The Iraq War “Surge”

How did a Democratic sweep of congress result in an expansion of troop levels in Iraq, now called the “surge”? At the start of the year, the newly elected Democratic majorities in Congress were vowing to rein in President Bush and dastardly Dick Cheney’s horrendous Iraq war policies. We would be out of that [...]

The Bush Follies- by Greg Strid

President Bush declared on Tuesday, “I understand there’s a debate…”
and went on to explain that it is the other side, roughly categorized
as “people in Washington” who are saying “STOP” to the “surge”, his
latest gamble to stabilize Baghdad and the tumultuous Anbar province.
Thirty thousand odd American troops, the backbone of this effort,
apparently arrived in full-force just [...]

Gangsta DC

Poor Little Wolfy, he didn’t stand a chance against Cheney during
his “interview” on CNN last week. Cheney rules the land as if he were
in complete control of a vast criminal enterprise- clearly, he answers
to no one.

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2006 Midterm Elections Force Change in Iraq Strategy

What is all the fuss about the Iraq Study Group? Shouldn‘t this group have been convened sometime in late 2002, or early 2003 – before the invasion? I guess the Bush administration thought it would be a no-brainer, something they could achieve while sleepwalking. The need for an Iraq Study Group shows that the [...]

Free of Sanity

In a stroke of monumental idiocy, Congressional mis-appropriators and Pentagon brass-holes have decided to cut funding for the Defense and Veteran’s Brain Injury Center in half as they attempt to push forward a defense spending bill.
We have all heard of the thousands of US soldiers that have suffered traumatic brain injuries due to improvised-explosive devices [...]

Iraq Flowers

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