What is amazing is how the numbers in this story keeps growing and the government is playing stupid on it: Personal data on more than 2.2 million active-duty military personnel – not just 50,000 as initially believed – were among those stolen from a Veterans Affairs employee last month, the government said Tuesday. VA Secretary […]
Here are some interesting tidbits from this New York Times article: All but one of the 44 Senate Democrats — Ben Nelson of Nebraska — have voiced opposition to the measure, as have some moderate Republicans, a result that would kill the measure for the year. Remember this vote requires 2/3rds of the Senate to […]
Reuters has a nice article up about the challenge Joe Lieberman is facing this year: After years of ardent support for the Iraq war, Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman could become that conflict’s first big political casualty in a Democratic primary race fueled by rising anti-war anger. Lieberman, the party’s vice presidential nominee in 2000, faces […]
It looks like the Iraqi government just may tell us to get the hell out of their country before long: Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki lashed out at the American military on Thursday, denouncing what he characterized as habitual attacks by troops against Iraqi civilians. As outrage over reports that American marines killed 24 Iraqis […]
Bush’s puppet does it again: Prime Minister Tony Blair caved in to White House pressure by sharpening language on Iran and softening it on global warming in a speech he delivered Friday at Georgetown University, according to a British press report Sunday that Blair’s office immediately denied. According to the Sunday Telegraph, Blair made “significant” […]
According to one of the GOP’s most prominent pollsters, this very well could be the case: The recent White House shake-up was an attempt to jump-start the administration and boost President Bush’s rock-bottom approval ratings, but have those efforts come too late to salvage the presidency? A prominent GOP pollster thinks that may be the […]
So where is Scooter’s defense trying to go? This could give us some insight: A federal judge dealt a setback to I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s defense in the CIA leak case yesterday, telling the former vice presidential aide’s attorneys that he is likely to deny their request for a vast trove of government documents. At […]
Think Progress has done an outstanding job putting some numbers together comparing the statistics in Iraq three years ago today, when Bush gave his infamous “mission accomplished” speech, to the same figures today: May 1, 2003 Today U.S. Troops Wounded 542 17,469 U.S. Troops Killed 139 2,400 Size of U.S. Forces 150,000 132,000 […]
When we first heard that Osama was allowed to escape at Tora Bora, people asked why. Now we are finding out another most wanted has been allowed to remain free under George Bush’s command: A former top CIA spy says the United States deliberately turned down several opportunities to kill terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in […]
First he said he never believed the presentation he gave to the U.N. in 2003. Now he says he wanted more troops for the initial invasion of Iraq: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday defended the Bush administration’s Iraq war planning after her predecessor, Colin Powell, said he had made a case to […]