Now this is sounding familiar: The U.N. nuclear monitoring agency presented documents Monday that diplomats said indicate Iran may have focused on a nuclear weapons program after 2003 – the year that a U.S. intelligence report says such work stopped. Iran again denied ever trying to make such arms. Ali Ashgar Soltanieh, the chief Iranian […]
Russia says they could use nuclear weapons: Russia’s military chief of staff said Saturday that Moscow could use nuclear weapons in preventive strikes to protect itself and its allies, the latest aggressive remarks from increasingly assertive Russian authorities. Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky’s comment did not mark a policy shift, military analysts said. Amid disputes with the […]
That is what the Iraq Study Group is now calling Bush’s failed war in Iraq. The United States should begin to withdraw its forces from combat in Iraq and launch a diplomatic push, including Iran and Syria, to prevent “a slide toward chaos” in the country, a high-level panel recommended on Wednesday. The bipartisan Iraq […]
A post-election e-mail to executives at the drug company GlaxoSmithKline details just how tough. “We now have fewer allies in the Senate,” says the internal memo, obtained by The Washington Post. “Thus, there is greater risk over the next two years that bad amendments will be offered to pending legislation.” The company’s primary concerns are […]
Five more soldiers were killed in Iraq today, bringing the October’s toll to 96 soldiers lost. The last time we had this many soldiers killed in Iraq in one month was last October, and that number is certain to go higher. Sidney Blumenthal also has an interesting piece up at Salon regarding Bush and the […]
And now you can forget Poland. This shows how Bush’s “staunchest allies” think of him now: ONE of America’s main allies, Poland, believes so many mistakes were made in the war in Iraq that any military intervention in Iran would be highly unlikely and the world would have to learn to deal with Iran having […]
Chuck Hagel (R-Ne) spoke to the Council on Foreign Relations today and delivered a very compelling speech regarding Iraq. Following are some highlights of this speech. The full transcript can be read here. The Iraq war should not be debated in the United States on a partisan political platform. This debases our country, trivializes the […]
We are now into a historical week. While Senate is holding confirmation hearings on John Roberts and coverage still comes out of the Gulf Coast, there is another event happening in New York that is of paramount interest. The United Nations will be hosting leaders from all over the world this week in the largest […]
Via Truthout White House Attacks the Messenger By Joseph Wilson / t r u t h o u t Statement by Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson The Bush White House and its right wing allies are responding to Cindy Sheehan and the military families’ vigil in Central Texas in the same way that they always respond […]
These are savage acts of violence but they have not brought the terrorists any closer to achieving their strategic objectives. The terrorists, both foreign and Iraqi, failed to stop the transfer of sovereignty. They failed to break our coalition and force a mass withdrawal by our allies. They failed to incite an Iraqi civil war. […]