Podhoretz secretly urged Bush to bomb Iran President Bush and Karl Rove sat listening to Norman Podhoretz for roughly 45 minutes at the White House as the patriarch of neoconservatism argued that the United States should bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities. The meeting was not on the president’s public schedule. Rove was silent throughout, though he […]
My daughter Abby sends an alarming piece of data – our level of debt to the world. It’s a staggering $862,300,000,000 – putting us on top of the world, eight-fold higher than the nearest competitor. But that’s only a piece of our overall debt – $9,000,000,000,000. It brings into question Bush’s request for almost $200,000,000,000 […]
Bush to Skip U.N. Talks on Global Warming Dozens of world leaders are to gather at the United Nations on Monday for a full agenda of talks on how to fight global warming, and President Bush is skipping all the day’s events but the dinner. Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary general, is hoping to […]
Cheney mulled Israeli strike on Iran Vice President Dick Cheney had at one point considered asking Israel to launch limited missile strikes at an Iranian nuclear site to provoke a retaliation, Newsweek magazine reported on Sunday. The news comes amid reports that Israel launched an air strike against Syria this month over a suspected nuclear […]
Not that anyone’s asking me, but it seems that there is a valid strategy to engage a rational dialogue about Iraq. President Bush and his ensemble took us to Iraq on the public grounds that Saddam Hussein was dangerous to America because he had Weapons of Mass Destruction, Nuclear Bombs and Chemical/Biological Weaponry, and was […]
In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee took the War of Succession north into enemy territory. After some initial successes, the Southern and Northern Armies converged on Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. July 1st, 1863: Lee’s forward forces were not adequate and were stopped before taking Cemetery Ridge, a crucial piece of geography for the coming […]
I continue to be focused on my graphs. Maybe if I get it off my chest, I can move on. General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker presented us a picture that was not inaccurate, it just wasn’t accurate. Given the context of their field of vision, I guess they did the best they could do. Olbermann […]