Showing posts with label Bush Administration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bush Administration. Show all posts
Sunday, May 14, 2023

Robert Draper, To Start a War

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At Amazon, Robert Draper, To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq .
Tuesday, February 23, 2021

The 'Honorable' Merrick Garland Goes Mum at Confirmation Hearing (VIDEO)

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Ed Driscoll has a fabulous roundup, at Instapundit, " MERRICK GARLAND WATCH ." At watch, at Fox News:
Friday, March 23, 2018

Fifteen Years After the Iraq War: A Veteran Reflects

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Not a neoconservative manifesto, but well-stated nevertheless --- and interesting. From Andrew Exum, at the Atlantic, " One Morning i...
Monday, November 20, 2017

G.W. Bush: 'The fact that there was any doubt in anyone’s mind about who the president was blows my mind,' adding that Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld 'didn’t make one fucking decision...'

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At Politico: George W. Bush on his presidency: "The fact that there was any doubt in anyone’s mind about who the president was blows m...
Saturday, August 6, 2016

WikiLeaks Trying to Hack Donald Trump's Tax Returns (VIDEO)

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Julian Assange confirms he's trying to hack Donald Trump's tax returns, on Bill Maher's show. Watch, at CNN, " Wikileaks:...
Monday, February 9, 2015

The Dangerous Lie That 'Bush Lied'

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From Judge Laurence Silberman, at the Wall Street Journal, " Some journalists still peddle this canard as if it were fact. This is defa...
Thursday, September 11, 2014

9/11 and the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy

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Former Vice President Richard Cheney, yesterday, at the American Enterprise Institute . Also at LAT, " Cheney urges Obama to launch &...
Sunday, July 6, 2014

Islamic State Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Appears in Public

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At the Los Angeles Times, " Islamic State leader exhorts fellow Sunnis to join him ": The secretive head of the Islamic State m...
Thursday, July 3, 2014

NBC's Richard Engel: #ISIS Threat 'Could Easily Be Directed at the United States...'

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Engel's been doing great reporting on the jihadist threat, not overdoing it but not candy-coating it either.
Saturday, June 28, 2014

Bin Laden's Caliphate Rises in #Iraq

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At the Wall Street Journal, " The Caliphate Rises ": The jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham (ISIS) continue to c...
Thursday, June 26, 2014

GRAPHIC: Al-Nusra Front, #ISIS Ally, Amputates Hands of Accused Thieves in Al-Bukamal Countryside, Syria

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Seeing the writing on the wall --- and no doubt hoping to avoid annihilation (beheadings, crucifixions) at the hands of ISIS --- Syria's...
Monday, June 23, 2014

#ISIS Jihadists Press Closer to Baghdad

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At WSJ, " At Least 81 Iraqis Killed in Sunni Rebel Attack on Convoy: The Assault Took place Just 20 Miles South of Central Baghdad '...

Secretary of State John Kerry, Remarks on Syria and Iraq, U.S. Embassy Baghdad, June 23, 2014

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At the U.S. State Department, " Secretary Kerry's Press Availability on Syria and Iraq in Baghdad, June 23, 2014 ." Scroll d...

U.S. May Launch Airstrikes Ahead of Forming New Government in #Iraq

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Following-up from my last entry, " Nouri al-Maliki Commits to Formation of New Government in #Iraq ." Now here's Michael Gor...

Nouri al-Maliki Commits to Formation of New Government in #Iraq

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At the Wall Street Journal, " Iraqi Leader Commits to Steps on Forming New Government: No Word on Whether Prime Minister, Fallen From U...

#ISIS Jihadists Seize Main Border Crossing with Jordan

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ISIS gets its caliphate on. Previously, " #ISIS is Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Dream Come True in Iraq ." At the New York Times...

#ISIS is Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Dream Come True in Iraq

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The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) is not an "offshoot" or an "affiliate" of al-Qaeda in Iraq. It is al-Qa...

The Man Who Broke the Middle East

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From Elliott Abrams, at Politico . Read it at the link. One of very best pieces I've read over these last few days. Indeed, I could as...
Sunday, June 22, 2014

Officials and Military Experts: Iraq Forces Can't Defeat #ISIS Jihadists

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For the left's antiwar hordes, these reports should be the "uh oh" moment. Because as much as the administration wants to stay...

#Iraq Militants 'Turning Back Clock' in Captured Mosul

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At Agence France-Presse : Baghdad (AFP) - In the two weeks since it was seized by Sunni militants, some residents of the northern Iraq cit...