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Ron Fullwood, is an activist from Columbia, Md. and the author of the book 'Power of Mischief' : Military Industry Executives are Making Bush Policy and the Country is Paying the Price
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 Meeting The 2014 Deadline For An Afghanistan Exit
Now, no one believes that even Afghans believe they will be 'ready' for the U.S. to bug-out in 2014, but almost no one believes the U.S. has the political or operational will to remain long past that date.
Saturday, October 29, 2011 Inevitable Retreat In Afghanistan
The military is quietly hoping we don't notice that they didn't actually transform their Kandahar misadventure from the leveling of homes, the taking of residents' lives, and the destruction of farmland and livestock into the nation-building success that they intended for the mission to highlight.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 Iranian Influence In Iraq? Inconceivable! (1 comments)
It's more than remarkable for conservatives and republicans to now complain about Iranian influence among the Shias in Iraq after their party's president (with their full and vocal support) removed the only existing wedge in the region against Iranian influence.
Friday, April 16, 2010 What's Really Going On In Space? (1 comments)
'"Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich." - Freeman Dyson
Thursday, December 10, 2009 Justifying War in Oslo (1 comments)
What was notable about President Obama's speech in accepting the Nobel Peace Prize was how much of it was centered on justifying war; just wars, in his estimation.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 Lightning Bolts and Slopes in Afghanistan
As with the Iraqi regime's foot-dragging on the political changes to their government that the president has said he's waiting for them to accomplish before he can pull our troops out, our military forces in Afghanistan are to make 'space' for the Karzai regime's foot-dragging reforms to emerge and blossom.
Thursday, December 3, 2009 Pretense of an Afghanistan Exit Plan (2 comments)
There is no exit in the president's escalation plan for Afghanistan, only a prospect of more fighting, killing, and unrest; both in the country and across the border into Pakistan.
Thursday, October 29, 2009 In or Out of Afghanistan (4 comments)
Any decision by President Obama to remain offensively engaged in Afghanistan will irrevocably commit the U.S. to an end-game which has eluded invaders of Afghanistan throughout history who have sought to transform the country with their military.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 Pressure to Escalate Afghan Occupation May Result in Obama Re-Focus Away from Nation-Building (2 comments)
Faced with limited resources (both money and manpower) available to fulfill all of the desires to escalate the occupation of Afghanistan, President Obama is now challenged (either by process or deliberate manipulation of the leaked review) to be more specific about what our future military role is in Afghanistan.
Sunday, September 13, 2009 Obama's Pretense of Justice in Afghanistan
The Obama decision this week to allow prisoners at Bagram prison in Afghanistan access to an administrative review panel of military officers to 'challenge their detentions' looks to be the same sham that Bush provided at Gitmo, with no opportunity provided prisoners to actually see the charges against them, review evidence, or even present witnesses.
Friday, June 5, 2009 Everybody's Cryin Mercy (1 comments)
The perception of an America bent on expanding empire across sovereign borders is going to take more than the president's demonstration of an understanding and appreciation of Islam in his Cairo address.
Sunday, May 17, 2009 Obama's Hardest Thing (4 comments)
PRESIDENT OBAMA, in an interview with Newsweek's Jon Meecham Wednesday, spoke about the burdens of office and described his sending of an additional 17,000 troops to Afghanistan as "extraordinarily difficult" in response to the question of, "what was the 'hardest thing he'd had to do in office so far?"
Saturday, May 16, 2009 Hiding Torture Photos is Just Another Tactic in the 'Information War' (1 comments)
The withholding of images of our militarism won't shift 'anti-American opinion' to accommodate and welcome the U.S. and their grudging attacks across sovereign borders, but it just might keep those still in blind or willing support of the military action from reacting in horror to the realities these target nations know from memory.
Saturday, May 9, 2009 Bombing Afghans in Defense of Afghanistan? (1 comments)
Karzai: "We believe strongly that air strikes are not an effective way in fighting terrorism. That's not good for the US, that's not good for Afghanistan, that's not good for the conducting of the war."
