If you’re the author of a minor blog that you’re mostly writing to deal with how you feel about the disasterous turn your country’s political situation has taken, you’re allowed to speculate on what you think might turn things around [or anything else]. This year has been something of a "turn around" year, after six [...]
More Realism, Less Spin
A new report from Congress’s investigative arm provides a powerful fresh dose of nonpartisan realism about Iraq as President Bush tries to spin people into thinking that significant — or at least sufficient — progress is being made. With a crucial debate on Iraq set for next month, the report should be [...]
Bush Gets Mounting Reports of Iraq Woes
President Bush huddled with top military leaders about the Iraq war Friday, and Pentagon officials defended efforts to rid the Iraqi national police of sectarian bias and corruption, even as an independent review found the force too tainted to continue.
In an hour and a half meeting with [...]
Can Anyone Stop Bush/Cheney’s War Against Iran?
I think Glenn Greenwald is right that the Bush/Cheney regime is about to start an aggressive war against Iran. And I agree that the Democrats have foolishly paved the [...]
Gonzales’ testimony undergoing scrutiny
The Justice Department’s inspector general says he is looking into whether the outgoing attorney general was candid during congressional hearings.
The Justice Department’s inspector general acknowledged Thursday that he was examining whether outgoing Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales made false or misleading statements to Congress about the National Security Agency’s terrorist surveillance program, [...]
White House Pushes Back on Iraq Report
An independent assessment concluding that Iraq has made little political progress in recent months despite an influx of U.S. troops drew fierce pushback from the White House on Thursday and provided fresh ammunition for Democrats who want to bring troops home.
The political wrangling came days before the report [...]
Pentagon won’t make surge recommendation to Bush
In a sign that top commanders are divided over what course to pursue in Iraq, the Pentagon said Wednesday that it won’t make a single, unified recommendation to President Bush during next month’s strategy assessment, but instead will allow top commanders to make individual presentations.
"Consensus is not the [...]
Report Finds Little Progress On Iraq Goals
GAO Draft at Odds With White House
Iraq has failed to meet all but three of 18 congressionally mandated benchmarks for political and military progress, according to a draft of a Government Accountability Office report. The document questions whether some aspects of a more positive [...]
In June, I overreacted and made a poor decision. While I was not involved in any inappropriate conduct at the Minneapolis airport or anywhere else, I chose to plead guilty to a lesser charge in the hope of making it go away. I did not seek any counsel, either from an attorney, staff, friends, or [...]