ThinkProgress has the scoop on Brooke's reading of the President's body language, but I also heard this:"First of all, you know, we look at the faces of the dead at the end of the programs here, 70 percent of those people are killed indirectly or directly from Iranian influence. "
Now, that's simply an amazing statistic to just pull out of your a--, undocumented.
It fits with what is going on in Bill Kristol land, however.
In the long line of excuses why we cannot finish and end the endless war, the recent one is "Iran", supplanting Muqtada al-Sadr, who was Yester-Weekly Standard enemy number one, just until he wasn't, any longer.
THE LAST BASTION OF "WAR" CONTINUATION: FIGHT THE EXTREMISTS
If you watch closely, the DoD's releases are using "extremist" more and more frequently, a trend picked up on here during the President's Petreaus Week speech (you remember the one in which he lied to the American public about troops already slated to come home by Christmas).
In this last iteration, the war can go on forever, since there will be no end to extremists, one might imagine.
Monday, October 29, 2007
War Statistics
