How things have changed. That once, "most urgent priority," will happen when it happens. The clear message that America's commitment isn't open-ended has become urging the Iraqi government to try harder. But we should all be encouraged and most importantly, stay the course...
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/8/18/141920/519
These choreographed tours of Iraq are intended to do precisely what Finer descries: drown out whatever is really happening. They do little more than what Finer says they do: reinforce the views the visitor had before landing in Baghdad.
Here we go again. Because "the continuing and immediate threat" of "grave acts of terrorism or threats of terrorism" constitutes "an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy and economy of the United States," the Bush-Cheney administration intends to designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guards a "person" [as defined by Executive Order 13224] who assists, sponsors, provides financial, material or technological support or other services to "terrorists."
The suspect conviction of Jose Padilla is a symbol of the straw-clutching weakness and cynical hysteria-mongering of the Bush administration.
Only 11 soldiers have been convicted so far in the scandal. They have received sentences from a few hours of community work to 10 years behind bars. Most said they were simply following orders.
Sen. Tom McClintock Interviews Ron Paul
The latest step toward implementing a controversial provision of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement drew instant condemnation from labor and driver-owner groups that fear the program will erode highway safety and eliminate U.S. jobs.
The Texas Department of Transportation, or TxDOT, is now moving to apply its four-football-fields-wide NAFTA superhighway plan of building new train-truck-car-pipeline corridors to the states of Oklahoma and Colorado in a design that stretches from the Mexican border at Laredo, Texas, to Denver, Colo.
"It's a scheme to create a borderless North American Union under U.S. control without barriers to trade and capital flows for corporate gains, mainly U.S. ones,"...
A major defense contractor for the military and Homeland Security claimed that the United States is morally obliged to maintain a permanent presence in Iraq for the sake of God.
Israel is again asking American taxpayers for help, although it has scaled back to $1.2 billion in light of popular sentiment and signals from Congress. This amount is supplemental to Israel's share of our regular foreign aid that has run $3 billion to $4 billion annually for decades.
A US diplomat has retired from the government amid accusations he said "the only good Arab is a dead Arab"
The U.S. economy, once the envy of the world, is now viewed across the globe with suspicion. America has become shackled by an immovable mountain of debt that endangers its prosperity and threatens to bring the rest of the world economy crashing down with it.
The death of 21 US coal miners so far this year is the tragic result of the systematic dismantling of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA). This processcarried out under both Democratic and Republican administrationshas accelerated to an unprecedented degree under the Bush administration, which has transformed MSHA from an agency that at least nominally enforced safety regulations into a partner with the mining industry.
The solution was simple. Karl Rove replaced the dead Cheney with a lookalike robot! An artificial Dick! And while the cyborg RESEMBLES the real Cheney -- it lacks the intelligence, insight, compassion, wisdom and grace of the man it replaced. (It's also a poor shot when shit-faced.)
Medicare will stop paying the costs of treating infections, falls, objects left in surgical patients and other things that happen in hospitals that could have been prevented.
The first rule of hacking, after all, is "Don?t get caught." And Fox newsman Darrell Phillipsmay have broken that rule...