Dick Cheney ’94: Invading Baghdad Would Create Quagmire
Dick Cheney proves that he knew EXACTLY what he was getting us into in Iraq:
Dick Cheney proves that he knew EXACTLY what he was getting us into in Iraq:
By Scott Ritter, Truthdig. …Bush’s singular appeal has been the impression of steadfastness in the eye of the storm, even if the storm is for the most part self-created. For this we must look not to [Karl Rove] “Bush’s Brain,” but instead peer deep into the dark recesses of the White House, where we can…
By Dan Eggen, The Washington Post After years of refusing public comment on a particularly harsh CIA interrogation method, top Bush administration officials have suddenly begun pressing a controversial argument that it was legal for the CIA to strap prisoners to a board and pour water over their face to make them believe they were…
Robin Wright, Washington Post Despite an overwhelming House vote last month to revive the Iraq Study Group, the White House has blocked reconvening the bipartisan panel to provide a second independent assessment of the military and political situation in Iraq, said several sources involved in the panel’s December 2006 report. Co-Chairman Lee H. Hamilton, several…
Bush quietly seeks to make war powers permanent, by declaring indefinite state of war John Byrne (the Raw Story) align=”right” Published: Saturday August 30, 2008 As the nation focuses on Sen. John McCain’s choice of running mate, President Bush has quietly moved to expand the reach of presidential power by ensuring that America remains in…
San Francisco Chronicle February 27, 2007 E.J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post Writers Group The administration’s willingness at the outset to say anything, no matter how questionable, to justify the war has destroyed its credibility. Its habit of attacking those who expressed misgivings has destroyed any goodwill it might have enjoyed. Bush and Cheney have lost…
By Tom Lasseter, McClatchy Newspapers An ambush of a military convoy that killed 17 troops near the Afghan border Wednesday pushed the death toll in a series of attacks to at least 101 Pakistanis in the past five days – and brought President Pervez Musharraf, according to a local newspaper headline, to a “Moment of…