It seemed odd to a reasonable person that Colin Powell was the one person in the administration who Bush shrugged off when deciding to go into Iraq and he was the only one with any real military experience; any real military experience in the Middle East and superior experience at that. Draft dodgers shrugged him off. What did Cheney say about Vietnam? "I had other things to do." Well, Powell said "you break it, you bought it" and the Iraqis are saying the same thing. They are pissed off that we are actually setting a target of 2008 to withdraw. They expected us to stay and keep getting killed because...well, we broke it. It was already broken, but we demolished it. Although this pic is inappropriate, I think it's funny.BREITBART.COM: 'This is unfair' say Iraqis on US panel threat
I know I'm going to sound like a conspiracy theorist and I frown on that kind of thing, but really I'm just throwing this out there. So now that we have quite a few blacks in charge of the big time committees, you know every mistake they make will give someone the justification for saying race is a factor. For everyone else, they are excused by general human error that all people have or because they are individually incompetent, but now that a brother is in charge, their mistakes will somehow become a racial issue. I'm also curious to see if organizations like the NAACP will push their agenda issues like reparations to the front of the line thinking they have an "in." It really isn't any different from any other special interest influencing what committee chairs agree to consider, but again, because they are black & the issue is about black people, there will be more whispers & questions as to its appropriateness. Just watch. Call me crazy and I hope I am, but I don't think so. NYTimes: Black Lawmakers Set to Take Crucial Posts
