Like many Americans, I gave our President the benefit of the doubt back in 2003.
I never thought they would lie about something like that, about Saddam and those WMD. I and many of my colleagues were convinced that there had to be more to it all, that they had reasons for making such an […]

U.S. Said to Seek Execution for 6 in Sept. 11 Case
(Read about judicial horror story in today’s New York Times.)

Over the last few weeks I have become rather deflated. The ascendancy of McCain has not been a surprise, though the speed with which both George Bush And Karl Rove have flocked to his side […]

Great little piece in today’s Washington Post from Michael Kinsley and the desperate quest of the Republican candidates to out-Reagan each other, while also giving us a nice run-down of the Reagan reality.

On Mitt Romney:
Mitt Romney, meanwhile, kept repeating, inanely, “We’re in the house that Reagan built.” Reagan “would say lower taxes” and “Reagan would […]

Pakistan bans international observers from conducting exit polls for election
Still stricken by the death of opposition candidate, former Prime Minister Bhutto, President Musharraf dispels rumors that the Feb 18 elections will be a sham by banning international observers.
Read the details about the latest from our great Ally in spreading democracy at McClatchy.
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London Times drops the third shoe (and still NO mainstream media in the US hears it)

The FBI was monitoring Turkish diplomatic and political figures based in Washington who were allegedly working with the Israelis and using “moles” in military and academic institutions to acquire nuclear secrets.

The creation of this nuclear ring had been assisted… […]

CNN) — A three-judge panel in northern Afghanistan has sentenced a student journalist to death for distributing a paper he printed off the Internet that allegedly blasphemed Islam, according to international media groups.But media groups in the country say the journalist is in fact being punished for investigative pieces his brother wrote. Those articles […]

A little over two weeks ago, the Times of London ran the most comprehensive article on the case of FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds to date, an article for which Ms. Edmonds (the most gag-ordered individual in US history, or so they claim) provided new evidence, effectively breaking the court orders for the first time.
It […]

As I continue to say, until the Republicans face up to the fact that we were bamboozld into the Iraq war I don’t know how any of them can put forward a credible strategy for the future for either the region or our interests there.

Aside from Ron Paul, all we’ve had is the assertion that […]

Fred Kaplan in Slate analyzes it for us:
“In the latest Newsweek, Michael Hirsh reports that, during a private conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Bush “all but disowned” the agencies’ Dec. 3 National Intelligence Estimate on Iran. A “senior administration official who accompanied Bush” on the trip confided to Hirsh that Bush “told the […]

Bush disavows Iran NIE to Israeli Prime Minister
This is troubling:
“He told the Israelis that he can’t control what the intelligence community says, but that [the NIE’s] conclusions don’t reflect his own views” about Iran’s nuclear-weapons program, said the official, who would discuss intelligence matters only on the condition of anonymity.
Bush’s behind-the-scenes assurances may help to […]