Blackwater guards killed 16 as U.S. touted progress On Sept. 9, the day before Army Gen. David Petraeus, the U.S. military commander in Iraq, and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker told Congress that things were getting better, Batoul Mohammed Ali Hussein came to Baghdad for the day. A clerk in the Iraqi customs office in Diyala […]
Right-Wing New York Sun Declares: ‘Attack On Iran Said To Be Imminent’ Ironically, the right-wing clamor for war is becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. Here’s why: The success of the right-wing’s push for military action hinges on establishing that the U.N. Security Council can’t stop Iran’s nuclear program. As the Sun notes, the U.S. and French […]
Ever since Rush Limbaugh said that the soldiers who speak out against the war are "phoney soldiers," I’ve been mulling about that. In a way, I feel like a "phoney soldier" myself, having spent my three years in the Military during the Viet Nam War in Europe. Even though I went where they sent me, […]
Bush rejects binding cuts in greenhouse emissions President Bush today rejected calls from Britain and the EU to take a tougher approach on global warming when he renewed his opposition to binding cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. Speaking at his own climate change conference in Washington, which European diplomats dismissed as a cynical attempt by […]
The Larry Craig Effect Minneapolis airport restroom to get new stall dividers! The Minneapolis airport has more than 80 restrooms, but only two are being targeted for the new dividers, including the one now known for Craig’s arrest. Both restrooms, in the busy Northstar Crossing shopping area, had a reputation on some Web sites as […]
Cheney to address top secret conservative policy group An ultra-secret conservative group — so secret that members don’t even use the group’s name in communications — will feature Vice President Dick Cheney as a speaker at a meeting in Utah today. "Cheney will address the fall meeting of the Council for National Policy, a group […]
At Its Session on Warming, U.S. Is Seen to Stand Apart The White House convened a two-day conference of the world’s major greenhouse-gas-emitting nations here on Thursday that served to highlight how isolated the Bush administration is on the issue of global warming. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice acknowledged that climate change was a real […]
Date Incident Civilian ISF Total 09/26/07 BAGHDAD – Seven bodies were found in different parts of Baghdad on Wednesday, police said. 7 0 7 09/26/07 BAGHDAD – Two car bombs killed 32 people and wounded 28 shortly before dusk in Bayaa, a mainly Shi’ite district in southwestern Baghdad, police said. 32 0 32 09/26/07 BAQUBA […]
The war president "at peace" with himself Bush’s 2003 conversation with the Spanish prime minister shows his smug determination to invade Iraq at all costs. Yet Bush had very little patience with Aznar, let alone with the more recalcitrant leaders he encountered at the United Nations. Responding brusquely to the Spanish leader’s plea for serious […]
Electoral initiative backers give up Plagued by a lack of money, supporters of a statewide initiative drive to change the way California’s 55 electoral votes are apportioned, first revealed here by Top of the Ticket in July, are pulling the plug on that effort. In an exclusive report to appear on this website late tonight […]