SFRC hearing on Afghanistan - Feingold on now

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Biden was on earlier, he, Lugar, and Hagel asking tough questions, Kerry doing the same.

They'll probably have a video archive up later but here it is now:

http://c-span.org/watch/cs_cspan3_wm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS3

[Coexist]

1. thanks for the heads up.

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2. Biden - our committee staff can't go outside there without escort... n/t

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3. Feingold up now n/t

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4. ouch, Feingold nailed him n/t

[EFerrari]

5. Richard Boucher is a longtime liar for BushCo.

He was one of their favorite liars in the run up to the war. You can look him up at the History Commons:

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?entity=richard_a._boucher

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6. thanks for that link - the next panel will be quite a change from the BushCo one

Even the GOPers didn't have patience with the first panel.

[EFerrari]

7. I should become a BushCo linguist. When they start talking

in a particular way, I KNOW that if I go look, I'll find something corrupt in the bio.

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8. Holbrooke - "we are strengthening America's enemies" n/t

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9. Biden gold

paraphrasing
when we visited Afghanistan after the Taliban fell...
Rumsfeld trying to keep us out - amazing how he didn't know there were 3 branches of govmt.

:D

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10. Holbrooke quotes on Bush & Co.

"this is the worst program I've ever seen in the 45 years since I entered the state department"

"this emperor really has no clothes"
unclear whether he meant Bush or the Afghan policy but either applies...