MSNBC 1/23

Joe Scarborough, who I've learned to respect as a solid American first, rather than most Republicans who are Party first, and then Americans, just said the most amazing thing. He was on the floor in Congress repeating things he'd heard in the cloakroom and he mentioned the words of one legislator who said he was taken with the confidence on the floor as he'd finally heard this President really state, clarify even, the state of Iraq, the Shia-Sunni conflict. Joe liked this. Liked the sense of Bushian confidence it showed. Excuse me? Read a newspaper. Go online. The Shia-Sunni differences have been spelled out for years. My son in high school has known them for years. But finally in 2007 the man who brought us into war in Shia-Sunni land, the man who made THEIR civil war possible, NOW he knows the difference! 3,000 + American dead. A trillion dollars spent. Half a million Iraqis dead. Democracy in America in serious trouble. But he knows Shia-Sunni and how to tell them apart and that gives confidence to a Republican legislator? Time to get that passport renewed.