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Houston Chronicle
“We Should Not Let Them Back into Polite Society” - Richard Clarke on GWB and His Cronies
Posted 6/6/2008 8:40 AM CDT
On Countdown last night, Keith went after GWB and his administration over the new Phase 2 Report on Iraq intelligence issued yesterday under chairman Jay Rockefeller. The conclusions reached by this report were […]
Jason Linkins
The Huffington Post
Rumsfeld on the 2006 Election: “The Correction For That…Is An Attack”
May 13, 2008 01:55 PM
An ongoing exploration of the documents related to the Pentagon’s “message force multipliers” program has unearthed a clip of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld suggesting that America, having voted the Democrats back into Congressional power, could benefit from […]
From the Desk of Donald Rumsfeld . . .
In Sometimes-Brusque ‘Snowflakes,’ He Shared Worldview, Shaped Policy
By Robin Wright
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 1, 2007; A01
In a series of internal musings and memos to his staff, then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld argued that Muslims avoid “physical labor” and wrote of the need to “keep elevating the […]
Ex-Commander Says Iraq Effort Is ‘a Nightmare’
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Tyler Hicks/The New York Times
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Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, then the top American commander in Iraq, in Baghdad in 2004.
By DAVID S. CLOUD
Published: October 13, 2007
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 — In a sweeping indictment of the four-year effort in Iraq, the former top commander of American forces there called […]
Commentary: Re-open investigation of Abu Ghraib
By Joseph L. Galloway | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Wed, June 20, 2007
We were reminded again this week that in this administration, no good deed goes unpunished, and that no scandal is so great that it can’t be hidden until it’s forgotten.
The sad spectacle that transpired inside the crumbling walls of […]
Annals of National Security
The General’s Report
How Antonio Taguba, who investigated the Abu Ghraib scandal, became one of its casualties.
by Seymour M. Hersh June 25, 2007
On the afternoon of May 6, 2004, Army Major General Antonio M. Taguba was summoned to meet, for the first time, with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in his Pentagon conference […]
The Sunday Times
May 20, 2007
Decline and fall of the neocons
Paul Wolfowitz’s departure from the World Bank signals the end of an ideological era in Washington
Sarah Baxter
As Tony Blair was bidding farewell to President George W Bush in the Rose Garden on Thursday, the World Bank was preparing to kick out Paul Wolfowitz as president. Allies […]
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Here are a few snippets from Frank Rich’s Iraq War Anniversary column.
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March 18, 2007
Op-Ed Columnist
The Ides of March 2003
By FRANK RICH
March 5, 2003
“I took the Grey Poupon out of my cupboard.”
— Representative Duke Cunningham, Republican of California, on the floor of the House denouncing French opposition to the Iraq war.
[In November 2005, he resigned […]
It only took the inspector general four years to reach his conclusion.
Official’s Key Report On Iraq Is Faulted
‘Dubious’ Intelligence Fueled Push for War
By Walter Pincus and R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, February 9, 2007; A01
Intelligence provided by former undersecretary of defense Douglas J. Feith to buttress the White House case for invading Iraq […]