Reading the General Petraeus report on the Iraq debacle reminded me of nothing so much as Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men yelling, “You can’t handle the truth!” The Petraeus report goes to great lengths to paint a picture of progress in Iraq, but the truth is a far different story. The declining number [...]
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They LIE to your Face
Posted: April 12, 2011 in China, Congress, IraqTags: bases, Bush, general, Iraq, military, Obama
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Former Interrogator Rebukes Cheney for Torture Speech
Posted: April 11, 2011 in Afghanistan, China, Congress, Iraq, Obama, Senate, TortureTags: Afghanistan, black_sites, Bush, Cheney, Gitmo, Iraq, torture
A former top interrogator is responding forcefully to the case Dick Cheney made on Thursday in favor of torture (what the former VP and his allies refer to as “enhanced interrogation methods.”) Brave New Films released a short video Tuesday of Matthew Alexander taking apart Cheney’s argument piece by piece. Alexander, who uses a pseudonym [...]
“Where Would America be Today?”
Posted: April 10, 2011 in Banks, China, Congress, FED, Iraq, Obama, SenateTags: corporations, debt, Iraq, taxes, war
Suppose Clinton, Bush and Obama hadn’t made all of these so-called “mistakes”: Changing banking rules in ’99: cost to tax payers $700 billion and counting Arming Osama Bin Laden: cost to taxpayers $ (plus lives lost on 9-11-2001) Invading Iraq: cost to taxpayers $709 billion according to the Congressional Budget Office [...]
