"Drawing down our troops in Iraq will put pressure on Iraqis to arrive at the political settlement that is needed and allow us to redeploy additional troops in Afghanistan and elsewhere in the region, as well as bring some back home."
Barack Hussein Obama-1/07.
"A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not." Ronald Reagan, admitting he sold missiles to the same Hezbollah terrorists who murdered 241 of our men in Beirut just a couple years earlier - March 4, 1987
"I told you all the truth that first day after...everything hit the fan."--Ronald Reagan, June 11, 1987
Who's the 'conservative'?
"The hard truth was that Reagan had borrowed from Clinton, and Clinton was having to pay it back. I was impressed that he did not seem to be trying to fudge reality to the extent politicians ordinarily do. He was forcing himself to live in the real world." -- Alan Greenspan
Read this memo from Richard Clarke to Condoleezza Rice
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. Thomas Jefferson - Author
By far, the dumbest statement to ever appear on 'done that'
"Does Stram point out that these [Iranians] are Shi’ite MUSLIMS,who are allies of al-Qaeda and sympathetic to Bin Laden and the Taliban? No, he doesn’t."
Washington on Republicans
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism ~ George Washington
Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security. Benjamin Franklin
"The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries." -- James Madison
Senators who voted NO on Iraq invasion and occupation
Ron Wyden (D-OR)
Paul Wellstone (D-MN)
Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
Paul Sarbanes (D-MD)
Jack Reed (D-RI)
Patty Murray (D-WA)
Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)
Carl Levin (D-MI)
Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
Edward Kennedy (D-MA)
James Jeffords (I-VT)
Daniel Inouye (D-HI)
Bob Graham (D-FL)
Russ Feingold (D-WI)
Richard Durbin (D-IL)
Mark Dayton (D-MN)
Jon Corzine (D-NJ)
Kent Conrad (D-ND)
Lincoln Chafee (R-RI)
Robert Byrd (D-WV
Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
Daniel Akaka (D-HI)
126 Democrats, 6 Republicans and 1 Independent voted 'no'