Nov - 21st
Currently Reading
Posted at 10:24 am | Filed Under Reading
Now do not get me wrong. I believe the vice-president when he said Richard Clarke "wasn't in the loop" on terrorism issues. I mean, Dick Cheney is a pretty reliable source. But still, I'd like to hear what Clarke has to say in his destined-for-textbook-status Against All Enemies...
Image: Amazon.com
And so far -- through three chapters [...]
Sep - 11th
Seven
Posted at 11:16 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
A unique perspective before this day ends...
It is ironic -- or isn't it? -- that the three thousand Americans that died on this day seven years ago brought this country closer together, and the more than four thousand American soldiers that have died in this day's name (potentially in vain) in Iraq have brought us [...]
Sep - 4th
Straight Talk
Posted at 5:10 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
I'll make these comments before McCain accepts his party's nomination this evening...
John McCain deserved his party's nomination in 2000. He was the better man; and he would have been the better leader. In all likelihood, if McCain would have defeated Al Gore (which was likely as well, maybe even without a recount), the horrific events [...]
Jul - 31st
McCain’s Iraq Problem
Posted at 12:59 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
John McCain is in a tough spot politically in the war on terror. With Bush announcing improvements in the security conditions in Iraq, this plays directly into Barack Obama's hands. If conditions have improved, let's bring the troops home.
Counter to that, McCain has stated unequivocally that the U.S. should remain in Iraq for generations to [...]
Jul - 15th
Obama’s Foreign Policy
Posted at 11:20 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
In a speech today... "This war [the Iraq war] distracts us from every threat that we face and so many opportunities we could seize. This war diminishes our security, our standing in the world, our military, our economy, and the resources that we need to confront the challenges of the 21st century. By any measure, [...]
Jul - 15th
Liveblogging the Bush Press Conference
Posted at 7:45 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
7:44am
Bush: "We understood what was coming." We just didn't do anything about it.
7:47am
Bush: "Is this a war? Or is this like law enforcement?"
7:48am
Bush: "One front is going better than the other, and that is Iraq. Afghanistan is a tough fight. Afghanistan is reminiscent of what was going on in Iraq a couple years ago."
7:50am
Bush: "I [...]
Jul - 14th
Obama Opines
Posted at 9:02 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
Barack Obama penned an op-ed for the New York Times...
We should seize this moment to begin the phased redeployment of combat troops that I have long advocated, and that is needed for long-term success in Iraq and the security interests of the United States.
[...]
In this campaign, there are honest differences over Iraq, and we should [...]
Jul - 13th
Hagel, Obama, Iraq
Posted at 2:22 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
Chuck Hagel would be my choice for Obama's VP, and he will be traveling with the Illinois senator on a trip to Iraq, so hopefully that conversation will continue on the plane.
Jun - 19th
Former General: Bush A War Criminal
Posted at 11:34 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
Will Bush face trial at the Hague after his term ends?
"After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes," [Maj. Gen. Antonio] Taguba [the Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse [...]
Jun - 4th
Redacted
Posted at 8:14 am | Filed Under Film Retrospective
This was too boring, although, I guess, the content was so real, it should not have been boring. Either way, I fell asleep. Here is the weird thing. The narrator speaks French. It does not say that anywhere in the description of the DVD. There are English subtitles for the French narration (which stopped after [...]
May - 30th
In the News
Posted at 9:25 am | Filed Under In the News
- I live in a new urbanist neighborhood in the bay area, so I am biased on the subject, but it seems that my hometown (and the surrounding Buffalo region) is having a difficult time accepting the concept of walkable communities, which is a shame.
- Hillary Clinton won California -- somewhat handily -- in the [...]
Apr - 30th
In the News
Posted at 8:24 am | Filed Under In the News
- Listening to Bush, McCain and the republican talk machine, the surge is "working," however April has been "the deadliest month [for U.S. forces] since September."
- The president has received a stay-of-execution (of sorts) with the report that the economy grew at 0.6% in the first quarter, and did not contract.
- And the inventor of [...]
Apr - 24th
Vietnam More Popular Than Iraq
Posted at 3:36 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
Just another notch in Bush's belt... A new poll finds "63% of Americans saying the United States made a mistake in sending troops to Iraq... surpassing by two points the 61% who said the Vietnam War was a mistake in May 1971." (via Dan Froomkin)
Apr - 24th
Prefident Bush: Honesty
Posted at 2:21 pm | Filed Under Prefident Bush
Worrying about his tainted legacy, the president wonders if he should have campaigned differently...
Apr - 8th
Too
Posted at 2:55 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
General David H. Petraeus, "the senior commander of multinational forces in Iraq warned Congress Tuesday against removing 'too many troops too quickly.'"
You know, the General is right. We should give him the benefit of the doubt. We cannot remove too many troops too quickly. What the U.S. needs to do in Iraq is simply remove [...]
Apr - 4th
McCain’s Iraq Argument A Loser
Posted at 9:47 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
I have a hard time believing that Senator John McCain's argument for his election -- that the war in Iraq is a good thing -- will actually help in November. The surge in Iraq -- or more accurately, the escalation of U.S. forces in combat in Iraq -- has stabilized the war-town country, however a [...]
Mar - 27th
Prefident Bush: Stay the Course
Posted at 4:43 pm | Filed Under Prefident Bush
The president is adamant that the Iraq war is going swimmingly...
Mar - 24th
A President’s Burden
Posted at 9:05 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
The death toll of Americans in Iraq has eclipsed four thousand.
A mosaic has been created to commemorate the continuing tragedy...
Image: Nico Pitney / Huffington Post
Mar - 20th
In the News
Posted at 10:19 am | Filed Under In the News
- President Bush has reached another new low: 31 percent approval. "Bush's approval rating five years ago, at the start of the Iraq war, was 71 percent, and that 40-point drop is almost identical to the drop President Lyndon Johnson faced during the Vietnam War."
- With Michigan and Florida not counting, it will be difficult [...]
Mar - 18th
Prefident Bush: Five Years
Posted at 8:46 pm | Filed Under Prefident Bush
The war in Iraq may end up costing upwards of three trillion dollars, but the president is still willing to defend his unwise decision to invade the country nearly five years ago.
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