She lied!

A McCain campaign volunteer made up a story of being robbed, pinned to the ground and having the letter "B" scratched on her face in a politically inspired attack, police said Friday.

Ashley Todd, 20-year-old college student from College Station, Texas, admitted Friday that the story was false and was being charged with making a false report to police, said Maurita Bryant, the assistant chief of the police department's investigations division. Police doubted her story from the start, Bryant said.
Todd, who is white, told police she was attacked by a 6-foot-4 black man Wednesday night.

She now can't explain why she invented the story, Bryant said. Todd also told police she believes she cut the backward "B" onto her own cheek, but did not provide an explanation of how or why, Bryant said.

Todd initially told investigators she was attempting to use a bank branch ATM when the man approached her from behind, put a knife with a 4- to 5-inch blade to her throat and demanded money. She told police she handed the assailant $60 and walked away.

Todd told investigators that she suspected the man then noticed a John McCain sticker on her car, became angry and punched her in the back of the head, knocking her to the ground and telling her "you are going to be a Barack supporter," police said.

I refused to post anything about this story originally because, while I suspected it to be false I did not want to attack this woman without proof or give credence to a story that seemed a little fishy.

My only reason to spend any time on this at all is to make the point that this HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH JOHN MCCAIN.

In no way should he, or his campaign, be blamed for the actions of this disturbed young woman.

If it had been true that an African American criminal had hurt her in the name of Barack Obama, that would have sad NOTHING about Obama, and now that we know the truth it says NOTHING about John McCain.

I feel very badly for this young lady and hope that she gets some counseling. Now let us move on to more important matters.

Condoleezza Rice rejected Iran's 2003 offer to create a dialogue.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice misled the U.S. Congress when she said last week that she had not seen a 2003 Iranian proposal for talks with the United States, a former senior government official said on Wednesday.

Flynt Leverett, who worked on the National Security Council when it was headed by Rice, likened the proposal to the 1972 U.S. opening to China. He said he was confident it was seen by Rice and then-Secretary of State Colin Powell but "the administration rejected the overture."
Speaking at a conference on Capitol Hill, Leverett said "this was a serious proposal, a serious effort" by

Iran to lay out a comprehensive agenda for U.S.-Iranian rapprochement.

"The Bush administration up to and including Secretary Rice is misleading Congress and the American public about the Iran proposal," he said.

So the only two choices available are that Rice and the administration are incompetent idiots who did not respond appropriately to Iran's offer to begin negotiations, or that they purposefully refused to cooperate in an effort to paint Iran as unreasonable and dangerous.

And why would they want to label Iran as dangerous? Because Americans do not respond well when you bomb innocent people.

This has happened before, in almost exactly the same way. Do you remember Saddam?

In December 2002, a representative of the head of Iraqi Intelligence, Gen. Tahir Jalil Habbush al Takriti, contacted former CIA counterterrorism head Vincent Cannistraro, stating that Saddam "knew there was a campaign to link him to September 11 and prove he had weapons of mass destruction." Cannistrano further added that "the Iraqis were prepared to satisfy these concerns. I reported the conversation to senior levels of the state department and I was told to stand aside and they would handle it." Cannistrano stated that the offers made were all "killed" by the Bush administration because they allowed Saddam Hussein to remain in power - an outcome viewed as unacceptable.

For the Bush administration to continue to say that they are not gearing up to attack Iran, is to say that they consider us to ignorant to put two and two together. They are mistaken.