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Saturday’s Liars Convention was great fun and a very different way of protesting. I helped organize the event and I also played the part of Rob Bennett.
See photos of the Annual Liars Convention

Pennsylvania’s Rep. John Murtha has introduced legislation to end the Stop-Loss Policy which requires soldiers to extend their commitments to the military. But it’s hitting walls to support it – even amongst Utah’s Delegations.

Murtha, a Pennsylvania Democrat and Vietnam combat veteran, attached the stop-loss legislation to a host of other training, funding and deployment provisions he acknowledged were designed to bring an end to the war in Iraq.
That put the plan on the wrong side of many Republicans and made it a “nonstarter” with conservative Democrats such as Utah Rep. Jim Matheson.
The former Marine colonel is said to be reworking his pitch.
But many members of Congress – including Utah’s delegates – appear reluctant to support an end to the stop-loss scheme, even as a stand-alone issue.
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Orrin Hatch is now claiming that more troops are needed in Iraq because of the “failed” preparation for war in the first place.

Huh?

“I am supporting a strategy for success,” Hatch, R-Utah, said on the Senate floor Wednesday.

Of course he means the strategy for success to gain control all the oil in Iraq.

“So far, President Bush — who has a lot to answer for the mistakes that have been made”

What he is referring to is the mistake of not gaining control of the oil in the first place.

— is offering the only way to try to leave Iraq in better shape than it is now.”

He means that it will be better to have more control of the oil fields.

Strategy for “success”? “Success” will be achieved through the immediate withdrawl of U.S. troops so that Iraq can deal with its own issues and no more troops are killed in this illegal occupation of a country we had no business bombing in the first place.