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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
(16 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 13, 2008 John McCain Stands With Bigots and Racists
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.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 28, 2006 Further Down That Bloody Path In Iraq
- America the beautiful, here we go . . . farther down the bloody path as Bush prepares to commit more of our soldiers to hew even deeper into Iraq, and to sidle up to the rest of the deadly pretenders
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 16, 2008 Calling the Bluff on the Limits of American Power and Influence
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.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, April 16, 2010 What's Really Going On In Space?
'"Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich." - Freeman Dyson
SHARE 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.
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 17, 2009 Obama's Hardest Thing
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?"
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, March 27, 2009 The Line Between Our Grudging Military Mission in Afghanistan and Our Nation-Building Goals
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
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 29, 2009 In or Out of Afghanistan
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.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 9, 2009 Bombing Afghans in Defense of Afghanistan?
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."
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, June 5, 2009 Everybody's Cryin Mercy
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.
SHARE Friday, October 20, 2006 Bloody Stain of Vietnam in Iraq
- Like Nixon, Bush is saddled forever with the deaths of those who were caught in the way of the horror of his self-validating war, leaving the rest of us to travel the road to hell as he deflects and lies to preserve his power in a political campaign.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 25, 2011 Iranian Influence In Iraq? Inconceivable!
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.
SHARE 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.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, March 2, 2007 New Nuclear Warheads for Bush
-- If the Bush regime doesn't get their way - to fiddle with and refurbish the existing nukes - they will argue that deterrence is at risk; a preposterous notion, as our existing arsenal is more than enough to blow us all to Pluto.
SHARE Wednesday, March 7, 2007 Paying for Bush's Fear in Iraq
- Bush has no credibility at all in complaining about "strings" that Congress wants to attach to his escalating drive forward in Iraq. He's pushed past the will of the American people since day-one, and he's just as determined to roll over those same heightened concerns as he grabs for more money and tries to duck the check of our legislature on his wanton militarism.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 14, 2009 Emerging Outlines of Obama's Afghanistan Plan
"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.
SHARE Thursday, April 6, 2006 Strange How This Generation Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Bush's nuclear hawks stepped out from behind their Trojan Horses today and revealed a frightening ambition to yoke the nation to a new legacy of imperialism. They want the ability to produce 125 new nuclear bombs a year by 2022. How did it come to this?
(9 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 7, 2009 Biden Commits to 'Missile Defenses' to Counter Unspecific Threat from Iran
"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
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 16, 2009 Hiding Torture Photos is Just Another Tactic in the 'Information War'
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.
SHARE Thursday, June 15, 2006 The Republican War Party
The republican Iraq War Party is stepping out of their citizen's clothing and into their militarist garb; the war hawks, the war hounds, the warmongers, the tyrants.
SHARE Thursday, March 16, 2006 Bush's Strategy of Preemption
The arbitrary exercise of our military strength and destructive power will not serve as a deterrent to rouge, radical terrorist organizations who claim no permanent base of operations.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 1, 2006 Dealing with the U.S. Devil
Lincoln once remarked, "A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear and cries, 'Stand and deliver, or I will be forced to kill you and you will be a murderer'."
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 10, 2009 Justifying War in Oslo
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.
SHARE 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.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 22, 2007 American Gangsters in the White House
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.
SHARE 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.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 27, 2007 Bush's Falling Dominoes
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.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 19, 2008 McCain's Cabal of Nation-Builders and Money Grubbers
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?
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 7, 2008 Bush Holdover Robert Gates: A Kinder, Gentler Shock and Awe
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
SHARE 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.
(8 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 4, 2009 Proud Democratic Owners of the Afghanistan Occupation
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.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 21, 2008 Bush and McCain's Reckless Adventurism
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.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 7, 2006 The Christening of Battleship Bush
Northrup-Grumman has named their 11-hundred-foot, last in-the-series, Nimitz-class aircraft carrier after the former President George H.W. Bush, and, today, let their two most important benefactors oversee the launch of the latest floating platform of U.S. projected aggression and contrived world dominance.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 28, 2008 Celebrating Obama's Blackness
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.
SHARE 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.
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 9, 2007 Bush's Gift to the Military Industry: A New Cold War Arms Race with Russia
There is absolutely no evidence that Iran even possesses missiles threatening the U.S or has threatened the U.S. with missiles, yet, this entire escalation of concern which has supposedly prompted the Bush regime to step up the hawking of these dubious, destabilizing missile systems throughout Europe is predicated on their claims of an Iranian threat.
SHARE 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.
SHARE 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.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 3, 2009 Pretense of an Afghanistan Exit Plan
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.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, January 26, 2009 Will Obama's Militarism Obscure and Overshadow his Diplomacy?
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.
SHARE 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.
SHARE 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.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 4, 2009 Fearmongering Beyond the Bunker
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.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, February 27, 2009 Enter the Era of Engagement in Afghanistan and Pakistan
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.
SHARE Tuesday, October 10, 2006 North Korea Drives Bush Into Outer Space
In an amazing coincidence to the N. Korean nuke test, the Bush administration has sneaked and released a major new space policy which just happens to mesh with the missile threat the rouge nation is so intent on proving it possesses.
SHARE Sunday, March 18, 2007 Commander Bush is Hamstrung by Democracy
The Supreme Court during WW2 ruled that Congress' shared authority over the military "is not restricted to the winning of victories in the field and the repulse of enemy forces. It embraces every phase of the national defense, including the protection of war materials and the members of the armed forces from injury and from the dangers which attend the rise, prosecution and progress of war."
