by Bob Geiger, http://www.opednews.com/ When Army Chief of Staff, General Eric Shinseki appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee on February 25, 2003 to discuss preparations for a possible invasion of Iraq, he was asked by Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) to estimate the size of a successful occupation force after victory. “Something on the order…
By P. Parameswaran, Agence France-Presse Saddled by the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US State Department faces an acute staff shortage amid “worsening morale,” according to a study blaming Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for the problem. The report by the influential Foreign Affairs Council, comprising mostly senior retired US diplomats and ambassadors, said…
By Greg Gordon, McClatchy Newspapers Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy angrily threatened Tuesday to issue subpoenas “if the White House continues to stonewall” his panel’s investigation into fired U.S. attorneys, and he said he was “deeply troubled” by what he called White House efforts to “manipulate the (Justice) Department into its own political arm.”…
By Raed Jarrar and Joshua Holland, AlterNet While most observers are focused on the U.S. Congress as it continues to issue new rubber stamps to legitimize Bush’s permanent designs on Iraq, nationalists in the Iraqi parliament — now representing a majority of the body — continue to make progress toward bringing an end to their…
