the lives of thousands of American soldiers and maybe a hundred thousand mostly innocent Iraqi civilians. We have failed as a nation to come to terms with the massive costs that are less direct and obvious but just as real.
War protesters interrupt WA Senate debate, Associated Press- A small group of Iraq war protesters interrupted Senate floor debate Tuesday night, standing up one by one in the public gallery, flashing the peace sign and calling for the war to end. … The 10 protesters were peacefully removed from the gallery by security and went…
CODEPINK has Pizza with Jerry McNerney by Janet Weil, Kathy Greene, Nancy L. Mancias “I would like to see the President removed.” -J. McNerney Congressman Jerry McNerney, a freshman Democrat, is home this week to meet with constituents in places where they already shop, eat and recreate in a program called Congress at Your Corner….
Gareth Porter, Huffington Post The Lieberman-Kyle amendment has just passed the Senate overwhelmingly after two sections were removed to satisfy Democrats that it will not serve as a backdoor authorization for war against Iran, using U.S. forces operating in Iran. Even after that compromise, it remains a poison chalice, because it endorses a set of…
“First and foremost, George W. Bush has a Narcissistic Personality Disorder. What this means, is that he has rather desperate insecurities about himself, and compensates by constructing a grandiose self-image. Most of his relationships are either mirroring relationships — people who flatter him and reinforce his grandiosity — or idealized self-objects — people that he…
Nick Juliano, Raw Story They could be anything from spam offering male enhancement to furtive exchanges of political strategy with convicted lobbyists, but observers say the White House deleted more than twice as many e-mails as previous estimates, bringing the total number of missing communications involving administration aides like Karl Rove and others to higher…