SHARE 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.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 18, 2007 Superpower Gone Bad
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.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 29, 2007 Radical U.S. Extremists in Iraq Threaten Iran
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.
SHARE 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.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 26, 2007 Military Mobilizes for Media War Against American Opinion on Iraq
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
(12 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 18, 2007 Reversing Bush's Imposed Legacy in the Next Administration
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.
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 31, 2006 Three Thousand Wake-Up Calls In Iraq
- Bush is dreaming now; sleepwalking through history, like he slept through the execution of Saddam. "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
(7 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 14, 2009 Changing al-Qaeda's Script
NOTHING must have thrilled al-Qaeda more than to hear Bush read off passages of propaganda from the terrorists' own speeches and dispatches
SHARE 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.
SHARE Friday, June 1, 2007 Bush Looking To Pass The Buck On Iraq
It's clear that Bush intends for a significant contingent of our military to remain in Iraq - not only "for as long as he's president," but for generations to follow - to either maintain his imagined legacy as a 'defender of freedom' or to "pass the buck" and muddle the record of his failure with their own misfortune and missteps.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 2, 2006 Bush's Inconceivable Interest in Iran
The U.S. push to develop more nuclear weapons, and Bush's abrogation of the NPT treaty makes all of this action against Iran, demanded by the U.S., bizzare and self-serving.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, February 23, 2007 Selling Son of Star Wars Missile Defense To Europe Threatens New Cold War
- Does this administration want a new cold war? They're angling for one. These brainless, unschooled megalomaniacs see a short term plus in their agenda to isolate Iran and those who would dare to trade with them.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 8, 2007 Bloody September In Iraq
- If we multiply the results of their escalation so far, and project the increase in casualties the administration and the military say they expect as a result of their increased deployments and escalated aggression against the Iraqi communities they've occupied, we can easily predict what September in Iraq will bring.
SHARE 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.
SHARE Thursday, January 25, 2007 To Bind, or Not to Bind Bush on Iraq
The Biden resolution is not meant to be the end of the process of Congress reasserting their constitutional role in the deployment of our forces and in the ending of Bush's fiasco; it's very much the beginning.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 22, 2009 Pressure to Escalate Afghan Occupation May Result in Obama Re-Focus Away from Nation-Building
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.
SHARE Wednesday, May 24, 2006 Trampling American Empire
Whether coerced, compromised, or defeated, the other nations of the world are being made to endure the Bush regime's arrogant bid for American hegemony and dominance as he forces them to respond to his military threats, and to his use of our country's devastating forces in arbitrary, preemptive attacks across sovereign borders.
SHARE 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.
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 25, 2007 Robbing Us Blind from FEMA to Iraq
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.
SHARE 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.
SHARE Wednesday, May 17, 2006 Making the Iran Thing Legal-Like
A military assault on Iran at this point can't be called 'legal'. There is no law the Bush regime has at their disposal that they can use to find Iran guilty of, or as an accomplice to, anything illegal.
SHARE Monday, August 7, 2006 Rice sees 'opportunity' for a 'New Middle East' in the Lebanon crisis
As the Bush regime calls for a "New Middle East", while, at the same time, encouraging and supporting Israel's invasion of Lebanon, they provoke the 'old' Mideast to new and more pernicious means of defense against U.S. imperialism.
SHARE 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.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 4, 2007 Meet the New Shills on Iran, Same as the old Shills on Iraq
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
SHARE Tuesday, July 4, 2006 This Fourth of July is Theirs, Not Mine
How can we continue to boast of the genius of our own past liberty from the imperialism of the British monarchy while our nation's military is actively oppressing the citizens of Iraq?
SHARE Monday, May 22, 2006 Bush's Wicked Iraq Lies
Would the Bush regime really walk away from Iraq, satisfied that the Iraqi troops were carrying on the 'fight against terrorists', as the violence raged on? To walk away they will have to abandon their boasts about ending the violence and rolling back the terrorist's fringe.
SHARE 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.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 30, 2007 Bush's Sham of Democracy in Pakistan (and Iraq)
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.
SHARE 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.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 20, 2006 Cranking Up The Occupation
The escalation of operations in Baghdad and Ramadi can only be seen as a tighter occupation to the residents who have no association with the elements Bush and Maliki claim to be concerned with.
SHARE 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.
SHARE 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.
SHARE Tuesday, May 9, 2006 Relying on 'Reasonable' Beliefs of Bush and Hayden
Bush administration's advocates have coined their own standard for spying on Americans outside of the FISA courts of 'reasonableness', which is a decidedly lower threshold than the 'probable cause' the 4th amendment calls for.
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 10, 2007 Iran's Defense Against an Imminent U.S. Attack
- Bush has been engaged in an active campaign of interference in Iran's political process to bring about regime change in Iran -- not through any valid exercise of democracy or democratic principles and practices -- but through the fomenting of unrest within the sovereign nation, and through the intimidating influence of another reckless exercise of our military forces.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 8, 2007 Bush Is Playing Chicken With Our Troops In Iraq
Bush has decided to subvert Congress' intent by stringing out our military forces to the degree that they suffer shortages affecting their safety, security, and well-being. It's not the money which has been denied Bush; it's a denial of permission for the continuation of his open-ended occupation.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 15, 2006 Do We Bomb Iran Now To Teach North Korea A Lesson?
