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Condi Rice has agreed to a troop withdrawal timetable to end the occupation of Iraq.
The cowardly defeatocrats and cut ‘n’ runners have kicked ass. Declaring that the deal means “the left won the Iraq debate,” Spencer Ackerman notes that the withdrawal plan is nearly identical to the plan offered by the Center for [...]

Via Think Progress: Today marks seven years since the day President Bush received a President’s Daily Brief entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” (PDF) What did Bush do? He stayed on vacation the rest of August.
The Bush administration finally scheduled a long-delayed meeting to discuss al Qaeda with Richard [...]

The House of Representatives usually takes Fridays off, but the leadership considers the impeachment of President George W. Bush to be such a high priority that the Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing is scheduled for Friday, July 25. /snark
Except that Chairman John Conyers isn’t calling it an impeachment hearing, despite the fact that this [...]

After four years of delays, the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has finally released its Phase II report. In a sweeping review of the administration’s pre-war case for invasion, the Committee found that the American public was being fed information at odds with the truth about Iraq.
The lies came directly from President Bush, [...]

Condoleezza Rice may be the worst National Security Advisor ever (9/11), but she’s not one to rest on her laurels. She is now trying to be the worst Secretary of State ever. Never has the acronym “SOS” been more appropriate. Just the other day, Rice issued an ill-advised challenge to Moqtada al-Sadr, [...]

The news from Iraq in recent days has gone from bad, to very bad, to extremely bad. Now it’s unbelievably bad. Here’s the headline: Secretary of State Rice Mocks Muslim Cleric Moqtada al-Sadr as a Coward. American diplomacy at work, as 107mm rockets and mortar shells rain down on the Green Zone.

“I [...]

From an email sent by Wexler’s office:

Today, in hearings on Capitol Hill, I confronted Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on her role in the lies, exaggerations, and misdirection that led us into the Iraq war.
During my questioning, Secretary Rice falsely stated [...]

As the government in Myanmar is finding out, it’s hard to keep oppression, corruption and institutional violence a secret in the age of blogging, satellite surveillance and global economics. So when Dick Cheney and others convened in Salt Lake for a meeting of the “secret” Council for National Policy, I was skeptical. After all, this [...]

…I doubt it. Its probably just that most Americans don’t know Lebanon from baloney. It doesn’t hurt that Condi Rice has become the poster girl for shameless ambition.
As reported at HuffPost
A few months ago, she [Condi Rice] decided to write an opinion piece about Lebanon. She enlisted John Chambers, chief executive officer of [...]

Alberto Gonzales might not make it to Utah- or out of Washington alive. But the list of Bush administration flunkees running to Utah to look busy is obvious and somewhat frightening. The Bush “Mod Squad” of Gonzales, Education Secretary Spellings and HHS head and former Utah governor Mike Leavitt, is due to come here Friday [...]

Having been a journalist for more than thirty years, I’m used to politicians lying to me: either to make themselves sound better or denegrate their opponent. But Rep. Chris Cannon and Sen. Orrin Hatch have taken falsehood and inaccuracy to a new, pathological level.
Hatch, seen here claiming he discovered Great Salt Lake, either fibbed or [...]