By SusanUnPC on Jul 21, 2008 in ABC News, Barack Obama, Commander in Chief, Iraq, Pentagon, Petraeus | 274 Comments
ABC News correspondent Terry Moran interviewed Barack Obama who got a bit testy during the exchange.
“And then we sat down with [Barack Obama] to talk about what has become an open disagreement between military commanders here and Obama, over his plan to withdraw all U.S. combat troops from Iraq on a 16-month timetable.” — Terry […]
By Ray McGovern on May 20, 2008 in Anti-Semitism, CIA, Commander in Chief, Dick Cheney, Flag officers, Generals Against War, Intelligence, Iran, Israel, Media, Media Bias, NIE, Nancy Pelosi, New York Times, Nuclear weapons, Patraeus, Pentagon, Petraeus, Rice, U.S. Constitution | 91 Comments
To Admiral William Fallon (USN ret.), With Respect
(Open Appeal for Straight Talk on Iran)
By Ray McGovern
May 19, 2008
Dear Admiral Fallon:
I have not been able to find out how to reach you directly, so I have drafted this letter in the hope it will come to your attention.
First, thank you for honoring the oath we commissioned […]
By SusanUnPC on Apr 8, 2008 in Bush/Cheney, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Media, Petraeus | 22 Comments
“Clinton Ready for Petraeus Hearing,” reports CBS News’s blog.
Hillary Clinton takes time out from the campaign trail to question the country’s top general in Iraq, at a scheduled hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee today. A senior aide tells CBS News that Clinton will “really press” Gen. David Petraeus and Amb. Ryan Crocker who […]
By Ray McGovern on Mar 31, 2008 in Bush/Cheney, Foreign Policy, Foreign affairs, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Petraeus | 6 Comments
By Ray McGovern
Events of last week offer a metaphorical glimpse at the delusion pervading President George W. Bush’s White House and other enclaves of Iraq supporters in Washington. Bush and the First Lady spent last Monday clowning with the Easter Bunny (White House counsel Fred Fielding having donned the costume).
At the American Enterprise Institute […]
By Ray McGovern on Mar 26, 2008 in Bush/Cheney, CIA, Colin Powell, Foreign affairs, Intelligence, Iraq, Israel, Petraeus, Rice | 16 Comments
Frontline: Too Timid, Too Little, Too Late: Frontline’s “Bush’s War” on PBS Monday and Tuesday evening was a nicely put-together rehash of the top players’ trickery that led to the attack on Iraq, together with the power-grabbing, back-stabbing, and limitless incompetence of the occupation.
By SusanUnPC on Sep 24, 2007 in Bush/Cheney, Iraq, Petraeus | 19 Comments
UPDATE: I fixed the blog clock to reflect Eastern Standard Time, which means that your new comments will appear towards the top of the thread.
Last night, I cracked open the Sept. 24 issue of The New Yorker my daughter brought me. Every time I spot a commentary by Steve Coll in a New Yorker index, […]