- If Jong-il keeps it up, any day now we could be hearing tantalizing excerpts from his revolutionary speeches dutifully repeated by Bush alongside of the fear snippets from al-Qaeda he's fond of throwing into the middle of his fundraising appeals.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 26, 2007 The Specter of Bush's Terror War
--All Bush and Cheney really have in their pocket is a ghost of bin-Laden that they are able to wave around as they hype their self-appointed roles as protectors and shrug off their congressionally-mandated roles as pursuers. No one has seen the egotistical, opportunistic orchestrator of violent resistance to the U.S. brand of imperialism in the Mideast and elsewhere in public in years.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 14, 2006 Bush, Evil, and a Third Awakening
-- WaPost reported on an interview Bush gave Tuesday, where he told a group of conservative journalists that he sees a "Third Awakening" of religious devotion in the United States, and relates all that to his 'war on terror', which he views as "a confrontation between good and evil."
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, December 17, 2007 The Epiphany of an Iraq Withdrawal
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.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, February 2, 2007 Where is the EVIDENCE that Iran threatens the U.S. in Iraq or anywhere else?
It's the Bush regime's interest in suppressing Iran's oil influence which is the ONLY reason that Bush is using the weight of our nation's defenses to pressure and provoke the Iranian government and destabilize yet another oil power in the region.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 9, 2006 No New Nemesis? No New Nukes
I smell a rat. I think all of this sabre rattling against Iran is more about the future of our own nuclear program than it is about the future nuclear ambitions of the Iranians.
SHARE Tuesday, July 18, 2006 Israel's 'Collateral' War
Is this really 'war' on Hizbollah? They don't seem to be affected by the Israeli killings in Lebanon.
SHARE Friday, January 12, 2007 Bush Is Escalating His Iraq Occupation To Move "Forward" Against Iran
- Under the pretext of concern for the victims of these government-affiliated death squad's vigilante justice, Bush wants to move into these Shia neighborhoods with our military forces and wage another false offensive against Iraqis to further his ambitions against Iran.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, November 5, 2007 Bush and Musharraf's Self-Serving Definition of Democracy
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.
SHARE Thursday, March 29, 2007 The Decider's in Denial Over Democracy
- Bush will not allow himself to be easily awakened from his imperial dream-state or willingly step down from the phony throne he fashioned for himself atop the mountain of rubble of debris and humanity from the attacks of 9-11; the mountain he hurried to climb with his bullhorn to declare himself protector, ruler, and owner of the world.
SHARE 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.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 18, 2006 Rejecting Republican Failures
- Bush and his republican party have failed, and should not be given more room to further weaken our nation's power and prestige with their bungling militarism.
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 20, 2006 If Iraq is key to Bush's 'terror war' . . . we're losing
If Democrats are going to continue to acknowledge Bush's 'terror war', they should oblige him and aggressively tie it to the quagmire in Iraq and his regime's wallowing failures elsewhere in the world.
SHARE 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'
SHARE Wednesday, May 16, 2007 It's Never Enough For Bush and His Minions In Iraq
Bush and his minions are satisfied enough with the world of enemies they've created and are cultivating, that they're willing to pile even more chips on our nation's shoulders for any and all comers to knock off.
SHARE Saturday, April 22, 2006 A Militarist Manipulates the Oil Market
Consumers in the U.S. are understandably anxious and angry and are looking to find a piece of Big Oil to rip in to. But, it is becoming increasingly evident that Bush's militarism is the main factor fueling the oil price rise.
SHARE Friday, July 14, 2006 Israel's Presumptive Reprisals
'Line in the sand', sending a message, shock and awe . . . nothing has been learned from the folly in Iraq, nothing has been learned from the years the Israelis let agitators draw them into counterproductive reprisals.
SHARE Saturday, September 23, 2006 Bush's Moderation Ultimatum
- It is impossible for anyone to view Bush as a 'moderate' who has found themselves in the way, or might find themselves in the way of Bush's unilateral, preemptive reprisals and their bloody, collateral effect on defenseless innocents.
(6 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 30, 2006 Rejecting the Republican Party of Fear
There is a weakness and fear that the republicans possess which they want to spread to the rest of the nation as they hope to have us cowering behind their skirted flag. They fear the American voter most of all . . .
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, February 9, 2007 Is Gates Stirring Up Trouble With Iran To Boost Oil Prices?
- Coming at the same time as Gate's rhetorical lashing of Iran, the WaPo reported today that oil prices rose above $60 a barrel Friday following a $2 jump the day before.
SHARE Saturday, April 7, 2007 The Most Dangerous Untruths About Iraq
-Bush and Cheney are dangerous for America. Americans can't afford any more of their reckless indifference to the plights of our soldiers, or to the inevitable and continuing consequences of their assaults against Iraqis.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 4, 2007 Rallying Around Our Democratic Leadership On Iraq
By railing against the Democratic Iraq withdrawal legislation with such strident rhetoric, Bush actually boosted support for their effort and made it appear that, despite his complaints to the contrary, it was a result of his own opposition to the Democratic funding bill that troops would be denied the money he claimed they needed.
(10 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 1, 2006 Perceptions of Republican Fearmongers and the Simple Truth
- Five years after the attacks of 9-11, Bush and his republican co-horts have failed to learn the fallacy of the use of force in suppressing those 'ideologies' they fear.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 22, 2006 "So long as I'm president"
Bush has amassed power by just imagining it, asserting himself, and waiting for the challenges he knows from experience will not come from the present pack of congressional cowards.
SHARE Tuesday, December 5, 2006 Best Way Forward In Iraq
- I can't imagine why these administration-encouraged commissions have taken all these months just to come up with a different way for America to continue to travel the path Bush has taken us down in Iraq. We're on the wrong road.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, April 13, 2007 How About A 'Peace Czar' Instead?
