Benghazi was bigger than Watergate (and apparently, 9/11 as well) but “Seal Team 6-Gate” is bigger even than Benghazi! (and Benghazi was totally the worst scandal ever, right? Well, not so much…).
Ralph Nader is railing against the “imperial presidency” but has nothing to say about our runaway, do-nothing Congress. It makes no sense to rail against the one while ignoring the other.
The concept of giving kind regards to a convicted war criminal whose only relationship to a library should be a weekly visit to a federal prison library reveals that many Americans have short memories
Thursday marks the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, not to mention a think tank. What a waste of money.
The theme of Liz Cheney’s fantasy screed was that Republicans had to start fighting back against President Obama or else freedom will be a distant memory.
Most Americans do not object to debt when they receive something in return such as road or schools, but a great deal of America’s debt is for wars that only benefit the military industrial complex.
In this country when a 16-year old girl is brutally raped by promising football players, society mourns their ruined careers and finds myriad reasons to blame the victim.
The U.S. has an enormous number of military personnel and weaponry in the U.S. territory of Guam. It’s legit, but are other ‘occupations?’
The primary purpose of House Bill 933 is to perpetuate the bloat of the defense budget and decimate domestic programs.
Cheney claims the President’s national security team choices put the nation at risk because they do not support Bush-Cheney policies that did increase the risks to America; his logic defies reason.
This spring, Afghan forces will take the lead for security across the entire country. By next year, our war with Afghanistan will finally be over.
In a statement before a joint press conference with Afghan president Karzai today, President Obama announced that the war in Afghanistan will end in 2014.
The GOP finds itself in trouble as Obama’s popularity soars and their own plummets, and Obama’s second term only promises more of the same
There is no conceivable outcome in which GOP opposition to Chuck Hagel ends happily for Republicans
The idea that an armed good guy can stop a bad guy is not borne out by reality. Law enforcement officers go through extensive firearm training, and yet they do not always stop bad guys with guns.
The endless chorus from the Religious Right that all that plagues our society is the result of divine wrath has grown tiresome…and then some.
In addition to the mandatory attendance requirements at events sponsored by, and performed on, military campuses everywhere – there are commanders and Pentagon level top brass that intentionally use our presence overseas as a federally funded missionary project.
Neo-con leaders are warning that Republicans have to pressure President Obama to return to George W. Bush’s cowboy diplomacy by imposing their will on sovereign nations.
The Republican Party’s doldrums are likely to continue until they acknowledge reality, but there are no signs of that happening soon
Kim Kardashian is heading for the mid-east to open 2 new Milk Bars. She’ll also learn move about the region after a twitter controversy.
Honor the sacrifice of veterans by telling Republicans to pass, immediately, the Veterans Jobs Corps Act and oppose the Ryan budget cuts that affect Veterans cost of living adjustments.
Reality is the ultimate enemy of Republican ideology, so Tom Tancredo picks up his vorpal blade and shows himself asylum-ready
While there were moments that Romney mentioned sending troops to this place and that not once did he acknowledge, let alone express concern, for veterans.
The only foreign policy experience RMoney faced was shipping and dealing with foreign countries during his tenure at Bain.
Mitt Romney would have left 30,000 troops in Iraq. He called bringing them home ‘tragic’. Romney wants to leave our troops in Afghanistan.
An empty suit of a man who couldn’t even fake giving a damn about our troops.
Kerry lists 6 questions Romney must answer tonight. He commented, ‘Romney, who once even said ‘a president is not a foreign policy expert,’ appears unprepared to be either.’
While on The View, Ann Romney said their family finds different ways of serving, with their sons having served their mission instead of in the military.
John McCain confirmed this morning that a Mitt Romney administration would leave our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq indefinitely.
In a foreign policy speech yesterday, Romney outlined his plan to steer the world according to America’s will, and it can be summed up in two words; cowboy diplomacy.
Mitt Romney is campaigning as not-Obama and in this case at least, he is being entirely honest: he is not Obama
Pamela Geller disengenuously claims she does not hate all Arabs and Muslims despite paraphrasing an Ayn Rand quote which does exactly that
In a breathtaking revision of history, we are being told that President Bush gave the Middle East ten years of peace
Watching House Republicans high five after defeating a battle pay increase was too much for military mom Maria Meacham, who shouted, ‘Pay the soldiers or bring them home,’ and was promptly arrested.
