Tag: iraq
member name: Stephen Murray
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March 06, 2007 07:53 PM EST --
Dear President Bush:
I urge you to pardon Lewis Libby, who was following illegitimate orders from your Vice President to strike out at a critic of the folly and mendacity of your invasion of Iraq, . . . more
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October 11, 2006 08:14 PM EDT --
Fareed Zakaria's Newsweek column in (as usual) acute. "when Iraq's current government was formed last April, he notes, "many voices in America and in Iraq said the next six months would . . . more
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October 31, 2006 09:37 PM EST --
The byline is at the bottom (I'd be happy to have written this, but I didn't; see if you can tell if it is a "liberal" or a "conservative" assessing the situation and the dishonesty.) . . . more
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November 04, 2006 01:54 PM EST --
Perle says he should not have backed Iraq war
By Peter Spiegel, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
November 4, 2006
WASHINGTON — Richard N. Perle, the former Pentagon advisor regarded as the intellectual . . . more
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December 28, 2006 06:53 PM EST --
to read AP's report that "President Bush worked nearly three hours at his Texas ranch on Thursday." Such a long day and his brain didn't explode! I wonder how many of those he has sent . . . more
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January 25, 2007 01:30 PM EST --
To the surprise of few, George W. Bush showed again that his view of "bipartisan" and of the constitutional division of power is that everyone else go along with whatever he does.
I was . . . more
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February 25, 2007 05:59 PM EST --
After appearing at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Walter Conkrite spoke to the local CBS affiliat (KPIX).
"We should have gotten out a long time ago. This is a mistake, this entire war . . . more
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May 17, 2007 02:33 AM EDT --
both of which I think are thoughtful (a characteristic lacking in many knee-jerk gather comments) and neither I can take credit for doing more than disseminating a bit further (here):
Mark Danner: . . . more
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September 08, 2007 06:25 PM EDT --
White House Officials Are Entitled to Their Opinion, But They Are Not Entitled to Their Own Facts, my congressional representative cautioned.
In order to have an open and honest discussion about the state . . . more
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October 24, 2006 04:34 PM EDT --
In typical disingenuous blaming others for one's own sins, Mike O, who probaly only read the title of my previous posting, accused me of hateful misrepresentation of what Bush's mouth and mouthpiece . . . more
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June 08, 2008 07:40 PM EDT --
We hear much of "experience" in regard to John McCain. Having once (when I was a ten-year-old) sported a campaign button that alternated (depending on the angle) between proclaiming "Experience . . . more
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January 10, 2007 01:46 PM EST --
The second US president from Texas is continuing to follow the disastrous example of the first, poised to send more troops into the civil war that followed US invasion of Iraq, just as LBJ dispatched more . . . more
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December 09, 2006 02:55 PM EST --
Baker Cooks Up Another Foul Dish
by David Michael Green
So. The James (Baker) Gang have finally come down from the mountain to deliver to us their long-awaited recipe for salvation . . . more
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April 26, 2007 01:47 PM EDT --
I think that the US should get out of Iraq and let Iran and Saudi Arabia (and, I fear, Turkey) fight over it--as will happen whenever the US withdraws whether tomorrow or in 2009. The surge has only somewhat . . . more
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September 16, 2006 04:56 PM EDT --
(From his NYT review of Frank Rich's "The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina"; also see the image I took from the review).
This is how the war was sold: We were told by Dick . . . more
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September 21, 2006 06:24 PM EDT --
Cobra II shows the extent to which the disasters of the occupation of Iraq can be traced directly to the Department of Defense, including the neocon fantasies of Paul Wolfowitz, the general Bush administration . . . more
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October 03, 2006 05:08 PM EDT --
The chutzpah of Republicans knows no limits. They complain that the hypocrisy of Mark Foley, defender of children from predators, was revealed six weeks before the election--when the Speaker and other . . . more
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October 24, 2006 02:07 PM EDT --
if stopping short of admitting there has never been a course that was "reality-based" (dirty words to those who believed that they "made reality"), Jon Carroll (in today's San Francisco . . . more
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November 26, 2006 03:07 PM EST --
Nearing the six-month mark for the Iraq government's existence, I wrote that it had failed. At the time some Bush apologists claimed that the increased violence in Iraq was aimed at influencing American . . . more
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January 03, 2007 09:35 PM EST --
After an all-Republican government that inherited a budget surplus has turned the United States into a debtor of the PRC (etc.) has lost its majority in the House of Representatives, . . . more
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