Redefining ‘victory’
What exactly are we trying to do in Iraq? What does the "victory" President Bush is constantly extolling really mean? Does it mean just crushing violent dissent and bringing Western-style…
Timeline shows massive screw-ups
This timeline is based partly on assertions by Rep. Curt Weldon and five military intelligence officers who say they participated in Able Danger. Pentagon officials have corroborated some of the…
Able Danger: The ultimate government cover-up?
It's either the grandest conspiracy since the JFK assassination and the grassy knoll or much ado about nothing. …
A failed attempt to sell a failed policy on a failed war
The dwindling numbers of those who continue to support, without question, George W. Bush’s failed policies in Iraq didn’t get much to support their cause when the President delivered what…
A war of semantics
Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon press conference this week was notable mainly for his musings on the semantics of the Iraqi insurgency. …
Lugar on Bush: Nice speech, but…
Indiana Sen. Dick Lugar, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Wednesday praised President Bush's attempt to better define his military strategy in Iraq, saying the speech and the 37-page report…
Stay or go? Not an easy choice
Stay the course or pull out now? Pump in more U.S. troops or punch up the training of Iraqi soldiers? In the roiling, increasingly rancorous debate about what America should…
Something old, nothing new
President Bush took yet another stab at convincing a dubious American public that waging war in Iraq was the proper decision but his speech failed to generate much enthusiasm and…
