Bolten: Iraq mission will continue after Bush term USA TODAY President Bush will address the nation next week about Iraq and U.S. efforts to get that country "well on the path" to stability by the end of his term, White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten said Wednesday. Bolten, who predicted a sizable presence of U.S. […]
Judge Strikes Down Parts Of Patriot Act Says Law Allowing FBI To Silence Those Ordered To Turn Over Private Records Is Unconstitutional A federal judge struck down parts of the revised USA Patriot Act as unconstitutional Thursday, saying courts must be allowed to supervise cases where the government orders Internet providers to turn over records […]
After Bush decided to invade Iraq, there was lots of joking about the French because they wouldn’t go along with our made-up Coalition. The jokes came from people in high places as well as circulating on the Internet. They knew the Niger Documents were forged, and told us – told us many times. We now […]
Judith Miller Finally Lands in the ‘Right’ Place Judith Miller, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times correspondent that pushed all the Bush administration spin about the (so-far non-existent) existence of WMD in Iraq, has finally come home. She’s taken a job with the friends of "greater economic choice and individual responsibility" at the Manhattan Institute. […]
Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction Two former CIA officers say the president squelched top-secret intelligence, and a briefing by George Tenet, months before invading Iraq By Sidney Blumenthal On Sept. 18, 2002, CIA director George Tenet briefed President Bush in the Oval Office on top-secret intelligence that Saddam Hussein did not […]
civilian deaths/week deaths/day by vehicle bombs deaths/day by gunshot/execution [See Experts Doubt Drop In Violence in Iraq: Military Statistics Called Into Question]
How To Change Iraq Bush Should Start By Admitting Fault By Madeleine K. Albright The threshold question in any war is: What are we fighting for? Our troops, especially, deserve a convincing answer. In Iraq, the list of missions that were tried on but didn’t fit includes: protection from weapons of mass destruction, creating a […]
Tenor Pavarotti dead at 71 Italian opera star Luciano Pavarotti, hailed by many as the greatest tenor of his generation, died in the early hours of Thursday, his manager Terri Robson said. "Luciano Pavarotti died one hour ago," Robson said in a telephone text message to Reuters. He was 71. The rotund, black-bearded tenor known […]
Like the bad penny, the case of Senator Larry Craig just will not go away. Now, the left-wing bloggers are coming up with his strategies for him to get his conviction guilty plea reversed: Jeralyn at Talk Left says: I’m sticking by my earlier comments that his guilty plea was defective for failing to advise […]
Light Reading Talk about a windfall. From a press release sent out today by the National Security Archive, a nongovernmental outfit: The National Security Archive today sued the White House seeking the recovery and preservation of more than 5 million White House e-mail messages that were apparently deleted from White House computers between March 2003 […]