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Project for a New American Century

…risk. Sincerely, . Still imagine that we went to war with Iraq based on 9/11? That the decision to go to war was really made by the Decider sometime in…

Forgotten troops…National Guard

…Mike Fisher told Truthout. “One Guard member improperly called into federal service to fight a war – that’s a real problem. Choosing to go to war is one of the…

‘Winter Soldiers’ Hearings

…of blood and guts, not war involved. If war is to be fought, I would expect all of us to acknowledge blood and guts. Instead it is marginalized as too…

Even earlier Cheney

…him could not see this assuming a reasonable person would not want a war talking president when there was no war potential in sight. So please (I’m being polite here)…

Stiglitz and Bilmes on Costs of Iraq War

For those interested, here is the Bilmes and Stiglitz paper I referenced in my previous post: The Economic Costs of the Iraq War: An Appraisal Three Years After the Beginning…

So War is Expensive After All

Rumsfeld was in Kuwait hoping to cheer up the troops but faced a few tough questions: One soldier, identified by The Associated Press as Army Spc. Thomas Wilson of the…

Another $70 Billion

This is utterly unsurprising, but still depressing: The Bush administration intends to seek about $70 billion in emergency funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan early next year, pushing…

Live Bloggin’

…the center of the war on error before the president invaded…” Nice one. Then move on to failure ot “plan for the peace”. – Bush: “what message does ‘wrong war