By SusanUnPC on Sep 15, 2007 in Al Qaeda, Bush/Cheney, CIA, Counterterrorism, Iran, Saudi Arabia | 20 Comments
Imagine the climate adjustment required for that solitary Icelandic soldier stationed in Iraq. The member of the “Icelandic Crisis Response Unit” (Iceland doesn’t have a “formally constituted military”) is actually a media representative in Baghdad, but Bush used him to bolster his B.S. claim of a coalition of 36 countries in Iraq. Thank you to [...]
By SusanUnPC on Jul 28, 2007 in Current Affairs, Foreign Aid, Israel, Saudi Arabia | 36 Comments
UPDATE below: “US accuses Saudis of telling lies about Iraq,” The Guardian NYT: WASHINGTON, July 27 — The Bush administration is preparing to ask Congress to approve an arms sale package for Saudi Arabia and its neighbors that is expected to eventually total $20 billion at a time when some United States officials contend that [...]
By Larry Johnson on Jul 21, 2007 in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, CIA, Current Affairs, Homeland Security, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia | 30 Comments
by Larry C Johnson Someone is not telling the truth and it is incumbent on Congress to get to the bottom of this nonsense. Until recently George Bush insisted that there was steady progress in decimating Al Qaeda: 1 May 2003 the President claimed: From Pakistan to the Philippines to the Horn of Africa, we [...]