Rudy put personal financial gain ahead of politics and national security.[Slate]
If you don’t read Newsday, you might not know (I didn’t until this week) that Rudy Giuliani was an original member of the Iraq Study Group—the blue-ribbon commission co-chaired by James Baker and Lee Hamilton—but he was forced out after failing to show up for [...]
An image I snapped at a small-town carnival this weekend. Shit like this really bothers me, though most people I know think I’m nuts for saying so. By the time the average American is mature enough to start thinking for themselves, they’ve been exposed to mountains of this stuff. Desensitization, indoctrination, at every [...]
When Jim and Dianna Beardsley met with Shrubbo to show their continuing support for the war that killed their son (they were in D.C to bury him),
The president gave them presidential medallion coins and coloring books for their son’s widow and two young children. Then Bush heard the helicopter arriving and he hugged them goodbye.
Sorry [...]
The U.S. military has confirmed that it is arming Sunni insurgent factions to try to contain al-Qaida in Mesopotamia, according to a report in Monday’s New York Times by veteran Iraq correspondent John Burns.
“With the four-month-old increase in American troops showing only modest success in curbing insurgent attacks, American commanders are turning to another strategy [...]
