cutting through the fat of this world
First, honk if you like bumper sticker politics:
1. GWB tells Israel that Obama is going to cause the next holocaust.
2. Hard Ball host Chris Matthews challenges a loud-mouthed, flock-jock, talk(ing points) radio host and republican party line parrot to back up his words with a little substance. I swear to god I haven’t seen this [...]
This edition of Frontline is incredible. It’s causing me to reconsider my opinion of Bush and his administration’s handling of the Iraq War. It’s not an unstoppable freight train of bad decision making, with Bush at the helm, it’s several unstoppable freight trains helmed by the megalomaniacal power brokers Bush unwittingly empowered. And they’re all [...]
Following a week of testimony from General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker, Bush appeared on TV last night and said:
In their testimony, these men made clear that our challenge in Iraq is formidable. Yet they concluded that conditions in Iraq are improving, that we are seizing the initiative from the enemy, and that the troop surge [...]
I have been thinking about yesterday’s article in the New York Times about the company responsible for the current demolition project at the Deutsche Bank building in NYC.
First, a little background on the Deutsche Bank building. This building was originally damaged during the events of 9/11/2001 and is currently being deconstructed/demolished. Just a [...]
Today’s story from the Associated Press sounds oddly familiar…
The terrorist network Al-Qaida will likely leverage its contacts and capabilities in Iraq to mount an attack on U.S. soil, according to a new National Intelligence Estimate on threats to the United States.
I guess there’s a chance that Bush might even read this NEA report. In it [...]
I was listening to NPR’s ‘Morning Edition’ recently when they played an excerpt from the most recent debate of GOP presidential hopefuls. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was saying that he could not imagine pursuing the war on terror and leaving Saddam Hussein in power in Iraq. It struck me that Mr Giuliani doesn’t have [...]
The United States and NATO campaign in Afghanistan to support the democratic government of Afghanistan and to defeat the al-Qaida/Taliban alliance has always represented something of a balancing act. The challenge is to accomplish these critical and difficult tasks without alienating a population that has always been suspicious of and resistant to anything they perceive [...]
Opponents of setting a deadline for the withdrawal of major United States and Coalition combat forces from Iraq typically use some or all of the following arguments :
- setting a deadline tells our enemies how long they need to hang on for victory - or, as neo-conservative William Kristol declares in an outraged tone every [...]
Rudy Giuliani speaking to supporters in Manchester, New Hampshire on Tuesday:
“If any Republican is elected president — and I think, obviously, I would be the best at this — we will remain on offense and will anticipate what (the terrorists) will do and try to stop them before they do it,” Giuliani said.
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[He] said Tuesday [...]
Dick Cheney was on the attack again yesterday when he criticized the Democratic Congress for including timetables for withdrawal in the war funding bill.
As Robert Scheer pointed out in his column today, the timetable:
…is a very limited, nonbinding attempt to hold the president accountable, for it does not ban him from using any portion of [...]
