December 4, 2008
Watched Part 3 The Howard Years: Commander-in-Chief last night. Decided that my post yesterday should have been called: Luck, Lies and Latham.Tony Blair and George W. Bush were his political referees for the Iraq war. Funny how the three of them are still sure that they were right about WMDs and Sad...
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So! These days, Moktada Al Sadr’s not quite as mighty as the mainstream media once thought he was. Back in the day, Mookie was Iraq’s “kingmaker,” a veritable “power broker.” Some of DC’s talking heads predicted that by now, he’d have the country in his pocket. Of course, some actual...
go to article »December 3, 2008
As President Bush prepares to leave office, he's reflecting on what went wrong and according to him immigration and the war in Iraq went wrong. Well kind of sort of. Bush said that one of his biggest disappointments was the failure to pass a comprehensive bill on immigration reform. "I firmly bel...
go to article »November 26, 2008
WaPo says that with the U.S.-Iraq security agreement, Bush gives Obama “flexibility in fulfilling his campaign promise to bring the troops home.”Okay, fine: The deal, approved last week by Iraq's cabinet, was a “win” for Obama. But as always, WaPo missed the real story. In the penultimate g...
go to article »November 22, 2008
A picture of Barack Obama's cabinet is starting to emerge, and it is not pleasing his more left-wing supporters. Some of them were already unhappy about the appointment of Clintonites like Rahm Emmanuel. Now, the New York Times is reporting that Hillary Clinton will almost certainly become Sec...
go to article »November 21, 2008
November 20, 2008
Since the contested 2000 election sent many elements of the left off the emotional deep end, the term “derangement syndrome” has entered the political lexicon to describe those that seem to lose control of their logical faculties when evaluating any story, analysis, or even rumor about t...
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Speaking to reporters Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino explained that the Bush administration can now agree to a timetable for withdrawal due to the “tremendous successes” of the surge.” After more than five years of war, Perino said that “the conditionsR...
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In case you missed last week's fake The New York Times, THE IRAQ WAR ENDS, this is an online version. kwoff_id = 32597; ...
go to article »November 18, 2008
USAID, the independent federal government agency that provides humanitarian and development asistance under the foreign policy guidance of the Secretary of State spent $2.4 billion across the whole of the Middle East in 2007, including all reconstruction efforts in Iraq. The Bush administration did ...
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