SIKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Thursday directed about 3,500 U.S. troops who have spent the past year in Iraq to stay up to four months past their scheduled departure date, boosting the size of the U.S. force amid unrelenting violence in Baghdad, officials said. The move, involving the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team from […]
Perhaps there is some other good for Bush with the current crisis between Lebanon and Israel. That good could be the media taking some focus off of Iraq. Perhaps that is why this story hasn’t had much play today: Bombs killed two worshippers at mosques in Iraq during Friday prayers and the authorities extended a […]
So now people in the Bush administration find it “strange” that laws apply to them? The topic was the largest defense procurement scandal in recent decades, and the two investigators for the Pentagon’s inspector general in Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld’s office on April 1, 2005, asked the secretary to raise his hand and swear […]
Tony Snow is really pushing for that new job and he started last night with this little but on O’Reilly (thanks to Think Progress): O’REILLY: Prices have doubled in the USA and continue to go up. What say you sir? SNOW: Well, this is where you get to call me a pinhead again, Bill. You’re […]
When will the chickenhawks actually listen to the people who served? The retired commander of key forces in Iraq called yesterday for Donald H. Rumsfeld to step down, joining several other former top military commanders who have harshly criticized the defense secretary’s authoritarian style for making the military’s job more difficult. “I think we need […]
According to Rumsfeld the war on terror will be a long war that could stretch a generation, akin to the cold war. The article, which appears in today’s Washington Post, says what we have been saying all along – the war on terror will be very long. Of course Rumsfeld doesn’t admit to the simple […]
As Raw Story is reporting today, Sen. John Kerry has called for the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld. “The President owes it to our troops serving in Iraq to remove Secretary Rumsfeld and replace him at the Pentagon with a Defense Secretary who understands the situation on the ground in Iraq and who will advance, not […]
Seems like Rumsfeld is pretty upset about the new allegations that have come out regarding our troops burning Taliban bodies according to Reuters. VILNIUS (Reuters) – Accusations that U.S. soldiers burned the corpses of two Afghan guerrillas to taunt the Taliban have damaged the American military, whether or not they are true, Secretary of Defense […]