Both Bush and Cheney — most recently in tonight’s debate — claim that the mere scheduling of an election is proof of success in Afghanistan and Iraq. As if the day after the election, they’ll suddenly be living in a peaceful, democratic country.
If the mere holding of an election is their barometer of success, well, they really are the champions of low expectations.
Colbert King today peppers his column about the Iraq War with quotes from Colin Powell about Vietnam that are eerily apropos in the face of what’s happening over there. It makes me wonder what Colin’s true [more...]
I wonder if, when Mr. Bush looked into Mr. Putin’s eyes and saw an ally, he also saw this: Russia provided Saddam Hussein with intelligence on US military moves in the opening days of the US-led invasion in 2003 [more...]
Here’s what living under the Bush administration has done to me: the instant I heard about the arrests in the UK and the alleged plot to blow up planes, I began wondering how Karl Rove managed to pull this one off [more...]
