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By Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — The Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison accused the Bush administration Wednesday of committing “war crimes” and called for those responsible to be held to account.

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From ABC News:
In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House, the most senior Bush administration officials discussed and approved the torture of prisoners held by the Central Intelligence Agency. The advisers were members of the National Security Council’s Principals Committee, which in 2002-2003 included Vice President Cheney, former National Security Advisor […]

The corporate media circus exposed via BradBlog in all it’s commercialized glory. Don’t miss “Lapdogs Of The Corporate Press!“

Remember when Americans were outraged that the military was buying toilet seats and hammers for six hundred dollars and passing the bill onto the taxpayers. Ah, the good old days!
I set my alarm clock to the Diane Rehm show on NPR at 9:00 a.m. every morning. If you live in Utah, it is one of […]

Just a reminder, the official 9/11 report does not mention WTC7 anywhere, and it was not hit by a plane. And according to NYC fire fighters radio transmissions, the minor fire was isolated and well under control when the order to evacuate was given.
I raise this only because I happen to notice that yesterday, DailyKos […]

Psychology and science made their debut as American weapons of war in 1916. President Woodrow Wilson, a Southern Democrat and avowed racial terrorist launched, “the Committee on Public Information.” That same year, President Wilson welcomed a parade of several hundred thousand hooded white men at the White House. The original masters of Amerikan terror held […]

As a last-ditch desperate attempt to save their own hides, the founding fathers of the neocon ideology are blaming Bush for screwing up. For those unfamiliar with the chicken hawks behind this illegal fiasco. They are Perle, Feith, Adleman, Frum, Woolsey, Cohen, Gaffney, Rubin, and Pletka
Strikingly absent from this Bush-bashing orgy is a mea culpa.
Our […]

This post is in response to a request from Cliff to dig up some more information about the Military Transition Teams in Iraq and how they operate. As we all know, the true state of training of national security forces, Iraqi Army (IA) and Iraqi Police (IP), is a subject that has been largely […]

I cannot begin to find language strong enough to describe my disgust at the treatment of Jose Padilla at the hands of our government. Held for four years, two years without access to counsel, without ever actually being charged, tortured and finally driven insane. And to make matters worse,
Indeed, there are even some […]

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 […]