Memorial Day 2008
In June 2005, Major General John Batiste, commander of the First Infantry Division in Iraq, leader of 22,000 troops fighting in the Sunni Triangle, passed up a third star, and quit the U.S. Army to speak out against the Iraq occupation.x10 Last August, he wrote:
I realized that I was in a unique [...]
“I come from the school of ‘walk softly and carry a big stick’,” said Admiral William Fallon, former head of the U.S. military’s Central Command (CENTCOM), which covers the Middle East and southwestern Asia.x80 He saw the mission of his command as “to work with other nations in the region to set the conditions for [...]
U.S. Vice President Cheney, a major architect of the Bush regime’s invasion and occupation of Iraq, visited Baghdad Monday, and gave this assessment:
So if you reflect back on those five years, I think it’s been a difficult, challenging, but nonetheless successful endeavour and that we’ve come a long way in five years and it’s been [...]
“In August, I think it was … [National Intelligence Director] Mike McConnell came in and said, we have some new information. He didn’t tell me what the information was …” (2007-12-04)x60 President Bush uttered that statement last week, claiming ignorance about the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) finding that Iran has had no nuclear [...]
Republican leaders and news outlets whipped up a little furor over MoveOn.org’s ad headlined “General Petraeus or General Betray Us?—Cooking the books for the White House.”x01 A common comment was that the ad was “over the top.”x02. The ad came out in the New York Times September 10th, the day of Petraeus’s testimony [...]
