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salon.com - 1/12/2009

Obama v. the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran - Glenn Greenwald

— salon.com — [updated below -- Update II (Obama's prior NIE statement)] Regarding Barack Obama's statements about Iran yesterday during... his ABC News interview, Charles Davis makes an excellent point (h/t Jonathan Schwarz ): President-elect Barack Obama in an ... (more) Obama v. the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran - ...

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rawstory.com - 1/11/2009

White House: Increase in terror attacks since 9/11 a success

— rawstory.com — One of the many sad ironies of the Bush era that is rapidly and mercifully drawing to... a close is that after the president created a “central front in the war on terror” by invading Iraq, the amount of “terrorism” in the world skyrocketed. I call it ... (more) White House: Increase in terror attacks since 9/11 a ...

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turcopolier.typepad.com - 1/11/2009

GW Bush on "known killers"

— turcopolier.typepad.com — I listened to Britt Hume interview the two Bushes on Fox News Sunday. It was less than... inspiring, but informative of the mentality of these three men. At one point one of the bushes referred to the Oval Office (in... (more) GW Bush on "known killers"

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Perle Washes His Hands Of Iraq: I Was Not An ‘Architect Of That War,’ Neocons Had No Influence
Think Progress — ... in an effort to burnish President Bush’s legacy. Following suit, neoconservative war hawk Richard Perle has taken the opportunity to polish his own record during the Bush years — mainly on Iraq. ...

Gaza Is the Future
Antiwar.com Original — W hy is Israel pounding Gaza? Well, we know the official explanation, which goes something like this: if you Americans were being targeted by crude, albeit potentially lethal, rockets from, say, Mexico, on a daily basis, how would you respond? Israel, we are told, had to take on Hamas. As Barack Obama put it, while campaigning in Sderot , the Israeli response is "part of being a country." They had no choice. This is bollocks, as everyone but the brain-dead realize. To begin with, Hamas offered a truce and had abided by the previous cease-fire, but the Israelis weren't interested. Instead, Tel Aviv chose to ...

Richard Perle: Still Crazy After All These Years
Antiwar.com Original — N ow that the greatest strategic disaster in American military history is an accomplished fact , its architects are distancing themselves from their handiwork. For the past year or two, we have been treated to the spectacle of what might be called neoconservative panic syndrome – the cabal that lied us into war is frightened to death of being held responsible for the catastrophe. Their catastrophe. And who can blame them? After all, the consequences could include prosecution for all sorts of crimes, running the gamut from torture to deliberately misleading ...

Do Our Votes Touch Policy?
Chicago Boyz — We may feel continuity in international relations is good. But a continuity defined by a weighty (and arrogant) bureaucracy makes our votes meaningless. Surely, that is not good. A&L links to Richard Perle’s “Ambushed on the Potomac” in The National Interest. Perle’s argument is motivated by a desire to distance himself - and neoconservatism in general - from Bush. He is critical of Bush’s inability to force the policies enacted at State and CIA to match his rhetoric (despite speeches Perle describes as ...