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How many missiles did Iran test? Too many, I'd say, since they made their point the day before. But apparently someone in Iran thought they didn't launch enough, and cloned one in the photo.
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Oh Scott, stop being a disgruntled former employee. I sadly shake my head, for this is not the Scott McClellan we always knew. But the Dick Cheney which McClellan describes? Yes, him we knew. (Snarl.)
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Further adventures in Bush cronyism. So an oil company with ties to Bush heads into a deal with the regional Kurdistan government within Iraq which threatens to undermine US policies with Iraq, as well as Iraq's central government, and as they do so, they brief the White House.

And does the State Department warn them off? I mean, benchmarks, resgional stability, American lives, and all that. They would right? They did right? Maybe in Parallel White House Universe, but not in this one:

Bush administration officials knew that a Texas oil company with close ties to President Bush was planning to sign an oil deal with the regional Kurdistan government that ran counter to American policy and undercut Iraq’s central government, a Congressional committee has concluded.

The conclusions were based on e-mail messages and other documents that the committee released Wednesday.

United States policy is to warn companies that they incur risks in signing contracts until Iraq passes an oil law and to strengthen Iraq’s central government. The Kurdistan deal, by ceding responsibility for writing contracts directly to a regional government, infuriated Iraqi officials. But State Department officials did nothing to discourage the deal and in some cases appeared to welcome it, the documents show.

Game over, the team isn't playing like a team. Bring our troops home, they're too precious to be there supporting the pursuit of benchmarks while others erode the pursuit.
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