Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has declared that his government has defeated terrorism in Iraq.
What this means is that surge is a success only in the sense that flooding the zone with security has tamped down violence and — here is the real point — neutralized Iraq as a domestic political issue in the presidential campaign.
“They […]

“I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, […]

You Won’t Hear About in U.S. Media Because Bush Has Imposed a Gag Order, According to the BBC
In October, we wrote about the $12 billion in cash — shrink-wrapped bricks of $100 bills — that the Bush Administration flew into Iraq on cargo pallets and then lost:
“It may well turn out to be the largest […]

Gramps is losing it. John “Maverick” McCain accidentally told the truth and now he’s trying to spin it back into something that doesn’t make Bush look so bad. Good luck with that.
At issue was a comment he made at a town hall-style meeting Friday morning in Denver.
“My friends, I will have an energy policy that […]

In just the last month, the “liberal” media has studiously ignored two revelations of extreme malfeasance by the Bush administration: First, that George Bush admitted that he and his most senior advisers willfully violated U.S. and international laws by drafting torture guidelines for CIA interrogators, and, second, that retired senior […]

It’s no secret that the Bush administration used retired military officers to sell the public on its plan to invade Iraq, but now, based on 8,000 pages of reports and communications it obtained by suing the Pentagon, the New York Times has exposed the access given these military analysts by the White House and […]

During his questioning of Gen. David Petraeus and Amb. Ryan Crocker at the Senate Armed Services Committee hearings yesterday, John McCain again confused — or deliberately conflated — the relationship between the Iranian regime, which is controlled exclusively by Shiites, and al Qaeda, a Sunni terror cult.
Here’s what McCain said:
SEN. MCCAIN: There are numerous […]

If you only count what I say between two specific dates, then when I change my mind later I can make it look as if I am on whatever side I want you to think I am.
That seems to be Hillary Clinton’s strategy for defending against an assertion by Barack Obama that just won’t […]