BTW: Iraq had a peaceful election

…In which the theocratic and the sectarian parties lost big time. Unity won out all over the country. Security completely provided by Iraqis at the polls, people brought their children with them, the election process went smoothly and was immediately certifiable as being free and fair.  Of course, you have to hunt on the back [...]

Where Should Republicans Go From Here?

THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, [...]

Iraq Wants Us Out

Timetables are bad, right?  That’s been the conservative line for years now.  Forcing the troops out of Iraq could lead to disastrous consequences, including emboldening our enemies, disheartening the soldiers, and making Americans look like pansies.  Yet the Iraqis have spoken up again and the message is “we don’t want you occupying our country.” Is [...]

Speaker Nancy Pelosi pens memoir of being the first female House Speaker

Nancy Pelosi has written a memoir, Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters, of being elected the first female House Speaker and how all this came into being. It is a proud moment when she was elevated to House Speaker not only because she is the first female to be elected to this prestigious, [...]

Four billion dollars of Iraq reconstruction money wasted

Just imagine how many more billions have been wasted trying to “reconstruct” Iraq. It’s funny how the free market Republicans suddenly think government can suddenly gain the magical ability to work when it’s the military creating structures and dictating how the country should be rebuilt. Four billion dollars squandered. This is just the tip of [...]

Petraeus making policy: No!

In a country like the United States, no military commander should be making any kind of policy. The decision to come out of Iraq is not Petraeus’s: it is the Congress’s.

Eich bein eine “Barack Obama”

Thanks in large measure to the encouragement of his political opponent John McCain, Barack Obama ventured on a fact-finding tour of the Middle East, and as long as he was close by, stopped in Berlin, Germany. Saying he had come to Berlin “not as a candidate for President, but as a citizen — a proud [...]

Iraq Wants Troop Withdrawals

“Withdrawal timetables.” The phrase is a faux pas in today’s War On Terror era politics, but the call for troop withdrawals is being discussed by more Democrats, these days. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki brought up the issue during a recent meeting with Arab ministers, in relation Iraq’s sovereignty.  But is full Iraqi sovereignty really [...]

Alcohol in Iraq

In the Saddam Hussein days, the Iraqi people had the freedom to consume alcohol if they chose. Once the US invaded, religious extremists took over and banned alcohol. Today they are fighting hard to restore a freedom they had under Saddam. Ironic, isn’t it, that the United States put in a more totalitarian and despotic [...]

The Fifty-First State: The Imperial Battlestation

The American Embassy in Iraq is virtually complete, but is also virtually its own country (alternative link). Thanks to the pro-war “conservatives”, we are on the verge of making Iraq our 51st state. Again, thanks to the pro-war crowd, we’re going to get exactly what you didn’t want–an Islamic theocratic state that is devoted to [...]

McClellan: Self-serving and Manipulative, a Phony

Over the years, Scott McClellan has delivered alot of important statements for the White House, covering issues including the Iraq War, the President’s position on Iran, and the Valerie Plame scandal. From 2003 to 2006 he was the Press Secretary, the mouth of the Presidency, and a vital part of the administration. Yet in his [...]

Conservatism redefined before our very eyes

Sigh. The “conservative” Jonah Goldberg (National Review) has finally come out in the open and admitted he’s not a true conservative by any stretch of the imagination. Instead of redefining conservatism as Goldwater-esque, he has decided it is best to accept the McCain ideology and wants McCain to reach across the isle to a Democrat [...]

Is an Iran War Imminent?

With the U.S. military thinly by a host of deployments – Iraq, Afghanistan, Japan, and Korea to name a few – will the waning Bush administration risk another costly military conflict? Months ago, I would have said no way. The administration has been bogged down trying to defend the cost of our continued presence in [...]

Code Pink: The Witchcraft Organization

As most of you know, I am generally against the war in Iraq. I favor protests against the United States’s foreign policy, and agree with Representative Ron Paul on how foreign policy should be conducted. I do not, however, condone Code Pink. They are, in my view, a whacky organization not bent on remembering the [...]

What if Obama wins in November?

A reader (Norm) posed the question to us at the Political Inquirer, “What if Obama gets elected? What will the impact of the country be?” It will be hard to say for certain, none of us on the staff are prophets (though some might claim to be). I think the first thing that we will [...]

On Generals, CNN, and The Yellow Kid

Journalism is biased, and always has been. The concept of the “fourth estate” as representative of the common people dates back to the French Revolution, and is the first acknowledgement that news reporting has a distinct viewpoint. Over the course of time, corporations began to invest in newspapers (as advertisers), which induced publishers to be [...]

Ron Paul’s Book Officially Released

Ron Paul’s book, The Revolution: A Manifesto is officially out today. Pick up a copy if you’re interested in seeing the reasoning behind his (and my) belief in peace, prosperity, capitalism, and small government.

White House Appealing Visitor Logs

Norm sent an article my way from TIME about the Bush administration appealing the classification of visitor’s logs as public information. I can’t speak for the opinions of others on the site but I feel that virtually everything our government does should be public information–especially visitor’s logs. What if the President were conspiring with leaders [...]

Quagmires: The Apex of Empire

Most of us know, and have heard the saying ad nauseum, that if you do not know history, you are doomed to repeat. Despite the fact this saying is said so frequently, it seems to go through one ear, and right out the other, as we pay very little attention to history. Technology may change, [...]

Zbigniew Brzezinski: The Smart Way Out of a Foolish War

Brzezinski has a good take on getting out of the Iraq war, which I largely agree with, particularly here: Contrary to Republican claims that our departure will mean calamity, a sensibly conducted disengagement will actually make Iraq more stable over the long term. The impasse in Shiite-Sunni relations is in large part the sour byproduct [...]