Cheney says the US will not let Iran go nuclear:
LEESBURG, Va. - The United States and other nations will not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon, Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday ( Read more... )

++ Did everyone catch that Dick Cheney special on PBS's Frontline last night? If you missed it, you can watch it all online. BTW, Lynne Cheney thinks it's a "hit job", so you know it's good. Heh.

++ Newsweek has a heart-wrenching cover story on how few romances have emerged out of the Iraq war.

++ McCain prays for no war with Iran. Me too.

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The FBI is going to investigate the security firm Blackwater and their role in "Iraq's Bloody Sunday". Blackwater: "No comeuppance!" Well... maybe some. Waxman's committee is grilling the chairman of Blackwater on C-Span right now. (Here's some background on Blackwater and their ties to the Bush administration Also here.)

Juan Cole on the ( Read more... )

The Senate has passed a resolution Jim Webb calls "Dick Cheney's fondest pipe dream" [YouTube link] because although it doesn't, it could be read as authorizing military action against Iran. I think he really meant "Dick Cheney's fondest wet dream," but didn't say it because he'd get in trouble. Also because it would give us all horrifying mental ( Read more... )

Did you hear about that B-52 "accidentally" carrying nukes from one base to another today? Yeah, I didn't pay it much mind, until I saw this commentary on TPM Cafe (via Digbysblog) and went, OH SHIT:

And how does someone watching a B-52 land identify the cruise missiles as nukes? It just does not make sense ( Read more... )

This article is from a couple weeks ago, but I found it illuminating. The soldier who blew the whistle on Abu Ghraib has gotten grief for what he did - from people here in the U.S. His colleagues in Iraq mostly supported him, but the backlash in his hometown has forced him and his family to move and change jobs ( Read more... )

++ U.S. officials say Iraqi militia leader al-Sadr is in Iran. I think it's all just more build-up for the coming war with Iran.

++ AmericaBlog: Bush admits he lied about Iran.

++ Wes Clark asks, Is war with Iran inevitable?

++ A majority of Americans oppose a troop surge.

++ Chrysler to cut 13,000 jobs++ Randy Cunningham didn't just get ( Read more... )

The New York Times has gone ga-ga over anonymous accusations against Iran, and the WaPo has followed suit. They're like that guy from Memento: they can't remember anything that happened more than ten minutes ago, and they need an enemy to pursue. So they will allow themselves to invent one when none exists ( Read more... )

Vanity Fair has a detailed article about the push towards bombing Iran: From the Wonderful Folks Who Brought You Iraq.

"Everything the advocates of war said would happen hasn't happened," says the president of Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist, an influential conservative who backed the Iraq invasion. "And all the things the critics said ( Read more... )

Bush sent 363 tons of cash to Iraq in 2003, without any real plan for it. Not $363 million. 363 TONS (in metric=a fuckload), or about 1.5 BILLION DOLLARS. And I guess that was just one shipment, since $12 billion cash money is unaccounted for. Well, it's not entirely unaccounted for - we know KBR got some of it. (Hey, you remember when they ( Read more... )