Collateral Damage in the Plame Game: US National Security
The most interesting element in the Plame game is "Who sent Joe Wilson to Niger?" We already know the answer. The CIA. The Republican talking points are trying to make it look like this trip was...
View ArticleThe Final Piece in the Plame Puzzle: Obstruction of Justice
Karl Rove's strategy--and the explanation for Robert Novak's low profile--emerged today with backgrounders to the AP and New York Times. The Rove defense is "I heard it from Novak". Federal...
View ArticleThe Battle of New Orleans (and against Kathleen Blanco)
The Battle of New Orleans One of the bitter ironies of Bush's shameful, incompetent, and belated public relations parade through the South that it was seen by none of the people it was ostensibly...
View ArticleDemand Immediate Katrina Commission with Investigatory and Subpoena Powers
The good news is that President Bush's self-serving offer to investigate the Katrina response fiasco "personally" is being greeted with eye-rolling disbelief. Bush administration "investigations" are...
View ArticleAnalogy police warrant out for George W. Bush
The resounding calls to a generational crusade ring pretty hollow now. If a historical analogy is needed, it's as if FDR got on the radio to rally our nation in its darkest hour--in 1946, because he'd...
View ArticleHave You Got What It Takes to Torture?
Now that the Iraq adventure is officially a fiasco, the liberal hawks are crawling out of the woodwork and defend their early support for what is now irrevocably and safely Bush’s cock-up.Max Sawicky...
View ArticleThe New Battle of Baghdad is a Road to Nowhere
The United States is concentrating its forces in Baghdad—the only theater of operations in which it has a hope of bringing decisive force to bear.That’s because the anti-US forces are relatively...
View ArticleLike A Rat Running for Daylight: Bush and the Politics of Perpetual War
There is, I think, a misconception about the Bush administration’s military strategy for the Middle East.There is no military strategy.There is only a political strategy.The political strategy is to...
View ArticleReading Mallard Fillmore is Like Watching a Bug Die
I have always read Bruce Tinsley’s Mallard Fillmore with a strange mixture of irritation and complacency. Irritation, because the nationwide omnipresence of this clumsy, leaden, and supremely unfunny...
View ArticleProtracted War: America vs. Bush vs. Iran
The free ride for the Left in opposing George W. Bush may be over. Things are going to get more complicated and ambiguous.Speaking as someone who blogged against the War on Terror since 2002, it was...
View ArticleGarry Parsky's Role and the California US Attorney Mess
Although I live in California, I know very little about the local GOP. I was very interested in reading the post on Nehring by agent double o soul. It dovetails in an interesting way with some...
View ArticleLibby Pardon Legitimizes Impeachment
I’m not a big impeachment fan but...If President Bush pardons Scooter Libby, it closes the circle on the obstruction of justice process.As in, a member of the executive branch commits a crime, an...
View ArticleWhy Al-Qaeda Might Attack This Summer
If Osama bin-Laden's strategy is to bleed the American empire to death in Mesopotamia, he might feel a new outrage against the United States may be necessary.After all, American disgust with the Iraq...
View ArticleIs Petraeus Misleadingly Selling a Risky Anti-Shi’ite Strategy as an...
An interesting picture of the current state of play in Iraq is emerging. It not only offers serious problems for General Petraeus’s optimistic portrayal of events. It calls the general’s objectivity...
View ArticleThe Hating Game: America Finds a New Flame--Iran
After having poured its heart into the Iraq war, maybe only 25% of Americans are invest any more in that disappointing relationship but, by my unscientific tally, 50% are ready to leave the failure in...
View ArticleFrom Now On, Only Jockstraps “Support” the Troops
Colin Powell’s Pottery Barn analogy for Iraq—you broke it, you own it—seems to be incorrect.You don’t have to own it if you skedaddle out the door and let some dimwitted bystander who’s dumb enough to...
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