The Project for the New American Century is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to a few fundamental propositions: that American leadership is good both for America and for the world; and that such leadership requires military strength, diplomatic energy and commitment to moral principle. The Project for the New American Century intends, through issue briefs, […]
[you can review the timeline for the Iraq Invasion at Mother Jones]
I don’t know whether to say joyfully, "Only one more year before Bush and Cheney are gone!" or to say sadly, "We have to live through a whole year before Bush and Cheney are gone!" 365 more days…
The traditional dichotomes – Liberal versus Conservative – aren’t working very well these days. Traditionally, the argument had meaning. What we’re dealing with right now is eight years of incompetence and double talk. Bush and Cheney oppose big government spending while spending us into a recession. They are compassionate conservatives who torture people – faith-based […]
Mary of the left coaster points to two Tomgrams from Tom Engelhardt‘s site [Journey to the Dark Side and The $100 Barrel of Oil vs. the Global War on Terror]. Their collective point is that besides making us a suspicious, frightened nation, Bush has focused us away from realities that we should be attending to. […]
… that there’s an important ten year anniversary coming in two weeks. I’m going to mark its passing in a Internet-free beach house, but it’ll appear right here on time.
The Surge Worked By JOHN MCCAIN and JOE LIEBERMAN It was exactly one year ago tonight, in a televised address to the nation, that President George W. Bush announced his fateful decision to change course in Iraq, and to send five additional U.S. combat brigades there as part of a new counterinsurgency strategy and under […]
In one of his last columns for Salon before joining the Clinton campaign, Sydney Blumenthal wrote: There has never been a moment when we were not winning in Iraq. Victory has followed victory, from "Mission Accomplished" to the purple fingers of the Iraqi election to, most recently, President Bush’s meeting at Camp Cupcake in Anbar […]
The top graph is from zFacts. The bottom graph is from the December 2007 Pentagon Report: Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq. Here’s the narrative that goes with the graph: Oil Infrastructure Integrity Crude oil production during September through November 2007 averaged 2.28 million barrels per day (mbbl/d) compared with 2.24 mbbl/d during the […]
At the risk of causing death by graph, I’d like to remind us all of the Petraeus Incident last September. It was all about the Surge and the Pentagon’s Quarterly Report on Iraq. In looking over the numbers, I produced this version as a graph: My conclusion was that the Surge was a misnomer […]