By Greg Palast, opednews.com George Bush is trying to save Paul Wolfowitz’ job as President of the World Bank even after the vulpine neo-con was caught slipping a load of World Bank loot to his love interest, Shaha Ali Riza. Big deal. Yes, Wolfowitz shouldn’t have been greasing his cookie sheet with government funds, but…
Retired Major General John Batiste takes President Bush on, directly, when Bush says that he’s just “listening to commanders on the ground” in Iraq. Retired Major General Batiste of “The Big Red One” U.S. infantry division tells Bob Schiefer of “Face the Nation” that anyone who read a little Iraq history should have expected the…
By Raed Jarrar and Joshua Holland, AlterNet. More than half of the members of Iraq’s parliament rejected for the first time on Tuesday the continuing occupation of their country. The U.S. media ignored the story. On Tuesday, without note in the U.S. media, more than half of the members of Iraq’s parliament rejected the continuing…
Jake Tapper, ABC News In an act of defiance perhaps not seen since President Truman fired Gen. Douglas MacArthur, today the anti-war veterans group VoteVets.org, which has been influential with Capitol Hill Democrats, is launching a half-million-dollar TV ad campaign featuring Maj Gen John Batiste (Ret.), former commanding general of the first infantry division in…
