Russ McBee

Up until yesterday, the Pentagon planned to release a landmark survey of over 600,000 seized Iraqi documents that showed conclusively there was no connection between al Qaeda and the regime of Saddam Hussein. At the last minute, the Pentagon decided to bury the study: ABC News' Jonathan Karl Reports: The Bush Administration apparently does not ...

I'll bet Dick Cheney's head is about to explode: Iraq and China are close to re-signing a $1.2 billion oil deal that was called off after the 2003 U.S. invasion, an Iraqi Oil Ministry official said Thursday. [...] Saddam Hussein's government signed a deal with the state-owned China National Petroleum Corp. to develop the billion-barrel ...

First, there's this: The White House possesses no archived e-mail messages for many of its component offices, including the Executive Office of the President and the Office of the Vice President, for hundreds of days between 2003 and 2005, according to the summary of an internal White House study that was disclosed yesterday by a congressional ...

Two (mostly) unrelated stories caught my eye today; both have to do with protecting the wrong interests. First, President Bush has refused to sign a defense spending bill; his reasons were curious: And then Friday, with no warning, a vacationing Bush announced he will veto a sweeping military policy bill because of an obscure provision that ...

The White House has spent the last four years denying the quagmire in Iraq is in any way comparable to the quagmire we faced in Vietnam. That's suddenly changed. Bush gave a muddy, ham-handed speech in which he tried to make the case that pulling out of Iraq would lead to something like the killing fields of Cambodia: ''Three decades later, ...

Many words have been written by those trying to understand the mentality of the Bush White House. Some scientists seem to have discovered the answer: A queen bee needs to keep her subjects calm and quiet, and she does so by secreting a scent that prevents worker bees from learning, according to new research.The study, published ...

Guess which liberal MSM rag printed this in Sunday's editorial: Perhaps Jack Murtha put it best: The Pennsylvania congressman, among the first to make the cogent argument that staying the course in Iraq was the exercise in futility that indeed the war has become, says President Bush is delusional. Based on the president's recent performance, ...

Oh dear God, no ... please tell me Bush did not just say this to a group of black musicians playing on the White House South Lawn: Proud you’re here. Thanks for coming. You all enjoy yourself. Make sure you pick up all the trash after it’s over. Yep. The official transcript verifies it -- Bush has outdone Imus. UPDATE: After watching the ...

According to Colin Powell's former chief of staff, they did. The story in Congressional Quarterly says (via The Newshoggers): Lawrence B. Wilkerson, the U.S. Army colonel who was Powell’s chief of staff through two administrations, said in little-noted remarks early last month that “neocons” in the top rungs of the administration ...

Conservative pin-up girl Georgie Anne Geyer wrote this on the origins of terrorism and Bush's disjointed state of mind on the subject (via Firedoglake): And so, on the one hand, you have weakened societies vulnerable to the ''new answers'' of ''new insurgencies,'' and on the other hand, you have Iraq set up as a school for terrorists ...