What is even more shocking is all the people yelling LIAR when they have zero first hand knowledge of what was said or done. Just media spin and their half assed opinion.

Take out a Map of the region and look at where Iraq sits. If you were to buy real estate that puts you in the best position to disrupt travel from known terrorist freindly areas where would you buy it? If you wanted real estate that would allow you a freindly base in which to strike at hostile Govts and Terror groups in the ME where would you want it. given that this is a cultural war likely to last a while. Now take this real estate and put it before Congress and the American people for due diligence and tell me how long it would take to happen. It's just like building a pond in King County ,foregiveness is easier than the permit. If it did not occur to people that not being on the inside of every govermental transaction does not mean your govt. is lying to you or being deceptive. Iit just might mean it is doing it's job with two arms and one leg tied behinds it's back because of all the back seat drivers and soccer moms in this country. If you want to live in a country like Canada or France then keep up the same BS that stretched the cold war out 30 years. I guess it's too much to ask people to not force the government to live the same fractured life that most citizens do with all the finger pointing and blame being heaped on everyone else but you. This country was built by men of character ,bold decisieive in action not afraid to take risk because the risk of not making a decison was too great. Some how it morphed into a bunch of mammas boys looking for the easy way out with someone they can blame in case it gets tough. Welcome to Washington the land of the free and home of the weak.