By SusanUnPC on Nov 4, 2007 in Torture | View Comments
We have many reasons to be very proud of our U.S. military. I hope you read the story that I posted yesterday of Lieutenant Colonel Steven Miska who has gone to enormous lengths to safeguard the futures of the Iraqis who worked for him as interpreters and to bring them to safety in the United [...]
By SusanUnPC on Nov 3, 2007 in Iraq | View Comments
It’s rare that I hear a word about the plight of Iraqi refugees in the media. Over five million and counting. While I was in the hospital, I read a story in the Seattle Times that Iraqis who fled to Syria are running out of money and have to return to Iraq and highly uncertain, [...]
By SusanUnPC on Nov 3, 2007 in Counterterrorism, Homeland Security, Presidential Candidates | View Comments
I’m sure you’ve also had this experience: You watch a candidate or official make remarks on television, and you get a sense of what they’re saying, but the media ends up reporting an entirely different interpretation, and you wonder if you’re the only person who heard the candidate/official as they intended to be heard! The [...]
By SusanUnPC on Nov 2, 2007 in Presidential Candidates | View Comments
From Susan T in Michigan: Q: What’s the difference between a national tragedy and a cow? A: Giuliani doesn’t know how to milk a cow. ::::::::::: Rudy scored BIG tonight on Keith Olbermann’s Countdown (which reairs at 9pm PT on MSNBC). Rudy was awarded first, second and third places for “worst person in the world.” [...]
By SusanUnPC on Nov 1, 2007 in Intelligence, Iran, Presidential Candidates | View Comments
As the odds increase that the Bush administration will attack Iran, we Americans find ourselves fixed between two types of leaders — those who haven’t faced real danger and those who have the benefit of having faced, firsthand, the horrors of war and violence. The former, such as President George W. Bush and Vice President [...]
By SusanUnPC on Oct 31, 2007 in Current Affairs | View Comments
First things first: Charlie Rose’s interview of Valerie Plame Wilson (buy Fair Game and support our blog) airs tonight on your PBS station. In a day, you can watch the video interview at Charlie’s Web site. Rose’s show format, sadly, is an endangered species — a conversational, no-”gotcha”-questions interview that gives its guests an opportunity [...]
By SusanUnPC on Oct 14, 2007 in Soldiers/Veterans | View Comments
BY ROBERT STORMER (more about Rob at the end): Lately we have been reading about how the State Department and other government agencies can’t seem to operate without private military and private security contractors such as Blackwater, Triple Canopy and others. But at what cost and damage? What does outsourcing war do to the reputation [...]
By SusanUnPC on Oct 12, 2007 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Shortly after 2 AM, I turned on the television, and learned that Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize for “for spreading awareness of man-made climate change and laying the foundations for counteracting it.” Gore has announced that he will
By SusanUnPC on Oct 8, 2007 in Intelligence, Joseph Wilson | View Comments
Greg Sargent of Talking Points Memo’s Horse’s Mouth blog called Joe Wilson today for his reaction to the Novak story we covered yesterday: Joe Wilson: “Chronic Liar” Robert Novak Is “Going Straight To Hell” October 8, 2007 — 4:19 PM EST // // I just got off the phone with former Ambassador Joe Wilson, and [...]
By SusanUnPC on Oct 8, 2007 in Current Affairs, Nuclear weapons, Soldiers/Veterans | View Comments
BY ROBERT STORMER (who posts here as “Rob”) Published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Sunday, October 7, 2007 Nuke transportation story has explosive implications By ROBERT STORMER Special to the Star-Telegram Last month, six W80-1 nuclear-armed AGM-129 advanced cruise missiles were flown from Minot Air Force Base, N.D., to Barksdale AFB in Louisiana and sat [...]
By SusanUnPC on Oct 7, 2007 in Iraq, Joseph Wilson | View Comments
Sunday funnies — from Mike Soraghan for The Hill: “Columnist Robert Novak said Saturday Ambassador Joe Wilson did not forcefully object to the naming of his CIA operative wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, when Novak spoke to him prior to the publication of a column that sparked a federal investigation and sent White House aide I. [...]
By SusanUnPC on Oct 5, 2007 in Current Affairs, Iran, Joseph Wilson, Presidential Candidates | View Comments
Sy Hersh’s “Iran Plans” isn’t the only great piece in the new issue of The New Yorker. Steve Coll took on Petraeus last month; now he dissects the Jena Six case in “Disparities” and looks at nationwide statistics for “America’s ‘school-to-prison pipeline’” for black youths. (Louisiana, the setting for the Jena Six, isn’t the worst. [...]
By SusanUnPC on Oct 3, 2007 in Current Affairs, Iraq | View Comments
“BREAKING” UPDATE AT 11:50AM PT, THURSDAY: The House has passed a bill — 389-30 — “that would make all private contractors working in Iraq and other combat zones subject to prosecution by U.S. courts.” Senate Democratic leaders will rush through similar legislation and get it to Bush ASAP. THURSDAY UPDATES: The Seattle papers (and NYT) [...]
By SusanUnPC on Oct 3, 2007 in Current Affairs | View Comments
UPDATE: At his blog, Pat Lang has posted the link to the video. ORIGINAL: It’s ongoing: Watch it live. Background: The Crocker/Petraeus Report: What Does it Really Mean?
By SusanUnPC on Oct 1, 2007 in Current Affairs, Iran | View Comments
I’ve been asking everywhere about the status of legislation that Virginia freshman senator Jim Webb introduced several months ago that prohibited military attacks on Iran without full approval of Congress. Today I got word from Sen. Clinton’s Senate communications staff that she and Sen. Webb are reintroducing the legislation, posted at her Senate Web site: [...]
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