This is been a real interesting weekend in news from Iraq. Not only have we lost 16 soldiers since Friday, but there has been a lot of back and forth regarding the “progress” of the surge. Here is what today’s New York Times is reporting: Three months after the start of the Baghdad security plan […]
John Kerry appeared on Meet the Press this morning to defend his call for a troop pull out in Iraq. I must say he did really well even with Russert trying to nail him as flip-flopping on the issue. Kerry brought up one very interesting point that merits repeating. The following is a rough transcript […]
It was just a couple months ago that we learned the Bush White House was illegally paying someone to write and publish “puff pieces” promoting the administrations’ education agenda. Today we learn that the military has taken the same course of action in Iraq. WASHINGTON  As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the […]
The following is now being reported by the Associated Press It was billed as a conversation with U.S. troops, but the questions President Bush asked on a teleconference call Thursday were choreographed to match his goals for the war in Iraq and Saturday’s vote on a new Iraqi constitution. “This is an important time,” Allison […]
Just in time for midterm elections comes a political move that will hopefully revive the dwindling support of the right. That move is called “Operation Troop Withdrawalâ€ÂÂ. General George Casey said today we could start seeing a “substantial†pull-out starting as early as next spring. Iraq’s prime-Minster has asked for a speedy withdrawal of US […]