Straining credibility

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Kevin Drum reports that

Richard Holbrooke's last words, spoken to his Pakistani surgeon before he was sedated for surgery a week ago, were "You've got to stop this war in Afghanistan." The White House has since taken pains to tell us that he was speaking in jest.

To think that one of the most respected US diplomats of the last thirty years would make a joke about that very occupation while going into life-threatening surgery shows just how desperate the Obamans are these days regarding their joke of a foreign policy.

It also shows how callous they are as they desecrate a true statesman in order to justify their idiocy.