Insider: Iraq Attack Was Preemptive
April 6, 2008(CBS) The first Pentagon insider to give his account of the run-up to war says the attack on Iraq was more a defensive move against possible future threats from Saddam Hussein than a retaliation for the 9/11 attacks. Douglas Feith, the former undersecretary of defense for policy, also tells […]
5.1 million displaced Iraqis is the equivalent of 55.7 million displaced Americans. Nevertheless, Dick ‘n W are only doing what they do best.
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Bush Dismisses Iraq Recession: The War Has ‘Nothing To Do With The Economy’
Think Progress
February 18, 2007
This morning on NBC’s Today Show, President Bush denied that the there’s any link between the faltering U.S. economy and $10 billion a month being spent on the Iraq war. In fact, according to Bush, the war is actually helping […]
THE NEW YORK TIMES
February 1, 2008
Military Is Called Unprepared for Attack
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States military is not prepared for a catastrophic attack on the country, and National Guard forces do not have the equipment or training they need for the job, according to a new report.
The study of the military’s […]
Because Part I of this series was so incredible, I could not believe it was true. Patapsco Creek Jack wrote the other day about a
Washington Post on-line discussion with Dana Priest.
Voila.
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PART THE THIRD
From the Sunday London Times…
January 27, 2008
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Tip-off thwarted nuclear spy ring probe
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Insight: Chris Gourlay, Jonathan Calvert, Joe Lauria in Washington
AN investigation into […]
Laugh if you wish, but I find this kind of talk refreshing.
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Senator McCain gnashes his teeth because he had forgotten
Satan’s ability to fly walk on acoustic ceiling tiles.
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Images: (Main) Exorcist III via scaredstiffreviews.com (Osama) (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) via asapblogs.typepad.com via farandwide by AP; (McCain) via michaeltotten.com
Stories by KELLY KENNEDY - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Dec 17, 2007 13:10:09 EST
Spc. Gerry DeNardi stood at the on-base Burger King, just a few miles from downtown Baghdad, hoping for a quick taste of home.
Camp Taji encompasses miles of scrapped Iraqi tanks, a busy U.S. airstrip and thousands of soldiers living in row upon […]
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Iraq’s foreign militants ‘come from US allies’
Peter Walker
Thursday November 22, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
Around 60% of all foreign militants who entered Iraq to fight over the past year came from Saudi Arabia and Libya, according to files seized by American forces at a desert camp.
The files listed the nationalities and biographical details of more than 700 […]
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 […]
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Blackwater Vies for Jobs
Beyond Guard Duty
By AUGUST COLE
October 15, 2007; Page A3
MOYOCK, N.C. — Even as Blackwater USA seeks to extricate itself from a firestorm over the conduct of its private-security forces in Iraq, company founder Erik Prince is laying plans for an expansion that would put his for-hire forces in hot spots around the […]