Republican John McCain was forced to clarify his comments Friday suggesting the Iraq war involved U.S. reliance on foreign oil. He said he was talking about the first Gulf War and not the current conflict.
Sure thing John, because everyone is talking about the Gulf War right now. And when you said that your energy policy [...]
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 [...]
Al Jazeera gave Iraqis a chance to question America’s most senior military officer — CJCS Admiral Mike Mullen — on the current situation in their country.
I particularly enjoy the following exchange on freedom:
Iraqi: Where is the freedom you promised us?
Adm Mullen: ‘You are free.’
As I concluded in Part 1, the Air Force doesn’t have a role in dealing with a rogue leader “who wants to flex his muscles.” So why then are they running an ad suggesting that they do?
I’m sure you’ve seen other variations of the Air Force’s new ad campaign. There’s one where a satellite is [...]
Since the entertainment industry is masquerading as ‘journalists’ in America, it’s good to know that there are still unencumbered journalists in this world. For example, The Economist has wholly rejected the trend of sensationalist reporting and narrow-minded, simple analyses as found on cable news.
A new edition is out and it is best one I’ve ever [...]
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.
Here’s a compilation of post speech reactions from Fox News, BBC, Sky News, and Al Jazeera. Notice a difference?
[This post is part of a series leading up to the 5 year anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq on Thursday.]
This post is part of a series leading up to the 5 year anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq on Thursday. It was written by Pat Dollard for Maxim magazine. He blogs at www.patdollard.com.
Dollard says of the invasion of Iraq: “I could give two fucks about WMDs. There were much more important reasons to [...]
This Thursday is the 5 year anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. Over the next 5 days I’ll be posting pictures, videos, and thoughts of our involvement there.
Michael Walzer postulates in The New Republic that private armies — such as Blackwater — are a liability, not only for the USA, but for the nation-state system.
If we want to maintain accountability in war, then, we had best take a statist view of military activity. I don’t want to argue that private armies run [...]
Time to pour cold water on the Democratic hopefuls plans for Iraq.
I disagree with both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton who have promised to precipitously end the war in Iraq. In a perfect world we could end the war today. But if we lived in a perfect world we wouldn’t have invaded Iraq in the [...]
John McCain said yesterday that US troops could be in Iraq for the next 100 years:
(Hat [...]
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