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Military Spending Reflects Our Flawed Policies

Monday, June 30th, 2008

President Bush on Monday signed legislation to pay for the war operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for the rest of his presidency and beyond...The legislation will bring to more than $650 billion the amount Congress has provided for the Iraq war since it began more than five years ago. For ...

PUBLIC SEES REPUBLICANS AS BETTER ON NATIONAL SECURITY!

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

In every poll taken since 9/11, Americans say they STILL view Republicans as the party better able to deal with terrorism and a national crisis, confirming (as if there were any doubt) that voters either suffer from severe amnesia, or else they are monumentally stupid. Have they forgotten that it was ...

Stopping The Taliban Should Be Bush’s Focus

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Even now, over six years after 9/11, the President still can not correctly prioritize his foreign policy. After a brief but successful military campaign in Afghanistan, the administration quickly shifted the focus to Iraq and more recently, has attempted to broker a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. ...

And The Truth Finally Comes Out!

Friday, January 11th, 2008

If you wait long enough, the truth will come out, as is the case concerning a new study that estimates the number of Iraqis who have perished since the war began in 2003. Surprisingly (especially for liberals who actually believed the preposterous conclusions earlier studies reached), the number of ...

Al Qaeda Is Stronger Than Ever

Friday, December 28th, 2007

"We have the evidence that al-Qaida and Taliban were behind the suicide attack on Benazir Bhutto," Pakistan's Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz said. Six years ago, the United States had a chance to completely dismantle the Al Qaeda terror network and its supporters within the Afghan Taliban government behind a worldwide ...

Another Bush Foreign Policy Failure

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

"Certainly, we condemn the attack on this rally. It demonstrates that there are still those in Pakistan who want to subvert reconciliation and efforts to advance democracy," said deputy State Department spokesman Tom Casey. Members of the Bush administration still do not understand that people in foreign lands do not want ...