Two superficially unrelated stories published yesterday and today provide unpleasant insights into the Bush administration’s new domestic Iraq strategy. One, a New York Times article, identifies the seminal author of the White House “Iraq National Strategy” document as a political scientist who was hired by the White House after telling them that Americans will support the war if believe it’s winnable. The other, from CNN, reports what can only be described as a political stump speech given by Joint Chiefs chairman General Peter Pace to an audience at Fort McNair’s National Defense University. . . . → Read More: Iraq National Strategy: Steal the insurgents’ mascot
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US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice is set to embark on a diplomatic campaign aimed at easing European Union concerns about the existence of secret Europe-based CIA prisons housing kidnapped or otherwise off-the-books prisoners of the War on Terra® who are subjected to abuse or torture. Her tack: “The US doesn’t torture anyone, and if we do, you’re helping us. But we don’t.” . . . → Read More: Rice to Europe: We don’t torture, and you’re helping us do it Pennsylvania Republican senator Arlen Specter, who feebly represents the bloody remnants of the pro-choice GOP wing, GOP, was mau-maued by his fellow Republicans when he said a year ago that he would oppose Bush administration Supreme Court nominees who threatened the right of women to choose an abortion. Specter was told that he would not succeed Utah’s Orrin Hatch as chairman of the Senate judiciary committee unless he recanted. He did, and was duly awarded the chairmanship. . . . → Read More: Specter sells out on abortion, again For the sake of our Army, our treasury, our national payche and the lives of our soldiers, someone needs to tell president Bush that we’re winning in Iraq and our presence is no longer necessary. Washington Note proprietor Steve Clemons, who has good sources among disillusioned Republicans, nominates the president’s Mom, who is said to be extremely annoyed with her son’s current roster of advisors and handlers. She’s a steamroller, but one has to question whether she can take on Dick Cheney, whose four-heart-attack motto at this point must be “Victory or Death” (his), and win. Perhaps she can round up enough troops — Laura, Condi and Karen — to pull it off and purge the “Victory or Death (our troops’) contingent. . . . → Read More: Someone has to tell the president we’re winning. Mom? |
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Lugar, Obama promote anti-proliferation initiative
Among the many tragedies arising from the war in Iraq is that most, if not all of the explosives and weapons being used to kill US troops and Iraqi civilians are leftovers from Saddam’s regime that the US failed to secure during and after the invasion. Indiana Republican senator Dick Lugar and Illinois Democrat Barrack Obama have introduced legislation that would fund a US effort to secure similar quantities of abandoned armaments elsewhere in the world. . . . → Read More: Lugar, Obama promote anti-proliferation initiative