Nobody’s leaving right now? Well, I guess that’s true, if you don’t count the 1,300 Iraqi refugees who flee the civil-war-torn country every day. Yeah, nobody’s leaving.
On the heels of today’s bombshell NYT article reavealing that the Iraq Study Group will call for combat troop withdrawl, the Washington Post reports tomorrow that the Group will suggest a deadlline, contrary to what the Times had suggested yesterday (the group had considered having a deadline, but couldn’t agree on one, according to the […]
I just woke up from a nap. I dreampt that Iraqi libraries had very strict organizational rules. For instance, any literature that referred to the conflict in Iraq as anything other than a civil war (like White House press releases or USA Todays) had to be filed under “fiction.”
Washington Post columnist Dan Froomkin on the current reluctance of reporters to ‘call bullshit’ when politicans get a little fast and loose with the truth:
Mainstream-media political journalism is in danger of becoming increasingly irrelevant, but not because of the Internet, or even Comedy Central. The threat comes from inside. It comes from journalists being afraid […]
Iowa’s Democratic governor Tom Vilsack announced today that he plans to seek the Democratic nomination for President in 2008.
Vilsack also emphasized the nexus between oil dependence, national security and the economy, saying he would give high priority to weaning the nation off foreign oil and promoting alternative energy.
“Energy security will revitalize rural America,” Vilsack told […]
Somebody remind me, why are we (American taxpayers) paying scandal-infested indicted-arrested-tried-convicted-imprisoned former Republican congressmen for the rest of their lives? I’m talking about the comfortable government pension that we’re stuck paying people like Bob Ney and Duke Cunningham (soon Tom DeLay as well) and Mark Foley for the rest of their lives.
ABC News reports that […]
Blah blah blah, Condi Rice won’t run for President… who cares. We already knew this anyways. People ask if America is ready for a male African American President (Barack Obama), and yet nobody seemed to ask if America was ready for a female African American President. Forget America– the Republican party isn’t ready for an […]
President Clinton today labeled the conflict in Iraq a civil war.
A longer list of those in the media and noteable people who are being honest about the war (and calling it what it is) can be found here.
The New York Times today reports that the Iraq Study Group will recommend US troops be “gradually pulled back” out of Iraq. They’re not calling it withdrawal persay, and they’re not going to set any deadlines or timetables, but they are saying that US troops (or at least “combat troops”) need to get out. And […]
Phew, sorry for the lack of posting yesterday (or today, depending on where you live). I was at two consecutive film shoots, one of them my own, the other of a friend. I’ve been working on one or the other in one way or another of them pretty much non-stop since I woke up until…. […]
Biden will announce tonight.
If Powell was still Secretary of State, he’d call it a civil war.
Also, I’ll be on not one but two film shoots today, so posting might be a little spotty.
The Shiite-split is happening. As discussed earlier this week, since President Bush is meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mouri al-Maliki (himself a Shiite), the bloc of Iraqi Shiites aligned with Moqtada al-Sadr will be boycotting to government (not to mention that al-Sadr commands the formidible Shiite Mahdi Army, which is estimated to be 40,000 or […]
Republican Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist will not seek the Presidency in 2008 as he had earlier planned to, several reports suggest. He will be making an official announcement at 1PM Eastern time. I’ve said several times that he’d never get the nomination and I guess he’s decided I’m right. Haha, not that he’s […]
Just how much extraordinary rendition has been going on? ABC News reports, quite a bit:
The CIA flew 1,245 secret flights into European airspace, according to a European Parliament draft report obtained by ABC News.
The report is the result of a year-long investigation into secret CIA “extraordinary rendition” flights and prisons in Europe.
[…]
But citing records from […]
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