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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Quickhits - I cry bullcrap

(AP) The White House is claiming "satisfactory" on 15 of the 18 Iraq benchmarks coming out of the latest Pentagon report. (This is just outright misrepresentation. At least the AP debunks a few as a sample.)

(Reuters) State Department spokesman Tom Casey slaps down all the bull flying around about Israel attacking Iran and Iran being 9 months from a bomb. (He actually taunts the "anonymous sources" in the ABC piece.)

And, A quote from King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, in an interview.

I believe this loosely translates as "suck it."
"Consumer countries have to adapt to the prices and the mechanisms of the market."
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posted by mikevotes at 3:17 PM

5 Comments:

  • The problem is that everyone thinks everyone in the Bush administration is just a lying sack of crap... Even if Tom Casey is one of the few good guys, who's going to believe his denials?

    And regarding Saudi Arabia... If we don't get off the oil addiction in the next 5 yrs -- at least for transportation -- then we deserve our own demise.

    By Blogger -epm, at 4:23 PM  

  • Answer #1, yes. And that has been well documented.

    #2, it's not happening in 5 years. It's not. The car stock won't really even turn over by then, even if we started selling electrics today (which we're not.)

    There maybe more use of existing mass transit, but any type of rail takes 5 years planning/building. Maybe buses.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 5:16 PM  

  • king Abdullah is correct

    By Blogger Praguetwin, at 5:33 PM  

  • OK. Let me rephrase that. If, in 5 yrs, we don't have a national plan or program to get off our oil addiction... I'm thinking something like what the interstate highway program was post war America.

    By Blogger -epm, at 8:13 PM  

  • Praguetwin, maybe the premise is true, but that is not the man to be making that delivery.

    .....

    EPM, yeah, sort of, but we're a long way from that. If it's electric cars or trains, you have to build nuke plants with a planning/development cycle of 10+ years, plus infrastructure for delivery and infrastructure if we're talking trains.

    We're screwed. This needed to be done a decade ago.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 10:20 PM  

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