Twenty years after the invasion of Iraq, an American ex-president is being charged with crimes and a world leader has been indicted for war crimes. These things are not related. George W Bush, like his father before him, will never[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A digital drawing I made on my iPad with Paper by 53. I think it’s a shame he will never see the inside of a jail, unless it’s to pick out his next prey on the controlled hunting range.
Iran is a threat because Washington says so. Certainly, WaPo accepts the charge at face value: Iran’s ambitions, which have cast a long shadow over the greater Middle East, may serve as a common bond keeping a frail peace process[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The story of U.S. counterinsurgency “success” and military withdrawal is a bed-time tale told to put the American public to sleep. So argues Hannah Gurman in a Salon piece that punctures several propaganda balloons floated by the ObamAdmin, GOP and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There are typos. And then there are intelligence failures in more ways that one. A Defense Intelligence Agency publication available as recently as yesterday on its Web site noted “an Israeli F-16 raid to destroy an Iranian nuclear reactor” in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you watched Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show last night, you probably caught this segment, Richard Engel’s sunny assessment of Iraqi election results. In Maddow’s words, the Allawi victory could be a “recipe for more stability” as it draws in a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The big news in bated breath anticipation of outcomes hopefully serving American geopolitical interests is the Iraqi election on May 7. The stakes are high, whoa-ho-ho!, so CNN sits down with its resident foreign expert guy, Fareed Zakaria. The main[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Karl Rove has learned his lesson: Mr. Rove adamantly rejects allegations that the administration deliberately lied about the presence of weapons in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. But he acknowledges that the failure to find them badly damaged Mr. Bush’s presidency, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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