Group Think, Duct Tape and Slam Dunks
ASSOCIATED PRESS DECEMBER 14 2008 By JASON STRAZIUSO KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – The men around Lindsey Graham ignored his powerful political title – U.S. senator – and their own douchechills -instead addressing him by rank – colonel. Graham, a Republican from South Carolina and the only U.S. senator in the military’s Guard or Reserves, donned […]
MoreEd Pilkington in New York guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 17 December 2008 01.19 GMT The outgoing US vice-president, Dick Cheney, last night gave an unapologetic assessment of his eight years in office, defending the invasion of Iraq, the US prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, secret wiretapping and the extreme interrogation method known as waterboarding. In his first […]
MoreEXCLUSIVE FROM W I R E D By Noah ShachtmanWhile the Pentagon preps for a new administration, a scandal from an earlier era is rearing its head. A Defense Department project, supposedly designed to support U.S. troops, was used instead to channel millions of dollars to personal friends and allies of its chief. The “America […]
MoreTHE OBSERVER PAUL HARRIS DEC 14 2008 After spending eight years at the helm of one of the most ideologically driven administrations in American history, George W. Bush is ending his presidency in characteristically aggressive fashion, with a swath of controversial measures designed to reward supporters and enrage opponents. By the time he vacates the […]
MoreOfficial history details failures of rebuilding Iraq INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE By James Glanz and T. Christian Miller Sunday, December 14, 2008 BAGHDAD: An unpublished, 513-page federal history of the U.S.-led reconstruction of Iraq depicts an effort crippled before the invasion by Pentagon planners who were hostile to the idea of rebuilding a foreign country, and […]
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