The biggest failure with the Iraq War has been the total lack of planning. The people who laid out good plans lost their jobs, and instead the administration has decided to wing the entire thing. That deadly mentality is continuing: The administration lacks an updated and comprehensive Iraq strategy to move beyond the “surge” of […]
Last night al-Maliki told Lara Logan on CBS news that he fears a coup in his country: Al-Maliki said that some of the officer corps have been creating problems and even violating the security of military operations. He stated, “I’m not afraid, but I have to watch the army, because those still loyal to the […]
It looks like the Democrats now have a plan to force the Republicans to put their money where their mouths are: Campaign strategists seek intraparty consensus by focusing on accountability rather than Iraq troop withdrawals. A “no-confidence” vote in Pentagon chief, which Democratic lawmakers might offer on defense spending legislation, could embarrass Bush while appealing […]
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 […]
Remember a little over two years ago when we heard the claims of WMD and how Iraq was trying to obtain uranium yellow cake from Niger? Also remember how we heard that the basis of these claims were well founded because most of them came from a Iraqi defector? Finally, remember how it all was […]
The following is an article that appeared today inAl Jazeera magazine which was original written by the Guardian. It seems to give a very accurate portrayal of what is going on in Iraq and the reasoning for our being there. Not “liberationâ€ÂÂ- An occupation The U.S. needs to put an immediate end to this […]
Connecticut has become the first state to challenge the No Child Left Behind act in a court of law. The lawsuit claims that the act requires expensive standardized tests without supplying funding for them. This act, one of Bush’s so called “milestones”, is a total joke. It is worded in such a way that any […]