I found this out yesterday, but I just wanted to say how fantastic it is to have someone like Rand Beers as counselor to Janet Napolitano, whose confirmation hearing is today. No one is more qualified or better suited for this job. “Secretary of Homeland Security-designate Janet Napolitano has offered, and I have accepted, the [...]
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No Daylight
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQAZxUO3Sxo&eurl Full text of Clinton’s opening statement “We must use what has been called smart power, the full range of tools at our disposal… With smart power, diplomacy will be the vanguard of foreign policy.” – Secretary of State designate Hillary Clinton The word was “we.” It remains to be seen if the skeptics will [...]
Tom Ricks Blackballed at Army War College
Ricks tells a disturbing tale that reveals a lot about the cost of criticizing the Iraq war, just as Bush trumpets it as his great success. Did faculty members at the Army War College curtail their criticism of the Iraq war for fear of institutional retaliation? [...] When I asked him why he would urge [...]
Dick and George’s Mushroom Cloud, and What Brought Obama to The Show
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeYXnXpOwNA&eurl With the flippancy of a teenage thug shrugging off his personal responsibility for the lies he told that got someone else killed, outgoing Vice President Dick Cheney proclaimed with the ease that the goals of Iraq have mostly been accomplished. The truth, as always with Bush-Cheney, is something quite different, as Rand Beers NSN [...]
In Our World
Taj and Trident Tower reopen, but not the Oberoi which will take another seven months or so. An unsmiling policeman stood behind sandbags, rifle poised. If the metal detector beeped, a polite staffer requested guests to have their bags checked. Besides the security, on Saturday, a day before the Trident reopened, it felt like the [...]
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Top Ten Reasons Why John McCain Will Lose This Election
cross-posted at Huffington Post 1. George W. Bush 2. The Iraq war 3. The economic implosion this fall. 4. Without the national security card McCain couldn’t win. 5. Hillary Clinton made Barack Obama a better candidate than he ever would have been on his own. 6. McCain picked Sarah Palin without vetting her, and believed [...]
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A Foreign Policy Vote for Barack and Joe
100,000 in my home town of St. Louis come to hear Barack Today I cast an enthusiastic vote for O-Biden. It didn’t start out that way. But today I was very proud of my vote. Let me start by borrowing some words from the Chicago Tribune endorsement yesterday, personalizing them just a bit: Many Americans [...]
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Biden Sees his Son Off to Iraq
Beau, a Captain in the Delaware National Guard, deploys to Iraq on Friday. In case you’ve lost track of reality during the economic crisis, the DoD just announced its 2009 Iraq deployments, “additional major units scheduled to deploy in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.” The fight to get out of Iraq isn’t over. I’ve made [...]
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Palin: ‘Our national leaders, are sending U.S. soldiers out on a task that is from God…’
BY TAYLOR MARSH Finally, Campbell Brown gets an answer to her question. Complete with video: Her speech in June provides as much insight into her policy leanings as anything uncovered since she was asked to be John McCain’s running mate. Speaking before the Pentecostal church, Palin painted the current war in Iraq as a messianic [...]
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Hillary Calls for GAO Investigation of Government Contracts
James Risen wrote recently that the use of contractors in Iraq has reached the level of a private army. The report, by the Congressional Budget Office, according to people with knowledge of its contents, will say that one out of every five dollars spent on the war in Iraq has gone to contractors for the [...]
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Senator Clinton Blasts Bush
Senator Clinton writers in the Wall Street Journal today, No Crisis Is Immune From Exploitation Under Bush: In the past few years, the number of corporations flocking to places like the Cayman Islands to evade U.S. taxes has exploded. One of these companies, former Halliburton subsidiary KBR, has used offshore tax havens to avoid paying [...]
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Maliki Endorses Obama’s Democratic Timetable for Iraq
U.S. Military, via Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesSenator Barack Obama at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan with, from left: William B. Wood, the American ambassador to Afghanistan; Senator Chuck Hagel; Sgt. Maj. Vincent Camacho; Senator Jack Reed; and Maj. Gen. Jeffrey J. Schloesser. This is going to infuriate the McCainiacs. But it’s just another sign [...]
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Clinton’s Internet Director Challenges Bloggers to Cover Obama Campaign Tactics
Well, this is a first. Peter Daou is Clinton’s Internet director. I just found out that he has sent out an email to a group of bloggers with a challenge: “I challenge my online friends to call this “full assault” on Hillary’s character for what it is.” I got a copy of the email he [...]
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Obama and Iraq, Military, and Clinton
“No doubt in my mind he can probably milk a cow but his body of experience means he probably doesn’t know how to milk one. … When I look across the aisle at Sen. Obama, other than a great speech, I really do not see the same body of experience to deal with that issue. [...]
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William F. Buckley Jr., R.I.P.
One can’t doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed. … Our mission has failed… – William F. Buckley, Jr. He was the conservatives conservative. He created The National Review. He was the bookend to Ronald Reagan. Mr Buckley, 82, suffered from diabetes and emphysema, his son Christopher said, although the exact cause of [...]
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