Presidential contender Hillary Clinton
-Headline of the day-
"Richardson is Judas? Take that, Obama!"
Former Bill Clinton political sorcerer James Carville isn't happy about Bill Richardson's endorsement of Barack Obama. See, Team Hillary had been heavily courting Richardson, a former Clinton cabinet member, and the endorsement is pretty much a slap upside the head for them.
Carville told the NYT that the endorsement was an "act of betrayal" and that it "came right around the anniversary of the day when Judas sold out [Jesus] for 30 pieces of silver, so I think the timing is appropriate, if ironic."
Nice to see they're taking it so well.
So, if Richardson is Judas, does that mean Hillary is Jesus? I thought the Obama campaign was supposed to be the cult. (Political Inquirer)
-Reality makes another incursion into Iraq-
OK, so there weren't any WMD. The Pentagon has established that Iraq had no ties to al Qaeda. The two main rationales for invading Iraq are dead. Now, even one of the widely-speculated "real" reasons for invading has died.
The same Pentagon report that shot down Iraq/al Qaeda claims has also killed the idea that Saddam Hussein had tried to assassinate former president George H.W. Bush.
With all of this BS just falling apart on a weekly basis, I figure it'll be about a month before we find out that there never was any "Saddam Hussein" person.
Remember, we've always been at war with East Asia. (Raw Story)
-Speaking of bullshit about Iraq...-
Agence France-Presse is reporting that the vast majority of all US deaths in Iraq came after Bush's big "Mission Accomplished" speech. According to the report, "At least 97 percent of the deaths occurred after US President George W. Bush announced the end of "major combat" in Iraq on May 1, 2003, as the military became caught between a raging anti-American insurgency and brutal sectarian strife unleashed since the toppling of Saddam.
"140 American servicemembers died before May 1, 2003, out of a total 4,000."
Oh, and BTW, that's right, we just broke 4,000 deaths -- good thing we won, huh? Imagine how screwed we'd be if we were losing. Say it with me, "The surge is working!"
USA! USA! (AFP, via reddit)
