What Sort of Greeting Should We Expect in Iran?4 Mar 2007Excerpt: Our guest is Wayne White. He is an adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute and former deputy director of the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Office of Analysis for the Near East and South Asia.
Will Iraq Become the Democrats’ War?4 Mar 2007Excerpt: Nothing reminds us more of how much the American constitutional system has been transformed, of just how extreme the “imperial presidency” has become, than Congress’ generally woeful record in the second half of the last century and in the first years of this one to exert any significant control over or brakes on White House wars abroad. On such issues, Congress has generally lagged well behind public opinion—as in Vietnam, where its greatest power, the power of the purse, led to partially successful defunding efforts only in 1973 after all U.S. combat forces had been withdrawn and as the American war was limping toward its end.
Time to Put Politics (and Dem Politicians) Aside4 Mar 2007Excerpt: We should have known it was coming. Even though the Democratic Party rode the antiwar wave in to Congress last November, they’ve done little since to end the bloody war in Iraq.
A Horse of a Different Color4 Mar 2007Excerpt: It had to happen sooner or later, and Barack Obama’s startling rise to near the top of the Democratic presidential pack made it sooner—I’m talking about his speech to the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
Sunday: 59 Iraqis, 2 GIs Killed; 23 Iraqis Wounded3 Mar 2007Excerpt: Updated at 2:15 a.m EST, Mar. 5, 2007 U.S. troops re-entered Sadr City by the hundreds. No casualties were reported there, but 59 Iraqis were killed in separate events elsewhere, and another 23 were injured. Also, the family of a Navy corpsman said that he was killed by an explosive device in Ramadi on Thursday, while the U.S. military reported the death of a Marine in Anbar Province on Saturday. A British soldier was injured in a shootout in central Basra.
Not Guilty2 Mar 2007Excerpt: “Serbia has not committed genocide, through its organs or persons whose acts engage its responsibility under customary international law,” says the verdict, posted on the ICJ website in its entirety. Furthermore, Serbia has “not conspired to commit genocide, nor incited the commission of genocide” and “has not been complicit in genocide.”
Fool Me Thrice?2 Mar 2007Excerpt: Way back on 26 May 2003, more than a month before the Cheney Cabal outed Valerie Plame as a covert CIA operative—running agents in Iran, Iraq and elsewhere, seeking information on weapons of mass destruction, under cover of Brewster-Jennings, a CIA-front “energy consulting” firm—the New York Times published an editorial, calling on the CIA, the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and Congressional Intelligence Committees to investigate how, inter alia, the Bush-Cheney administration came to rely on forged documents to make the case that Iraq was trying to import uranium from Africa.
War Talk2 Mar 2007Excerpt: It’s interesting how much of our language is taken from war.
Rice Picks Neocon Champion of Iraq War as Counselor2 Mar 2007Excerpt: In a move that has surprised many foreign policy analysts here, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has appointed a prominent neoconservative hawk and leading champion of the Iraq war to the post of State Department Counselor.
Saturday: 61 Iraqis, 3 GIs Killed; 40 Iraqis Injured2 Mar 2007Excerpt: Updated at 1:35 a.m. EST, March 4, 2007 At least 61 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 40 were wounded during todayand#8217;s attacks. Three American soldiers also lost their lives when a roadside bomb blasted their vehicle.
Big Dangerous Ideas1 Mar 2007Excerpt: The supposedly indispensable nation is having a tough time in what is supposed to be the unipolar moment…
Iraq Rape Cases Emerge From the Shadows1 Mar 2007Excerpt: BAGHDAD —Reports of the gang-rape of 20-year-old Sabrine al-Janabi by three policemen has set off new demands for justice from Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government.
US Religious Leaders Urge Bush to Talk to Iran1 Mar 2007Excerpt: A delegation of U.S. religious leaders called Monday for Washington to negotiate with Tehran, following the delegation’s landmark two-and-a-half-hour meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The Iraq War Crash1 Mar 2007Excerpt: It’s the Chinese Year of the Boar, not very propitious if you’re looking to have an easy time of it.
U.S. to Send Top Refugee Official to Damascus1 Mar 2007Excerpt: The State Department plans to send its top refugee official to Damascus in the coming weeks to discuss how best to deal with the estimated 500,000 to one million Iraqis who have sought safe haven in Syria, a Department spokesman confirmed here Thursday.
Friday: 61 Iraqis, 2 GIs Killed; 39 Iraqis, 1 GI Injured1 Mar 2007Excerpt: Updated at 7:15 p.m. EST, March 2, 2007 At least 14 policemen were killed in a dramatic, retaliatory kidnapping in the Diyala province. Overall, 61 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 39 more were wounded in violent attacks throughout Iraq. Also, two American soldiers were killed and a third one was injured in Baghdad.
Breaking the Presidential Pattern28 Feb 2007Excerpt: President Bush last week continued his rather pathetic tour of former presidents, stopping at Mt. Vernon, George Washington’s home on the Potomac, to deliver a speech that tried, with all the subtlety of a jackhammer, to compare the current occupant of the Oval Office with the Father of His Country. This is not a new phenomenon, though a bit more unwarrantedly arrogant than some. Recently the Bushlet has compared himself to Harry Truman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy—and some of his supporters have invoked Winston Churchill and Woodrow Wilson.
US, Canada Diverge on Terror War Tactics28 Feb 2007Excerpt: In stark contrast to last week’s U.S. court decision upholding the Military Commissions Act, Canada’s court has unanimously struck down a law that would allow the Canadian government to use secret evidence to detain foreign-born terror suspects indefinitely without charges or open court hearings.
Pentagon Meet Discussed Escalating Pressure on Iran28 Feb 2007Excerpt: Two weeks ago, Pentagon officials discussed a strategy to escalate U.S. pressure on Iran with the intention of creating the impression that the U.S. is ready to go to war, according to an account by one of the participants.
Bush Backing Into Baker-Hamilton After All?28 Feb 2007Excerpt: Two weeks after making major concessions for a nuclear accord with North Korea, the administration of President George W. Bush said Tuesday it was prepared to sit down with Iran and Syria as part of a regional conference to stabilize Iraq.
Americans Have Lost Their Country28 Feb 2007Excerpt: The Bush-Cheney regime is America’s first neoconservative regime…We are witnessing the triumph of a dozen evil men over American democracy and a free press.
Selective Service Studied Rapid-Fire Draft Plan28 Feb 2007Excerpt: The Selective Service System last year studied whether it should revert to a Cold War-era plan of being able to draft people within 13 days of a crisis, compared to its current goal of carrying it out within six months. But the agency ultimately decided not to make such a major change because of opposition from within the Selective Service System.
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