His Vietnam Experience

Just keeps on keepin on...


GOP senator: McCain roughed up Nicaraguan
AP



One of John McCain's Republican colleagues says he saw the presumed GOP presidential nominee roughly grab an associate of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and lift him out of his chair during a diplomatic mission to the Central American nation in 1987.

A former McCain aide who was along on the mission said he doesn't recall an incident like the one described by Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss.

Cochran said he saw McCain, who has a reputation for being hot tempered, rough up an Ortega associate during a trip to Nicaragua led by former Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan.

"McCain was down at the end of the table and we were talking to the head of the guerrilla group here at this end of the table and I don't know what attracted my attention," Cochran said in an interview with the Sun Herald in Biloxi, Miss. "But I saw some kind of quick movement at the bottom of the table and I looked down there and John had reached over and grabbed this guy by the shirt collar and had snatched him up like he was throwing him up out of the chair to tell him what he thought about him or whatever ...

"I don't know what he was telling him but I thought, 'Good grief, everybody around here has got guns and we were there on a diplomatic mission.' I don't know what had happened to provoke John, but he obviously got mad at the guy ... and he just reached over there and snatched ... him."

The "netroots" have been throwing mass hissy fits over FISA for a couple of weeks. Well, whatever, if the "FISA cave" twisted your undergarments, just wait a couple of weeks.

Bush appears for all the world to be setting the Demo Leadership up, preparing the battle space for his hit on Iran - the Grand Finale

Evidence?  Lots of Sunday reading. We've seen this movie before.  Covert ops now going on under classified Presidential budget cover and a very public effort to lay the groundwork for draconian sanctions of the kind imposed on Iraq.
 

Cole:

Sunday afternoon viewing:

Ron Paul on Iran and the energy crisis. He argues that speculation about a US or Israeli strike on Iran is driving some of the increase in oil prices.

The OPEC president should know a thing or two about what drives oil prices and he agrees.

 

 

Just because Ron Paul's from Texas don't mean he's a total idiot Bush, DeLay, Gramm, Perry, Cornyn et al to the contrary notwithstanding

 As Seymour Hersh points out in his latest Preparing the Battle Field, Bush has been conducting covert operations for some time

Paul is talking about HCON Res 362, the "Iran War Resolution" which is coming to a vote on July 8

It's been obvious for 2-3 years now that Wes Clark's been running for SOMETHING. No great secret to anyone on his email list..always raising money for some Senate or Gov candidate then Hillary But what? Sec Def or Veep?

Today with Mentum co-appearing on Face ... This has all the hallmarks of a VP campaign ramping into high gear
 
Clark Slams McCain(Politico)

Gen. Wesley Clark, acting as a surrogate for Barack Obama’s campaign, invoked John McCain’s military service against him in one of the more personal attacks on the Republican presidential nominee this election cycle.