Jack Haskell's Blog

The call for international aid quickly became politicized. In Washington on Monday, first lady Laura Bush, long a critic of military rule in Burma, accused the country's government of failing to give a timely warning to people in the cyclone's path and of blocking delivery of international aid.

Can anybody spell Katrina? Is this woman as dumb as her husband?

Who do you think said the following in reference to the next Presidential election?

"One of those three has a good chance of winning,"

None other than George Bush after meeting Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the White House. Brown met privately with Bush, who seemed good-natured about the prime minister's interest in meeting his successor in the upcoming election. "One of those three has a good chance of winning," he said during the joint news conference in the Rose Garden.

What an idiot.

I just saw a blurb on CNN where George Bush has sent a letter to Kim Jong Il.

That's like Curly Joe writing to Moe.

The Pentagon has lost track of about 190,000 AK-47 assault rifles and pistols given to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005, according to a new government report, raising fears that some of those weapons have fallen into the hands of insurgents fighting U.S. forces in Iraq.

They really have no idea where they are," said Rachel Stohl, a senior analyst at the Center for Defense Information who has studied small-arms trade and received Pentagon briefings on the issue. "It likely means that the United States is unintentionally providing weapons to bad actors."

One senior Pentagon official acknowledged that some of the weapons probably are being used against U.S. forces. He cited the Iraqi brigade created at Fallujah that quickly dissolved in September 2004 and turned its weapons against the Americans.