Last week the Appropriation Committees of the House and Senate reached a deal on the supplemental appropriations bill to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The new bill is expected to make it to the floor this week for debate and is expected to pass. Originally there was a provision in this bill to […]
Now think to yourself about why Osama became our enemy instead of our asset in the early 90’s as you read this: Congressional Republicans killed a provision in an Iraq war funding bill that would have put the United States on record against the permanent basing of U.S. military facilities in that country, a lawmaker […]
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 […]
The probe into the Haditha killings has found they were unprovoked: A preliminary military inquiry found evidence that U.S. Marines killed two dozen Iraqi civilians in an unprovoked attack in November, contradicting the troops’ account, U.S. officials said on Wednesday. Forensic evidence from corpses showed that victims had bullet wounds, despite the initial statements by […]
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” […]
One good thing about the Bush administration – we sure have seen a good number of Republicans going to jail: A senior official in U.S. President George W. Bush’s re-election campaign was sentenced to 10 months in prison on Wednesday for his role in suppressing votes in a key U.S. Senate race, a scandal that […]
The NSA wiretapping must really be bothering Bush, and now he is going to try to re-focus America on immigration: Amid a clamor over illegal immigration, President George W. Bush will make his case for a comprehensive overhaul of U.S. immigration law on Monday night in a prime-time Oval Office address, the White House announced […]
Looks like Bush is renaming the war on terror yet again and this one is a big one: US President George W. Bush has said the September 11 revolt of passengers against their hijackers on board Flight 93 had struck the first blow of “World War III”. In an interview with the financial news network […]
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 […]
Now here is something interesting – the Russians seem to have a better grip on American politics than most Americans do. They have called out the Republican party for what it is – fear mongers: An influential Russian newspaper here accused US President George W. Bush’s Republican Party of deliberately raising tension with Russia to […]