Obama has announced that Robert Gibbs will be his press secretary. This really comes as no surprise. Gibbs will be great in that job. As a reminder of how well he is poised to take over from the line of idiots Bush has had, here is when Gibbs owned Hannity.
The Turkey incursion into Northern Iraq is really heating up. 77 Kurdish rebels were killed over night and Turkey is making a stronger presence in northern Iraq. Robert Gates finally addressed the situation: Defense Secretary Robert Gates has a message for Turkish leaders: Get your troops out of northern Iraq in the next few days. […]
Isn’t that what they say about the war in Iraq? I guess the bloody part is right: A car bomb killed 33 people in northern Iraq on Sunday, security officials said, hours before U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Baghdad to assess recent security gains and discuss troop levels. A U.S. military spokesman said […]
Yesterday our defense secretary, Robert Gates, blamed NATO for the problems in Afghanistan. Needless to say they didn’t take to kindly to that criticism and now Gates is trying to save face: Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday that sending U.S. Marines to Afghanistan will keep pressure on the Taliban and doesn’t “reflect dissatisfaction” with […]
Cases like the rape allegations against KBR are like Pandora’s Box – once you open it then it keeps getting worse: Congress is asking questions about another ex-employee of government contracting firm KBR who claims she was raped in Iraq. Letters to the Pentagon and the Justice Department today from Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. underscore […]
Great! Why don’t the Iraqi parliament take another month off then! Iraqi legislators suspended parliamentary sessions Thursday until the end of the month because of the Muslim religious season _ the end of much-delayed efforts to pass U.S.-backed legislation aimed at achieving national reconciliation this year. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, meanwhile, welcomed a report from […]
Perhaps we can start getting hearings into what led to the Walter Reed fiasco: The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s national security panel, headed by Rep. John Tierney, D-N.Y., scheduled a hearing at the hospital’s auditorium Monday morning. The list of Army officials, hospital staff and patients invited to speak includes the medical center’s […]