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Dicking Afghanistan: Where Obama Went Wrong
Washington Post ace Al Kamen has an outtake from Woodward’s new book that shows how Obama was on the wrong foot on Afghanistan from his first days in office: “It wasn’t until well into the Obama presidency,” Woodward writes, that vet
Winning Hearts and Minds and Fingers in Aghanistan
The latest PR challenge in Afghanistan…
Helping Afghans Drown
If only Toles had written the word DEMOCRACY onto the anvil, the cartoon would be perfect. (from today’s Washington Post)
How We Brought Freedom & Prosperity to Afghanistan
posted online today by the Future of Freedom Foundation, from the May issue of Freedom Daily – BRINGING FREEDOM & PROSPERITY TO AFGHANISTAN by James Bovard The Obama administration is seeking to rechristen the Afghan debacle it inherited from the Bush administration. Obama’s efforts to legitimize the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan simply ignore the previous […]
Government Lies Make Leaks Explosive
The Pentagon is caterwauling that the next round of WikiLeaks’ disclosures of US government documents will be even more damaging than the last round. It is always touching to see the world’s most powerful military machine portray itself as a “pitiful, helpless giant” (the phrase Nixon used in his speech announcing his illegal invasion of […]
My 2 Cents on WikiLeaks, the FBI, and Assorted Hokum – Antiwar.com Transcript
The good folks at Antiwar.com Radio added a transcript to the MP3 of last week’s interview. My comments on the Obama administration’s ploy to increase FBI surveillance power are excerpted here at the top. (The full text is below. My Kelly Girl past is now no longer secret). Bovard: National Security letters have already been […]