Russ McBee

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 bases inside Iraq. Bush is excluding Congress from these negotiations, and he thinks he can sign ...

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'' so it can be funded off the books, outside the normal accounting of the ...

Concerned that they cannot cave to the Bush administration fast enough, Congressional Democrats are coming up with a way to streamline the process of giving Bush whatever he wants: Speaking to reporters here Thursday, both House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) made comments suggesting they ...

The Democrats in Congress might actually be growing a spine (although the jury is still out on that one). The House recently passed a $50 billion funding bill for the Iraq debacle, which the Republicans in the Senate promptly blocked because the bill mandated the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq by the end of 2008. In his zeal for perpetual war, ...

The Dems passed the Capitulation Bill today, missing an opportunity to end this ridiculous war: To right-wingers, it confirms their opinion of Democrats as spineless weaklings, afraid to stand up for their principles. Dream on if Democratic officeholders think they will get a shred of credit from the Iraq War dead-enders for their ''support of ...