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Joe Lieberman is taking a page out of Dick Cheney's playbook and carefully connected al-Qaeda to Iran with an answer he gave to Nora O'Donnell on MSNBC moments ago. Much has been made of McCain's foreign policy gaffe on his middle east tour when he said that Shia/Iran was training the Sunni/al-Qaeda. Lieberman had to whisper the correct answer in his ear at that time to correct that fallacy. However, we can see a clear pattern of deception the Senator from CT is using to try and once again confuse the American public about the nonexistent ties between al-Qaeda and Iran.

Liebermann: ...we can do it on conditions on the ground, but if we just pull out there will be chaos, maybe genocide and al-Qaeda and Iran will win.

Al-Qaeda is a very small percentage of the resistance that is on going in Iraq as we all know. Why hasn't Holy Joe addressed the ethnic cleansing that has already occurred in Iraq between the Sunni and Shia's militias in Baghdad alone? Joe can't do that and admit the horror that he has enabled already. His only hope is to confuse the public into thinking that al-Qaeda is aligned with Iran. Have you no decency, sir?

Deguerin: Don't we all have friends like Jack?

A day of Delay: The retrospective. Originally posted on 01/03/06

Deguerin was on "The Abrams Report," to discuss Tom Delay's relationship with Jack Abramoff. He was steadfast in telling us that although Jack was a crook to the worst degree, good old Tom stood by his friends. Wouldn't you?

Dan listed all the quality time Tom spent with Jack and asked:

Abrams:...are you concerned?

Deguerin : There's no question that they are friends and Tom Delay's not the kind of person that's going to turn his back on a friend that's in trouble---Tom Delay is not going to abandon Jack Abramoff just because Abramoff has done some illegal things...

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Just a few, tiny illegal things. Dick is hoping that Jack will tell the truth about Tom, but Delay is going to stand by his man no matter what. Nora O'Donnell did a good job to try and force Deguerin into admitting that Delay has met with the justice department over Jack.

O'Donnel: So Delay has spoken with members of the justice department in the public integrity section?

It was then that Dick caught a case of the Judy Miller, "I can't recall disease."

Deguerin : No, I'm not sure about that...

Francis Fukuyama, the author of "AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS," joined Nora O'Donnell on Countdown last night and discussed the failures of the neo-conservative movement.

Keith: It is just three months now since congressman and decorated vet Jack Murtha was denounced on the floor of the House of Representatives as a, quote, “coward” for having even suggested we make a quick exit from Iraq. Our fourth story on the COUNTDOWN, now William F. Buckley is saying we should get out, and fast.

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Nora: In Iraq today, the three-day-old curfew was lifted. An uneasy calm after a wave of sectarian violence killed hundreds of Iraqis following last week‘s attack on the Shiites' holy shrine in Samarra. Now Iraq is teetering on the brink of civil war, and the reason is the failure of neoconservativism, says Francis Fukuyama...read on

Juan Cole looks at the latest violence in Iraq.

(Update): Sticking with the failing neocon ideal, Larisa interviews Michael Ledeen.

Deguerin was on "The Abrams Report," to discuss Tom Delay's relationship with Jack Abramoff. He was steadfast in telling us that although Jack was a crook to the worst degree, good old Tom stood by his friends. Wouldn't you?

Dan listed all the quality time Tom spent with Jack and asked:

Dan:...are you concerned?

Dick: There's no question that they are friends and Tom Delay's not the kind of person that's going to turn his back on a friend that's in trouble---Tom Delay is not going to abandon Jack Abramoff just because Abramoff has done some illegal things...

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Just a few, tiny illegal things. Dick is hoping that Jack will tell the truth about Tom, but Delay is going to stand by his man no matter what.

What does Steno Sue have to say now? Atrios busted her reporting on the couple:"DeLay, a Christian conservative, did not quite know what to make of Abramoff, who wore a beard and a yarmulke. They forged political ties, but the two men never became personally close, according to associates of both men."

Nora O'Donnell did a good job to try and force Deguerin into admitting that Delay has met with the justice department over Jack.

Nora: So Delay has spoken with members of the justice department in the public integrity section?

It was then that Dick caught a case of the Judy Miller, "I can't recall disease."

Dick: No, I'm not sure about that...

He just got done telling Dan that Delay spent most of his waking hours either on a golf trip, or a resort with Tom, but couldn't remember a little thing like that. Degurein is Delay's lifeboat at this time and you and I know that Dick can tell you how many times Delay has listened to "If I had a Hammer," but suddenly can't recall if Tom met with yet more people involved in deep investigations.

(Plame-aholics)

More was revealed on Hardball today than any of us would have thought possible about Vivac, Luskin, Hadley and Rove if true. Special guest stars Jim VandeHei and Nora O'Donnell, shared some new information in this saga. Jane at Firedoglake called and wanted to know if she heard this accurately.

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VandeHei : "We still don't know exactly where Karl Rove originally learned about Valerie Plame, that's still one of the mysteries. We know one of them he had heard it from was Hadley as sort of just chatter inside the office, but he had learned it earlier from some other place and we still don't know where that is."

(Did Jim just let a cat out of the bag?)

Hamsher writes:

"I really had to pick myself up off the floor. Nobody batted an eyelash. Were Chris Matthews and Norah O'Donnell just so completely uninformed that they did not recognize what a bombshell this was? They just sat there nodding and blinking like this was no surprise that people inside the White House were casually gossiping about Valerie Plame's identity over the water cooler. Did they not realize that up until now any knowledge of the mad gabbing and plotting had been limited to the Vice President's office? That other than the memo from Karl Rove following his conversation with Matt Cooper nobody had ever tied Hadley to the leak?...read on

Christopher Dickey: Murtha is Right
If C&L were here of course, he would put up the video of Murtha putting Nora O'Donnell in her place -- and it was quite beautiful, you can see it here. I'm not the hawk that Murtha is, but that is a discussion for another day. The fact is he is right and what is more, most all of us, right and left know it. Those who say otherwise are either still practicing the "Tinkerbell" policy of clapping louder; or more concerned about the Republican fortunes (the spectator sport nature of politics) than they are the "troops" they claim to love. If more the GOP came around to Chuck Hegel's thinking, not too far off from Murtha's, they could cut their losses and take their hit now and hope to recover some by 2006. Of course they won't. Bush's inability to ever admit, let alone contemplate, error is going to sink them all. Christoper Dickey knows it and details why Murtha is right, but Bush will never admit it, in Newsweek. Posted by Attaturk

Ken was on Hardball yesterday 8/18 and was his usual robotic, repetitive self. I'm waiting for his left hand to karate chop the cameraman one of these days. Has he been watching the polls lately? The American people are not supporting this war or feel that Bush is even trustworthy. Nora O'Donnell made for the perfect foil with her Barbie Doll looks and that super, secret, serious voice.

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Ken the "talking Point" action figure also used WWII as a benchmark. Was Iraq trying to take over the world? Did I miss that? He plays the 9/11 card too. Ken brought all his bells and whistles with him...