop surge and the backlash from moderate Iraqi Sunnis against Al Qaeda and Iraqi Shiites against pro-Iranian extremists have brought ...
Revising Obama
Discriminations —
... grassroots support.
Except, it turns out, that’s not really true.
In fact, Obama’s base of small donors was almost exactly the same percent as George W. Bush’s in 2004 -- Obama had 26% and the great Republican satan 25%. Obviously, this is unacceptable to current popular thinking.
If this sort of analysis continues, pretty soon Tom Friedman and the New York Times will be giving Obama credit for victory in Iraq.
Oh, wait. ...
Humor: NY Times Tries to Credit Iraq Victory to Obama and Liberals
Stop The ACLU —
I’m sure you won’t be surprised , just like Confederate Yankee wasn’t: In the last year, though, the U.S. troop surge and the backlash from moderate Iraqi Sunnis against Al Qaeda and Iraqi Shiites against pro-Iranian extremists have brought a new measure of stability to Iraq. There is now, for the first time, a chance — still only a chance — that a reasonably stable democratizing government, though no doubt corrupt in places, can take root in the Iraqi political space. That is the Iraq that Obama is inheriting. It is an Iraq where we have to begin drawing down our ...
Thomas Freidman: Iraq Suddenly Looking Like a Success, and Guess What? Obama Gets the Credit
Ace of Spades HQ —
Thomas Freidman: Iraq Suddenly Looking Like a Success, and Guess What? Obama Gets the Credit This Lightworker is truly amazing. He causes wars to end successfully and young democracies to strengthen before taking office. Heres a story you dont see very often. Iraqs highest court told the Iraqi Parliament last Monday that it had no right to strip one of its members of immunity so he could be prosecuted for an alleged crime: visiting Israel for a seminar on counterterrorism. The Iraqi justices said the Sunni lawmaker, Mithal al-Alusi, had committed no crime and told the ...
You Tell Me: MSM Laying The Foundation For “Obama And Dems Won The Iraq War” - Bullshit Scam?
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
... and our MSM’s hands and faces. They are dripping with it.
Never the Eagle …
They have gone from dead flesh eating vultures, to rats chewing on a newborn in its crib.
Their black souls be damned. Fuckers all …
Do Freidman and the Times rag really expect us to forget their part in this piece of shit?
Obama’s Iraq Inheritance
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN - (NYTimes)
Here’s a story you don’t see very often. Iraq’s highest court told the Iraqi ...
Friedman: Iraq’s Triumphs are Obama’s Triumphs
The Sundries Shack —
The boldness of the MSM’s bias is simply breathtaking sometimes. Thomas Friedman asserts, without any shame at all, that any triumph of the strengthening Iraqi civil society will be credited to Barack Obama. No, really . In 2003, the United States, under President Bush, invaded Iraq to change the regime. Terrible postwar execution and unrelenting attempts by Al Qaeda to provoke a Sunni-Shiite civil war turned the Iraqi geopolitical space into a different problem — a maelstrom of violence for four years, with U.S. troops caught in the middle. A huge price was paid by Iraqis ...
Friedman: Iraq Could Positively Tilt Arab World...Thanks to Obama
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... As a result, according to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, "Obama and the Democrats could not only end the Iraq war but salvage something positive from it" (h/t ...
NYT outdoes itself this weekend
Sister Toldjah —
... , and the other one, written by Tom Friednman, on how - get this - Obama and the Dems could shore up their national security creds by “salvaging something positive” from the war in Iraq. Bob Owens lays the verbal smackdown on the Times ...
Like Water Flowing Downhill
Dean's World —
Well, more like a glacier maybe, but the natural convergence of values in liberal Israel and liberalizing Iraq continues:
Here’s a story you don’t see very often. Iraq’s highest court told the Iraqi Parliament last Monday that it had no right to strip one of its members of immunity so he could be prosecuted for an alleged crime: visiting Israel for a seminar on counterterrorism. The Iraqi justices said the Sunni lawmaker, Mithal al-Alusi, had committed no crime and told the Parliament to back off.
That’s not all. The Iraqi newspaper ...
New York Times Columnist: Obama And Democrats Could Salvage Iraq War
Say Anything —
Never mind that the terrorists have been defeated, an elected government is taking over, we’re one step away from an agreement that will set a date for our troops to come home and that all of this happened under President Bush.
No, Democrats are the ones who can “salvage” Iraq according to Thomas Friedman.
I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect Iraq to have relations with Israel anytime soon, but the fact that it may be developing an independent judiciary is good news. It’s a reminder of the ...
Frank Rich Cited For Excellence In Embedded Link Provision
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... an article up at the Nieman Journalism Lab praising New York Times columnist Frank Rich for his willingness to do one of those little things that makes a big difference -- providing embedded links within the body of his online copy. I know, this is hardly revolutionary stuff...but it's worth mentioning that Rich is the ONLY op-ed columnist at the Times that bothers to adhere to this practice: "Not Brooks nor Cohen nor Collins nor Dowd nor Friedman nor Herbert nor Kristof nor Kristol nor Krugman. (The ...
Frank Rich Cited For Excellence In Embedded Link Provision
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... an article up at the Nieman Journalism Lab praising New York Times columnist Frank Rich for his willingness to do one of those little things that makes a big difference -- providing embedded links within the body of his online copy. I know, this is hardly revolutionary stuff...but it's worth mentioning that Rich is the ONLY op-ed columnist at the Times that bothers to adhere to this practice: "Not Brooks nor Cohen nor Collins nor Dowd nor Friedman nor Herbert nor Kristof nor Kristol nor Krugman. (The ...