Sunday, April 5, 2009 5000 troops from NATO for 'Afghan elections' is a signal Obama is on his own
The president will find a great reservoir of goodwill in the international community for his diplomatic initiatives and offers, but I predict declining support for his entire Afghanistan mission - both at home and abroad - if the consequences and effects of the military operations continue to dominate the landscape.
Friday, March 27, 2009 The Line Between Our Grudging Military Mission in Afghanistan and Our Nation-Building Goals (1 comments)
It will remain to be seen whether the U.S. humanitarian aid, economic development assistance, and Afghan government reforms Pres. Obama intends will out pace the counter-productive effects and consequences of his grudging military aggression against America's al-Qaeda nemesis
Saturday, March 14, 2009 Emerging Outlines of Obama's Afghanistan Plan (2 comments)
"I am absolutely convinced that you cannot solve the problem of Afghanistan, the Taliban, the spread of extremism in that region solely through military means," Obama told the CBC in February.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009 Proud Democratic Owners of the Afghanistan Occupation (8 comments)
There is something undeniably transformative about our Democratic president's escalation of the U.S. commitment in Afghanistan beyond Bush's own level of prosecution of his mission there.
Friday, February 27, 2009 Enter the Era of Engagement in Afghanistan and Pakistan (3 comments)
If the president's 'era of engagement' is to take root in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the State Dept. will have to emerge as more than the afterthought and support to military action that it had become in the last administration.
Thursday, February 19, 2009 Asking Our Allies for More in Afghanistan (2 comments)
It's no wonder to find our allies reluctant to commit themselves to more of a mission which has yet to be defined in any significant or comprehensive way.
Saturday, February 14, 2009 Intelligence Czar Blair's Economic Warnings Echo the Past
The economy and 'U.S. strategic interests' were on Blair's mind Thursday as he warned about a threat he perceived from Venezuela and the oil-rich country's growing economic ties with Iran.
Saturday, February 7, 2009 Biden Commits to 'Missile Defenses' to Counter Unspecific Threat from Iran (9 comments)
"We will continue to develop missile defenses to counter a growing Iranian capability, provided the technology is proven to work and cost-effective." -Vice-President Biden, speaking in Munich, Germany Feb. 7
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 Fearmongering Beyond the Bunker (3 comments)
Now it is time for these miserable stewards of the public trust to find their respective hidey-holes and burrow-in against the coming wave of legal and public prosecutions for their crimes and abuses in office.
Monday, January 26, 2009 Will Obama's Militarism Obscure and Overshadow his Diplomacy? (4 comments)
Even as the Obama administration moves to tear down the symbols and mechanisms of the previous WH and Pentagon, the remnants of the occupations and our nation's aggressive military posture endure.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 Changing al-Qaeda's Script (7 comments)
NOTHING must have thrilled al-Qaeda more than to hear Bush read off passages of propaganda from the terrorists' own speeches and dispatches
Saturday, January 3, 2009 Tweaking the Occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan
At the apex of the results and effects of resistance to the increased and proliferating U.S. military presence and activity in the Mideast over the years since the Iraq invasion, the Pentagon is poised to stage some sort of sustaining defense in Afghanistan of their own representation of 'democracy' in Kabul.
Sunday, December 7, 2008 Bush Holdover Robert Gates: A Kinder, Gentler Shock and Awe (2 comments)
Is this proposed 'surge' of force to defend the Afghanistan capital be the testing ground for Mr. Gates' new 'counterinsurgency' strategy? To me, it looks like the same old smash and grab approach that he's busy repudiating for benefit of the intellectuals
Sunday, October 19, 2008 Behind the Swift Armor of Our Democracy
To the dismay of the ultra far-right wing of the republican party and those who respond to McCain/Palin's narrow, scapegoating appeal, there isn't going to be a gentleman's response to their boorish, cowardly attempt to cast Americans they disagree onto the other side of their ideological battlefield, expecting the rest of us to line up behind them.