The search for a 'war czar' by the Bush White House is, at first blush, a reflection of the indifference and disinterest of the nation's top Executive in assuming any of the responsibility for his bloody overthrows and occupations. But it's actually just another grab for power by this increasingly autocratic administration.
SHARE Wednesday, April 11, 2007 Bush Enamored with the Sound of His Own Voice on Iraq
It's one thing for Bush to ignore the colloquial expressions of the will of Americans in the last election; it's another to swagger beyond the legislative will of the representatives and senators they sent to Washington to hold him accountable.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 31, 2006 Who Most Threatens America?
If the Bush regime is at war with those they hold responsible for the collapse of the World Trade Towers, then it is truly a stealth war. Bush never mentions bin-Laden's name anymore, even though he began his 'hunt' in 2001 demanding his apprehension, "dead or alive.'
SHARE Sunday, June 25, 2006 The Bush Regime Is Making It Up Here, So They Can Fight Them Over There
The arrests of the young men in Miami on terror related charges is the Bush regime's most clumsy attempt yet to gin up the fear that has allowed them to pose as the protectors of the nation and the world since the collapse of the World Trade Towers.
SHARE 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.
SHARE 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.
SHARE Monday, September 11, 2006 Stirring Up The Dust At Ground Zero
-- There is no pile of rubble and humanity left in New York, or anywhere else, that Bush can stand on and bullhorn his way back into the nation's confidence.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 17, 2007 Who Will Ultimately Control Iraq? Bush or the Shiite Majority?
Earlier in the month, at the assumed direction of Sadr, thousands of residents of Sadr City headed to Najaf and rallied against the occupation. Those thousands of peaceful protesters could easily be transformed into an overwhelming 'surge' of Iraqi humanity in the streets which could bring a new reality to the puny coalition forces as they are confronted by an exasperated population of Iraqi millions.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 19, 2009 Asking Our Allies for More in Afghanistan
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.
SHARE Friday, September 1, 2006 Bush's War On Ideology
Bush satisfies himself that his actions are inviolable and within some nebulous notion of legality and constitutional privilege. But, little consideration is given to the rights and privileges of those who find themselves in the way of his ideological assaults.
SHARE Tuesday, September 5, 2006 Bush: Escalating threats in Iraq and elsewhere, but we're 'safer'
There is a dangerous denial that is being practiced in the administration campaign to portray their invasion and continued occupation of Iraq as a military and ideological success, and conversely, to portray Iraq as a cauldron of terror that would escalate into more of a threat to the U.S. if we withdraw our troops.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 1, 2007 Petraeus Rehabilitates Chalabi in Iraq
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.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 18, 2007 Republicans Vote To Continue Their Slow Bleed Of Our Troops In Iraq
There can be no other more pernicious "slow bleed" than the unnecessary deaths of the 3,133 U.S. soldiers who have been killed in Iraq defending the republicans' and the Bush administration's lies and excuses for keeping our nation's defenders hunkered down in the middle of Iraq's civil war.
SHARE Saturday, May 12, 2007 Bush Can't Sell His Occupation If His Junta's Telling Him To Leave
-As both Bush and Cheney were giving lip service to the notion that time was running out for the Maliki regime to follow through on their political promises, legislators in Iraq's parliament were busy gathering commitments from members to set a timetable for a U.S. withdrawal.
SHARE 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.
SHARE 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.
SHARE 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.
SHARE Wednesday, May 10, 2006 Bush Regime's Absense of Communication
Rice and the others in this administration, and in the Pentagon, should listen to the words of the Iranian president, and amplify them.
SHARE Wednesday, March 21, 2007 Beating Bush's Swords Into Plowshares
All of the 'pork' Bush and his republican enablers are complaining about in the Iraq spending bill is actually a down-payment on a long-overdue shift in priorities; from Bush's waging of his military occupation in Iraq, back to focusing on the needs and concerns of Americans
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, May 3, 2006 The Idiocy is Swelling
Bush's continuing aggression threatens to trigger yet another disaster for working Americans already struggling to absorb the industry-inflated energy costs.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 16, 2006 Digging More Holes For Ourselves In Iraq
On the word of the fugitives who've been on the run for five years since the 9-11 attacks, Bush will commit the bulk of our nation's resources that are intended for our defense, and the main pride of our nation's military, and pour these into Baghdad; pour them into the trenches they're digging around the Iraqi capital.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 24, 2006 Baghdad is Bush's Last Stand in Iraq
It's unfortunate for our nation, our soldiers, and for the Iraqis, that Bush and Khalilzad aren't on the field like Custer was in his time. Both share his arrogant belief in their own righteousness as they attack and kill the 'insurgent' Iraqis like Custer slaughtered his 'savages'.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 14, 2007 No Greater Promoters and Protectors of Al-Qaeda in America
-Bin-Laden 'won' when we pulled the bulk of our nation's defenders away from the hunt for the terrorist and his accomplices, and drew Iraqis (and others) into armed resistance against the U.S. invasion and occupation. The 9-11 terrorists 'win' every day that we sacrifice more lives consolidating power in Iraq and Afghanistan instead of just hunting them down.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 26, 2006 Bush and Cheney Through Their Looking-Glass
... Alice and the White Rabbit are careening around in their own alternate universe as the mess they've caused remains festering on the other side of the fantasy they've surrounded themselves with.
