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Bolton & Yoo, comedians

Monday, January 05, 2009 8:55 PM
A while ago , a conversation arose on Twitter about this op-ed in today's New York Times by John Bolton and John Yoo (yes, that Bolton and that Yoo), in which two of the biggest perpetrators of the " unitary executive " mythology now advocate that the
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Dick Armey says Cheney lied to him

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 12:40 PM
Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX) says Dick Cheney lied to him about the intelligence used to justify the invasion of Iraq : "Did Dick Cheney ... purposely tell me things he knew to be untrue?" Armey said. "I seriously feel that may be the
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Woodward's series on the "surge" and its real architects

Monday, September 08, 2008 5:10 PM
This week, the Washington Post is running a series of excerpts from Bob Woodward's new book, "The War Within," which details the decision-making process leading up to the "surge" in Iraq. In yesterday's installment , Woodward detailed Bush's refusal to
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Richard Holbrooke on Russia and Georgia

Monday, August 11, 2008 10:23 PM
In today's Washington Post, Richard Holbrooke had this to say about Russia's invasion of Georgia: Russia's goal is not simply, as it claims, restoring the status quo in South Ossetia. It wants regime change in Georgia. [...] But its greatest goal is to
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Bush negotiating in secret for permanent bases in Iraq

Thursday, June 05, 2008 7:40 PM
Contrary to the will of the American people, the US Congress, the Iraqi parliament , the Iraqi president, and the Iraqi people, George Bush is engaged in secret negotiations with Iraqi president Nouri al-Maliki to establish fifty permanent US military
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Greenwald on the "liberal media" myth

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 9:25 PM
Glenn Greenwald has two pieces in Salon on the persistent myth of the "liberal" media. In the first , he notes some comments from Scott McClellan's explosive new book that portray the media as willing lapdogs of the Bush administration in its run-up to
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Veto bait

Wednesday, May 07, 2008 10:27 PM
The pending House appropriations bill that would provide "emergency" funding for the continued occupation of Iraq is certain to draw a veto from the White House (and how much longer is this five-year-old occupation going to be falsely labeled an "emergency"
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Some interesting quotes from a recovering neocon

Tuesday, May 06, 2008 10:30 PM
Lawrence F. Kaplan, one of the premier neocon cheerleaders for the invasion of Iraq, has had a change of heart. He no longer considers himself a neocon, and he has had some very unflattering things to say about the Iraq invasion (which he and William
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Sanchez speaks

Monday, May 05, 2008 8:52 PM
From a new memoir by Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, former commander of US forces in Iraq : Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars were unnecessarily spent, and worse yet, too many of our most precious military resource, our American soldiers, were unnecessarily
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Quote of the day (on Iraq)

Sunday, April 13, 2008 7:13 PM
The quote of the day comes from today's NYT editorial : We believe that the fight against Al Qaeda is the central battle for this generation, but Mr. Bush’s claim that Iraq is the main front is wrong. That is Afghanistan, and the United States is in real
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