Sunday, October 5, 2008 Deface the Banner of the Nation for an Idle Rag
As voters reflect on the anxiety and anger they feel watching the orchestrated economic emergency directed by the republican White House, they should pay close attention to the associations McCain has chosen to help elevate himself into the presidency.
Thursday, September 11, 2008 A Day of Observing Bush's Blame for Allowing Al-Qaeda Safe Haven
Having our nation's defenders defend plots of land from fugitives the administration has allowed "safe haven" hundreds of miles away sounds to them like a perfect cover for their deliberate negligence.
Thursday, August 28, 2008 Celebrating Obama's Blackness (2 comments)
The fact of Barack Obama's blackness hasn't really been explicitly highlighted or overtly vocalized by the major speakers who've stepped up to the podium to sing his praises, or even by the candidate himself.
Thursday, August 21, 2008 Bush and McCain's Reckless Adventurism (2 comments)
Bush and McCain have demonstrated a reckless disregard of those who they expect to prosecute their opportunistic agenda, and of those who they claim to be defending with their unbridled and reflexive militarism.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 McCain's Cabal of Nation-Builders and Money Grubbers (2 comments)
What is it that John McCain wants to 'win' in Iraq? Is his open-ended support for keeping our troops bogged down there tied to his foreign policy guru Scheunemann's profit-taking and deal-making?
Saturday, August 16, 2008 Calling the Bluff on the Limits of American Power and Influence (2 comments)
The only way to achieve and maintain the necessary diplomatic relationships to successfully influence Russia's behavior is for the U.S. to return to a level of moral authority it had when we first began to draw Russia in, and that Bush has squandered with his opportunistic militarism.
Friday, August 15, 2008 McCain and the Same Old Kneejerk Militarism
The scramble by McCain in the wake of Russia's invasion of the Republic of Georgia to rattle and brandish sabers he does not yet possess or control devolved this week into a mimic of the Cold War as the Arizona senator revealed to the world that he intends to wield an even heavier, more dense hand than the warmonger-in-chief has brandished through this crisis.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 John McCain Stands With Bigots and Racists (16 comments)
John McCain stands with bigots and racists as he practices a derisive campaign which he's reserved for his black rival for the presidency alone.
Friday, August 8, 2008 Lincoln Group Propagandists Paid to Tell Afghans Their Bombs are Worse than Ours
No amount of PR can convince Afghans that the repressive U.S. military takeover of their country is any more pernicious that the violence from those resisting Bush's self-serving assaults in defense of his puppet in Kabul.
Friday, August 1, 2008 McCain's Desperate Appeal to the Bigots
John McCain has begun to speak for that shameful class of Americans who have predicated their own worth on their perception of blacks they compete with as inferior.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Embracing Obama's Agenda Abroad
Britain's Brown is the latest foreign leader to re-arrange his Iraq portfolio to accommodate views of the next U.S. president, Barack Obama.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 McCain Pining for Another Stroll Through the Baghdad Market, Sans Flackjacket
John McCain is pining for the day when he returns for a "peaceful stroll" through the Iraqi markets -- this time "walking freely", as he claimed he could during his last visit to the war-zone -- without the benefit of a bulletproof vest, 100 American soldiers, three Blackhawk helicopters, and two Apache gunships providing cover overhead.
Monday, July 21, 2008 Bush Offers "Time Horizons" for an Iraq Withdrawal
In a cynical attempt to appeal to the potential U.S. voters who've soured on the Iraq quagmire, the administration has replaced the language of a timeline for withdrawal with a codification of their refusal to relinquish their Iraqi prize.
Saturday, July 19, 2008 Barack Obama Redefines the "Center" of our Nation's Defense Against Terror
As Sen. Obama has done, Democrats and others opposed to the Iraq occupation who continue to acknowledge Bush's 'terror war' should oblige him and aggressively tie it to the quagmire in Iraq and his wallowing failures elsewhere in the world.
