Posted in International, Politics, tagged Bush's War, George Bush, Iraq on April 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Two nights ago PBS ran another of its documentaries, “Frontline: Bush’s War,” Parts 1 and 2. I knew full well what I was getting into, but I decided to watch it anyway. It was history. It would be a nice summation of the Iraq war and correct any erroneous ideas I had.
Well, I stuck it out [...]
Posted in Middle East, Politics, tagged Iraq on February 3, 2008 | No Comments »
The Associated Press just reported the U.S. has killed nine more Iraqi civilians. Accidentally, of course. As if that matters. In shooting wars, innocents die. But in Iraq, we don’t have to be the killers. We should get out, now.
Posted in International, Politics, tagged George Bush, Iraq on November 12, 2005 | 1 Comment »
President Bush yesterday accused critics of the Iraq war of trying to “rewrite history.” Oh puh-LEEZ!
Mr. Bush is overstating a bit, and this time he’s sounding more than a little defensive. Perhaps we should cut him some slack and allow that he simply misused the language, as he is wont to do. But that would [...]
Posted in International, Politics, tagged Congress, Iraq, Senate on November 2, 2005 | No Comments »
Democrats today invoked Rule 21 to close the U.S. Senate. What a brilliant move! I’ll not even try to hide my glee. I’ve thought since before we went into Iraq that the Administration was, if not outright lying, at least distorting the truth about why we needed to invade.
As for any retrospective Congressional investigation of [...]
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