How Clinton Could Defuse Her Weakness on Iraq Earlier today, I noticed for the first time that a clear anti-Hillary narrative – weakness on the war – had taken hold. It’s a very damaging narrative for her, because it’s an effective criticism that is not personality-based and won’t raise an instinct that Democratic primary voters […]
Once a year, whether I need to or not, I click on the fashion section of the New York Times [this time, by mistake]. What better place to look for a diversion on the Eve of the opening of the defense in the Scooter Libby Trial, a new round of commentary by and about Douglas […]
Could this be more of a mess? In October 2003, Andrea Mitchell appeared on the Capital Record, a now defunct CBS program and said these things [from just-one-minute]: MURRAY: Andrea, a couple of quick questions. One, you said something earlier that I wasn’t sure about. Bob Novak reported that two administration officials told him this. […]
The new Pentagon papers by Karen Kwiatkowski 1,2,3,4 was published in Salon in March, 2004 – almost exactly one year after the invasion of Iraq, so we can’t say we weren’t warned about what was happening in the Department of Defense. Her accounting of the formation and internal workings of the Office of Special Plans […]
Victory Is Not an Option The Mission Can’t Be Accomplished — It’s Time for a New Strategy The new National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq starkly delineates the gulf that separates President Bush’s illusions from the realities of the war. Victory, as the president sees it, requires a stable liberal democracy in Iraq that is pro-American. […]
[from the transcript of Feith’s appearance on Blitzer’s The Situation Room]: BLITZER: I mean, these are serious — when you were confronted by the IG, the inspector general, who — who disagrees with you on the nature of whether or not this was intelligence or not intelligence, you made your case, but he didn’t buy […]
There are a couple of questions thrown up in the air recently, questions that are bigger than the usual political bias of blogs. In the blogs, we’re not exactly in a dialogue. We’re Left or Right, Liberal or Conservative, Democrat or Republican. We’re not even always in a dialogue with the Press [without whom, we […]
So my links to Firedoglake‘s fine PoliticsTV commentaries [on Youtube] no longer work [here or anywhere]. Matt Stoller has the explanation on MyDD… VIDEOS TEMPORARILY DOWN – NOTE TO OUR VIEWERS PoliticsTV.com’s videos are temporarily down – we are disappointed to report YouTube has suspended our account. Recent videos — e.g. the Scooter Libby […]
Looking back over my endless posts yesterday, I can see that I have some strong feelings about Douglas Feith – stronger than I knew. But it wasn’t until I saw him on Blitzer’s Situation Room that I figured out why. He embodies for me the essence of Neoconservative arrogance – William Kristol, Michael Ledeen, Laurie […]
I just watched Douglas Feith on NBC News [watch it here and pay particular attention to my Senator, Saxby Chambliss, one of Washington’s biggest ever boobs] and The Situation Room [Feith is still claiming that he was right about Al Qaeda/Iraq connections]. Reading Feith’s responses to the Inspector General’s Report today has been infuriating enough: […]