SHARE Friday, May 18, 2007 Lame-Duck Bleating of Progress and Success in Iraq
It's ridiculous for the invaders and occupiers of a nation so thoroughly engulfed in the civil war sparked by their own continued aggression to speak of 'progress' and 'success' in reconciling the warring factions while they are busy and intent on ramping-up their own one-sided part in the violence.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 17, 2007 Peace on earth, just as soon as we win this war
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.
SHARE Sunday, March 12, 2006 Bush's Fireside Con Exploited IED Casualties
Bush had to show America he could make peaceful his kidnapped Iraqi bride. He'd use his radio address to the nation, his fireside chat, to throw the U.S. citizens a bone . . .
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, June 26, 2006 War Party in the Catbird Seat
With the majority of Americans supporting a timetable for withdrawal, the republican party placed themselves and their votes at odds in the past weeks with a public increasingly anxious about the mounting costs of the continued occupation, both in lives and resources.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 22, 2006 In Our Own Hands
Through our virtue and our vigilance we must, in our respect for democracy, value and protect the right to vote. Our vote is the instrument of our collective conscience and our warrant to the realization of our freedom, our liberty, and our well-being.
SHARE 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.
SHARE 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.
SHARE Wednesday, January 3, 2007 Political Capital to End the Iraq Occupation
- Bush used the "political capital" he assumed out of the election to elevate himself over the rest of Americans - to stand atop the rubble of humanity in Iraq - and posture as the defender of America and the world against the specters of opposition to his own militarism.
SHARE Thursday, November 9, 2006 New Brooms
- Voters intend for those legislators they just sent to Congress to act against Bush's abuses where the republican surrogates refused; and to act in an intensity which matches their own frustration and anger. If they wanted lip service and hand-holding they would have kept to the status quo.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 25, 2007 Weathering Ahmadinejad's Ideological Assault on New York
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.
SHARE Sunday, January 28, 2007 Marching and Protesting to End an Occupation (Again)
The more Americans invest themselves in protest of this duplicitous, destructive Bush regime, the more they'll expect and demand a change in its course and direction.
SHARE Friday, May 12, 2006 What Makes U.S. So Exceptional?
What is it these days, besides our ability to unleash waves of destruction, that commands the attention of other nations and allows the U.S. to dominate the international agenda?
SHARE 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.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, September 21, 2007 Politicians Pressing our Troops Forward in Iraq
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.
SHARE Thursday, October 5, 2006 Bush's Soft Bigotry on Terror
-- Bush is out there on his own, fighting his imaginary 'war on terror' against the will of the American people; against the very citizens in Iraq that he claims to have liberated.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 21, 2006 As If Bush Owned The World
It's frustrating to watch these world leaders posturing against our country, who Bush has so thoroughly demonized - who have their own problems with their own seemingly autocratic regimes - and suffer the realization that our own despotic leader has yet to be deposed for his crimes against Americans and others.
SHARE Wednesday, September 27, 2006 Letting Lies and Propaganda Dictate
How many distractions will the Bush regime be allowed to use to obscure from the fact that they haven't caught the perpetrators identified in the congressional authorization to use military force that Bush uses to justify his imperious power-grab?
SHARE Sunday, October 8, 2006 Bush's Retreat to Iraq
Bush is determined to substitute concern for the certain threat to our nation which came from the al-Qaeda terrorists he's turned his back on, for the risk to our soldiers from the unrest and chaos his occupation has caused in Iraq.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 28, 2006 Battling Ideologies In Iraq
- Bush rolled the same loaded dice Tuesday that he used to divert our soldiers from the pursuit in Afghanistan of the suspected orchestrators of the 9-11 attacks to fight and die in Iraq as part of the"ideological struggle" he imagines between his regime and "enemies" and "terrorists" everywhere.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, May 26, 2006 Cooking Up A New Cold War
The Bush regime would be more than satisfied to isolate Russia, and China, as well, with a manufactured pall of suspicion and fear, making oil-producing nations reluctant to do business with them out of fear of U.S. retaliation.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 6, 2007 If You Liked the Past Half-Decade of Bush's Blundering Militarism . . .
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.
SHARE Tuesday, August 29, 2006 Suckers for the 'Son of Star Wars'
The Bush regime desperately wants to re-start Star Wars, or 'Son of Star Wars.' They had hoped their plan to proliferate their 'missile defense' technology to European provinces to counter Iran would get a boost from all of their flailing around over the North Korean missile launches.
SHARE 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?
SHARE Tuesday, March 28, 2006 What the Insurgents Want
We no longer wish to hear the voice of these bombers' violence. But, listening . . .
SHARE Sunday, April 30, 2006 White House Planning American Buyout to Divest Itself of it's Obligations
With the enactment of the energy buyout, the government's new corporate identity, 'USA Inc.', will initiate total divestiture of its obligations to American citizens with an intense campaign of rebate programs and arbitrary eligibility limits.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 16, 2006 Bush is in trouble. Take cover.
Bush is in it deep. That means we will have to bear whatever dodge he uses in his attempt to escape accountability.
SHARE Monday, January 15, 2007 Bush Regime Running Scared From Retaliation In Iraq
- Back and forth, the ascended leaders in Iraq and the U.S. hurl their followers into the bloody abyss -- out of greed, revenge, and hunger for power -- and, in Bush's case, partly out of fear of retaliation for his own immoral barbarism.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, August 24, 2007 Bush Still Listening to Words of the Terrorists
Nothing must thrill al-Qaeda more than to hear Bush read off passages of propaganda from the terrorists' own speeches and dispatches.