It is un-American to have as a president a man who preaches religious intolerance and who promotes the idea of state-sponsored religion
Mitt Romney is not a leader, even conservatives have called his foreign policy positions ridiculous and accused him of merely mimicking others’.
Mitt Romney told Fox News today that he did not talk about the troops in his convention speech because ‘You don’t go through a laundry list; you talk about the things you think are important.’
John Kerry exposed the Romney-Ryan foreign policy as the neocon shell game that it is, contrasting it with the steady hand of Barack Obama
Romney, running on the same Republican policies as Bush, the same policies as McCain, hypocritically accuses Obama of having no new ideas
Republicans made their convention a festival of lies, but the biggest lie was one of omission. No speaker dared mention the deficit inflating five trillion dollar wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Why should the federal deficit scare us compared to an uninhabitable planet? Aren’t mountains without tops more frightening than an IUD?
Citizens may think the ultra right tea party has all the power in the U.S. In truth, they have almost none. A few people control America.
We should be really clear about the lines we’re crossing if we don’t challenge the undemocratic killing of what are effectively international gang leaders.
There are many reasons to vote for Barack Obama in 2012, and very few to vote against him, given the alternatives
Tony Perkins claims a gay pride flag endangers American lives, but apparently Nazi flags, urinating on dead Afghans and burning Qur’ans does not
The imminent threat from Iran that Republicans like to fear monger about has existed since Ronald Reagan, and the surest way to blow up the world is to allow the GOP to bomb Iran.
It is no surprise that Talibangelicals can compare women to livestock, as State Rep. Terry England did recently in Georgia. Livestock can’t control their own bodies, so why should women? It’s how God wants it, after all.
There’s a wave of psychologically troubled veterans headed back to America, and we need to prepare more thoroughly.
Today during their live press conference, UK Prime Minister Cameron praised President Obama on his Iran strategy, saying Obama’s “tough, reasonable approach has united the world” behind the sanctions. It’s Cameron Day at the White House, as President Obama welcomes British Prime Minister David Cameron for a day of meetings about Afghanistan, Syria, Iran and…
While we cannot excuse deplorable behavior, we ought not to delude ourselves that the urinating Marines are unusual. Rather, it is symptomatic.
When a New Jersey veteran committed suicide after serving in Iraq, Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) tried to do something about it, only to see his bill killed by John McCain.
Liz Cheney feels free of any reality-based constraints that bind the president and throws our president under the bus in the name of political posturing.
We suffered a mental collapse, the same thing that happened to William Foster in Falling Down. But what Foster did was wrong; what America did was wrong.
Rick Perry is talking about a Second Mexican War à la Zachary Taylor and the Halls of Montezuma. Maybe he sees himself as another Black Jack Pershing.
John McCain is a war hero, and advocates permanent wars regardless the cost in lives and drain on the economy. He also knows that allowing gays to serve in the military is wrong, regardless that a majority of Americans, the Pentagon, and service members support repealing DADT. McCain also doesn’t want an end to the war in Afghanistan because he has gross memory loss regarding the Iraq war.
American defense spending in 2007 alone amounted to just over half of what was spent in the entire world. In 2008 it was close to 70%. It hasn’t declined appreciably since. I will ask again: Who is going to attack the United States?
For Bush, war became THE political instrument. No longer does war pick up where politics leave off; war becomes a substitution for politics.
In the wake of the 2010 midterm elections it is important to know who John Boehner is and what it will mean to have him as Speaker of the House. Obviously,there are some concerns with Boehner’s very old-fashioned, shall we say…conservative…positions. One might say ULTRA conservative.
Emboldened by their midterm victories, Republicans are already back to warmongering. Having invaded and conquered Iraq (where 50,000 U.S. troops remain to buttress the new government) and mired down in an endless war in Afghanistan, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) now wants to attack Iran.
Many Americans are asking, “What happened?” In a wonderfully titled article, “What the #!%*?: The U.S. mid-term elections?” the National Post’s Peter Goodspeed asks and answers some very important questions about the midterms.
“A spigot of defense spending opened up after 9/11, yet for years, there has been dismal oversight of contractors handling hundreds of billions of dollars in contracts for weapons and other goods and services.”
Cognitive dissonance seems to run through the Republican narrative. Since it is impossible that 9/11 could have happened on the Republican watch, it must have happened under a Democrat. In layman’s terms, the Republican narrative is divorced from reality.
