Countdown Program showing the Press Conference in which Bush sounds like a lunatic
I woke up wondering why President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are so willing to go to the wire for torture, depriving detainees of a right to fair trial, John Bolton, no judicial review of wiretapping. Why are they opposed to the Geneva Conventions?It’s as if they’re saying their barbarism justifies ours. […]
New Clues in the Plame Mystery see TalkLeft A well-placed conservative source … who knows both White House political adviser Karl Rove and former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, told me that the two men are much closer than many Washington insiders understand, that they developed a friendship and a working relationship when Bush […]
Presidential Press Conference QUESTION: Mr. President, former Secretary of State Colin Powell says, "The world is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism." If a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and former secretary of state feels this way, don’t you think that Americans and the rest of the […]
Why Was Wolfowitz So Clueless On The Morning of 9/11? Wolfowitz: We were having a meeting in my office. Someone said a plane had hit the World Trade Center. Then we turned on the television and we started seeing the shots of the second plane hitting, and this is the way I remember it. It’s […]
An Unexpected Collision Over Detainees White House Seeks a Way to Keep Bolton at the U.N. Powell: "The World Is Beginning To Doubt The Moral Basis Of Our Fight Against Terrorism"… He just won’t let up. He’s determined to win every single battle, to never be told "No."I cannot for the life of me understand […]
Back during the period when Bush started talking about Iraq, I was still working. Another thing that was happening was that the Class of 60, Best in Dixie, my high school class, was discovering the Internet. We began nostalgizing and, of course, sending around jokes. One classmate, a retired Navy guy, sent lots of those […]
There’s an odd paradox in our foreign policy. We all know something is wrong, but it’s hard to exactly say what the fallacy is. Before the War in Iraq, our government paid almost no attention to the fact that such a war would destabilize Iraq and the Middle East. Now, we’re told that pulling out […]
Dick Cheney on Meet the Press Now, is there a connection between the Iraqi government and the original World Trade Center bombing in ’93? We know, as I say, that one of the perpetrators of that act did, in fact, receive support from the Iraqi government after the fact. With respect to 9/11, of course, […]
In the summer, I read mysteries and the odd thriller. That’s just what I’ve always done. The academic year was filled with reading for courses I was teaching, or about a confusing patient. Interesting stuff, but hardly light reading. So in the summer, beach reading for me. My favorites are the ones with serial characters […]