Thursday, January 31, 2008 Republican Candidates' Extremes on Iraq Make Democrats' Hedging (Mostly) Irrelevant (3 comments)
If there is a judgment made by the vast majority of Americans favoring a hasty withdrawal from Iraq, which is based on these republicans candidates' marriage to Bush's stubborn refusal to disengage, there can be no other option but to support one of the Democratic nominees
Monday, January 28, 2008 Bush Surging Into Oblivion
The irony of a landmark presidential election to replace Bush -- drowning out his legacy appeal -- should not be lost on even one so ignorant as to escalate and highlight the agenda millions will mass together to oppose with their votes on election day.
Monday, January 14, 2008 Bush's Perversion of Democracy in the Middle East
Our lame-duck militarist is heading to Saudi Arabia, Monday, with a $20 billion gift basket of advanced weaponry for the anti-democratic, royal regime. That's how much this administration cares about democracy.
Friday, January 11, 2008 Twelve More Months of Bush's Ecclesiastic Mideast Mission (1 comments)
Bush is traveling in the Mideast, seeking to craft a miracle of his own out of empty, confrontational rhetoric and produce "Mideast peace" for a region which is awash in violence; much of it perpetrated by a growing number of martyrs and militants in resistance to his own bloody, military expansion into Iraq and Afghanistan.
Thursday, January 3, 2008 Is Bush Finished Fighting Terrorists He Created in Iraq?
IT'S the beginning of January, and, this month finds the U.S. commanding general in Iraq satisfied that the Iraqis are going to fill the gaps left by retreating Americans and carry on with the last remaining hook the administration has used to justify their continuing occupation; the routing of 'Iraqi al-Qaeda'
Sunday, December 30, 2007 Bush's Sham of Democracy in Pakistan (and Iraq) (3 comments)
The Bush administration will be satisfied when Pakistan's government settles back into a political posture which they can claim has the legitimacy of an election -- no matter how compromised or corrupted that election may be.
Thursday, December 27, 2007 Bush's Falling Dominoes (1 comments)
BHUTTO is dead in Pakistan, and there's going to be a flurry of accusations of blame from her supporters and from her detractors as well. But, for Americans who are left to witness the reactions and retaliations, there should be no doubt that the assassination is a direct hit on the Bush administration's blundering attempts to shape their foreign policy around their manufactured aggression in Iraq.
Wednesday, December 19, 2007 Bush's Democrats on Iraq
At every point where Democrats were to hold the line on their demands (our demands) for a timetable or a mere commitment that Bush bring our troops home by a date certain, Democrats have done nothing but posture, and then, bend . . .
Monday, December 17, 2007 The Epiphany of an Iraq Withdrawal (1 comments)
As Britain has just demonstrated - and as our own forces in Iraq have repeatedly demonstrated with their own retreat from provinces in Iraq they had so wantonly defended for so long with the lives of thousands of our nation's defenders - there will be no measure of 'success' or 'victory' from Bush's occupation to be found, no matter how long we stay or how many resistant Iraqis our soldiers manage to kill.
Monday, December 3, 2007 Bush Will Take Everything Congress Will Allow Him in Iraq
Bush has openly signaled his intention to stage a quiet coup of sorts - within the liberating bounds of his assumed presidency - over the most controlling lever of constitutional authority those we elect to Congress have over the Executive's ability to wage war; their ability to provide or withhold money.
Thursday, November 22, 2007 American Gangsters in the White House (1 comments)
THIS generation's 'American Gangsters' are imminently more dangerous and pernicious than the pimps, drug dealers, and thieves who roam and rule over our nation's most vulnerable and malleable citizens. This generation's ruling class of thugs have been elevated to the highest levels of our government by Bush and his corporatist cronies.
Sunday, November 18, 2007 Reversing Bush's Imposed Legacy in the Next Administration (12 comments)
WHEN, and if, Bush leaves office it will take an internal revolution by the next administration to reverse and undo the damage he's done to our democracy at home and to our influence and relationship with other countries around the world.
Friday, November 16, 2007 Brushing Off Nagging Suspicions of a Bush Coup (2 comments)
It's becoming difficult to imagine Bush and his cronies voluntarily relinquishing the gains they've achieved through their own anti-democratic maneuvering and obstruction.
