Christmas In Obamaland

[Annie]

It's Christmas in Obama-Land - David Freddoso - The Corner on National Review Online

....Bishop Eugene Robinson, the cleric who convinced millions of Episcopalians worldwide that their church had given up on Christianity, delivered a very insightful invocation, reminding Obama's gathered followers that he is "not the Messiah." But they did not believe him. Nor did they believe even Obama himself when he cautioned that "Change" will not come right away:

I won't pretend that meeting any one of these challenges will be easy. It will take more than a month or a year, and it will likely take many. Along the way there will be setbacks and false starts and days that test our fundamental resolve as a nation.

Forget what the economists say. Seventy-five percent of Americans believe that Obama can save us, that the economy will improve during his first year in office. Sixty-five percent believe that unemployment will fall. Obama may become the last victim of his own hype.

Washington has become one huge party this week—you can't catch a cab, and don't even think about bringing your car downtown. In the spirit of the celebration, Congress will soon pass an $825 billion package that funds museums and waterslides and does little for the businesses that make the economy work. I cannot pretend I'm not enjoying the crowds or the debauchery, but I already fear the hangover. The joy! The excitement! The misplaced optimism.

Going to be a hell of a day after...

 

[Chris]

It's Christmas in Obama-Land - David Freddoso - The Corner on National Review Online



Going to be a hell of a day after...

Maybe they should have shipped all that money to Iraq to fight the "war on terror?"

 

[Annie]

Maybe they should have shipped all that money to Iraq to fight the "war on terror?"

You really are the tool everyone says you are.

 

[Chris]

You really are the tool everyone says you are.

I am going to enjoy the next four years.

No more wasting our resources on the bogus "war on terror."

What happened to that by the way?

How come no one talks about it anymore?

 

[del]

I am going to enjoy the next four years.

No more wasting our resources on the bogus "war on terror."

What happened to that by the way?

How come no one talks about it anymore?

obama changed the name to "the war in afghanistan"

enjoy

 

[xsited1]

Just think of all those waitresses in Washington DC that won't get a tip.

 

[Vel]

I am going to enjoy the next four years.

No more wasting our resources on the bogus "war on terror."

What happened to that by the way?

How come no one talks about it anymore?

Is there a point to discussing the War on Terror since Democrats are in charge?

 

[Annie]

Just think of all those waitresses in Washington DC that won't get a tip.

and might not be sandwiched between Kennedy and Dodd, thanks to ill health and investigations...

 

[Chris]

The US flew nearly $12bn in shrink-wrapped $100 bills into Iraq, then distributed the cash with no proper control over who was receiving it and how it was being spent.
The staggering scale of the biggest transfer of cash in the history of the Federal Reserve has been graphically laid bare by a US congressional committee.

In the year after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 nearly 281 million notes, weighing 363 tonnes, were sent from New York to Baghdad for disbursement to Iraqi ministries and US contractors. Using C-130 planes, the deliveries took place once or twice a month with the biggest of $2,401,600,000 on June 22 2004, six days before the handover.

Details of the shipments have emerged in a memorandum prepared for the meeting of the House committee on oversight and government reform which is examining Iraqi reconstruction. Its chairman, Henry Waxman, a fierce critic of the war, said the way the cash had been handled was mind-boggling. "The numbers are so large that it doesn't seem possible that they're true. Who in their right mind would send 363 tonnes of cash into a war zone?"

The memorandum details the casual manner in which the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority disbursed the money, which came from Iraqi oil sales, surplus funds from the UN oil-for-food programme and seized Iraqi assets.

"One CPA official described an environment awash in $100 bills," the memorandum says. "One contractor received a $2m payment in a duffel bag stuffed with shrink-wrapped bundles of currency. Auditors discovered that the key to a vault was kept in an unsecured backpack.

"They also found that $774,300 in cash had been stolen from one division's vault. Cash payments were made from the back of a pickup truck, and cash was stored in unguarded sacks in Iraqi ministry offices. One official was given $6.75m in cash, and was ordered to spend it in one week before the interim Iraqi government took control of Iraqi funds."

How the US sent $12bn in cash to Iraq. And watched it vanish | World news | The Guardian

 

[ABikerSailor]

Yeah.....let's not forget the 35 pallets of money that just disappeared.

Hey Chrissy Boy.......ya gonna be as stupid on this thread too?

 

[Annie]

The US flew nearly $12bn in shrink-wrapped $100 bills into Iraq, then distributed the cash with no proper control over who was receiving it and how it was being spent.
The staggering scale of the biggest transfer of cash in the history of the Federal Reserve has been graphically laid bare by a US congressional committee.

