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Hit by friendly fire With his polls down, Bush takes flak on Iraq from a host of critics—including some in his own party By Kevin Whitelaw
Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel is angry. He’s upset about the more than 1,700 U.S. soldiers killed and nearly 13,000 wounded in Iraq. He’s also aggravated by the continued string of sunny assessments from the Bush administration, such as Vice President Dick Cheney’s recent remark that the insurgency is in its "last throes." "Things aren’t getting (…)

A startling report has emerged yesterday that the U.S. has used napalm fire bombs in Iraq and then lied about it to the British government.
Background
Consider the sorts of weapons that international law generally prohibits: unconventional weapons used to attack the civilian population of a country, either directly or indirectly by leaving behind hazardous remnants.
One example of such heinous weapons are those enriched with depleted uranium left over from either nuclear weapons or (…)

Under Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution, "The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." Any reasonable interpretation of the Constitution’s impeachment clause, and the historical application thereof, leads to the inescapable conclusion that articles of impeachment should be brought against President Bush for his commission of high (…)

Nine troops from the U.S.-led multinational forces were killed Saturday in a mortar attack in the troubled city of Fallujah west of the capital.
Coalition officials said in a statement that six soldiers also were injured in the attack in Fallujah, 30 miles (50 kilometers) west of Baghdad, but did not identify the nationalities of the casualties. A growing tide of developments on the ground in Iraq and in the United States itself may result in irresistible pressure on the Bush (…)

“Our focus is not on the past. It’s on the future.” Scott McClellan, White House Spokesman.
How convenient to focus on the future when the past is a compelling indictment of criminal and immoral behavior. If it were an adequate explanation, then Richard Nixon would have completed his second term, Lyndon Johnson would have sought reelection, and the Nuremberg trials would not have been convened.
Beyond the incredulity of the president’s response to a growing body of evidence that his (…)

“You can’t just say the President is lying.” That was the opinion of New York Times reporter, Elizabeth Bumiller recently when discussing honesty in today’s press. It also highlights a serious flaw in the current logic with today’s press that has led to the erosion of any possible faith people have in media anymore. I would proffer that you most certainly can say the President has lied, if you meet one condition, that being he lied. It is a disservice to this country to have a media that (…)

I was a soldier for most of the time between 1970 and 1996. I signed out on my retirement from 3rd Special Forces in Ft. Bragg. I had also served in 7th Special Forces, on three Ranger assignments, with Delta for almost four years, as a Cavalry Scout for a while, and in the 82nd Airborne Division as an infantryman. I started my career in Vietnam with the 173rd Airborne Brigade. I thugged around in eight different places in East Asia, Latin America, and Africa, where I pointed guns at (…)

One of the features of the newfound media interest in the Downing Street Memo is a profound defensiveness, as reporters scramble to explain why it received so little attention in the U.S. press. But the most familiar line—the memo wasn’t news because it contained no "new" information—only raises troubling questions about what journalists were doing when they should have been reporting on the gulf between official White House pronouncements and actual White House intentions.
There are two (…)

RUSH: All right, get this.
A" conservative, a moderate and a liberal and a Libertarian teamed up in the House yesterday to prod President Bush to set a timetable to withdraw from Iraq.
This," as the Washington Post Mike Allen says, "strikes a rare tune of unity on a day when tensions about national security provoke marathon brawling on the floor.
" What do you mean, unity? Four members out of a 435-member body is unity? "The resolution sponsored by representatives Walter Jones, Jr., (…)

WASHINGTON — As bad news continues to emerge from Iraq and the U.S. detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, some Republicans are starting to edge away from the White House on its policies in the war on terror.
The strains were on display yesterday, at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Guantanamo Bay to address what Chairman Arlen Specter called the "crazy quilt" system that governs the treatment of about 520 suspected enemy combatants being held there. Mr. Specter, a Republican from (…)