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Up front, let me say I was never a fan of President Gerald Ford after he pardoned Nixon. It seemed to me he was putting the best interest of the Republican Party ahead of what was best for the country. He deserved to lose the 1976 election.
Tomorrow’s Washington Post has a front-page exclusive [...]

From Dick Cheney’s pepper spray to Mark Foley’s instant messages.
By John Dickerson
Listen to the MP3 audio version of this story here.

1. Cheney’s Got a Gun
2. Blogger Power!
3. George of the Bungle
4. Foley: The Final Insult
5. Rummy Felled

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Thanks to We have failed our duty as citizens…

WaPo — Military victory is no longer possible in Iraq, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said in a television interview broadcast Sunday. … In a wide ranging interview on BBC television, Kissinger presented a bleak vision of Iraq, saying the U.S. government must enter into dialogue with Iraq’s regional neighbors including Iran if any [...]

Farewell, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Some random Rummy thoughts:
“I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started.”
On the failure to find weapons of mass destruction (WMD): “The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence…Simply because you [...]

Montana officially goes to Tester!  Best the R’s can hope for is a tie but Webb has more votes in VA so!
AND . . . . . .
Rumsfeld Resigns!
We are now officially authorized to do the happy dance!

The New York Times has revealed a recent CIA assessment of the war in Afghanistan. The finding was that Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s American-backed government has been weakened by rising popular frustration over corruption and failure to deliver services. The government is widely viewed as too weak to protect the country [...]

The 109th US Congress, like a story right out of a Roman History textbook, last week crowned the President, King George. The militaristic, “commander-in-chief” has made the rule of law synonymous with Presidential fiat. The Imperial power was easily wrested once again from the hands of our “lackey Congress.” The President, with the stroke of [...]

Looks like Bush lost several oppotunities to capture bin Laden before 9/11, and has plenty of warning. Seems like they let it happen.

As The New York Times reported on Sunday, in April the government produced a secret National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), “Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States.” A main conclusion of the NIE was that the Iraq war has been counterproductive in terms of the so-called Global War on Terror (GWOT). The [...]