Thursday, November 15, 2007 Bush's (and America's) Tepid Response to Tyranny in Pakistan
Where's the outrage from this administration who has postured as caretakers and defenders of democracy around the world? Where's the outrage from our presidential candidates? Where have they shown the appropriate solidarity with Pakistan's (incarcerated) presidential aspirants?
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 Benazir Bhutto shows courage and determination in calling for Musharraf's ouster
If there is any sincerity at all in Bush's bleatings about the importance of 'freedom,' 'liberty,' or democracy, he will need to rethink his interfering expressions of confidence in Musharraf and acknowledge the courage and determination of opposition leaders like Ms. Bhutto and her supporters as they struggle to make democracy in Pakistan more than the mere political rhetoric he is so 'positive' about.
Monday, November 12, 2007 Mercenaries for Bush's Notion of Freedom and Democracy in Iraq
Instead of applauding Bush in his ignorance, veterans who actually know firsthand, the value of freedom and liberty should mass together against any further mockery of those sentiments which they fought so valiantly for, long ago, when tyrants and dictators weren't treated as paid mercenaries in support of some narrow political agenda conjured-up by autocrats who profess to be our democratic leaders.
Monday, November 5, 2007 Bush and Musharraf's Self-Serving Definition of Democracy (2 comments)
Bush and Cheney must be watching in pride (and envy) as their protege' in Pakistan deftly manipulates the absolute power manifest in his control over his country's military. It's a familiar posture to our own lame-duck militarists in the White House who've cast their every anti-democratic abuse of power as a defense of our national security.
Saturday, November 3, 2007 Bush's Expectations of Normalcy in Iraq
Bush is looking for a few "normal" Iraqis who share his definition of "freedom" and share his definition of a "normal society," to put aside the animosities his invasion and occupation have aggravated and heightened and allow the Iraqi regime he helped install behind the sacrifices of our military to reign supreme without resistance.
Thursday, November 1, 2007 Petraeus Rehabilitates Chalabi in Iraq (2 comments)
Once again Chalabi is being employed by the Bush administration as their front man for their arbitrary assaults on Iraqis and their military takeover of the sovereign Iraqi territory.
Thursday, October 25, 2007 Not One More Dime to Continue the Iraq Occupation
There isn't even a bit of pretense left of any reasonable or acceptable justification for remaining in Iraq that anyone serious about their opposition to the occupation should accept or support with a vote for more tax dollars thrown into the money pit.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 Iraqis Looking to U.N. to Limit Bloody U.S. Mission
Under the guise of preserving the Iraqi regime Bush has installed behind the sacrifices and deadly power of our military forces, our soldiers are now reduced to staging contrived assaults against Iraqi civilians.
Monday, October 22, 2007 For the Bush Regime and Iran, Freedom's Just Another Word
Dick Cheney, on Sunday, opened up his own heightened, rhetorical assault against the imaginary nuclear weapons program his White House and others have conjured up in their exploitative campaign against the sovereign, Iranian nation's pursuit of nuclear energy.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 Defending Against their al-Qaeda Failure at the Site of their Iraq Folly
"Facing" down bin-Laden and Zawahiri where they aren't would seem to be the most ignorant and backward strategy that anyone could devise. But to the White House, sending our troops to fight and die in Iraq makes perfect sense -- having them defend plots of land from fugitives the administration has allowed "safe haven" hundreds of miles away.
Thursday, October 4, 2007 Meet the New Shills on Iran, Same as the old Shills on Iraq (4 comments)
Many of the same think-tank operators who had been intimately involved in crafting the Bush administration's response to the 9-11 attacks, insisting that invading and occupying Iraq would be a cakewalk, are now working to cover their bloody disaster - attempting to shift focus from their debacle to the next domino in their strategy to expand the U.S. military presence and influence in the Mideast: Iran
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 Weathering Ahmadinejad's Ideological Assault on New York (3 comments)
In the proper forum for any "ideological" battle -- a discussion, instead of a bloody, destabilizing invasion and occupation -- Ahmadinejad gave as good as he's got, without a ripple of the unrest, chaos, and destruction that Bush has caused waging his own in Iraq.
