I've just finished reading a book called The Price of Loyalty by Ron Suskind, which charts the inner workings of George W Bush's administration from the point...
as many MANY people have already pointed out that particular NSC meeting *(like most of the early ones)* was to go over policies of the previous administration...
So what's your point? Assuming that you're right (and I'm not doubting you), then it's also true that the Bush administration was only too pleased to take up...
... It didn't take me long to find this on the Internet: The Vietnam War Reconsidered By GABRIEL KOLKO http://www.counterpunch.org/kolko11082003.html There is...
... off. ... I'd say it was more a case of the political class ignoring the bureaucrats unless said bureaucrats were telling them something they wanted to...
Or, to be more precise, lost in the depths of the tightly-sealed conservative bubble. Hannity had the political equivalent of a psychotic episode tonight at ...
What a load of biased claptrap. This website is a good example of what you get when you translate the feverish palestinian street protester's babble into...
<sarcasm>Thanks for the incisive critique.</sarcasm> If you think the Israel stuff is a load of crap, then tell me why *you* think the US is cocking things up...
Attacking Fallujah was stupid, and doesn't engender anybody in the locale to like us being there. But that is Iraq, a fiasco, and personal agenda of the POTUS...
... Granted, the invasion of Iraq fits in with Bush's general mindset, but it's not down to him alone - if you're at all familiar with the Project for the New...
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... A pasttime not particularly conducive to intelligent discourse, as the article more than ably demonstrates. ... "Our top story tonight: Two years later,...
... It's five times a day. http://www.belief.net/index/index_10402.html "Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or ...
From: "Eric Dondero" <ericdondero@...> ... If this is the height of libertarian "thought," we really have nothing to worry about. By the way, kudos to...
Read it from the end. This idiot is trying to tell me that people want to harm themselves, and that it is a given that most people will give to charity. ... ...
Clarke hasn't mentioned that many observe none of the three buildings could possibly have fallen as they did without being methodically blown. That the fires...
Pollsters discovered a fascinating phenomenon in the lead-up to the Iraq invasion: The more you knew about the facts of the situation, the stronger you opposed...
The REALLY depressing thing is that Kerry supported both the Iraq war (on and off) and the Patriot Act. So it doesn't make any difference which of the two...
Miriam, aren't you the lass who posted excerpts and visual aids from Protocols of the Elders of Zion? You do realize that, were we to take your advice, this...
... Nope. Unless you're referring to that article about Israel. (If you're somehow attempting to imply that I'm anti-Semitic, please stop wasting bandwidth...
... Nope. It rarely does. I must say that the Demos blew it *stunningly* this year, even more so than usual. They took a race that should have been so easy it ...
... What happened there, then? From what I could gather, one minute it was Howard Dean who was tipped for first place as Democrat nominee, and then suddenly...
... basically Dean and Gephardt beat each other up and allowed Kerry and Edwards to sneak in under the Radar that and well Dean always did a few crazy things.....
... In brief, the corporate press decided to destroy Dean. It wasn't anything Dean said or did--they just didn't like him and set about to take him out. He was...
... Thanks - none of the above surprises me in the least, and bears a remarkable similarity to the way that the British press have been trashing Liberal...
There has been no real change in the downward spiral of the Libertarian Party. While changes have been made to cut costs at the Watergate office the cuts made...