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 Larry Beinhart, AlterNet. George Bush and other Iraq War supporters have argued that if we withdraw from Iraq the result will be like the killing fields of Cambodia — an odd comparison considering that the US has direct responsibility for that holocaust. George Bush — and other Iraq War supporters — have argued that…
By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times A Bush political appointee and former Silicon Valley executive who has faced opposition in his bid to bail out Iraq’s struggling factories is under investigation by the Defense Department on mismanagement allegations. Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Paul A. Brinkley, who heads an economic task force in Baghdad, is accused…
By Drew Griffin and Kathleen Johnston, CNN A New Orleans grand jury that declined to indict a doctor on charges that she murdered patients in the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina never heard testimony from five medical experts brought in by the state to analyze the deaths. All five concluded that as many as nine…
