With Iraq---As In most Domestic + Foreign Policies---Progressive Hypocrisy Knows No Bounds

The aircraft carrier George H W Bush has been moved to the Persian Gulf. Now there's a Bush to blame if things go wrong...Jay Carnie Tweet

As I've written in the past, there will be plenty of time for historians to write the full history of our involvement in Iraq. However, since Iraq is now back in the news and progressives keep blaming Bush and Cheney, it's time for a short history lesson (history Democrats conveniently deny):

• "He will use weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983." That was Sandy Berger, Bill Clinton's National Security Adviser in 1998. Note: In 2005, Berger was found guilty of removing classified material from the National Archives in D.C. 
• "Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region..." Nancy Pelosi in 1998.
• "Hussein has chosen to spend his money on weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies." Then Sect. of State Madeleine Albright in Nov. of 1999.
• "We know he has stored away secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country." Al Gore in September 2002.
• "I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force---if necessary---to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction is a real and grave threat to our security." Then Democrat Sen. John F. Kerry in October 2002.
• "We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction." The late Democrat Sen. Ted Kennedy in Sept. of 2002.
• "He {Hussein} has consistently violated, in the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm his chemical and biological weapons. This he has refused to do." Democrat Sen. Henry Waxman, Oct. 2002.
• "Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator...So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real." Sen. J.F. Kerry in Jan. of 2003.

And what may surprise you is---at the time---these creeps were largely right. The evidence of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and it's connection to terror groups like al-Qaeda is credible and overwhelming. Allow me...

Obama's Poll Numbers Tanking To Lowest In His Presidency---So Why Is He Still Smiling?

"...And unless Democrats begin to put duty over loyalty to Obama, America as we know it is headed to a point of no return."...Michael Goodwin, NY Post

• In October of last year, I asked the question: How much more pain, misery and dysfunction will Americans tolerate from this government and administration? At the time, we were in the middle of sequestration and reports first surfaced about the backlogs at the VA. In addition, WWII vets were barred from entering their own memorial. Ninety million were out of the workforce (now almost 93M). The Obamacare rollout was proving to be a total cluster f*ck. And the IRS scandal broke a few months earlier (at the time, we didn't even know about the 2 years of lost emails). Since that posting, almost everything the Obama administration touched turned to crap.
• As Obama's poll number sank to lower depths than those of George W. Bush at the same period in their presidency, there are some in the media---including a few presstitutes---who are proclaiming his presidency is over. The WSJ/NBC polls reported 54% of Americans do not believe Obama is able to lead the country compared to 42% who said they think he can. His approval rating on foreign policy now stands at a pathetic 37%. Anyone who reads this blog on a regular basis knows the reasons for his decline. As referenced above, it's been a record of hyper-incompetence.
• So why is Pres. Obama still smiling as he and his surrogates continue to lie openly to the American people? One part of this poll should answer that question. When asked if the Obama administration is responsible for the failures of the VA, only 14% blame the administration. In other words, even though veterans died awaiting their government health care under this administration, Obama still gets a pass by those Americans polled. Moreover, this president was elected TWICE even though his record was abysmal. Wouldn't you be smiling knowing full well flipping people the bird day after day still leaves them begging for more pain and abuse?

Terrorists + Progressives: Opposite Sides Of The Same Coin

"US Captures First Suspect In Benghazi Attack"---wrong. Their first suspect was a YouTube video guy in Covina."...David Burge Tweet

I recently had a discussion with someone regarding the die-hard supporters of the Obama administration in the face of the plethora of administration domestic and foreign policy disasters. I had to remind him that progressives have had a long history of tolerating defeat, failures, appeasement and even terrorism. It was when I mentioned their tolerating terrorists---his head shot up as if to say, "WTF are you talking about.?" Anticipating his reaction, I began listing examples that are undeniable because---quite frankly---they are factual. My paraphrase to him:

• In 1999, then Pres. Clinton commuted the sentences of 16 of the Marxist-Leninist FALN, a violent Puerto Rican terrorist group that set off over 120 bombs in the United States. Most of these attacks occurred in New York City and Chicago.  In one of those bombings in NYC, four people died and over 50 were injured.
• In 2009, members of the Congressional Black Caucus visited Cuba and met with Fidel Castro and company. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-ILL) said of meeting with Castro: "It was almost like listening to an old friend." Several members of the Caucus also praised Castro.
• The current speaker of the NYC Council, Melissa Mark-Viverto a progressive Democrat, once lobbied on behalf of five Cuban intelligence agents convicted of spying against the United States. She also advocated for the release of the leader of the FALN.
• As I wrote some months ago, the current mayor of NYC, Bill de Blasio, honeymooned in Cuba. In the 1980's, he supported the Marxists Sandinistas in Nicaragua. As Michael Goodwin of the NY Post wrote when referring to de Blasio: "He's a member of the 'blame America first' club, the kind that doesn't understand the fuss over Jane Fonda or why it's not okay to sport  Che Cuevera T-shirts." By the way, de Blasio was part of a group who honored the blood-thirsty, tyrannical dictator, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe in 2002. This is a guy who referred to gays as being "worse than dogs and pigs." 
• Earlier this year, the Obama administration released People's lawyer Lynne Stewart from prison allegedly for health reasons. In case the name doesn't ring a bell. Stewart was convicted in 2005 for helping terrorist Omar Rahman---known as the "Blind Sheik"---smuggle coded messages of Islamic violence to his followers. Some of those coded messages included urging his followers to shoot down planes and sink ships. Oh, how can I forget? He's the one who inspired the terrorist who attacked the WTC in 1993 and then again on 9/11.
• There's long been a segment of Hollywood that has shown a romantic and conspicuous support for terrorists and scumbags like Che, Castro and Chavez.
• The thug who heads ISIS today was released by the U.S. in 2009.
• And, just three weeks ago, Pres. Obama released the Taliban 5. 

Iraq: Even Roach Exterminators Know You Have To Spray Often To Control The Pests

We're not evacuating the embassy in Baghdad, we're just letting workers off to celebrate Al-Qaeda Is On The Run Day...Tweet, David Burge

• As as snot-nosed, sniveling little brat growing up in the Bronx, my family had to deal with roaches (and even rats---the animal and human kind) on a daily basis. I recall my dad spraying that awful smelling pest control crap on a regular basis trying to just to manage the swarm of roaches infiltrating our apartment regularly. The problem arose when several days passed with no spraying. It didn't take long for those annoying little scourges on humanity to return. 
• What's surprising is the reaction from the press and many in the political class when it comes to the emergence of ISIS in Iraq (some critics are actually reporting the Obama administration and the media were caught off guard). Dealing with terrorists, all forms of terrorism, is like trying to deal with roaches. When you don't spray for some time, these destructive creatures refill the void. Like roaches that can carry disease, terrorists do much of the same, and they can be just as deadly as we've seen for many decades now.
• And what has been painfully clear now is that the Obama administration failed miserably to suppress this scourge on humanity. Over and over again in the last six years, the Obama administration---including its State Department---showed the world a national persona exposing weakness, failure and appeasement.