Russ McBee

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 replace Saakashvili -- a man Vladimir Putin despises -- with a president who would be more ...

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 ...

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 the Iraq invasion. McClellan says this about the media's complicity during the 2002-2003 White ...

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 ...

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 wounded, maimed, and killed as a result. In my mind, this action by the Bush ...

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 danger of losing because Mr. Bush’s failed adventure in Iraq is eating up the Pentagon’s ...

General David Petraeus gave one of his patented dog-and-pony shows before the Senate Armed Services Committee today, in which he suggested that the administration's failed strategy in Iraq should be given even more time to continue failing: Telling Congress that progress in Iraq was “fragile and reversible,” the top American commander ...

Today marks twice in one week Dick Cheney has insulted the American people, and now he's been brazen enough to insult the troops he and Bush have placed in harm's way. The outrage began last week, when Cheney was faced with this question: RADDATZ: Let me go back to the Americans. Two-thirds of Americans say it's not worth fighting, and they're ...

Five years ago, the majority of the American public believed Bush's portfolio of lies used to justify the invasion of Iraq. Five years and 4,000 dead American soldiers later, the lies remain unpunished and the occupation continues to be a disaster. Hans Blix, the head of UN weapons inspections in Iraq at the time, had this to say on those ...

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 ...