That’s how a new report describes the Iraq War, and even goes as far as saying the “outcome is in doubt”. This isn’t a report by some left-wing group, but a report by National Defense University, the Pentagon’s top educational institute. The report was written by Joseph Collins, a former top Rumsfeld aide. He even […]
War monger Frank Gaffney was on Hardball tonight talking about the NIE. This is how idiotic the war mongers are getting – Gaffney thinks they should have a “do over” on the NIE. Buchanan called his bluff and asked Gaffney if he wanted this in 2005 when the NIE said Iran was working on nuclear […]
Funny that when Biden says something like this, he gets chastised by the wingnuts. It will of course be different when you got a 2008 GOP Presidential hopeful saying it: Republican presidential hopeful Sam Brownback said Thursday that Iraq must achieve a “political equilibrium” even if means partitioning the country along ethnic lines. “I’m saying, […]
That is what the Iraq Study Group is now calling Bush’s failed war in Iraq. The United States should begin to withdraw its forces from combat in Iraq and launch a diplomatic push, including Iran and Syria, to prevent “a slide toward chaos” in the country, a high-level panel recommended on Wednesday. The bipartisan Iraq […]
Remember the Republican controlled Congress spent 1/10th the time investigating Abu Gharib as they did investigating Bill Clinton’s Christmas Card list. Here is why that is such a crime: Outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the prison’s former U.S. commander said in an interview on […]
And give a Power Point presentation of all these secret nuclear facilities in Iran? In an echo of the intelligence wars that preceded the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a high-stakes struggle is brewing within the Bush administration and in Congress over Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program and involvement in terrorism. U.S. intelligence and counterterrorism officials […]
Things in Iraq are getting really bad. The LA Times has an article today saying that the civil war is “all but declared“, and we now get a Republican Representative, who has been a supporter of the war, saying it is time to get out: Congressman Gil Gutknecht found the situation in Iraq more bleak […]
The vicious attack of Jill Carroll by right wing bloggers has gained national attention and now international attention: Miss Carroll has been under sustained assault from some on the pro-war Right. Bloggers and hosts on the country’s influential talk radio stations have attacked her for stating that she had not been threatened during her confinement. […]