Paul Ryan figures he can just lie his way out of any problem, just like Limbaugh and Hannity do. The problem is that we can all push back on Ryan's lies:
Ryan: I Didn’t Vote For The Defense Cuts I Voted For
By Zack Beauchamp on Sep 9, 2012 at 12:13 pm
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O’DONNELL: Now you’re criticizing the President for those same defense cuts you’re voting for and called a victory.
RYAN: No, no — I have to correct on you this, Norah. I voted for a mechanism that says the sequester will occur if we don’t cut $1.2 trillion in government. … We can get into this nomenclature; I voted for the Budget Control Act. But the Obama Administration proposed $478 billion in defense cuts. We don’t agree with that, our budget rejected that, and then on top of that is another $500 billion in defense cuts in the sequester.
O’DONNELL: Right. A trillion dollars in defense spending, and you voted for it!
RYAN: No, Norah. I voted for the Budget Control Act.
O’DONNELL: That included defense spending!
RYAN: Norah, you’re mistaken.
Maybe Ryan felt he had to say this because Mitten$ said the sequestration bill was a bad idea:
Romney Rips Paul Ryan: Calls Running Mate’s Vote For Defense Cuts ‘A Big Mistake’
By Judd Legum on Sep 8, 2012 at 5:48 pm
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I have been in brief correspondence with Ryan's influential economics prof and guru? at Miami University, one war whoring, Iraq-justifying goofball named Rich Hart who inferred to me that the Iraqis should thank us for giving them their "freedom."
This amidst the ongoing carnage
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/video/2012-09/10/c_131839878.htm
and internal fighting
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2012/0909/Iraq-s-exiled-vice-president-sentenced-to-death-as-violence-grows
resulting from a failed occupation
based on WMD lies exposed before the war by everyone from Pat Buchanan to Scott Ritter.
Polls of Iraqis naturally show the majority of both Sunnis and Shias regard the invasion as unjust
and not meant to "free" them but to install an American puppet government. But perhaps Prof Hart should apply for a position on the Romney Ryan warmongering, bankster bailout-approving team, as he fits in nicely.
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09 September 2012
Sunni jihadis kill ar least 75 in Iraq - Foxnews
"Insurgents killed at least 75 people in a wave of attacks against Iraqi security forces on Sunday, gunning down soldiers at an army post and bombing police recruits waiting in line to apply for jobs, officials said. The violence, which struck at least a dozen cities and wounded 285 people, highlighted militant attempts to sow havoc in the country and undermine the government. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, but security forces are a frequent target of Al Qaeda's Iraq branch, which has vowed to reassert itself and take back areas it was forced from before U.S. troops withdrew from the country last year." Foxnews
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I thank Foxnews for this item. Fair and balanced, yup fair and balanced, I thank them. I have been holding off in posting on the latest horrors in Iraq, but finally gave up on the rising butcher's bill. There will probably a higher number in the end. Anne Marie Slaughter, the Princeton professor who has declared herself a martyr to the world's chauvinism, said on the FZ follies today that "we have made a lot of progress in Afghanistan." I guess that means that she was a player in BHO's decision to triple his bet in that sad, far off place. Perhaps she also thinks that we made a lot of progress in Iraq?
AQ is back with a vengeance in Iraq. They have to devote some men to the fight for Syria, but they are swimming in the sea of unhappy Sunni Arabs in Iraq.
We did that. We, Americans, with our idiot "crusade" for democracy and our belief that elections mean something in places where compromise is as rare in the general population as it is here among hard core politicans. We did it. It will get worse. pl
The only consistent analyses with integrity of course is one that deplores Bush-Cheney for Iraq AND Obama for Afghanistan, and Hart, who seems to deplore Afghanistan, (unlike Romeny and Ryan) like many Dems on the other side, merely is out to get "the rival wing" while justfying or underplaying American State terror waged by a corrupt two-party Elite.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/09/09/bombing-in-iraq-kills-seven-police-recruits-wounds-17/?test=latestnews#ixzz260NU4mgO
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