Category: Politics
One Trillion Dollars? | Congress Kicks Back on War Funding | Hillary’s Iran Flip-Flop
by WS Editors | Oct 15, 2007 | Foreign PolicyThe $50 Billion War—By 2004, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s 2003 prediction that the Iraq War would cost $50 billion was recognized as wildly off the mark, even if Rumsfeld didn’t realize it. Rumsfeld is no longer handicapping war costs, but Steven M. Kosiak at the non-profit Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments is. Kosiak pulled […]
When Anti-Terror Justice Runs Amok
by WS Editors | Oct 1, 2007 | Foreign Policy, National SecurityON AUGUST 15, PETE SEDA CAME HOME. He had written to the U.S. Attorney in Eugene, Oregon, advising him that he would arrive in Portland at 11:25 a.m. on Lufthansa Flight 425. I was waiting for Seda in the international lobby at the airport, as was Associate Press reporter William McCall. There was also a […]
Judging Judge Mukasey
by WS Editors | Oct 1, 2007 | Legal AffairsA Reasonable Judge at Justice?—Choosing a replacement for Alberto Gonzalez did not prove all that easy for George W. Bush. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made it clear that former solicitor general Theodore B. Olson was damaged if not dead. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff had so badly botched the federal response to Katrina that […]
A $20 Billion Solution to an Intractable Problem
by Robert Bryce | Sep 15, 2007 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsEditor’s note: Two years ago, while I was working on a book on Vice President Dick Cheney, a general who had worked closely with the then-Secretary of Defense Cheney during the first Gulf War described the harm Cheney had done to the Army in the second go at Saddam Hussein. Troop strength was reduced to […]
The Hawks are Circling | Rep. Lewis’s (Mis)Appropriations
by WS Editors | Sep 15, 2007 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsThe Three Day War—Ignored by the U.S. media, yet reported in the U.K., are increased concerns that the Bush administration plans to bomb Iran. On the day before Labor Day, the Sunday Times of London carried some remarks by Alexis Debat of the Nixon Center, a conservative Washington think tank that includes Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and […]
Bad Faith Documentary
