Yellow Dog

The Pakistan army has announced that it will withdraw hundreds of troops from a region near Afghanistan where Osama bin Laden is believed to be hiding. They have effectively called off the search for OBL.

Here's the line that caught my attention: "Bin Laden, architect of the Sept. 11 attacks against the United States, has been on the run since U.S. forces invaded Afghanistan in October 2001."

Despite his cowboy rhetoric to capture OBL "dead or alive," Bush has failed miserably. If there were only some way to distract Americans from this failure--like perhaps a pre-emptive war in a country that had nothing to do with 9-11....

P.S. Thanks to the 51% of voters for rewarding these miserable failures! And thank God for the 49% who knew better.

TheStar.com - Pakistani soldiers abandon search for bin Laden

This is getting old. Halliburton, Cheney's former company (which he still profits from), is back in the news. No, it's not related to the criminal investigation into alleged fuel price gouging. And it's not the FBI inquiry into possible favoritism from the Bush administration and allegations of improperly awarding contracts to Halliburton without competitive bidding. [By the way, Bush voters, is "war profiteering" considered a moral value?]

No, this time Halliburton's subsidiary, KBR, has simply lost track of U.S. property in Iraq worth millions. Why should they care about lost taxpayer dollars as long as they continue to get their lucrative no-bid contracts?

USATODAY.com - Audit: Halliburton lost track of U.S. property in Iraq