Bush and the National Guard: Let’s Move On

by BTC NEWS 23 July 2004

Washington (BTC NEWS) – Now that the Pentagon has found the inadvertently lost or destroyed payroll records for President Bush*’s 1973 Alabama National Guard duty, many will be wondering just how to make use of the new information.

Your typical . . . → Read More: A BTC News Analysis: The Bush* National Guard Payroll Records

The Government Accountability Office, known until about a week ago as the Government Accounting Office, has issued a new report showing that the military faces a shortfall of about $13 billion on top of the $65 billion supplemental appropriation already approved earlier this year.

The administration would prefer not to return to Congress . . . → Read More: Mo’ money, mo’ money, mo’ money …

I have no idea what the story with Sandy Berger actually is, but I must say it’s a bit spooky, if he really is that absent-minded or disorganized, to think he was in charge of our national security. That aside, Josh Marshall has what I think is the definitive (and pretty obvious) take on . . . → Read More: Fried Berger

The company that hosts my site experienced a denial of service attack over the past couple of days and apparently chose to ward off the attacking machines one at a time. My own access to the site and my email server is still spotty. Back tomorrow, I hope.

I ran across a pre-invasion Washington Post article providing the broad strokes of US support for Iraq prior to the Gulf War, and it got me thinking about blowback, and the time frame for it.

It’s probably just coincidence, but the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq took place about twenty years after we . . . → Read More: Blowback sweepstakes

I suppose the explanation is that Barbara Ehrenreich, as with most Nader 2000 supporters, has to find a way to retrofit the outcome of that effort so as to coexist with a routine that includes getting up in the morning and facing the mirror. And so the Dowdian flavor to her current column in . . . → Read More: Ehrenreich comes down with Dowd disease

I was browsing around some sites tonight I hadn’t visited in quite some while. One of them Digital Journalist, hosted a photoessay a few months ago examining the effect Israel’s security wall was having on the Palestinians in its path. That got me thinking and thinking got me writing. Rather than duplicate it here, . . . → Read More: Up against the wall

Falluja, the first city in Iraq to successfully resist the occupation — the US ceded control of the city to a group of former Ba’athist military officers after a bloody and ultimately futile seige — has turned into the insurgents’ version of the Green Zone, the more or less impenetrable area in central Baghdad . . . → Read More: Live from liberated Iraq

James Dobson, of Focus on the Family fame, is quoted in the laughable WorldNet Daily excoriating senators for fleeing before the wrath of the homosexual lobby. As the Senate debates the Federal Marriage Amendment, supporters of the measure charge a number of lawmakers are afraid to vote according to their inclinations because they fear . . . → Read More: Brutal Queers Run Roughshod Over Congress