This news from the NY Times just blew my mind when I read it:
CBS News no longer stations a single full-time correspondent in Iraq, where some 150,000 United States troops are deployed.
Paul Friedman, a senior vice president at CBS News, said the news division does not get reports from Iraq on television “with enough frequency [...]
Juan Cole compiles the numbers for us:
By now, summer of 2008, excess deaths from violence in Iraq since March of 2003 must be at least a million. This conclusion can be reached more than one way. There is not much controversy about it in the scientific community. Some 310,000 of those were [...]
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan:
If anything, the national press corps was probably too deferential to the White House and to the administration in regard to the most important decision facing the nation during my years in Washington, the choice over whether to go to war in Iraq.
The collapse of the administration’s rationales for [...]
JFK (middle) hanging out with the Shah of Iran (left).
If you read the NYTimes.com, you woke up to some lovely news yesterday:
The International Atomic Energy Agency, in an unusually blunt and detailed report, said Monday that Iran’s suspected research into the development of nuclear weapons remained “a matter of serious concern” and that Iran continued [...]
President George W. Bush addressing the Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem on Thursday, May 15, 2008:
Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into [...]
$200 a barrel oil?
That’ll make gas what? Like a million dollars a gallon (I’m guessing).
I think I’m going to have to get another job or a better one just to afford to go to work.
But on the plus side, this problem has spawned awesome infographics from the Economist:
Check out the original John “100 Years in Iraq” McCain post (with video) on this subject.
Back in early January, Republican presidential nominee John McCain made it clear he would like to have troops in Iraq for 100 years. He later backed down from that crazy position and expressed a more realistic desire to keep our [...]
I’m talking about this guy:
You know, this guy:
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Thursday indicates that 71 percent of the American public disapprove of how Bush his handling his job as president.
“No president has ever had a higher disapproval rating in any CNN or Gallup poll; in fact, this is the first time that any [...]
John Kerry was right.
In 2004, Kerry said “We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives but they’re a nuisance.” He said he we had to contain it, so “it’s not threatening the fabric of your life.”
Bush’s response was predictably insulting, simpleminded and inaccurate. [...]
Our government officials, not just President Bush, seem to enjoy telling us that America supports the cause of peace, democracy and freedom throughout the world. It’s a nice story, and one I often wish I could believe, but it simply doesn’t match the actions of our government.
We give and sell billions of dollars in [...]