The Weekly Standard's Stephen F. Hayes has gotten his hands on an intelligence memo that details, point by point, Saddam Hussein's connections to al Qaeda and Usama bin Laden. According to the memo--which lays out the intelligence in 50 numbered points--Iraq-al Qaeda contacts began in 1990 and continued through mid-March 2003, days before the Iraq […]
Citizen Smash links to this article [free registration required] in the Chicago Tribune about a woman whose son was killed in Iraq. In the eyes of his anti-war mother, Brian Slavenas was a man of peace who died while reluctantly serving in a conflict he disagreed with. To his father and brother, both veterans, the […]
I've got CNN's "Capitol Gang" on right now and Wall Street Journal columnist Al Hunt is running down some of the "lies" that we've allegedly been told about Iraq. Dick Cheney said, on the eve of war, said that Iraq has reconstituted nuclear weapons. That is untrue. Well, kinda. Al, why don't you go and […]
Want more evidence that the United States is the only country that even tries to follow the Geneva Convention? Former New York Times reporter Rick Bragg writes in Pvt. Jessica Lynch's book "I Am a Soldier, too" what medical records reveal Lynch went through after the Humvee she was riding in crashed following an Iraqi […]
America's most-advanced tank, the M1A1 Abrams was disabled by some sort of RPG. I say "some sort of RPG" because officials aren't sure exactly what it was that hit the tank on patrol in Iraq. One armor expert at Fort Knox, Ky., suggested the tank may have been hit by an updated RPG. About 15 […]
Sunday's Washington Post features an article announcing the creation of a flat tax in Iraq. The article features a colorful history of the flat tax idea and plenty of quotes from U.S.-based flat-tax supporters. The idea also gets a couple of bricks thrown at it, one by an unnamed "Middle East expert," and the other […]
After his embarrasing performance on Fox News Sunday two weeks ago, Jay Rockefeller tries his hand at coherence, consistency and credibility again, this time on "Meet the Press." Once again, Rockefeller takes aim at George W. Bush, turns the gun around and shoots himself in the foot. Rockefeller argued that the Bush administration was not […]
GOP Rep. Deborah Pryce was quoted on Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume making the following statement while visiting a hospital in Iraq yesterday. The effects of the embargo are widespread. There are fewer nurses trained, there are fewer doctors trained, and the medical equipment shortages obviously a problem in his eyes. So we […]
While I don't agree with everything in it, today's New York Times has a surprisingly reasonable editorial calling on Democrats to take a position on American foreign policy post-9/11 that is something more substantive than: Bush is wrong. The candidates also need to tell Americans where they stand on the larger issue of preventive war. […]
Well, I've got the 60 Minutes II piece on the "sexed up" Iraq intelligence and there's really no surprises in the statements coming from former State Department analyst Greg Thielmann. After checking out some background helpfully provided by Robert Musil, what CBS managed to come up with is the same ol', same ol'. As I […]