Bush Forced To Retreat on Iraqi SOFA Looks like the American media has finally caught up to their overseas counterparts on what the Bush Administration is trying to get away with in Iraq with a Status of Forces Agreement. And the Iraqis aren’t going along. In short, the Prime Minister isn’t happy with us anymore. […]
Stephen Hadley is one of those people involved with Republican Administrations’ National Security teams since the Nixon days. He was with the Ford, Reagan, and Bush I Administrations. Notably, under Bush I, he was Assistant to Paul Wolfowitz in developing the 1992 Draft Defense Planning Guidance for then Secretary of Defense, Dick Cheney – the […]
Matt Cooper called to give me a heads-up that he’s got a welfare reform story coming. When he finished his brief heads-up he immediately launched into Niger. Isn’t this damaging? Hasn’t the president been hurt? I didn’t take the bait, but I said if I were him I wouldn’t get Time far out in front […]
emptywheel’s Scott McClellan Series: Waxman Closing in on Dick Cheney for Outing Valerie Wilson: … Did Condi Speak with Bush about Rove’s So-Called Innocence? Or about the NIE?: … Trivial Policy Ideas: … Is Fred Fielding Reading emptywheel?: … Scottie McC’s Chronology: September 27: … Scottie McC’s Chronology: September 29: … Scottie to Conyers: It’s […]
Articles of Impeachment [Kucinich] Creating a Secret Propaganda Campaign to Manufacture a False Case for War Against Iraq Falsely, Systematically, and with Criminal Intent Conflating the Attacks of September 11, 2001, With Misrepresentation of Iraq as a Security Threat as Part of Fraudulent Justification for a War of Aggression Misleading the American People and Members […]
McClellan: White House Officials Blocked Intelligence Report, ‘Continue To Bury Their Heads In The Sand’ Yesterday, former press secretary Scott McClellan appeared on MSNBC’s Countdown to discuss last week’s Senate Intelligence Report, which found that the White House “built the public case for war against Iraq by exaggerating available intelligence and by ignoring disagreements among […]
U.S. seeking 58 bases in Iraq, Shiite lawmakers say Iraqi lawmakers say the United States is demanding 58 bases as part of a proposed "status of forces" agreement that will allow U.S. troops to remain in the country indefinitely. Leading members of the two ruling Shiite parties said in a series of interviews the Iraqi […]
Another Day In La-La Land It is becoming too easy – as a mere citizen like me – to see right through the posers, pretenders, and fakers of America’s ersatz "news media." The most important thing going happened on Monday night. An event that matters greatly to the course of history and to all Americans. […]
Well, I came into Kucinich’s Impeachment articles about halfway through on CSPAN. I have no idea where it will go, but he did one fine job of presenting them. With each point, he seemed to get a new wind and enthusiasm, and he had certainly done his homework. It was like hearing the history of […]
Olmert Hints U.S. Action on Iran Nukes is Near Prime Minister Ehud Olmert hinted after his meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush Wednesday that U.S. action against Iran is imminent. While he avoided saying anything clear and specific on the matter, Olmert did mention a "timetable" and said action would take place before Bush […]