It should be interesting to see what bush and cheney have to say in Minneapolis in a few weeks seeing that the failed administration was the catalyst to the global downturn…

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/business/24global.html?ref=world

If they do play the blame game, have the “terrorists” won by crippling the world’s economy? If so, shouldn’t we point the finger at the failure of the administration over the last 7 years?

And, we wonder why we’re hated for generations?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/world/asia/24afghan.html?hp

“A tribal elder from the region who helped bury the dead, Haji Tor Jan Noorzai, said people in the village were gathered in memory of a man who was anti-Taliban and was killed last year, and that tribal enemies of the family had given out false information.

“It is quite obvious, the Americans bombed the area due to wrong information,” he said by telephone. “I am 100 percent confident that someone gave the information due to a tribal dispute. The Americans are foreigners and they do not understand. These people they killed were enemies of the Taliban.””