To Bush Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, the invasion of Iraq wasn’t war as much as an advanced form of saber-rattling. Andrew Bacevich’s Letter to Paul Wolfowitz at Harper’s has been […]
The 935 lies of George W. Bush (and friends)
By Martin Bosworth That Bush and his inner circle of neocon zealots lied and cooked the books to get us into a war we never should have fought is not news, of […]
Taguba on torture: another frozen scandal
By Robert Silvey Major General Antonio Taguba, who directed the first investigation of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison, has now retired from the US Army and spoken at length with Seymour Hersh […]
Loyal Dubya is Dem’s best friend
President Bush today said that embattled World Bank head Paul Wolfowitz, currently embroiled in yet another BushCo scandal, “ought to stay” in his position. This comes hot on the heels of Bush’s […]
Pelosi “totally opposed” to impeachment; emotionally unsatisfying, but the right call
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held a blogger call this afternoon to discuss the reconciled House/Senate Iraq spending bill. Bob Geiger’s post on the passage this morning seems to capture the thrust of […]
The moral high ground
Once upon a time, Republican moral high-grounders turned a blowjob and land deal-gone-wrong into the end of the world. If you didn’t buy those arguments at the time, you’re probably fairly annoyed […]
Breaking up is hard to do
By Robert Silvey Karl Rove is a bit testy these days, as Sheryl Crow and Laurie David discovered on Saturday. They ran into him at the White House press dinner and tried […]
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