American Dreamz

Saw this on RawStory"

Former Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith is claiming President George W. Bush was unaware that there were two major sects of Islam just two months before the President ordered troops to invade Iraq

Uh.....

During their conversation with the President, Galbraith claims, it became apparent to them that Bush was unfamiliar with the distinction between Sunnis and Shiites.

Galbraith reports that the three of them spent some time explaining to Bush that there are two different sects in Islam--to which the President allegedly responded, “I thought the Iraqis were Muslims!”

Um, yeaah. Funny, I remember

Dennis Quaid saying the same thing...

"From the president and the vice president down through the neoconservatives at the Pentagon, there was a belief that Iraq was a blank slate on which the United States could impose its vision of a pluralistic democratic society,"said Galbraith. "The arrogance came in the form of a belief that this could be accomplished with minimal effort and planning by the United States and that it was not important to know something about Iraq."

Love kills

Shit like this always makes me teary. So fucking sad. Such a waste.

Love is a dangerous animal.

I've x'd out the names. For the most part, I loathe crime stories and I think they are over played, but ones like this I think might give rage a pause. A lesson. But the names are not important. Privacy matters.

Police identify officer, firefighter who died in apparent murder-suicide

By JENNIFER MOONEY PIEDRA

Police have identified the Plantation police officer and volunteer firefighter who died Friday night in what appears to be a murder-suicide.

XXXXXX, 30, a road patrol officer for four years, allegedly shot XXXXX, 31, a volunteer firefighter in Plantation. The unmarried couple had some sort of relationship for the past year, said Det. Phil Toman.

The shooting happened after 8 p.m. at XXXX's home in the Quatraine III subdivision at Cleary Boulevard and 98th Avenue.

Neighbors said the couple regularly argued, but police said they have never been called to the house for domestic disputes.

Miami Herald