Surge Failing, 108 Foreign Policys Experts and Poll Reports
Foreign Policy Magazine, published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has done a survey of 108 Foreign Policy Experts. The results seem to back up what most of us have been saying for a...
View ArticleBush To Claim Iraq Is His Viet Nam In VFW Speech
Just posted on the NYTimes is a article about a early release of Bushs speech to the VFW tomorrow. It appears he plans to use Nam as his saving grace. Karl must have lost his mind if he believes this...
View ArticleFISA Secrets Revealed, ATT and Others Guilty
In what could be the final nail in ATT and the other phones companys coffins over their helping break the law when it came to spying on Americans , McConnell spilled the beans in Texas. He admitted...
View ArticleSplurge Body Count At Double The Pace, Spin That Boys !
From Steven Hurst at the AP come this article I expect to see in many of the Sunday Newspapers, by the title Iraq Body Count Running at Double Pace. This should inject some reality into the spin that...
View ArticleGen. Petraeus Lies to Aussies, He Will Lie to Congress Next
On Friday Petraeus told the Australians a few lies which I assume will be the same thing we hear when he testifys to Congress. Here is the boldface lie he told the Aussies. Petraeus told the...
View ArticlePoliticians Slimed On Green Zone Visits
I would call it kind of a Hit List on the politicians. The lists being handed out to the troops in the Green Zone, those likely to talk to Senators or Reps. or their visits to the Dog and Pony Show,...
View ArticleAmericas Nuns Call For Bush&Cheney Impeachment
I wasn't going to write this diary but it has bugged me for hours. There is absolutely no Press on this release save the original article I will be linking to. During the Vietnam War when the Catholic...
View ArticleAnother Asst. Atty. Gen. Quits, Who is Left ?
Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division has turned in his walking papers. His excuse ? He wants to spend time with his family, usually codetalk...
View ArticleCould Law and Order Candidate Win With Promise To Try Bush& Co. ?
A Landslide victory could be just that easy for a viable candidate like Gore to run on the promise of Justice. It would never work with a Gravel or Dennis K., but someone could pull it off. Americans...
View ArticleLive Blog #5 Petraeus & Magical September
Please do not rec. this diary. Snark and participation welcome Hearing can be seen live at Cspan 3 or live streamed here http://www.c-span.org/... Can also be viewed on CNN for now. Be advised we...
View ArticleWaxman Agrees To Investigate Pres.Clinton For Hatch Act Violations
Can you freaking believe that yet again the most investigated Pres. in history will have to go thru this one more time ? When I read the headline all I could think is what the hell is Waxman doing ?...
View ArticleBush Outsources War In Afghanistan For 15 Billion and Gets Away With It
As if we need more proof our Troops are stretched way too far, Bush is looking to hire more Mercenaries. This time it is to, the admins says, to "to develop and install high-resolution shortwave...
View ArticlePresident Petraeus's Chances Ruined By Loss In Iraq ?
I just found out the General Petraeus is a ambitious man that wants to be president. If the story is true he cannot afford to lose in Iraq. Not even the Right would vote for the General that will be...
View ArticleNYT OpEd Rips Pace and Bremers Excuses Apart
A few weeks ago Paul Bremer, weaselly Neocon, wrote a OpEd/Excuse piece in regards to Iraq Armys demise. Gen. Pace said they just faded into the background, the word he used was "Dissolved" when I saw...
View ArticleLive Blog #2 Warrantless Wiretapping Hearing
Live BloggingHearing Notification Hearing on Warrantless Surveillance and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: The Role of Checks and Balances in Protecting Americans’ Privacy Rights (Part...
View ArticleSuccess! Pardon Granted to Chronic Pain Political Prisoner Richard Paey
I am a chronic pain sufferer and I sit with tears of joy over this news. No one, absolutely no one should have to be in constant, overwhelmning, debilitating pain in our country when there are ways to...
View ArticleEmerging Truths Abouts Mukasey Aren't Pretty
I am beginning to believe to we have been had again. Mukasey, when his name was announced and all the hype about how independent he would be had that sound of " Too good to be true", and brought to...
View ArticlePainting Targets on Iraqi Civilians Backs , "Baiting"
Imagine for second going into any poor neighborhood with high unemployment in the USA and placing a Twenty Dollar Bill on the ground for all to see. Next imagine it's legal to shoot anyone that bends...
View ArticleSunni's Own Surge Message To The World
It appears the Sunni's in Iraq have decided they like Gen. Petreaous's tactic. So much so they have adopted it. Just to make sure no one misses their change they have what Tahseen al-Sheikhly, from...
View ArticleWhite House Leaks To Save Warrantless Wiretaps, Another Handy Leak ?
The AP is reporting they have been told that it took 9 hours to set up a tap on those insurgents they think kidnapped 3 of our Soldiers last Spring. A Unnamed source. It's a good spin as they go, but...
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