This past spring we read headlines of how “the brain is back”. Of course they were talking about Karl Rove, who came back strong into the political arena once he was cleared in the Valerie Plame leak case. Shortly after that, Rove remained the headline. He laid out the GOP strategy for the mid-term elections […]
Condi is out doing the tough talk on North Korea, but is she making promises she can’t keep? U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reassured Japan on Wednesday that Washington would stand by a commitment to protect its Asian ally, trying to temper concerns of an Asian nuclear arms race after North Korea’s atomic test. […]
In 2003 we heard how we could fight two wars at the same time without putting our country at greater risk. A lot of military experts agreed with that assessment, but the “decider” spoke so here we are 3 years later fighting two wars. Of course our efforts in the war that really matters, Afghanistan, […]
Today’s Washington Post takes a look into the psyche of Bush through his choice of words: But a survey of transcripts from Bush’s public remarks over the past seven years shows the president’s worsening political predicament has actually stoked, rather than diminished, his desire to proclaim what he cannot abide. Some presidential scholars and psychologists […]
The right wingers jump every time the word “classified” or “secret” is used as a source in a New York Times article. Well how about if the Washington Times uses the same terms? Recent U.S. intelligence analyses of North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs were flawed and the lack of clarity on the issue hampered […]
John McCain was playing the “blame Clinton” game today on North Korea. Ignore the fact that if Clinton did so bad with North Korea then why hasn’t the Bush administration done anything to correct it in the past 6 years. If the Republicans once again want to put partisanship above national security, then let’s play. […]
Via Think Progress: “Why should I care about North Korea?”In State of Denial, Bob Woodward recounts a conversation between then-Gov. George W. Bush and then-Saudi ambassador to the U.S. Prince Bandar, in which Bush wonders why he should care about North Korea. “I get these briefings on all parts of the world,” Bush said, “and […]
Yesterday North Korea called Condi Rice a ‘imbecile’. Today, the ultra-conservative Insight Magazine is calling her incompetent and calling on Bush to replace her: Conservative national security allies of President Bush are in revolt against Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, saying that she is incompetent and has reversed the administration’s national security and foreign policy […]
I posted last week about the threat of Bush wanting to sell arms to Pakistan, especially because of their previous ties with North Korea and the sharing of nuclear technology. It is amazing that the same week North Korea did their missile test, Bush was pushing for this sale. Now the Democrats have taken notice: […]
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 […]