Countdown Wednesday: Do-Over and Out
Posted: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 8:59 PM by Countdown
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Trail Mix: For Senator Clinton... there is the vote to authorize the use of force in Iraq that she probably wishes never happened...And the Michigan re-vote... that likely never will happen... no matter how hard she might wish. Our fifth story on the Countdown: Five years to the day after the Iraq war began... Senator Clinton preferring to spend her day in Detroit, talking about a primary do-over in that state that instead looks... over and out. Her opponent, Senator Obama... using the anniversary of the conflict to address military families near Fort Bragg... and to attempt to cast himself as the only true anti-war candidate.
You Say Dubai, I say Hello: At first, John McCain's claim that Irahn was taking in members of al Qaeda in Iraq, training them, and then sending them back to Iraq... appeared to be a momentary misstatement... that he meant to say "extremists." In our fourth story tonight, despite the fact that McCain himself said he was wrong... his campaign today issued a prepared statement, saying, quote, "Al Qaeda and Shia extremists--with support from external powers such as Irahn--are on the run but not defeated."
ODDBALL: Chris Matthews dances on Ellen, and the TN state legislature milks some cows on your dime.
War More Years: "I assure you, this will not be a campaign of half measures". The words of George Walker Bush exactly five years ago tonight -- as he plunged America into a war that to date has cost 3,991 American soldiers their lives... Cost four-and-half million Iraqis their homes.... Cost the American taxpayer 526 billion dollars -- with hundreds of billions more already unavoidable. Yet in our third story on the Countdown, the President still declared this morning... with a straight face.. that --quote-- "The successes we are seeing in Iraq are undeniable".
Worsts...see below.
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: MLB, Sean Hannity and Lynndie England vie for tonight's top honors.
5 Years Later: The fifth anniversary of the Iraq War...Marked with a speech by its Chicken Little creator, President Bush... And coinciding with a cranky interview by its mother hen, Vice-President Cheney... But in our number one story on the Countdown...From the war's principal media cheerleaders... nary a peep.
