John McCain is neither stupid nor senile nor a compulsive liar. He’s just much misunderstood, that’s all.
Talking to Katie Couric the other day, he innocently used the word “surge” in the context of Iraq, never for a moment imagining that everyone would understand him to be referring to the surge, when he only meant […]
If you have been thinking all this time — as many Iraqis apparently do — that Nouri al-Maliki is essentially an American puppet, whose installation as Prime Minister of Iraq was scripted and presided over by good old us, you are apparently seriously confused about the realities of the ground in Iraq. (In fact,you […]
Who is Randy Scheunemann?
He’s John “Oops!” McCain’s top foreign policy adviser, the one who advises him about things like Iraq and Afghanistan. (And who forgets to tell him every night that Czechoslovakia doesn’t exist any more.)
What did Randy Scheunemann say yesterday?
The American people deserve a commander-in-chief who puts their country first ahead of party, […]
For a long time now, I have used a standard pejorative for people who display exceptional stupidity. I’ve described them as possessing an IQ less than their age. But that clearly doesn’t cut it for someone as colossally stupid as Doug Feith.
As proof of colossal stupidity, I present this exchange with Rep. Jerrold […]
When you’re a lame duck president, some of the time even tame prime ministers you installed in office can’t resist the temptation to thumb their nose at you. Take Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, for instance. He knows perfectly well that one thing that’s guaranteed to give George Bush conniptions is talk about […]
It looked for a while like the U.S. Military had moved from a policy of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Listen”.
The story of Army Sergeant Darren Manzella suggests, though, that it’s much more complicated. More like “Don’t Ask, Don’t Listen, But Don’t Tell The Media”:
Decorated Army Sergeant Darren Manzella has been […]
Always a pleasure to point out that Blackwater Worldwide is in the news again. Funny how they are hardly ever in the news for doing anything good. Still, there’s no such thing as bad publicity, right? Even if Blackwater is caught first breaking the law, and then lying about it. Under the […]
You may or may not have noticed, but coverage of the Iraq war has really dropped this year:
According to data compiled by Andrew Tyndall, a television consultant who monitors the three network evening newscasts, coverage of Iraq has been “massively scaled back this year.” Almost halfway into 2008, the three newscasts have shown 181 weekday […]
On June 17, the Washington Times reported on a joint investigation with ABC News:
The government is testing drugs with severe side effects like psychosis and suicidal behavior on hundreds of military veterans, using small cash payments to attract patients into medical experiments that often target distressed soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, a Washington […]
Suppose you had a ringside seat for some of the Bush administration’s biggest no-bid contract debacles. Suppose you saw first-hand exactly how badly governments and taxpayers get ripped off in such contracts. Suppose you were a sovereign nation whose economy critically depends on the profitable operation of its oil resources. Suppose no-bid […]
