Posts from ‘February, 2007’

In Schultz’s view, Democrats are dallying, afraid to act because they might lose the next election, while every day more of our soldiers get killed or badly injured in a civil war.



Big Eddie should do his homework before taking potshots at the good guys.

We wonder how much wider the glaring disconnect between President Bush, Vice President Cheney, other delusional administration officials and the U.S. public can get before something breaks.



We wonder, too, how helpful it is for the highest leaders of our government to demonstrate their cluelessness and/or stubborn disregard for the reality of our Iraq situation to our soldiers, sailors and airmen.

We can just see some big corporate beehive where for quite some time worker bees idled by server problems do crossword puzzles, go for walks and renew their paper airplane flying skills. And all the while managers and bean counters are going bananas because productivity is stuck at zero while the pay-and-benefits meter keeps right on running.

Here comes another Seymour Hersh New Yorker story raising ominous, extremely worrisome possibilities, maybe.



This one features a special planning group within the Pentagon — sound ominously familiar? — hard at work planning how to hit and hurt Iran in various ways.

Unfortunately, this alleged outbreak of peace and tranquility in Basra, where the exiting British troops are located, doesn’t seem to be spreading. To the contrary, what’s spreading elsewhere is death and destruction.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is an attorney, a former military judge advocate general. Yet, going by his own words Graham hasn’t got a clue about justice and our Constitution.



The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, heavily laden with Reagan and Bush appointees, is no better.

Red tape, bad attitude and worse thinking are responsible for the maddening limbo and unfit conditions many of the 700 recuperating outpatients assigned to and under the care of Walter Reed have experienced. Some are housed in old, sometimes unfit Army buildings and off-site buildings secured by the Army.



These soldiers and their families have been let down in ways that are inexcusable at a time when they especially deserve the best care, housing and support their country can provide.

Quote: “George W. Bush has been the junior partner in this White House. Vice President Dick Cheney has been its intellectual-ideological spark plug and the source of much of its political muscle and determination to defy public opinion and deny reality. Nothing like this Bush-Cheney role reversal has any parallel in American history. . .”

The term supposedly refers to Democrats’ plan to slowly but surely reduce and then eliminate President Bush’s ability to send troops to Iraq — troops for a surge, troops for rotation, troops for reinforcement.



Troops most Americans want to see brought out and kept out of Iraq, by the way.

Most Americans take it as a given that fame and fortune are unlimited good things, and that the earlier in life they’re achieved the better.



A large and growing body of evidence suggests otherwise. For some, wealth and celebrity are dangerous, even life-threatening.