Friday, September 21, 2007 Politicians Pressing our Troops Forward in Iraq (1 comments)
It's not fair or right -- as Bush, McCain, and other republican enablers of this continuing occupation want us to accept -- to pursue 'success' for every politician's ambition in Iraq behind their sacrifices and sell it as a path to some victory. At some point, republicans in Congress should be made to tell us who they believe are more important.
Friday, September 14, 2007 Bush's Enduring Militarism in Iraq
The "enduring relationship" that Bush claims Iraq's embattled leaders are clamoring for is less about the protection requested by his Iraqi junta, than that relationship intends for Iraq to be used as a staging ground for even more opportunistic militarism in the future from the military capitalists who've been allowed to infect our government during his autocratic reign.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007 Republicans Accept 1000+ More American Deaths in Iraq
What is it about the Maliki regime in Iraq which has enamored so many republicans to the point that they've become satisfied with the numbers of Americans killed in defense of the increasingly autocratic authority?
Tuesday, September 11, 2007 Petraeus' Betrayal on Iraq
The general and his commander are betraying the demonstrated will of the American people that they bring an end to their occupation. They have, in fact, betrayed us in their coordinated refusal to allow our troops to stand down from their dubious Iraq mission.
Monday, September 10, 2007 Dictating Down to Americans from 9-11 to Iraq
Bush's invasion and occupation of Iraq has be the realization al-Qaeda's dreams. Bush and his republican apologists can twist the facts every which way they want, but their diversion from the hunt for bin-Laden and his accomplices in Afghanistan to invade and occupy Iraq has to have been the single, most blundering appeasement of terrorist violence by our government ever.
Thursday, September 6, 2007 If You Liked the Past Half-Decade of Bush's Blundering Militarism . . . (2 comments)
If you're a fan of the over half a decade of blundering militarism the republicans have produced and perpetuated with their obstinacy against the demonstrated will of the American people that they allow a withdraw from Iraq, then you should be more than happy with this privileged republican band of warmongers running for president.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007 Progress and Successes of the Bush and Maliki Regime
Most Americans (and Iraqis) are left to wonder, as Bush and Maliki are crowing about their 'successes' and 'progress' in Iraq, whether these lame-duck partners are referring to advantages they've achieved for their citizenry, or if they're just bragging on their own ability to sustain themselves in power and authority over the rest of us at our own deadly expense.
Saturday, September 1, 2007 Politics of Blocking Bush's Ambitions in Iraq
-Bush wants Americans to regard his every action toward Iraq as vital and void of any political motive as he insists Democrats who seek to end his increased occupation could only be motivated by craven politics as they oppose him.
Thursday, August 30, 2007 Fighting and Dying in Iraq to Make Room for Politicians
Politicians in Iraq, and politicians here at home, can always find room for their politics. It doesn't take an occupying army to get them to work out their political differences.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 Radical U.S. Extremists in Iraq Threaten Iran (5 comments)
After bombing Iran with his new nuclear bunker-busters, in every spot Bush claims the 'underground nuclear bunkers' he imagines are located, self-described 'democracy czar' Elizabeth Cheney would be ready to fly in a compliant sampling of Iranian exiles to assume power after they chase Mahmoud Ahmadinejad into his own hidey-hole.
Sunday, August 26, 2007 Military Mobilizes for Media War Against American Opinion on Iraq (2 comments)
The U.S. military is engaged in a new (additional) effort to organize and manipulate news and info from Iraq to their favor in an effort they hope will allow their bias to filter out to the American public. A branch has been created within the Pentagon which would provide U.S. propaganda on Iraq 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week to coincide with the release of Petraeus' Iraq report in September
Saturday, August 25, 2007 Robbing Us Blind from FEMA to Iraq (4 comments)
From FEMA to Iraq, the president and his right-wing pied-mynas have done nothing but attend to their own pocketbooks at the expense of everyone in their path. It's clear they're still confident they can manipulate this administration and their republican enablers in Congress to continue to do their bidding.