SHARE Thursday, March 9, 2006 Rudiments of a Tyrant's Reign
Bush and his cabal didn't care about the lives of Iraqis when they started out the war killing them. They don't care now as Iraqis are killing each other, often with our assistance and support.
SHARE Thursday, April 27, 2006 The Boy Liar
In the grand old party of liars there's a legacy of lies carried on the lips of a cabal of liars who have weaseled their way into the highest offices of our government
SHARE 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 . . .
SHARE Friday, December 29, 2006 Battling Bush's Enemies In Iraq
Iraq has become a haven for violence, but, it's in the form of resistance to the U.S. occupation, by Bush's design.
SHARE Tuesday, October 31, 2006 Our Soldiers Are Dying To Win
Are these soldiers being made to sacrifice their lives and livelihoods in defense of territory? Are they being directed to fight and die in defense of the lives lost in the battle? Or, is there a larger, more enduring goal that can be achieved by just fighting on?
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, October 23, 2006 Arrogance and Stupidity in Iraq
- It's as if Bush and the republicans want to be treated like children on the eve of their birthday and have us overlook the spoiled rampage their party has been on, punch-drunk with absolute power assumed from majority control of all branches of our government. They're sorry they broke Iraq, and they promise to clean it up right after the election.
(7 comments) SHARE Friday, July 13, 2007 Bloody Prelude to a September Alibi in Iraq
- 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.
SHARE 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.
SHARE Tuesday, September 12, 2006 What War?
-- Bush spit into the wind when he declared that, "winning this war will require the determined efforts of a unified country," and "we must put aside our differences." He and his surrogates spent the weeks and days leading up to the 9-11 anniversary attempting to divide Americans.
SHARE Monday, November 20, 2006 Mindless Escalation In Iraq
It looks like the Bush administration is planning on gearing up to escalate our nation's involvement in Iraq
SHARE Wednesday, June 28, 2006 Note to Democratic Centrists: Don't Forget The Roots Of Our Party's Activism
As we put forward our positions and arguments we should acknowledge the liberal origins of issues, where inclusiveness is a prerequisite to success, and partitioning of concerns is nothing but marginalization and abandonment.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, January 26, 2007 Bush Looking To Provoke Iran To Validate His Iraq Occupation
- Bush is now intent on re-invading the Iraqi neighborhoods with our nation's defenders in a cynical attempt to provoke a response from Iran, and to draw Iran into his rhetorical web of blame for the violent consequences of his own military aggression in Iraq and in the region.
SHARE Monday, September 18, 2006 Bush's Political Prisoners
It's an inexcusable political ploy for Bush to hold these Afghans and Arabs in his prisons, indefinitely, without charges; as substitutes for his inability to capture the man our government says is responsible for the 9-11 attacks, bin-Laden, and his accomplices.
SHARE Friday, June 9, 2006 Hopeless Captives of the New Iraqi Imperium
With more 'anti-insurgency' raids forecast by Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki for the near future, backed-up by an escalation of the U.S. forces by as many as 5500 more soldiers transferred in from Kuwait and Germany, there will be an almost certain increase in the numbers of those captured and held.
SHARE Friday, October 13, 2006 Bush Worried We'll Become 'Complacent' With Cheaper Gas
- Bush realizes he won't be able to push his energy industry welfare package without a crisis - without a full measure of the pain and sacrifice he's so accustomed to extracting from the American people
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 7, 2006 America is the Author of the Civil War in Iraq
The Iraq Study Group and others advocating for more time to arm and train more Iraqis will only succeed in giving Bush more rope to continue his occupation unabated.
SHARE 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.
SHARE 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.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 31, 2008 Republican Candidates' Extremes on Iraq Make Democrats' Hedging (Mostly) Irrelevant
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
SHARE 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.
SHARE Wednesday, December 6, 2006 Mr. Gates' War
- Robert Gates has come to inherit, not only Rumsfeld's position as the point man for the military contribution to Bush's "war on terror," he's also come to inherit Rumsfeld's occupation of Iraq.
(7 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 6, 2007 Sacrificing Our Soldiers To Surge Forward In Iraq
- It's more than ludicrous to expect that the planned token influx of reinforcements will be able to do anything more than help protect the disregarded lives of the hunkered-down, over-deployed, and beleaguered brigades already deployed there.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 6, 2006 Because Bin-Laden Says So
-- I can't be the only one who's dumbfounded by Bush's obsession with the statements of bin-Laden and other terrorists. Bush seems enthralled with their words, and determined to respond to their every nuance.
SHARE Sunday, November 19, 2006 Earworms, Decent Intervals, and Quagmires
- Bush's earworm, Kissinger, slithered out and effectively unraveled the presidential lame-duck loser's plans for a military victory in Iraq by declaring that we've lost.
SHARE Monday, February 12, 2007 Over 2,953 US deaths in Iraq besides the 170 Bush blames on Iran
- The one hundred-seventy U.S. soldiers whose deaths the military attributed to Iran have been killed in Iraq as a direct result of Bush's decision to place and keep them bogged down in the middle of Iraq's civil war, no matter who he claims is ultimately responsible for their demise.
SHARE Saturday, July 1, 2006 Bush Still Wants A Mock Court to Cover For His Mock Terror War
The Bush regime is afraid the Court's ruling means Gitmo prisoners will get their shot at what we take for granted here in America: a free and fair trial, due process, access to evidence against them with the right to challenge with witnesses, protection against use of coerced confessions, access to counsel . . .