In the year after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 nearly 281 million notes, weighing 363 tonnes, were sent from New York to Baghdad for disbursement to Iraqi ministries and US contractors. Using C-130 planes, the deliveries took place once or twice a month with the biggest of $2,401,600,000 on June 22 2004, six days before the handover.

Details of the shipments have emerged in a memorandum prepared for the meeting of the House committee on oversight and government reform which is examining Iraqi reconstruction. Its chairman, Henry Waxman, a fierce critic of the war, said the way the cash had been handled was mind-boggling. "The numbers are so large that it doesn't seem possible that they're true. Who in their right mind would send 363 tonnes of cash into a war zone?"

The memorandum details the casual manner in which the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority disbursed the money, which came from Iraqi oil sales, surplus funds from the UN oil-for-food programme and seized Iraqi assets.

"One CPA official described an environment awash in $100 bills," the memorandum says. "One contractor received a $2m payment in a duffel bag stuffed with shrink-wrapped bundles of currency. Auditors discovered that the key to a vault was kept in an unsecured backpack.

"They also found that $774,300 in cash had been stolen from one division's vault. Cash payments were made from the back of a pickup truck, and cash was stored in unguarded sacks in Iraqi ministry offices. One official was given $6.75m in cash, and was ordered to spend it in one week before the interim Iraqi government took control of Iraqi funds."

How the US sent $12bn in cash to Iraq. And watched it vanish | World news | The Guardian

Guardian, Thursday 8 February 2007

Funny, problem was back then, there was not enough money to pay those that wanted to help, al queda was paying more and the folks were desperate. Some still went with coalition, but were seriously risking their lives.

Yet you jest at this. For shame. Then again, a retard like you hasn't a clue.

 

[rayboyusmc]

Is there a point to discussing the War on Terror since Democrats are in charge?

Fuck you. Like only the republicans can fight against our enemies. Funny, how few of the elected republican officials ever served in the military to really face our enemies. I will bet that we take more real action against terror organizations under Obama than Bush ever pretened to do.

The real war on terror is not being fought on the battlefield like Bush and Cheney want you to believe. It is being fought by police and intelligence forces. We will only defeat Al Quaeda by infiltrating and destroying it from within. Fuck, you would think that someone in charge in this adminstration would have known something about guerilla warfare. That's right, one person did. They fired him: Shinseki

Al Quaeda was paying them more: delusional rationalization.

National Review (NR) is a biweekly magazine and web site, founded by the late author William F. Buckley, Jr. in 1955 and based in New York City. It describes itself as "America's most widely read and influential magazine and web site for Republican/conservative news, commentary, and opinion."[1] It is usually considered the center of intellectual activity for the American Conservative movement in the twentieth century.

They sent in this money and just like a lot of what the Bush did in Iraq, it was squandered and lost. There are some millionaires out there right now with our tax money that Bush lost. Screw Bremer saying there weren't good accounting procedures. How the hell do you lose 9 billion dollars. And no one has ever been held accountable.

Hopefully the democrats will get a frigging backbone and investigate all the crap that took place. If no one broke any laws, fine. If they did, punish them accordingly.

 

[Chris]

Guardian, Thursday 8 February 2007

Funny, problem was back then, there was not enough money to pay those that wanted to help, al queda was paying more and the folks were desperate. Some still went with coalition, but were seriously risking their lives.

Yet you jest at this. For shame. Then again, a retard like you hasn't a clue.

You are the one without a clue.

4,000 Americans dead, 30,000 wounded, and $700 billion dollars wasted to establish a Shia government in Iraq allied with Iran.

 

[elvis]

You are the one without a clue.

4,000 Americans dead, 30,000 wounded, and $700 billion dollars wasted to establish a Shia government in Iraq allied with Iran.

I am sure she is aware of the numbers.

 

[Chris]

I am sure she is aware of the numbers.

That's all American dead are to Republicans...."numbers."

 

[Modbert]

obama changed the name to "the war in afghanistan"

enjoy

You mean the place we should of been in the first place right?

I wonder how long Bush went without letting the name Osama Bin Laden be spoken by himself in public.

 

[Gunny]

It's Christmas in Obama-Land - David Freddoso - The Corner on National Review Online



Going to be a hell of a day after...

In other words, "change" is going to be about what I predicted it would a year ago ... "meet the new boss, same as the old boss ...."

 

[elvis]

In other words, "change" is going to be about what I predicted it would a year ago ... "meet the new boss, same as the old boss ...."

exactly

 

[DiveCon]

You are the one without a clue.

4,000 Americans dead, 30,000 wounded, and $700 billion dollars wasted to establish a Shia government in Iraq allied with Iran.

wash, rinse, repeat

 

[DiveCon]

You mean the place we should of been in the first place right?

I wonder how long Bush went without letting the name Osama Bin Laden be spoken by himself in public.

you mean the place where we have been all along