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h/t ThinkProgress via Truthdig
You may have already seen this, but it bears re-posting far and wide: The inimitable Seymour Hersh gave truly disturbing details, during the Campus Progress journalism conference in July, expounding upon his article from that month’s New Yorker about the Bush administration’s attempts to find a cause for war against Iran in [...]

Sorry, this has nothing to do with President Bush’s upcoming visit to Utah, later this month. Instead, it’s a remarkable glimpse of a mind that is fixated on what I would call the opposite of reality. Back in April 2003, Josh Marshall warned that the neocon strategy for the entire Middle East could [...]

Do not underestimate Senator John McCain. His candidacy ought to have ended with his embarrassing stroll through the Baghdad Thieves’ Market almost a year ago. Or when he followed that up by singing the chorus of “Bomb Iran.” Or when he told us about his plan to occupy Iraq for 100 [...]

Come one, come all pundits on this blog, to a penetrating quantitative analysis of Presidential greatness versus experience at–
http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2008/Pres/Maps/Mar10.html
(scroll down to “Is an Experienced President a Good President?”)
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Conclusion: no correlation whatsoever!
My meditation:
According to this data, LBJ, with 27 years in the Congress, is the number two most experienced president and for my [...]

Recently, George Lakoff wrote a provocative post about The Words None Dare Say: Nuclear War. “What we are seeing now is the conservative message machine preparing the country to accept the idea of a nuclear war …against Iran.”
Of course, Iran has no nuclear weapons program. However, we have to consider that the Bush [...]

I wonder how a Bush Lover would hear this? Do they still think the heavy-handed unilateral approach to terrorism is the proper course? Are they really still so afraid they are willing to subvert the constitution and the rule of law?
It must feel like being betrayed by a lover who used and abused [...]

Slate’s Fred Kaplan has a new book, Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power. Slate offers an exclusive two-part preview. Kaplan’s thesis, in a nutshell: “The great divide in thinking about American foreign policy these past few years is not so much between Realists and Neoconservatives; it’s between realists (with [...]

During his current tour of the Middle East, President Bush contradicted his own policies so many times I began to wonder if the speech writers were out to get him. His cognitive dissonance confounded everybody back home in the USA and in the host countries (Israel, Palestine, Bahrain, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi [...]

President Bush can stop threatening everybody with World War III, at least in regard to Iran. The declassified key judgments (PDF) of the latest National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) titled Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities concludes that “in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program… Tehran’s decision to halt its nuclear weapons program suggests [...]

A 52 percent majority of Americans want to bomb Iran and 53 percent think that President Bush is going to do it, according to a new Zogby poll. Just 29 percent of Americans think the US should not attack Iran. Never mind that Iran poses no threat to our national security unless we [...]

Seymour Hersh has a new article about the coming U.S. attack on Iran in The New Yorker. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer interviewed him this morning. Scary, scary stuff. Must-read.

At a White House meeting with Cheney this summer, according to a former senior intelligence official, it was agreed that, if limited strikes on Iran [...]

Raw Story reports that Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) says he is “seriously thinking about calling a privileged resolution on impeachment of the vice president and forcing a vote on the floor of the House.” A member submitting a privileged resolution proposing impeachment is entitled to recognition for one hour in which to debate it. [...]