The Bush administration have once again proved themselves the most effective minority executive branch in history. Bush, Cheney & Co. have persuaded Democratic leaders to avoid investigating even the possibility of impeaching the pair; they’ve persuaded the Democratic Congress to immunize the administration against prosecution for crimes it may have and may yet commit; they’ve […]

I wrote recently about Joe Biden’s more or less hallucinatory plan to salvage Iraq by federalizing it and bringing in a UN peacekeeping force that would necessarily be an order of magnitude larger than any previously assembled. Some people are latching on to Biden’s plan, which would simultaneously fail and extend the U.S. occupation of […]

The latest signal came from George Bush, warning of a “nuclear holocaust” if Iran gets The Bomb (despite an IAEA report that Iran isn’t as much of a threat as Bush claims). There can’t be any more provocative words than “nuclear holocaust” to justify the purported prevention of one. Nor can there be any doubt […]

The foreign policy community has been subjected to considerable rigorous scrutiny by various, generally liberal commentators of late. The proximate cause of the exercise was the New York Times op-ed column from born-and-raised community residents Ken Pollack and Michael O’Hanlon, Iraq invasion supporters who recast themselves as occupation critics in order to create an artificial […]

It’s yet another example of reporting that makes no effort at analysis of Bush’s claims. This time, Bush says that an American withdrawal from Iraq would have an effect like that of our withdrawal from Vietnam - a bloodbath resulting in the deaths of millions of people.
…one unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price […]

aka “You take our breath away.”
Reprehensibly: That’s beyond revoltingly rich, and with a twist: it’s richesse at the expense of everybody and everything else, self-indulgent, spoonfed government dole-out wealth on an IRS silver platter. These are the same folks already getting exponentially greater boon to their ledgers from everything the government […]

The Washington Post’s lead editorial today asserts that Tehran is supplying “sophisticated bombs” that are killing American soldiers in Iraq.
After President Bush made the same accusation last year, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Peter Pace said, on March 14, 2006, that he had no proof that the Iranian government was responsible for such attacks.
This year, on […]

The American Psychological Association now says that its members can’t take part in water-boarding, sleep deprivation or sexual humiliation, among other techniques that have become part and parcel of Bush tactics against alleged terrorists at Guantanamo. If they see such activities, they are now required to intervene to stop them, report them to superiors, and […]

The war - George Bush’s War, the Neo-con’s War, Joe Lieberman’s War, the Republican-Democrat’s War - is as catastrophic as its opponents predicted, but the reality of it is far more catastrophic than they could have imagined, because it’s impossible to imagine such endless, grinding horror. It must be lived to be known. Words can […]

Can “Democrats,” “resolve” and “Iraq” be used in the same sentence without violating the Associated Press style manual guidelines? I traded my copy to a literate streetcorner pharmacist for a few days of anti-depression medication, so I don’t know. I do know that congressional Democrats will not be taking any action to hasten our exit […]