Bang the Drum

rants and ramblings of a political junkie

George W Bush: Incompetent-in-Chief

By Karoli February 25, 2008 Bush Administration, Iraq No Comments

Speaking of veterans’ mental health issues and treatment, some travesties: Tragic, inexcusable: Spending 40 of the last 80 months deployed in Iraq, sometimes with as little as 6 months between…

Taking the Hypocritic Oath

By Karoli February 14, 2008 Bush Administration, Domestic Policy, Election 2008, Foreign Policy, Iraq No Comments

John McCain, a former Vietnam prisoner of war, now endorses torture by voting against the waterboarding ban. Clinton supporter and former Clinton Special Counsel who has already declared for Hillary…

The Spinning’s Beginning

By Karoli February 13, 2008 Barack Obama, Election 2008, Foreign Policy, Iraq No Comments

In an op-ed published in the Baltimore Sun yesterday and augmented on the Huffington Post today, Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson argues that Hillary Clinton is the only candidate who can…

935 Lies Told. 135,482 Lives Lost.

By Karoli January 25, 2008 Bush Administration, Foreign Policy, Iran, Iraq No Comments

According to a report released earlier this week by the Center for Public Integrity, the Bush Administration orchestrated the Iraq War by lying to the American public 935 times about…

Bush Speeches Prove Karl Rove is a Liar

By Karoli December 1, 2007 Bush Administration, Iraq No Comments

Karl Rove attempts to rewrite history by claiming that the Democrats “rushed Bush into war in 2002”. Rove said that the administration did not want lawmakers to vote on a…

This week in review

By Karoli April 13, 2007 Bush Administration, Iraq No Comments

The ship is sinking The ship is sinking The ship is sinking There’s leak, there’s a leak, in the boiler room The poor, the lame, the blind Who are the…