Friday, August 24, 2007 Bush Still Listening to Words of the Terrorists (2 comments)
Nothing must thrill al-Qaeda more than to hear Bush read off passages of propaganda from the terrorists' own speeches and dispatches.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007 Fighting the Vietnam War in Iraq
So, the nation's most prominent draft dodger wants to tell Americans how much of a mistake it was to pull our soldiers out of Vietnam. Bush would reopen those wounds, just to further his political agenda to escape a verdict of defeat for his failed Iraq misadventure.
Saturday, August 18, 2007 Superpower Gone Bad (1 comments)
Effective with the illegal invasion, occupation and overthrow of the sovereign government of Iraq, and the occupation of Afghanistan, George Bush validated bin-Laden's justifications about an imperialist America bent on the destruction of the Muslim way of life and the imposition of our own aberrant ideology through the deadly force of our military.
Wednesday, August 15, 2007 More Breathing Room for a New Iraqi Government Facade?
Whatever government facade Maliki manages to cobble together, that effort shouldn't find any 'patience or will' from Congress to allow Bush to continue indefinitely while they wait for the new cast of Iraqi players to provide a more efficient mimic of democracy than they have so far.
Monday, August 13, 2007 Striking Out at Bush's Phantoms in Iraq
- Whatever the intentions of the Maliki regime, it can't serve his efforts at reconciliation to have Bush flailing our forces all around Iraq in defense against whatever nemesis he conjures.
Thursday, August 9, 2007 Media Models New Bush Cloak for Continuing in Iraq
- While Bush and his generals in Iraq busy themselves with softening up the U.S. political battlefield by pointing to their deadly intimidation of the Iraqis in the areas they've occupied in their 'surge,' the casualties are still mounting -- and the Iraqi regime is still just a Potamkin Village for the democracy they claim our nation's defenders are fighting and dying for.
Friday, August 3, 2007 Breathing Space in Iraq and the Benchmark of Withdrawal
If the almost 700 Americans who were killed in Iraq since the beginning of Bush's "surge" were responsible for providing the political "breathing space" he wanted to give the Iraqi government; those tragic deaths have unquestionably been in vain.
Sunday, July 29, 2007 Bush's FISA Duck and Cover
The reason Bush is suddenly so eager to have Congress pass a series of accommodations to the Justice Dept's questionable exercise of the surveillance law is to preempt any other legal challenge (like a perjury charge) which might force them to end their illegal schemes.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 Peace on earth, just as soon as we win this war (1 comments)
As the Bush administration casts al-Qaeda as the most pernicious instigator in Iraq's civil war, there is the paradox of America's own aggravating influence.
Friday, July 13, 2007 Bloody Prelude to a September Alibi in Iraq (7 comments)
- In their September alibi, Bush and his generals are destined to just provide more cover for the Iraqi regime's summer stall by referring Congress, again, to the Iraqis our combating forces have succeeded in cowing or killing while they're waiting for parliament members to return from their privileged August retreats.
Monday, July 9, 2007 Who's Really Responsible for Defending the Iraqi Regime?
There is a deep dependency developed by the Iraqi regime on the escalating sacrifice of American lives in their defense which George Bush has allowed to become as routine as the deaths are pervasive.
Monday, June 18, 2007 Bush and his generals substituting their judgment for the American peoples' in Iraq
Generals will always find a 'way forward' on the battlefield, but it should be the determination of our civilian leadership - which carries their mandate directly from the American people - just who our forces will be tasked with laying down their lives to defend or fight against; not the military.
Saturday, June 16, 2007 Our Troops Are Dying For The Iraqi Regime To Get On With Their Politics
It's a wonder to hear Gates threatening the Iraqi regime with the prospected deaths of our soldiers, as if Iraqis actually cared to notice the 3500 Americans killed among the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis lost in the chaos caused by Bush's invasion and occupation.
