On Countdown With Keith Olbermann tonight & Keith's Special Comment!

[babsbunny]

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Tonight on Countdown
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Was the Democratic Congress elected to get us out of
Iraq?
How are they doing on that score?
Keith's Special Comment.

Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann broadcasts LIVE at 8 pm
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Top U.S. commanders and diplomats in Iraq are
completing a far-reaching campaign plan for a new U.S.
strategy, laying out military and political goals and
endorsing the selective removal of hardened sectarian actors
from Iraq's security forces and government. The
classified plan, scheduled to be finished by May 31, is a
joint effort between Gen. David H. Petraeus, the senior
American general in Iraq, and U.S. Ambassador Ryan
Crocker. More than half a dozen people with knowledge of
the plan discussed its contents, although most asked
for anonymity because they were not authorized to speak
about it to reporters.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/22/AR2007052201600_pf.html

In Baghdad, fighting their 'Alamo'. U.S. troops in
the Iraq security push face daunting foes: snipers and
bombs. A captain fears it may be 'their surge, not
ours.'
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-surge23may23,1,1160458.story

Iraqi police found the body of a man they said was
wearing what appeared to be a U.S. military uniform in
the Euphrates River south of Baghdad on Wednesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18814416/

President Bush, stressing that Americans face an
ongoing threat from terrorists, shared intelligence on
Wednesday asserting that Osama bin Laden was working in
2005 to set up a unit inside Iraq to hit U.S. targets.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18809646/

The Justice Department's former White House liaison
denied Wednesday that she played a major role in the
firings of U.S. attorneys last year and blamed Deputy
Attorney General Paul McNulty for misleading Congress
about the dismissals.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18816284/

That's some of what we're planning tonight.

-- Carey Fox

Countdown Home: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/

The Daily Links:
Iran continues to defy U.N. Security Council demands
to scrap its uranium enrichment program and has instead
expanded its activities, the International Atomic
Energy Agency said Wednesday in a finding that sets the
stage for new council sanctions.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18819154/

Nine U.S. military ships entered the Gulf on Wednesday
for a rare daylight assembly off Iran's coast in what
naval officials said was the largest such move since
the 2003 Iraq war.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18812865/

Democrats are seeking to slash the number of foreign
workers who could come to the U.S. on temporary visas
as the Senate prepares for another day of freewheeling
debate over a bipartisan immigration measure.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18816258/

60-year-old woman became a mother, twice over, when
she delivered a pair of boys Tuesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18817248/

After holding back the sea for 75 years, the
20-mile-long dike protecting much of the Netherlands from
floods is due for a $1 billion upgrade against mounting
risks from rising sea levels and tsunamis.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18823465/from/RS.3/

[Clark2008]

1. Sounds like Keith is going to bust Dem chops tonight (deservedly).

Wonder what all the Reich-wingnuts will think and if they'll still call him "liberal?"

[cal04]

2. Special Comment Tonight: "Compromised" (preview)

Special Comment Tonight: "Compromised"
Posted: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 3:30 PM by Countdown
Keith Olbermann will deliver a Special Comment tonight on the "compromise" struck between the Democratic leadership and the White House over the latest troop funding bill...

Here's a preview...

"The Democratic leadership has, in sum, claimed a compromise with the Administration, in which the only things truly compromised are the trust of the voters, the ethics of the Democrats, and the lives of our brave, and doomed, friends, and family, in Iraq.

You, the men and women elected with the simplest of directions - Stop The War - have traded your strength, your bargaining position, and the uniform support of those who elected you… for a handful of magic beans."

http://thenewshole.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/05/23/201521.aspx

[corkhead]

3. Ultimately it will end up being the Republicks that get us out of Iraq.

They will not be able to take the heat this fall when this 3 month funding extension runs out.

[truedelphi]

4. I'm willing to betcha the beverage of your choice that we will

Still be in Iraq when my grandaughter packs for college

And she is only fourteen months old (of course - it still could be that the Repukes will lead us out of Iraq eighty sevenyears from now.))