I’m sure the wingnuts will be claiming that after hearing the big news of the day: President Barack Obama is allowing Americans to make unlimited transfers of money and visits to relatives in Cuba and easing other restrictions Monday, ushering in a new era of openness toward the island nation ruled by communists for 50 […]
Timeline fever is catching on, and now Afghanistan has caught it: President Hamid Karzai demanded at a meeting with a UN Security Council team Tuesday that the international community set a “timeline” for ending military intervention in Afghanistan, his office said. Karzai told a delegation from the Council that his country needed to know how […]
Lord Bingham, one of the Brittan’s top judiciary figures has condemned the Iraq war, calling it a “serious violation of international law”: Lord Bingham, in his first major speech since retiring as the senior law lord, rejected the then attorney general’s defence of the 2003 invasion as fundamentally flawed. Contradicting head-on Lord Goldsmith’s advice that […]
The plans to invade Iraq, written by Tommy Franks in 2002, shed light on the thinking within the military and administration prior to the invasion. The information was released concurrent to an FOIA act and George Washington University has them online. Most interesting is the following chart, which showed predictions of our troop levels dropping […]
Again, Bush proves he just says anything to try and make the public happy. The Bush administration is split over the idea of a surge in troops to Iraq, with White House officials aggressively promoting the concept over the unanimous disagreement of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to U.S. officials familiar with the intense […]
Three years after Bush declared “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq, the American people have a different perception: Three years after President Bush declared major combat over in Iraq, Americans have strong doubts that the United States will fulfill the promise of his “Mission Accomplished” backdrop, a poll released Monday found. The CNN poll, conducted April 21-23 […]
During a suprise morning press conference by Bush, he made the claim once again that Iraq is part of the war on terror: “We are in a global war on terror and Iraq is a central front in that war” Of course we all know that Iraq had nothing to do with this war prior […]
The following article in the AP entitled “Bush Marks Anniversary, Never Says ‘War’ ” really had me going. It seems to try and fight back at his claims that the media “exaggerates” what is happening in Iraq he will try and sugar coat it: President Bush marked the anniversary of the Iraq war Sunday by […]
In my poll last month I asked what issue people thought would be the greatest grounds for impeachment. The warrantless spying came in first but a lot of people thought the Downing Street Memos were of greater importance. If that poll were run now, the outcome might be different. Today another document has surfaced in […]
Two weeks ago tomorrow was when Democrats shut down senate in order to get answers about the intelligence committees phase two report. That is the second part of the report that looks into the intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq. During that closed session, it was agreed upon that a committee be formed […]