Oh btw, Iraq wasn’t over WMD

Dough Feith, one of the principal architects of the war in Iraq, is pushing his new book. He’s assigning blame for all the blunders to everyone else in the administration. One of the things he disagrees with was the need to make the WMD case in order to justify the invasion. Yes, the administration’s [obviously [...]

Bush’s War

Tonight Fronline begins its devastating 2 part, 4 ½ hour look into the origins of the Iraq war. It airs at 9 on your local PBS station — watch it on TV or online.

International media torpedoes Bush speech

Here’s a compilation of post speech reactions from Fox News, BBC, Sky News, and Al Jazeera. Notice a difference?

US tried to stir civil war in Gaza

Vanity Fair unleashes a ‘bombshell‘ in its upcoming April edition: the Bush administration instigated a civil war in Gaza which backfired, leaving them with a vanquished ally and a strengthened adversary:
Dahlan says he warned his friends in the Bush administration that Fatah still wasn’t ready for elections in January. Decades of self-preservationist rule by Arafat [...]

Are We Rome?

The following is a timely passage from the book Are We Rome? by Cullen Murphy.

In 68 B.C. a pirate attack on Rome’s port of Ostia prompted the terrified Romans to cede far-reaching powers to one man, Pompey. There would be no turning back. The need to act boldly and react quickly; to ferret out enemy [...]

Satellite shoot down was reckless

I was relieved to find out today that I am not the only one who found last week’s satellite shoot down to be completely unnecessary. To believe the rationale provided by the Bush administration and military, that chemical gas was going to contaminate the atmosphere wreaking death upon a random populous, required the active suspension [...]

Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan?

NYT is reporting that the Bush Administration is debating exporting the wild successes of its missions in Afghanistan and Iraq to Pakistan:
WASHINGTON — President Bush’s senior national security advisers are debating whether to expand the authority of the Central Intelligence Agency and the military to conduct far more aggressive covert operations in the tribal areas [...]

Nuetrality of 9/11 Commission in Doubt

In a soon-to-be-released book called The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation, New York Times reporter Philip Shenon challenges the objectivity of the Commission’s Executive Director Philip Zelikow.
DC blogger Max Holland has read the book. Here are the shocking details he provides:

Zelikow was a friend and former colleague of then-national security adviser [...]

Why Are We in Iraq Again?

Photo and reflections of the US War in Iraq.

Time for fuel standards

Washington is just waking up to our real problem in the Middle East.