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, September 8, 2006 Bush and Learning Lessons
From the debacle at Tora Bora, where Osama bin-Laden was allowed to escape into the mountains, to the diversion of forces and resources to Iraq, to the Bush administration's mindless evisceration of our civil liberties at home, there has been a continuing, five-year failure to achieve any of the goals and effect any of the protections that Bush has repeatedly promised Americans.
SHARE Saturday, January 20, 2007 Bush Playing Politics With The Lives Of Our Soldiers In Iraq
"The president knows that because the troops are in harm's way that we won't cut off the resources," Speaker Pelosi said. "That's why he's moving so quickly to put them in harm's way."
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, November 16, 2007 Brushing Off Nagging Suspicions of a Bush Coup
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.
SHARE Wednesday, April 5, 2006 "Democracy takes time." So, what's their hurry?
The U.S. is in a hurry. The Bush regime is signaling their impatience with their illegitimate Iraqi children, their junta, for their reluctance to elevate a leader of their puppet authority to a position of dominance over all of the disparate factions in Iraq.
SHARE 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?
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, January 11, 2008 Twelve More Months of Bush's Ecclesiastic Mideast Mission
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.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 13, 2006 Escalation Masquerade
There's nothing left for the tyrants as they gather in the comfort of the presidential retreat this week to line our soldiers up like matchsticks for a future flame . . .
SHARE Wednesday, July 26, 2006 Fighting Them There, As We Create Them Everywhere Else
. . . if it is our presence in Iraq that is a magnet for combatants, then it's immoral to expect Iraqis to continue to bear the brunt of those violent expressions of resentment that are directed at the U.S.
SHARE Tuesday, January 16, 2007 Bush Is 'Emboldening Enemies' And 'Empowering Iran' In Iraq
- If we take Bush at his word . . . that, he's really concerned with Iran's influence in Iraq, in Shiite neighborhoods, then he's really blown it. There is nothing more responsible for, and enabling of, Iranian influence in Iraq than his destabilizing invasion and occupation.
SHARE 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.
SHARE Wednesday, September 20, 2006 Bush and Credibility at the U.N.
The nations of the world are more concerned with issues of survival and prosperity as Bush beckons them to abandon these and join him in pursuit of whatever threat he decides in his ideological "war on terror."
SHARE Saturday, March 25, 2006 Re-Installing Democracy
The Bush administration is actively working to set their puppet back into a position of power in the new Iraqi authority, as a leader of a 'security' branch that they just created out of the blue sky.
SHARE 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.
SHARE Tuesday, July 25, 2006 Reflections in Lebanon of a Failed Bush Doctrine
Israel's determination to attack civilians in Lebanon, deliberately or not, who have absolutely no influence with the political or militant organization of Hizbollah (or any other group which supposedly threatens) and destroying their lives and livelihoods as a 'deterrence' is reprehensible.
SHARE Saturday, November 25, 2006 With Us Or Against Us In Iraq
Maliki has almost nothing to gain by continuing to allow Bush to wage his 'terror war' in Iraq. He'll have to decide whether he's truly a leader of his country and countryfolk, or, if he's a mere tool of Bush's imperialism.
SHARE Wednesday, October 11, 2006 Bush 'On The Move' in Iraq
-- Bush says "we're on the move" in Iraq. More likely, though, we're not going anywhere. Bush seems more intent than ever on leaving our soldiers to continue the losing defense of the crumbled Maliki regime.
SHARE Tuesday, January 23, 2007 State of Bush's Iraq Deception
Even as Bush speaks tonight of liberating and freeing Iraqis from the grip of a brutal U.S. supported dictator, he will be re-asserting himself as yet another self-serving orchestrator and administrator of bloody violence against Iraqis to satisfy his self-appointed posturing as the post-911 protector of the world.
SHARE 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.
SHARE 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.
SHARE 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.
SHARE Thursday, November 30, 2006 Hunkering Down In Iraq
-- After months of escalating the occupation of Baghdad and defending the center of Bush's junta as his last stand in Iraq, Bush is set to send even more soldiers there to reinforce the green-zone of defense around the crumbled Maliki regime.
SHARE Saturday, April 29, 2006 The US Doesn't Give A Damn About A UN Resolution
The Bush regime ignored the UN in their rush to invade and occupy Iraq. This same Bush regime now wants the UN's blessing on their new imperialism toward Iran.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 30, 2006 Bush Needs To Come On Home
-- If Iraqis are going to fight, they can do that very well without our troops in the middle. That's the message he should have delivered to Maliki. That's what Americans told him they wanted him to do. He's not listening to us. He needs to come on home.
SHARE Sunday, November 26, 2006 Outsiders In Iraq
-Bush is the ultimate outsider in Iraq, represented there amidst the violence and unrest by the resources and humanity of our nation's defenses while he skirts around the country and the world; safe from suffering the reprisals and recriminations waged against our troops by the very folks he claims to be liberating.
SHARE Monday, March 13, 2006 Defense of New Iraqi Military to Lead Off Bush's New Propaganda Tour
The pretense of democracy that Bush brought to Iraq is nothing but a lottery with a dwindling jackpot - a trillion to one shot at a democratic nation emerging from our foreign invasion and occupation . . .
SHARE Wednesday, October 25, 2006 Bush's Iraq Explanations
After over three years, and over 2700 American soldiers' lives later, Bush shows no indication at all that he's finished sacrificing our nation's lives and resources for the Iraq muddle. He's 'adjusting tactics' like a toddler at the wheel of his toy car console.
