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September 19, 2005

Odds and ends

Germans dealt both of the major parties an electoral blow in results which seem to have surprised some observers. The Conservative CDU was expected to do better than they did, and the liberal Social Democrats were expected to fare worse than they did. Still, adding up the total shows that left-of-center parties earned 51.1% of the total vote.

Two British "under cover" soldiers were arrested by Iraqi police after they fired on Iraqi police who sought to question them. At first whiff this smells like a covert ops gone awry. Incensed Iraqi civilians torched a British tank in retaliation.

Former president Bill Clinton harshly criticized president Bush for his rush to war with Iraq, FEMA's inept mishandling of the Katrina aftermath and the swelling budget deficit.

"What Americans need to understand is that ... every single day of the year, our government goes into the market and borrows money from other countries to finance Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, and our tax cuts," he said.

"We have never done this before. Never in the history of our republic have we ever financed a conflict, military conflict, by borrowing money from somewhere else."

Clinton added: "We depend on Japan, China, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, and Korea primarily to basically loan us money every day of the year to cover my tax cut and these conflicts and Katrina. I don't think it makes any sense."

Along somewhat similar lines... Kevin Featherly dissects Bush's recent speech from New Orleans and discovers that the president has no clothes.

Incidently, Bush's approval rating dropped after giving that speech.

Posted by Kevin at September 19, 2005 10:35 AM