Cheap at half the price

Jesus Breakdancing Christ. Is this supposed to be good news? Does someone expect a pat on the head and an extra long walkies for delivering this news? (via Reuters):
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will cost the United States less than the $170 billion estimate given earlier this year by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the [...]

A failure to communicate?

In 2007 SoD Robert Gates gave the order to cut back on Stop Loss. This may have given some people the idea the Army was going to cut back on Stop Loss. These same people then went looking for unicorns (via USA Toady):
The Army has accelerated its policy of involuntary extensions of duty to bolster [...]

Naked Lunch

Oookay. We know that HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson needs a replacement. Leave it to the Chimperor to pick a guy who lives on roach spray/bleach cocktails (via The Washington Post):
President Bush yesterday named Steven C. Preston as his new secretary of Housing and Urban Development, installing a well-regarded corporate and government administrator — yet one [...]

I kan haz clue plz?

SoS Rice made a surprise visit to Iraq. Well, maybe she thought it was a surprise visit (via The Washington Post):
A ceremony at which [Secretary of State Condoleezza] Rice unveiled a plaque commemorating civilian deaths in the Green Zone was briefly delayed during one of several “duck and cover” alerts for incoming rockets during her [...]

WTC, WTF, over?

I blame Bernie Kerick (via the AssPress):
A homeless man has come forward with two sets of confidential ground zero blueprints that he says were dumped in a Lower Manhattan trash can.
The man brought the Freedom Tower plans to the New York Post, which says the 150-page schematic is marked: “Secure Document — Confidential.”
The documents are [...]