Several interesting news stories recently on the partisan struggle regarding closing Gitmo. The first was a McClatchy article on former VP Cheney’s speech yesterday to the American Enterprise Institute — the center of Neocon World. In it they charge that the speech was filled with misstatements, exaggerations and omissions. Lately, Cheney has been acting like [...]
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Gitmo fears
Posted in Current Events, Politics, Uncategorized, tagged Bush, Cheney, detainees, fear, Gitmo, Guantanmo prison, torture on May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So What?
Posted in Current Events, tagged blowback, Bush, Iraq, neocons, shoes on December 15, 2008 | 10 Comments »
There was an astounding exchange during W’s recent interview with ABC’s Martha Raddatz.
BUSH: One of the major theaters against al Qaeda turns out to have been Iraq. This is where al Qaeda said they were going to take their stand. This where al Qaeda was hoping to take…
RADDATZ: But not until after the U.S. invaded.
BUSH: [...]
Shoes for Bush
Posted in Current Events, Uncategorized, tagged Iraq, Bush, Middle East culture, shoes, insults on December 14, 2008 | 7 Comments »
It would seem that at least one Iraqi journalist has had enough. He took off his shoes and threw them at President Bush at a news conference held during a surprise “victory tour” visit to Iraq. It seems that the journalist had lost members of his family to the war, had been kidnapped at one [...]
