So we’ve reached the 10th anniversary of President George W. Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” spectacle, the nadir of any U.S. presidency since the time Richard Nixon made his getaway in a helicopter from the White House lawn. The aircraft carrier stunt was a Karl Rove P.R. production designed to provide images for Bush’s 2004 re-election...
Apologists for the war of aggression against Iraq that President George W. Bush launched ten years ago claim the United Nations and various European nations’ intelligence services “believed” Iraq had “weapons of mass destruction.” We constantly hear from former Bush officials that “everybody got it wrong” on Iraq when it came to whether or...
It’s a welcome step to see President Obama appoint two Vietnam veterans to serve as Secretaries of State and Defense. John Kerry and Chuck Hagel are two people who have experienced war directly and have voiced publicly their deep ambivalence about war. Too bad in 2002 neither of them were willing to risk their...
Despite the redeployment of U.S. troops out of Iraq, during this dismal period of “austerity” the public isn’t likely to see any discernible difference in the government’s misplaced priorities. Our representatives in Washington recently passed a “bipartisan” military budget of $662 billion. That level of “defense” spending, about $7 trillion over 10 years, Congress...
Neo-conservatives within the Bush Administration – Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, Defense Policy Board member Richard Perle, and others, repeatedly told us on TV that individuals who opposed President George W. Bush’s attack, invasion, and occupation of...
The British Iraq Inquiry heard testimony from former Prime Minister Tony Blair today and it’s terrific that C-SPAN is airing it. What the United Kingdom is dealing with is the hangover of the crimes of George W. Bush, crimes that have been conveniently swept under the rug on this side of the pond. Blair...
Brit Hume of FOX News once compared Iraq’s murder rate to California’s to downplay the level of American casualties because the two places are similar in geographical size. On August 26, 2003, Hume opined: “Two hundred seventy-seven U.S. soldiers have now died in Iraq, which means that statistically speaking U.S. soldiers have less of...
The $106 billion the United States insists on throwing at Iraq and Afghanistan each year just because George W. Bush and Dick Cheney had visions of a “New American Century” dancing in their heads, has from the start been a draining expense the nation could ill afford. And this huge outlay of taxpayer cash...
The McGlaughlin Group: It’s “the Professional Left’s” Fault
Each week The McLaughlin Group sits around in a TV studio on PBS giving us a clinic on the mindset and “conventional wisdom” of millionaire Washington elites. And they’re already constructing the template for the dominant narrative following the elections. While setting up a discussion, John McLaughlin quoted Naomi Klein’s “squib” on a new...
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