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Sadly, No’s predictions (with checklist) is right on the monry: Yup. [ ] President walks out and makes the serious-and-earnest expression. [ ] First long section of speech is timeline of successes in the War on Terror which does not resemble any known sequence of events in the world. [ ] “But America is not yet safe,” says the President. … Read More

Bush wants to send an additional 20,000 troops to Iraq.  Where will they come from? The dead, apparently: US Army urges dead to re-enlist The US Army is to apologise to the families of officers killed or wounded in action who were sent letters urging them to return to active duty. The letters were sent to more than 5,100 Army … Read More

Terry Jones — yes, that Terry Jones — has an interesting observation about the wasteful spending that is the Iraq War: Early this year the Bush administration is to ask Congress to approve an additional $100bn for the onerous task of making life intolerable for the Iraqis. This will bring the total spent on the White House’s current obsession with … Read More

Ollie North. Now, if Bush can’t hold Ollie North, he’s really out in left right field.

Remember the Bush line that he spouted for most of 2006?  "I’ll listen to my military leaders on the ground." Well, General George Casey, the top commander in Baghdad, has — for the past several weeks — urged withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. Does Bush listen? Nope.  He kicks Casey off.

On U.S. casualities in Iraq: The AP has a story out looking at the issue of America’s reaction to Iraq casualties — some folks are not happy with the article, because there’s some anger over the idea that people shouldn’t be upset because it’s so many less than any other "major" U.S. war, including Vietnam and Korea. It’s a complicated … Read More

I don’t know if you have bothered to see the "video" footage of Saddam’s "hanging" (the leaded footage clearly isn’t the official footage, but rather, something shot from a cell phone), but it is disturbing. It’s not the execution itself, nor the fact that Saddam was executed, that is distrubing.  It is the manner in which it is carried out. … Read More

As Carpetbagger says: It strikes me as rather unfortunate that we’ve reached a point in which it’s literally front-page news when the president is willing to acknowledge that we are not winning the war in Iraq. Talk about your soft bigotry of low expectations. It bears repeating that just before the elections one month ago, Bush took the position that … Read More

From the memory hole: Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan, April 22, 2004: The President has made it very clear that we will provide our troops with all the resources they need to do their job. And he looks to our commanders in the theater to make those determinations, in terms of what is needed. President Bush, January 1, … Read More