Category Archive for 'The War Years'

A presidential political attack,
legal and in the nation’s interest

Saturday, April 8th, 2006

Tribune Newspapers ~
By Tom Hamburger & Peter Wallsten

White House: Leak in ‘public interest’

McClellan on Friday drew a difference between the kinds of disclosures that do not threaten national security and disclosures such as the report last year that Bush had authorized warrantless wiretapping of people with suspected links to terrorist […]

War is Peace.

Monday, March 27th, 2006

Washington Post ~ By Lynne Duke

The Word at War

The Lynch story was among the stories cited in a 2003 analysis titled “Truth From These Podia,” by Sam Gardiner, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and former instructor at the National War College. Gardiner studied the Iraq-war-related statements of U.S. and British officials […]

Eighth Circle so far, Ninth not too far off.

Friday, March 24th, 2006

Washington Post ~ By Charles Krauthammer

Of Course It’s a Civil War

A leading apologist for the neocons clarifies why we went into Iraq…
to start a Civil War:

Now all of a sudden everyone is shocked to find Iraqis going after Iraqis. But is it not our entire counterinsurgency strategy to get […]

Remembering the Taguba Report (you’ll find it underneath Rumsfeld’s wastepaper basket)

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

Way back in early 2004, a time when the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein wasn’t quite considered an apt role model for the humane treatment of prisoners (at least by most experts), it was disclosed that his former prisons were in fact still being engaged for the use of torturing its inmates. What was […]

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