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This is basically a re-post from Think Progress, for which I apologize. However, the message is important: Senator John McCain hasn’t got a clue about Iraq strategy. I can cite specifics, but why take it from me? Listen to CNN’s Baghdad correspondent Michael Ware, who has been closely following developments in Iraq [...]

While the Presidential campaigners make their rounds talking about victory in “eye-rack,” they are careful to say nothing whatsoever about Afghanistan. Unlike the unbelievably costly and pointless Iraq fiasco, the Afghanistan/Pakistan war matters greatly to U.S. national security.

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In Azizabad, an Afghan boy carried his belongings amid the ruins of his home, which [...]

If you missed “60 Minutes,” then you ought to watch this now. Scott Pelley interviewed Bob Woodward about his new book on the so-called “surge” in Iraq.
Now, normally I wouldn’t hit the keyboard to run the risk of helping Woodward– he’s a smug s.o.b. who wrote adulatory books about President Bush until [...]

Flag of Iraqi Kurdistan
While the U.S. presidential election is about to go into full swing, few Americans know that the Iraqi elections originally scheduled for this October have been postponed indefinitely. They may have a war instead.
Jonathan Steele of The Guardian reports that growing tensions between Nouri al-Maliki’s Green Zone Government [...]

Hurricane Gustav is barreling toward the Gulf Coast. Today it was forecasted to hit New Orleans on Monday, the first day of the Republican National Convention. By then it could be a Category 3 storm, which triggers mandatory evacuations. President George W. Bush will be the featured speaker at the convention in [...]

Via Think Progress– Senator John McCain is running a campaign of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich:

Asked to “define rich” recently, McCain joked, “How about $5 million.” Asked to refine that answer, McCain later said that some people “are poor if they’re billionaires.”
McCain’s is proposing a tax policy that primarily benefits the [...]

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 [...]

They also knew well, how religion can make some people stupid.  Thats why the first ten words of the first amendment are, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion."
Of late, some of our less learned brethren have decided the establishment clause somehow means the opposite.  Such sheeple are of course, a grave [...]

Read the sad story in The New York Times about the Georgian retreat from South Ossetia, and you have to admit this fiasco is partly our fault– i.e. President George Bush’s fault.
One soldier, his face a mask of exhaustion, cradled a Kalashnikov.
“We killed as many of them as we could,” he said. “But [...]

It’s important to observe that the USA is not fighting a war in Iraq. The reason I say that is that it’s an occupation, and the fighting that takes place involving the U.S. military is all in support of the occupation. As far as I can tell, the Iraqis who are fighting Americans [...]

Russian T-90 tanks advancing on Tskhinvali in South Ossetia.
This is going to go down in history as one of those miscalculations that led straight to disaster. Here’s the story in brief, based on a well-written article in The Telegraph and a column by Edward Lucas in The Times:
Following the dissolution of the Soviet [...]

Spencer Ackerman tackles the Bush administration’s Orwellian assault on the English language as it applies to Iraq:

Few governments have relied more on euphemism than the Bush administration. Euphemism is different from spin. Spin puts the best face forward on a given policy; euphemism uses its opposite to describe itself. Hence the Clear Skies Initiative to [...]