Sarah Palin uses Twitter and Facebook to throw a lit match onto the heightened tensions with Afghans over the Qur’an burning by falsely accusing an Afghan candidate of calling for the death of US Children. Into the craven echoing emptiness of what used to be the moral center of the Republican Party, I now ask just when will they stop trying to harm this country?
The planned burning of Qur’ans by an Evangelical church sends a confusing message that a violent act by them proves another group is violent, and threatens national security and the lives of American soldiers abroad.
Mobs are forming in America. It takes courage to do the right thing when it’s the unpopular thing to do. A coward finds it easy to go along with the mob and it is the exceptional man who, like President Obama, will say, “Now, hold on just a minute…”
It’s that time again. House Min. Leader John Boehner (R-OH) is going to address us again. You know, preparing for the GOP take-over this fall, so listen up people. Today’s talk is what we call a preemptive strike against any possible notion that Americans might be pleased with Obama for a moment over his successful draw down in Iraq. Boehner will give us his Republican Plan (fairy tale) about foreign relations! In this story, all Democrats including your President are fools and morons.
“Since then, the American-led counteroffensive has done much to turn back the Islamist tide.” Carafano revealed that the Heritage Foundation believes the Afghan war is a war on Islam; not a war on terror.
Now that the last US combat brigade has driven into Kuwait, it is an appropriate time to look back at the Iraq War and to reflect on how it matters a great deal who we elect as our leaders. There are lessons to be learned, and we owe it to future generations to heed them.
Fox News’ projection of the Bush administration’s failures continued today on FNC’s America’s News HQ, when the network not so subtly prefaced a story on Afghanistan by referring to it as, “the President’s war.” Here is a reminder to Fox, the war in Afghanistan started on October 7, 2001 under George W. Bush, not Barack Obama.
McChrystal arrived at White House ready to tender his resignation Wednesday at 10:00 AM. At 1:15 PM, MSNBC announced that President Obama relieved General McChrystal of the Afghanistan war which McChrystal was commanding. MSNBC is reporting that General Petraeus has been chosen to replace General McChrystal as commander of the Afghanistan forces.
What may come as a surprise to the General is that his own actions are casting doubts regarding the General’s own counterinsurgency approach in Afghanistan, and I would take that a step further and suggest that it’s time that civilian political leadership take back control of our military strategy, rather than relying so heavily on professional military officers.
The Washington Post, that “liberal elite” paper, is following in Fox’s footsteps by regurgitating false Miranda information, suggesting that Miranda rights are optional and should not be employed with suspected terrorists, even if said suspect is an American citizen. Fox News has long advanced the claim that reading Abdulmutallab Miranda rights compromised the government’s ability to get information. This, of course, was not an issue for Fox when the Bush administration handled the suspected terrorists the exact same way. When they’re not trying to terrorize Americans into voting for them, the Right is trying to terrorize Americans into giving away all of their freedoms.
Coming from what many would consider a “far Left” ideological foundation, my assertion is that this antagonism between the so-called “left” and “right” has been merely a smokescreen to divide us even further while the wealthy interests who actually dictate legislation—buying and manipulating politicians from both parties—continue to plunder our resources and bring our economy to the brink of collapse while we do nothing other than yell and scream at the other side.
This week The New York Times ran a draft of the soon to be published official Army history of the war in Afghanistan. The report complete contradicts the claims of neo-cons that they did not ignore Afghanistan while focusing on Iraq. The history details how the Bush administration ignored Afghanistan for Iraq.
Sarah Palin actually managed to show up for her speech in Hong Kong, which wasn’t surprising because apparently all it takes to get her to go anywhere is a healthy paycheck. Palin spent her first speech on foreign soil trying to equate herself with President Obama, and going on the attack. Welcome to the new definition of patriotism in the GOP.
Rep. Ron Paul has weighed in on Gov. Rick Perry’s secession talk for his state of Texas. Paul defended Perry as he took the position that it is very American to talk about secession. He pointed out that secession was how America came into being.
Senate Majority Leader and Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin announced in a statement today that the Senate will seat embattled Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s senate appointee Roland Burris this week.
On the day when he became the first governor to be impeached in the United States in 21 years, Rod Blagojevich held a press conference that looked like something straight out of The Simpsons. Surrounded by a dozen people, Blago framed the House vote to impeach him as political payback because he fought for health care.
TThe ugly yet completely scripted theater that was Roland Burris being turned away from the Senate today has managed to make Burris appear to be an innocent victim, and the Senate leadership racist. Harry Reid has been outmaneuvered by Rod Blagojevich.