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 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 ...

Foreign Policy has conducted a survey of current and retired senior military officers, asking for their opinions on the current state of US forces. The results are disturbing. First, a note about those surveyed: In all, more than 3,400 officers holding the rank of major or lieutenant commander and above were surveyed from across the services, ...

For the last couple of years, the neocons and their puppets have been shouting about the dangers allegedly posed by Iran and its oh-so-scary nuclear program. Just two months ago, President Bush said this about the threat that Iran's nuclear program represented: Q But you definitively believe Iran wants to build a nuclear weapon? THE ...

From ABC, via HuffPo: Tucked inside the White House's $196 billion emergency funding request for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is an item that has some people wondering whether the administration is preparing for military action against Iran. The item: $88 million to modify B-2 stealth bombers so they can carry a newly developed ...

President Bush gave a speech before the American Legion today (perhaps one of his few remaining supportive audiences) in which he begged for patience on ''progress'' in Iraq. He ran through a dingy, moldy laundry list of reasons why we should stay in Iraq, all of which we've heard before: We have to fight them over there so we don't have to ...

Colin Powell appeared on Meet The Press today; during his appearance, he said the following (via Think Progress): I think it is short-sighted not to talk to Syria and Iran and everybody else in the region. [...] And if it was up to me, I would close Guantanamo — not tomorrow, this afternoon. I’d close it. And I’d not let any of those people ...

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 ...