Tag: Bush’s FUBAR War
Warning: This is not from The Onion
Rice defends Middle East legacy Ms Rice said the US had helped advance the cause of freedom US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has told the BBC she believes the Middle East is a better place for the policies of President George W Bush. Asked to assess the outgoing US administration’s legacy, she said she […]
We Would Never Spy on Innocent Americans
We all remember BushCo and his minions scoffing away as folks concerned about (the inevitable) abuses of collecting telephone data on Americans in an overly broad fashion. We were told that this would be only target evil-doers and those who talk to them. Well,eavesdropping on Americans overseas is not only routine, but it is a […]
And a Single Timeline Shall Rule Them All
Well, maybe not, but amongst the major shifts on BushCo policy this week, this administration has finally agreed to a timeline for withdrawal. Of course, they don’t want this new effort actually branded as a timeline — they call ita general time horizon for meeting aspirational goals. While the announcement of the agreement is framed […]
Blackmail!
There is no other word for it. The Bush administration is now threatening the Iraqi’s with denying access to $50,000,000,000 in the Federal Reserve if they don’t agree to US occupation indefinitely. This is the stick that Bush is using to coerce the Iraqis to commit to the plan that I posted yesterday. The threat […]
and now a word from your pResident
where do you start with the outright lies on this one? 4/22/2008 Mr. President. Oil prices today rose above $118 a barrel. It’s another record. Are Saudi Arabia and other oil producers — are they our adversaries, or have you had any success with your recent appeals with them? And also, the effect of the […]
If you haven’t read this…you really should
Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance, an examination by The New York Times has found. The effort, which began with the buildup to the Iraq war and continues to this day, […]
We are safer
Suicide The large number of attacks — more than double the number in any of the past 25 years — reflects a trend that has surprised and worried U.S. intelligence and military analysts. More than four-fifths of the suicide bombings over that period have occurred in the past seven years, the data show. The bombings […]
Do quotes like this scare you?
“You can’t really repair anything that is broken until you establish security,” said Lt. Col. Dan Barnett, commander of the First Squadron, Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment. “A wall that isolates those who would continue to attack the Iraqi Army and coalition forces can create security conditions that they can go in and rebuild.” I guess […]
My letter to Frank Rich.
I love reading Frank Rich on Sunday’s The guy is a great writer. So when he wrote this yesterday: It’s not just torture we want to avoid. Most Americans don’t want to hear, see or feel anything about Iraq, whether they support the war or oppose it. They want to look away, period, and have […]
The American People are stupid if
They believed anything Bush said yesterday about “troop withdrawals” and Iraq not being an “endless war” Once again the only person calling the schmuck out is Olbermann ” Last year he escalated the war in Iraq, today he announced that there would be deescalation beyond July, yet somehow stood there with a straight face and […]
hmmmmm, I’m not lawyer but
If the Bush Administration suspended the 4th Ammendment after 9/11 for a few couple teensy weensy hundred days or a year or so annnnnnddddddddd The Attorney General Says: Under sharp questioning from Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) at an Appropriations Committee hearing, Mukasey said that the “Fourth Amendment applies across the board, regardless of whether we’re […]
Live Blogging the Petraeus/Crocker Hearings
Well, I didn’t do it, that’s for sure. Even if I wasn’t working, I’m not sure how much more of the neocon-job I can take anymore. Both Tom Ricks from the Washington Post and Spencer Ackerman at the Washington Independent did live-blog today’s hearings (Ricks will be doing so tomorrow too). Ricks was in the […]
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