Month: January 2007

Dear Fred, Kudos on your recent ascension to President Bush’s Iraq War Guru (I’m told that after talking to you the president uttered gratefully “Wow, you mean we can still win this war?) and at the tender age of 36....

[originally posted at Daily Kos] In my first installment, “Go big or go home”: Interview with Paul Jay, IWT/The Real News, Part 1, I took us back to the first murmurs about Independent World Television/The Real News....

Of all the mistakes made in the Iraq invasion, the CPA’s de-Baathification program, instituted under Paul Bremer, is one that has found few defenders. With that acknowledged mistake nearing a 4-year anniversary, there are...

H/T to AfterDowningStreet, who linked to this story published Friday, Jan 12:  http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20070112-9999-1n12lam.html. The headline is “Job performance said to be behind White House firing...

Helene Cooper, in the NYT’s Week in Review, reports on the Best We Can Hope For from Iraq. I quote it at length because I think it is dead on. “In the best-case scenario, we’ll be in Iraq for 15 or 20 years,” said Stephen...