John Byrne, Raw Story The U.S. military has confirmed that it is arming Sunni insurgent factions to try to contain al-Qaida in Mesopotamia, according to a report in Monday’s New York Times by veteran Iraq correspondent John Burns. “With the four-month-old increase in American troops showing only modest success in curbing insurgent attacks, American commanders…
ThinkProgress.org Sunday morning on NBC’s Meet the Press, Gen. Colin Powell strongly condemned the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, calling it “a major problem for America’s perception” and charging, “if it was up to me, I would close Guantanamo – not tomorrow, this afternoon.” He also called for an end to the military commission system…
By Amy Goldstein and Dan Eggen, Washington Post The Bush administration increasingly emphasized partisan political ties over expertise in recent years in selecting the judges who decide the fate of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, despite laws that preclude such considerations, according to an analysis by The Washington Post. At least one-third of the immigration…
TheSpectrum.com Southern Utah’s Home Page The Vent […] Instead of wasting of time and lives fighting the terrorists in the Middle East, you ought to get rid of the terrorists in the White House because that is where the real terrorism is. […] By not protecting our borders we have no idea how many terrorists…