SHARE Monday, November 6, 2006 The Power of Our Participation
- Our vote is the instrument of our collective conscience and our warrant to the realization of our freedom, our liberty, and our well-being. It is a beginning point for activism and action, not an end.
SHARE 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.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 7, 2007 Bush's 'Tried and Failed' Plan For Iraq
There is nothing Bush can tell us, when he finally gets enough gall to unveil his planned "way forward" in Iraq, which would convince anyone already opposed to the occupation to agree that he should continue.
SHARE Saturday, December 23, 2006 Bucking Up Our Soldiers for the Ideological Occupation
As Bush thanks the troops this weekend, at Walter Reed and in his radio address, for enduring his crusades, his inner ego is busy crafting a cover story to allow him to slip more troops into Iraq. He'll tell us all, in a little while, how he and his handpicked generals know better than the American people about what our nation's priorities should be in Iraq and in the Mideast.
SHARE Tuesday, January 9, 2007 On The Eve Of Bush's Iraq Escalation
Our American soldiers are set to be tasked, once again, with delivering their brand of 'shock and awe' to Baghdad and other towns in Iraq to cow the population into accepting the unpopular, and increasingly autocratic rule of the Maliki cabal. It's really that simple.
SHARE Saturday, December 30, 2006 Death To Every Leader Who Kills Innocents With An Army?
What happens when Iraqis inevitably replace the current bunch who've assumed power? Will they be justified in prosecuting Maliki and Talibani for their own death squad militias?
SHARE Sunday, October 29, 2006 Resisting Republican Occupations
In America, under republican occupation of all branches of our government, Bush and his increasingly autocratic regime have worked to substitute all levers of control in our system of checks and balances with their own assumed powers.
SHARE Tuesday, October 24, 2006 Bush and Bin-Laden, Sittin' in a Tree . . .
Nothing must thrill al-Qaeda more than to hear Bush read off passages of propaganda from the terrorists' own speeches and dispatches, except maybe the slick campaign commercial the republican party put out this weekend featuring the terrorist's words lovingly super-imposed against bin-Laden's smiling image.
SHARE Wednesday, January 17, 2007 Standing 'Em Up In Iraq Just To Knock 'Em Down
- Bush expects the Shia-dominated police and military forces to turn against their own and destroy their heart and soul to accomplish the only possible solution to his necrotic Iraq strategy. Not surprisingly, they're balking at Bush's self-serving suggestion that they pluck their own eyes out to avoid offending his crusade.
SHARE Wednesday, January 10, 2007 Primetime Escalation Is Bush's Last Stand In Iraq
In a blurb of idiocy and bluster tonight, Bush will lay out his ambitions for the future of his Iraq folly - bare for the world to gauge and judge by his own deluded lecturing, and by his own feeble logic.
SHARE Friday, January 19, 2007 Here's To The Republican Defectors on Iraq!
This is truly an opportunity for Republicans - which will not come again for them - to do the right thing by Iraq and by our nation's faithful defenders, and pull the rug out from under their presidential pretender's ability to perpetuate his Iraq folly.
SHARE Sunday, July 9, 2006 Phony Threat, Phony Defense
It's not so far-fetched to conclude that neither North Korea, nor the Bush regime, is interested in resolving the nuclear standoff and confrontation; not with diplomacy or retaliation.
SHARE Thursday, February 22, 2007 Cheney Validates Al-Qaeda
Cheney and his administration have spent the time they were expected to craft a way home for our soldiers, creating even more 'enemies' and stoking even more extremism and resistance in Iraq.
SHARE 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.
SHARE Wednesday, December 20, 2006 More Soldiers For Bush's 'Ideological War'
Bush has committed our nation to his "long war" which he wants future presidents to adopt; his illegitimate war child from his bloody binge abroad. Now, he wants us to sponsor even more by increasing the size of the military.
SHARE Wednesday, January 24, 2007 Giving Bush A Chance In Iraq
This lame-duck pretender is intent on moving forward with his Iraq occupation as if his decision to wage his manufactured 'war on terror' in Iraq hadn't been completely repudiated by the American voters who removed his legislative majority in the last election.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 19, 2006 New Pimp for the Bush Occupations
Out with the old Defense chief, in with the new, and, everything is as it was.
SHARE Friday, November 10, 2006 Governing Without Parental Supervision
Daddy Bush and his concierge, James Baker, have taken Junior back under their wing and have apparently convinced the adult adolescent to stop playing with the nations resources and defenses, and to put the government back together again.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 22, 2006 Bush's Duck And Cover Tour
- Instead of facing our new Democratic majority like an adult, Bush is ducking around the world looking for a friend.
SHARE Thursday, January 4, 2007 Escalate the Occupation, Own the Occupation
Were it not for the utter incredibleness of any suggestion that Bush and his cohorts deliberately allowed the present conflict in Iraq to prevail, and escalated it just to feather the elevated power and influence that they assumed after the 9-11 attacks, it would be a forgone conclusion in the face of their indefatigable zeal for continuing their faltering aggression abroad.
SHARE Friday, November 17, 2006 Putting a Signing Statement on the Election Results
Bush wants to attach one of his lame-duck signing statements to the results of the election by insisting it was a mandate for him to draw up a plan to stay the course in Iraq.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 12, 2006 Bush Convinced He Knows Better Than Americans On Iraq
Bush wants us to know that he's listening to his defective "government", rather than listening to the Americans who've allowed him to serve.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 10, 2006 Iraqi Fledglings Still Refusing To Fly Solo
The Iraqi regime is still, in fact, an adolescent with an insatiable appetite for American lives to feed its manufactured existence.