And He Can See Into The Future, Too!

Here’s the headline of an interview with President Bush in the New York Times: Bush Says Iraqi Leaders Will Want U.S. Forces to Stay to Help Well, I’m glad that’s cleared up. I guess we could have waited until after the election before we decide what’s good for them, but why even pretend the Iraqis [...]

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You Know Your Country Is In Trouble…

You really know that your country is in deep trouble when members of the government can’t travel abroad without fear of being arrested as war criminals. It seems that Rumsfeld and his second in command at the Pentagon can’t travel to the Munich Security Conference since they would quite possibly be arrested at the airport. [...]

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History Is A Harsh Judge

Babylon, first mentioned as a capital of a kindgom on a clay tablet 4500 years ago, can truly be called a world heritage. Thousands of years of history are encapsulated in its ruins and it is a site that should inspire awe in all of us. Babylon is part of our common history. These things [...]

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Remember WMDs?

The Associated Press has compiled a short highlights reel of the bullshit that has been coming from the White House. I’ll post it here completely because this should be burnt into the forehead of Bush, Rice, Powell and the rest of this gang of war criminals: ————- Statements by the Bush administration before and after [...]

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“We’re losing”

Finally I’ve found a quote from Colin Powell that I can fully agree with… Here is a description of an exchange between Bush and Powell courtesy of the Financial Times: According to Chas Freeman, former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia and head of the independent Middle East Policy Council, Mr Bush recently asked Mr Powell [...]

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