For over 18-months, the Marine Corps never responded to a “priority 1 urgent” request for sending more blast resistant vehicles to Iraq. On the eve of congress caving into Bush by writing him a blank check for war, a new document provides insight on how the military ignored an important request to help safeguard […]
Oh, Cheney. Now you can’t even go to a baseball game without being booed.
Perhaps it has to do with your failed administration or how you misused intelligence to take us to war or how you destabilized the Middle East. But I think it is more about image. Really, what you need is […]
A couple of weeks ago, TPMMuckraker noticed a strange blog on Cincinatti.com called Grandma in Iraq that posts only upbeat and happy stories about Iraq. After a little investigative journalism (yes, some people still do that), TPMM found out that ‘Grandma’ was really a public affairs officer for the U.S. army.
The Cincinnati Enquirer (owner […]
In the continuing saga of military equipment issues, the army has reached an all new low. Army officials have banned the use of privately bought armor. You probably remember all the fund drives and protests for more body armor that have occurred over the past few years. I know many organizations here […]
How did that checks and balances thing go again?
It turns out that Bush plans on closing the Dubai port deal tomorrow or Monday according to the U.S. Treasury Department:
Ports World’s $6.85 billion acquisition of Britain’s P&O will close on Friday or Monday, despite an additional 45-day review by the U.S. government in response to […]
You probably remember this statement by Bush:
I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees. They did anticipate a serious storm. But these levees got breached. And as a result, much of New Orleans is flooded. And now we are having to deal with it and will.
Well, now they have to deal with not […]
A new Zogby poll shows that U.S. soldiers overwhelmingly want to pull out of Iraq within the year. E&P story here.
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Not only do they partner with terrorists, Dubai is part of an anti-Semitic boycott against Israel.
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1,300 Iraqis are known to be dead from last weeks sectarian violence.
68 more killed as soon as curfew lifted.
Sadly, Iraq has fallen into a civil war.
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The coast guard told investigators that there was a large number of intelligence gaps, potential unknown threats, and potential vulnerabilities.
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