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Color me utterly unsurprised:
The Bush administration has postponed plans to offer public details of its charges of Iranian meddling inside Iraq amid internal divisions over the strength of the evidence, U.S. officials said.
Back in the heady days of 2003, when Rumsfeld said we know where the weapons are, the Bush folks almost certainly counted on [...]

In America, it’s hard to be a minority. Sometimes, your Mercedes gets a door ding in the Tiffany’s parking lot. You just know the hired help’s rummages through your things, even if you can’t prove it. And, worst of all, you have to sit in the back of the Armed Services Committee.
Just [...]

You’d think their party’s horrible mismanagement of an unwinnable war built on deceit would make it difficult for aspiring Republicans to step into the presidential arena with tough talk and promises of delivering a super-sized helping of liberty to all the flag-waving disadvantaged youth of the world.
If anything would dissuade a rational person [...]

In war, like in home redecorating or computer upgrading, your initial guess about how much money and time you’ll be spending is always a bit low. Part of the reason it’s important to set a strict budget for yourself is so that you have a baseline against which to judge how insane you are [...]

Advertising is as American as apple pie made from the blood of infidels. We are the land of product placement. Our biggest sporting event of the year is equally known for its commercials. And, by God, we’ve got Man Laws.
So it makes sense that the president, facing staunch opposition in and out [...]

Not that you’d know it from most online US news sources (The Post excluded), but it appears the US engaged in an act of war with Iran:
US forces accompanied by military helicopters on Thursday stormed the Iranian consulate in the Kurdish city of Arbil, arresting five Iranian employees, a Kurdish security source said. In addition [...]

Ever have an argument about Roe v Wade with someone who is anti-choice but not particularly religious? Everyone knows the rub in R v W; that it doesn’t grant the unqualified right to an abortion. Instead it claims that the right to an abortion is part of a right to privacy which is [...]

Lately, I’ve been racking my brain trying to figure out what to do about this whole war mess we’ve elected to create. I dunno about you, but I feel intense pressure to make the right strategic decisions, not to mention figure out how to make the best possible contribution to the effort.
As [...]

Hilzoy found this gem of a quote from Herr Preznit yesterday regarding Iraq:
“I thought we would succeed quicker than we did, and I am disappointed by the pace of success.”
_I’m_ disappointed in our leader’s short-sightedness. Since when do we have to answer to the day-trader mentality that’s pervaded and perverted our country? Some [...]

I’ve noticed some frustration/shock/disappointment over Sy Hersh’s revelation that the White House disregarded a CIA doc showing no proof for an Iranian weapons program. As Hersh says, the report won’t stop the administration from “pursuing a military option with Iran.”
By invading Iraq, the White House proved that not only can it start a [...]

Yesterday, George Bush made an even stronger case for being considered both an imperialist and a war criminal. Thanks, NRO!
“We have made a conscious effort not to be a body-count team,” Bush said, in a clear reference to the tabulations of enemy killed that became a hallmark of the Vietnam War.
30,000! 665,000! [...]

44-49% of people scare me:
President George W. Bush’s approval rating has rebounded to 44 percent, the highest level in a year, in the latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, the newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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For the first time since December 2005, a majority of people polled did not say the war in Iraq was a mistake. The respondents [...]