Your guess is probably accurate. AQ is doing a last ditch effort to get headlines running up to the elections. The thing is, and they are doing this in Afghanistan also, that they are making 1000s of new enemies with every bombing. All those people they killed have families, and those families are tied to sheks (or sheiks, or shakes depending on your spelling). Those sheiks control the tribes/clans and clans do not forget who wronged them, or who helped them. They know the Coalition has helped them and AQ slaughtered them.

But then again what do I know?

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1720477,00.html?xid=rss-topstories

I know that AQ is doing all they can to grab the headlines — our boys and gals are letting them have it, but I am concerned about this development.

As for ” … He also said Clinton “generally supported the surge strategy in the sense she wanted it to succeed but she was skeptical about its chances …”, I don’t find that convincing at all. When GEN Petraeus gave his report last fall, I remember Hillary saying his assessment did not coincide with the conditions on the ground, words to that effect.

Re the post, as you point out, Scott, Sen Clinton has got a small needle to thread. On the one hand she had to convince the far left that she’s anti-war. On the other she wants to convince the rest of us that she’s tough on defense. With this statement by Gen Keane, she’s going to have a lot of trouble with the former.

“It really isn’t playing out as a feminist issue,” said Susan Cannon, 55, of Big Horn, who supports Obama. “I think how much I would love to see a female president in my lifetime, but I can’t let that … trump the other concerns that I have.”

Carlyle Capital’s lenders are UBS, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, JPMorgan Chase, ING, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Citigroup, BNP Paribas, Bear Stearns, Banc of America and Calyon, according to its annual report. And linked to the Carlyle Group, likely many, many more based in Washington and one of the world’s largest private equity companies.

Bush and Company capital funding group is the curse on America, and Mainstream Media first line Journalist should also ask the question where is the Republicans getting its money from? Just asking Hillary Clinton where her money comes from is not balanced and has not been for decades. This whole Carlyle Group is loaded with a bunch of creeps including the Rockefellers and Arab Bin Laden family with Bush and family have been screwing America for decades.

The abuses and corruption hidden in the IRS and National Security Secrets are likely confounding with incredible illegal proportions that will likely destroy those connected this debacle for generation if not completely from this time forward.

Here is a good story likely much, much worse than reported.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/07/business/07cndcarlyle.php

Its interesting some analyst are not even sure where these guy’s are based out of. Simply incredible, here America has major money managers avoiding FISA and likely financing major wars are shielded with tax haven Channel Islands laws or International treaties for money. That’s cool for money, but when things come to torture and water boarding and International human rights laws screw the individual, its o.k. there too.

Some analysts said that the fund, based in Guernsey, the Channel Islands. Where the hell is this ? Isn’t it something Americans are really stupid.