What's a Billion? How much is it really?

A Billion Seconds ago it was 1959.

A Billion Minutes ago Jesus was alive.

IN terms of the US federal budget, a billion dollars ago was 8 hours and 20 minutes.

War Correspondents Richard Engels Predictions for Iraq

We will declare victory and leave. The "surge" is less about winning than it is about calming things down enough to allow the US the most graceful exit possible.

Al Sadr's army will go undergound, much as Hezbollah in Lebannon.

Iran will be involved in the resconstruction of Iraq, just as Hezbollah was in rebuilding Lebanon.

The US will declare victory, while remaining in Anbar Privince to fight evil al-Queda terrorists.

If the Sunni's are left disenfranchsed in the center of Iraq, this small failed stated in the center of the country will cause problems for decades to come.

....most of the senior Iraqi politicians spent time in Iran, have close relations with Iran. Look at al-Hakim, the most powerful political figure in Iraq, aside from the prime minister. He has a very close relations with Iran and wants to form a Shiite southern state that would have an economic alliance with Iran. So right now it is

We will hear lots of criticism of the press, if they dare to mention that the new "calmer" Iraq is anything less than a success.

And what did we get for our Billions in Iraq.

Well the Iraqi people are not fleeing into the newly democratic Iraq, they are fleeing away from democracy by mere millions away from this new democratic experiment.

I offer up this quote from bash.org.

Feel free to place your own nerd jokes below =)

here's a political snippet for the day. Best part:

Several advisers, friends and donors said in interviews that they had urged her to call her vote a mistake in order to appease antiwar Democrats, who play a critical role in the nominating process. Yet Mrs. Clinton herself, backed by another faction, never wanted to apologize — even if she viewed the war as a mistake — arguing that an apology would be a gimmick.

In the end, she settled on language that was similar to Senator John Kerry’s when he was the Democratic nominee in 2004: that if she had known in 2002 what she knows now about Iraqi weaponry, she would never have voted for the Senate resolution authorizing force.

John Kerry. Seems like a nice man. Not the guy I turn to when I'm looking for "quotes that work."

Heh indeeedy!

that should make anyone want to puke

BREAKING: CIA "torture pilots" discovered

That thread along exposes dozens of complete slimes. And a whole bunch of other morons willing to throw American citizens into foreign courts. Maybe their willingness to do away with protection of our citizens will eventually catch up to them. Idiots.