Senate committee: Bush knew Iraq statements were untrue

10 comments June 5th, 2008

 

McClatchy has a STORY about a Senate Select Intelligence Committee report made public today and its conclusion that President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney made public statements to promote an invasion of Iraq that they knew at the time were not supported by available intelligence.

UPDATE: A British paper REPORTS that the Bush administration is negotiating a secret deal that would perpetuate the American military occupation of Iraq indefinitely, regardless of the outcome of the US presidential election in November.

UPDATE II: A member of the Iraqi Parliament TELLS a U.S. House subcommittee that as many as 70 percent of the Iraqi people want U.S. troops withdrawn from their country.

UPDATE III: How’s this for counterintuition?: David Frum, a former speechwriter for President Bush, SAYS John McCain will win the presidency if the election pivots on the war in Iraq.

Recession: The Movie

1 comment March 28th, 2008

Vermonters disdain Bush and Cheney

Add comment January 30th, 2008

I’m no fan of the current administration, but even I think THIS is a bit extreme.

Is Dick Cheney anti-military?

Add comment January 25th, 2008

 

It’s an article of faith among conservatives that Democrats want to close all of our U.S. military bases and turn them into hippie communes while Republicans are patriots whose support of our troops never wavers and whose willingness to lavish money on the Pentagon knows no bounds.

This theory doubtless was behind a remark made last night by Rudy Giuliani at the Republican presidential debate in Florida:

“Bill Clinton cut the military drastically. It’s called the peace dividend, one of those nice- sounding phrases, very devastating. It was a 25, 30 percent cut in the military.”

Ah, but it wasn’t Clinton who came up with the plan to cut the military during the 1990s.  It was Dick Cheney, who was secretary of defense under the first President Bush.

John Aravosis has the truth of the matter HERE.

And The New York Times has THIS.