Author: BooMan

Australia Leaving Coalition of the Willing

Reuters reports that the Australians are planning to beat it out of Iraq but that they haven’t told poor Bush about it yet. Australian Prime Minister John Howard is secretly planning to begin withdrawing Australian troops...

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Bush is Chamberlain

I am a little humbled to realize that I have been too brainwashed by media narratives to make the comparison of George W. Bush to Neville Chamberlain. But it’s almost uncanny. Bush is a latter-day Neville Chamberlain. That...

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Open Thread

The latest rumor making the rounds on the intertubes is that Markos and I work for the CIA. If so, they pay like crap and they never buy anything from the store. Who are you secretly working for? And are you behind all this...

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What Kind of Senator Are You?

Most people don’t know it, or they don’t really think about it, but in the United States Senate there are different kinds of senators. This is also true in the House of Representatives. We can break the 100 senators...

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Bush Continues to Shoot Us in the Foot

Juan Cole says it succinctly: Bush said in a speech on Thursday that he hopes Iraq will be like Israel, a democracy that faces terrorist violence but manages to retain its democratic character:’In Israel, Bush said,...

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