The neocon idea of peace: nuclear war – bartblog.bartcop.com 10/16/2009 Excerpt: John Bolton, former ambassador to the U.N. under the Bush administration, apparently has a novel idea of “ensuring peace” in the middle east. A nuclear first strike on Iran. During a conference at the University of Chicago sponsored by the University Young Republicans and Chicago Friends of Israel, ironically entitled “Ensuring Peace,” Bolton stated once again: “Negotiations [...] U.S. mulling new asse
Where has the Bailout Money Gone? Good Billions After Bad Vanity Fair by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele As the Bush administration waned, the Treasury shoveled more than a quarter of a trillion dollars in tarp funds into the financial system—without restrictions, accountability, or even common sense. The authors reveal how much of it ended up in the wrong hands, doing the opposite of what was needed. Just inside the entrance to the U.S. Treasury, on the other side of
If you are old enough to remember the George W. Bush Administration and the 2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns, you will recall that a favorite theme of critics of Bush’s war management was that Bush hadn’t listened to Army brass asking for more troops in Iraq and/or Afghanistan. In particular, the Democrats practically made a secular saint of General Eric Shinseki, who supposedly was fired for delivering this message. (The truth is rather different, but the media has been printing the legen
Today, Attorney General Eric Holder named a prosecutor to investigate “nearly a dozen” detainee cases involving torture during the Bush Administration and released a long-awaited 2004 report by the C.I.A.’s Inspector General on the same topic. Plus the White House announced that it would continue rendering “terror suspects to third countries for detention and interrogation, but will monitor their treatment to ensure they are not tortured.” In addition, the White House unveiled its new new Team I
Attorney General Eric Holder will appoint a special prosecutor to conduct a “preliminary review” of at least a dozen cases of torture involving “war on terror” detainees carried out during the Bush administration’s tenure in office. Those cases had been previously closed by Justice Department attorneys for unknown reasons. His announcement was made shortly before the CIA released a declassified version of a 2004 inspector general’s report on the agency’s detention and torture program. The l
