Wow – here is another great pick by the Bush White House: BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Gen. Bantz Craddock, the chief of U.S. Southern Command who oversees the controversial Guantanamo prison, is to succeed Gen. James Jones as NATO’s top commander of operations, the alliance said on Friday. Craddock will replace Jones as Supreme Allied Commander […]
So what has the Abramoff scandal taught the leadership in Congress? According to this – nothing: Representative John A. Boehner won the job of House majority leader amid a post-Abramoff clamor for an overhaul of lobbying and ethics rules. But nearly six months later, the changes are still tied up in Congress. And far from […]
Wow the whackos on the radical right get all up in arms about the bank story from the New York Times and look what happens: Police and environmental workers responded to The New York Times offices today after an employee in the postal services department opened a letter addressed to the newspaper and saw a […]
Salon has a very interesting article today that might give us a glimpse into the next big debate over Iraq: Congress has demanded that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld hand over a raft of documents to Congress that could substantiate allegations that U.S. forces have tried to break terror suspects by kidnapping and mistreating their […]
Looks like we are taking an interest in the problems along the West Bank: The United States cast the first U.N. Security Council veto in nearly two years Thursday, blocking an Arab-backed resolution that would have demanded Israel halt its military offensive in the Gaza Strip. The draft, sponsored by Qatar, accused Israel of a […]
Looks like we are taking an interest in the problems along the West Bank: The United States cast the first U.N. Security Council veto in nearly two years Thursday, blocking an Arab-backed resolution that would have demanded Israel halt its military offensive in the Gaza Strip. The draft, sponsored by Qatar, accused Israel of a […]
I have really been waiting for this to happen: The CIA officer whose identity was leaked to reporters sued Vice President Dick Cheney, his former top aide and presidential adviser Karl Rove on Thursday, accusing them and other White House officials of conspiring to destroy her career. In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court, […]
Yesterday was a picnic in the Middle East in contrast to the situation today: Israeli forces struck Beirut’s international airport for the second time Thursday, hitting fuel tanks that exploded into fireballs. The attack came soon after two rockets struck the northern Israeli port of Haifa on a day of spiraling violence and deepening crisis. […]
I posted last week about the threat of Bush wanting to sell arms to Pakistan, especially because of their previous ties with North Korea and the sharing of nuclear technology. It is amazing that the same week North Korea did their missile test, Bush was pushing for this sale. Now the Democrats have taken notice: […]
Well the funeral of Ken Lay visitors that could comprise the whose who of neo-cons: More than 1,000 mourners gathered at First United Methodist Church, where Lay had been a member. They included friends, former Enron employees and erstwhile dignitaries, including former President George H.W. Bush, former Secretary of State James A. Baker III and […]