…not serve during the Vietnam War, it makes my blood boil. He’ll be tough, but he’ll be tough with someone else’s kid’s blood”): Cheney’s admiration for these fine young Americans…

…first Gulf War we didn’t get Saddam out, so he says to Cheney and Rumsfeld, ‘So Saddam this time is gonna be out, period?’ And Cheney – who has said…

…in tax breaks to promote greater use of coal in power plants, to renew interest in nuclear power, to encourage oil companies to drill in deep waters in the Gulf…

…the 1991 Gulf War; the Iran-Iraq war; and all references to Israelis, Americans, or Kurds. “Entire swaths of 20th-century history have been deleted,” says Bill Evers, a US Defense Department…

…Gulf War, and the efforts of UN weapons inspectors coupled with economic sanctions had largely kept Saddam Hussein’s appetite for WMDs in check. No surprise there – it’s a reasonable…

I’m sure we’re all shocked that the rich are taking yet another record share of the national economic pie: The gulf between the richest 1% of the USA and the…

…Vet suffering from Gulf War Syndrome to someone with a bum leg injured 10 years ago in a skiing accident); – or because they cannot afford to shell out 5…

…gulf between Ryan’s rhetoric and his policy agenda. Ryan’s famous budget consists primarily of extremely deep cuts to programs benefiting low-income Americans. [skip] How to resolve this tension? One way…

…US ally, where the uprisings have been crushed. There were several places where uprisings were either crushed quickly or bought off, notably in some of the wealthy Gulf oil states…

…economically far better than war. The Gulf war of 1991 demonstrated that wars can actually be bad for an economy. The whole post can be read at The Big Picture….