McCain's rep is that he is some sort of straight talking moderate. The truth is, well.... read for yourself: Q: President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for... [More]
January 4, 2008
Blogging From Beyond the Grave
Go read this. Now. Please.... [More]
January 9, 2008
WMD In Iraq!
Look! We found the WMD in Iraq! And you'll never guess who was using them.... Blackwater: The helicopter was hovering over a Baghdad checkpoint into the Green Zone, one typically... [More]
January 13, 2008
The Iraq War Debate
It looks like the Democratic candidates are going to focus on the Iraq War for the next few days, and although there's nothing new here substantively, I think this may... [More]
More Thoughts on Clinton v. Obama
Obama may not be taking my advice about tying the Iraq War vote to the ongoing debate about change, but he is doing something else, something that might even be... [More]
January 14, 2008
Surge On To Success!
Shorter Bill Kristol: The Surge worked! Democrats were wrong! Ha ha ha! My Response: Kristol doesn't understand the difference between tactical and strategic success. Yes, I agree, the surge has... [More]
January 15, 2008
Number of the Day: 2018
Fun with numbers, today's version: The Iraqi defense minister said Monday that his nation would not be able to take full responsibility for its internal security until 2012, nor be... [More]
January 17, 2008
Prosecuting Blackwater? Good Luck.
Good luck: WASHINGTON — Justice Department officials have told Congress that they face serious legal difficulties in pursuing criminal prosecutions of Blackwater security guards involved in a September shooting that... [More]
January 18, 2008
"Iraq's government is at a stalemate"
Mowaffak al-Rubaie, Iraq's national security adviser, writes in today's WaPo: Iraq's government is at a stalemate. As in the United States, there is much discussion here of the need for... [More]
January 23, 2008
Link-O-Rama
Here are a bunch of links to posts and articles I've come across over the last two days that due to my own poor time management skills didn't get the... [More]
January 27, 2008
"An Unbecoming Posture for McCain"
Over the past 24 hours or so, an increasingly bitter war of words has broken out between John McCain and Mitt Romney. The short version? McCain lied about Romney's position... [More]
January 28, 2008
A Question For McCain
At this point, everyone seems to agree that at most, Mitt Romney once-upon-a-time supported the idea of "secret timetables" and withdrawal plans from Iraq. Here's the exact quote: Well, there's... [More]
They Can't Even Agree On Their Flag
Remembering that the point of the surge was to enable political progress, read this: Officials in Iraq's mostly Sunni Muslim Anbar province are refusing to raise Iraq's new national flag,... [More]
January 29, 2008
Entirely Predictable
AP: WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is sending strong signals that U.S. troop reductions in Iraq will slow or stop altogether this summer, a move that would jeopardize hopes of... [More]
January 30, 2008
Another Day, Another Signing Statement
Charlie Savage, the man who quite literally wrote the book on Bush's unprecedented and unconstitutional use of "signing statements," has an article in today's Boston Globe about the president's latest... [More]
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