Yesterday John McCain told a townhall meeting this: “My friends, I will have an energy policy which will eliminate our dependence on oil from Middle East that will then prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East.” Luckily we also got video of this […]
That’s how a new report is characterizing the Iraq War: Newly declassified statistics on the frequency of insurgent attacks in Iraq suggest that after major security gains last fall in the wake of an American troop increase, the conflict has drifted into at least a temporary stalemate, with levels of violence remaining constant from November […]
When the DNC decided to strip Michigan and Florida of their delegates, I knew it would open up a bunch of headaches. Now the DNC has some civil rights leaders pushing to reinstate the delegates. Two civil rights leaders — one a prominent Obama supporter — have written DNC Chairman Howard Dean to press him […]
Factual statement by Henry Waxman, but also one that comes as no surprise: e chairman of a House committee said a White House spokesman’s statements Thursday in the controversy over missing e-mail conflict with what congressional staffers were told four months ago. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., scheduled a hearing and challenged the White House to […]
On the same day that the Iraq Study Group offered its assessment on the deteriorating conditions in the Middle East, former Secretary of State Colin Powell called the conflict a civil war, joining a growing chorus of those who eschew the more benign-sounding “sectarian violence” terminology preferred by the Bush administration. “It looks like, smells […]
This is a very sad “milestone” to reach: Now the death toll is 9/11 times two. U.S. military deaths from Iraq and Afghanistan now match those of the most devastating terrorist attack in America’s history, the trigger for what came next. Add casualties from chasing terrorists elsewhere in the world, and the total has passed […]
You can tell McCain is really starting to worry about his chances for a White House run in 2008: Republican Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), a staunch defender of the Iraq war, on Tuesday faulted the Bush administration for misleading Americans into believing the conflict would be “some kind of day at the […]
That is Israeli children signing a missile before it is fired off to Lebanon. It is the first picture seen on a new site fromisrael2lebanon.com. Following that is a series of grotesque pictures showing children and civilians in Lebanon that have been killed from the recent bombings. The site at first appears to be taking […]
SurveyUSA has released a number of polls regarding the current situation in the Middle East and the results are very interesting. 56 % disapprove of Bush’s handling of the situation in the Middle East, opposed to 35% approval 84% believe our military needs to stay out of the situation and 52% believe we should keep […]
With all the tensions in the Middle East, leave it to our President to have a little blunder that at least gives us some humor: President Bush, not realizing his remarks were being picked up by a microphone, bluntly expressed his frustration with the actions of Hezbollah, a militant Islamic group believed backed by Iran […]