Ever since Congressman Jack Murtha declared the Iraq war a failure and called for troop withdrawal, I have been waiting with bated breath for the Republican smear campaign to go into high gear. Many had predicted that Murtha, with his long career in the armed forces, as a hawk on defence and decorated war hero,…

It is a little more than a thousand days and nights since the beginning of the Iraqi invasion. During this period our own Scheherezade, George W. Bush has spun nearly as many fantastic tales about why we invaded and occupied Iraq. It began with mushroom clouds, WMD, roving chemical weapons labs, centrifuges, aluminum tubes and…

Why should this surprise us? The imperial presidency of George W. Bush operates on the premise that the president is above the law – both domestic and international. We have seen numerous instances of this arrogance. The following story broke a couple of months ago. It is back in the news because legal proceedings surrounding…

Bereft of bright ideas or gutsy moves, the Democrats’ winning strategy of choice is "If you can’t beat them, join them." A few of posts ago, I argued that it is not necessary for the Dems to try and project themselves as a goose stepping, heel clicking, "martial party", in order to win elections or…

We tend to count war casualties mainly by the number of dead. Understandable – the dead are easy to count. Much more difficult to quantify is the damage done to the injured, maimed, psychologically scarred and brain damaged. Some recover enough to return to more or less normal lives but far too many don’t. With…

Murtha says he wouldn’t join military now "A decorated Vietnam combat veteran who retired as a colonel after 37 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, (Rep Jack) Murtha told ABC News’ "Nightline" program that Iraq "absolutely" was a wrong war for President George W. Bush to have launched. "Would you join (the military) today?," he…

Congressman Tom DeLay cannot be a happy man right now. First, District Attorney Ronnie Earle got him mired in "inconsequential" issues of money laundering and campaign finance transgressions in Texas, which the Hammer pretends to shrug off as mere "partisan" politics. But now that the other big shoe has landed with a deafening thud in…

There is a very interesting post at Dadahead – More on "Fighting Dems" that is worth reading. After losing numerous elections, the Democrats are at their wit’s end. They desperately want to figure out how to connect with voters, especially on foreign policy and national security matters. While most polls show that Republicans and the…

The story about Bush-Cheney-Rove, Inc. illegally snooping on Americans has exploded in the mainstream media and the blogging world. We are learning the minute details of the legal, political and psychological ramifications of this sordid affair.  What I have gathered so far is that Bush didn’t really have to do all this secret snooping. He…

Unnerved by sinking poll numbers, Republicans in congress pushed the isolated and imperious president George W. Bush to launch a media blitz to "explain" his side of the story on Iraq and national security to the American public – this time with a bit more humility and truthfulness. Bush has obliged with several public appearances…

With Saddam Hussein behind bars, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has to be George Bush’s personal enemy number one.  The problem is that he is "democratically elected".  Mr. Chavez returns the favor – so he has taken it upon himself to challenge the Bush administration in its own backyard. Chavez’s novel strategy is to "kill with…

Iraqis have gone to the polls today to begin their long march towards democracy . Whether the newly elected  government will be accepted as a fair representational model by all Iraqis, remains to be seen. Also, it comes as no surprise that Iran’s stake in the outcome of the Iraqi election may be as high…

Paul Gowder’s post, "End of Paranoia?", one of the featured articles at the Carnival of the Liberals, makes the amusing and accurate claim that the Bush administration has cured us of paranoid fantasies by enacting every shenanigan that we could only have dreamed up in our worst nightmare. Gowder forgot to mention the cure of…

George Bush’s grades in Yale were a "Gentleman’s C", we have been told. His presidential grade however is an unqualified "F". A while ago, Lawrence Wilkerson, the chief of staff to Colin Powell had this to say: "If something comes along that is truly serious, something like a nuclear weapon going off in an American…

Right now President Bush is delivering his speech on "Plan for Victory" in Iraq. What victory? Shouldn’t it be "Plan for Peace" now? I don’t have time to listen – will catch up with it later on the news.  Members of this failed administration are stuck on semantics over substance. They believe that a bad…