During today’s press gaggle aboard Air Force One, press secretary Tony Snow said Iraq can “sustain, defend and govern itself.” That’s great. Can we bring the troops home now?
The context was a question about whether the administration would have a response to tomorrow’s announcement of the verdict in Saddam Hussein’s trial. Snow said he didn’t […]

Meet Mark Halperin, world’s most pathetic journalist. Halperin, who runs ABC’s conventional wisdom assembly line, The Note, co-wrote a book with the Washington Post’s John Harris ironically entitled The Way to Win. Regardless what the book says, Halperin’s winning strategy appears to involve publicly debasing yourself beyond any hope of redemption. Glenn Greenwald, whose […]

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Harsh words about US […]

Needlenose blogger Swopa is so good at predicting various Iraq-related stupidities, cupidities and disasters that I sometimes think US policymakers are reading the blog and mistaking it as prophetic command. “Swopa says we’re going to alienate al Sadr and magnify his influence again. To hear is to obey!” This entry, “How many soldiers’ lives has […]