The DNC meeting in Washington today produced some interesting comments from the candidates. Some good speeches. Some not-so-good speeches. TPMCafe blog has some good analysis and some video clips.
Because you all want to know how the Dem Presidential candidates did at the DNC’s Winter Meeting today, we’ve compiled some highlights! We’ve got videos of the best moments lodged by Hillary, Obama, Kucinich, the whole bunch….First up was Chris Dodd, kicking off his underdog campaign with a [...]
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You should know that we’ve lost another chopper and crew.
Unfortunately, this progress is working against us: "BAGHDAD, Iraq – A U.S. Army helicopter crashed Friday in a hail of gunfire north of Baghdad, police and witnesses said — the fourth lost in Iraq in the last two weeks. The U.S. command said two crew members were killed, and the top [...]
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Sometimes, while exploring the blogosphere, you stumble on something written by a little-known writer who makes a lot of sense. Here’s a case in point.
Forget the talk about wanting Bush to withdraw from Iraq by 2009. Forget the self congratulating with respect to a (warning: .pdf) toothless and meaningless but symbolic vote. Hell, even something like censure is barely sufficient as far as action. Here is the plain fact. America wants out of Iraq. As soon as possible. Period. If you want to have any chance of gaining the public’s confidence, and as a nice little side benefit, control of Congress for a generation as well as the next few presidencies, listen and [...]
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Quick followup posts to a couple of important stories. Both via ThinkProgress. First topic – White House response to the NIE.
At a press briefing this morning, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley said the White House will continue to avoid using the term “civil war” to describe events in Iraq, despite the findings of the new National Intelligence Estimate. Hadley was pressed on the issue by ABC News’ Martha Raddatz: “Why do you go out of [...]
And, just for good measure, something of note about New Orleans.
“President Bush is expected to shift $1.3 billion away from raising and armoring levees, installing floodgates and building permanent pumping in Southeast Louisiana in order to plug long-anticipated financial shortfalls in other hurricane-protection projects, a move Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) describes as a retreat from the president’s commitment to protect the [...]
Tags: National Intelligence Estimate, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans
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You have your DNC meeting (first post below this one) and, then, you have the hugely important NIE Report. The Washington Post did a great job of summarizing it. Via AmericaBlog, where John offered a comment.
Funny, that. Iran is supposedly, per Bush, one of our biggest problems in Iraq. Yet, according to the massive intelligence community review, Iran is mentioned only as [...]
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The DNC meeting in Washington today produced some interesting comments from the candidates. Some good speeches. Some not-so-good speeches. TPMCafe blog has some good analysis and some video clips.
Because you all want to know how the Dem Presidential candidates did at the DNC’s Winter Meeting today, we’ve compiled some highlights! We’ve got videos of the best moments lodged by Hillary, Obama, Kucinich, the whole bunch….First up was Chris Dodd, kicking off his underdog campaign with a [...]
Tags: DNC Winter Meeting
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We’re sending troops back to Iraq much quicker than they expect. And, some of them aren’t happy about it. Not one little bit.
I know my wife hasn’t seen the following headline yet, or there’d be one hell of an angry, angst-ridden email in my inbox: Oklahoma National Guard to Deploy to Iraq in 2008. It seems that my brigade has been given a warning order to prepare to deploy to Iraq in 2008, about six months after I get home. I don’t know if it’s [...]
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We appear to be headed for big-time trouble with Iran. How many months have we been talking about this? I believe my first post was last August. Now, it’s getting serious.
I’ve had a knot in my stomach for weeks as the rhetoric out of Washington amped up against Iran. As others have pointed out, this is deja vu, all over again. Sean-Paul Kelley at The Agonist pulls it all together and it paints one very scary picture. The drumbeat for an attack on Iran is [...]
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Versus what he says now. There are some mighty big questions, here, my friends.
In an otherwise unremarkable interview with the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, the president explained a bit about how he came to realize his strategy in Iraq wasn’t working. WSJ: Was there a moment in the war when you said we have to make a major change in the way we’re doing things in Iraq? GWB: Yes, [...]
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No, not another set of poll numbers. We’re talking troop numbers. For Iraq.
Leaked Congressional Budget Office report says real number of Bush troop surge is between 35,000 and 48,000 additional troops. UPDATE: And that $5.6 billion Bush asked for to pay for the "surge," it was a lie too. From CBO: [...]
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