A couple of important stories out today: Senate committee: Bush knew Iraq claims weren’t true and more information on our permanent bases in Iraq.
The first isn’t anything new. We’ve known that the White House ignored whatever information wasn’t useful to their case for war. That meant ignoring consensus on al Qaeda-Iraq ties and ignoring significant [...]

I just watched No End in Sight, a documentary about the clusterfuck that was (and is) the planning and execution of the Iraq war. I can’t recommend it enough. Unlike Robert Greenwald’s Uncovered, which is similar in subject matter, it isn’t just a few people talking about what they think happened, with little actual information. [...]

Public trusts the fascists to run things! Good heavens, what will become of our country?
This is just how it was in Germany in the ’30s, man.

Disclaimer: There are two obvious objections to the post that follows: I’m assuming without evidence that the Bush administration’s stated reasons were not the reason for the war and that these sorts of arguments are no longer relevant. The first is wrong, but it’s another subject and I won’t answer such arguments on this post. [...]

Petraeus and Crocker have begun their Congressional briefings in the past two days and it’s really not impressive. I’m a fan of this nonsense:
Petraeus’s plan would rotate 2,200 Marines out of Anbar province in western Iraq this month without replacing them, then begin pulling out 17,500 Army troops and 2,000 more Marines starting in mid-December. [...]

A new bin Laden tape came out on Friday and since I was traveling, I couldn’t comment on it.
It’s sort of an interesting tape. Lots of reports have noted how topical (if that’s the right word) it is, mentioning global warming, the subprime mortgage collapse, etc. His rhetoric resembles that of the anti-war crowd [...]

Al Qaeda is pretty obviously a bad group of people, but do they barbecue children and feed them to their parents? I’m with Wulfgar; that’s a bit sketchy. Yon’s reporting is from an anonymous Iraqi official who apparently heard it from someone else. Not much more than a rumor in a region filled with vile [...]

Well, fuck. I realize I have plenty of time to think about the Democratic nominees for President, but this really throws a monkey wrench into things. I’m inclined to agree with Colby. If Congress is simply going to roll over when Bush vetoes the spending bill, what good are they? Granted, the Democrats can’t override [...]

You probably already know this, but I’m apparently an enemy of the U.S. I don’t normally take people named “Buzz” seriously, but this one may have a point.
“You’ve got a situation where the American Left is choosing to side with Islamo-fascists,” says the Clinton aide. “What does that tell you about what their true [...]

I guess I have to comment on this, being a liberal blogger. Otherwise, what good am I?
We’ve successfully convicted the fall guy. He certainly wasn’t innocent in the whole thing, but let’s face it, he’s not who the Left wanted out of this. They had their sights set on Dick Cheney and Karl Rove. Alas, [...]