James Carville Says We Didn't Win Iraq War

Bombing at Baghdad Military Headquarters Kills 12
Homicide Bombers hit a Baghdad Military headquarters on Sunday and killed 12 people, two weeks after an Attack on the same site pointed to the failure of Iraqi forces to plug even the most obvious holes in their security. Baghdad has been on high alert as the U.S. declared the official end to its combat operations in Iraq last week, yet the Militants still managed to Attack an obvious target in the center of the city that has been struck very recently. On Aug. 17, Al Qaeda linked Suicide ...

Tony Blair defends Iraq invasion, praises Bush's 'simplicity'
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair on ABC's This Week restated his belief that the West is locked in a generational struggle with Radical Islam. He warned that the public has yet to grasp what that means, even though he declined to criticize President Obama's decision to set a timeline for the War in Afghanistan. "I think it's perfectly sensible to set the deadline, provided it's clear that, as it were, that is to get everyone focused on getting the job done," Blair said. "But in...

Code Pinko Whines, "We Don't Have the Same Passion Among the Anti-War Movement Under Obama That we Did For Bush"...
It’s called hypocrisy among your fellow leftists… (Politico) - As President Barack Obama formally declared an end to combat operations inIraq this week, the Anti-War movement that helped sweep him into office and that worked for seven years to bring U.S. Troops home finds itself struggling for survival. Several factors War fatigue; a deep, lingering Recession; and the presence of a Democratic president they helped elect have drained the energy from...

Democratic Self-Loathing in the Age of Obama
The problem began when the Right began squealing “Socialist!,” and Pres. Obama and those in the Democratic Party he leads today decided to go into a defensive crouch to prove they are all moderate, sensible, Centrist , something that Obama made clear from the start. Back in July I wrote about Pres. Obama’s seduction to the Right at a time of a Democratic majority, others have now begun to write about how the Republicans and their Tea Party Wing have further eroded what...

The Crisis in Afghanistan
With my month-long September road trip looming, I'm having to face the reality that I won't be able to keep up with some of the issues I've been focusing upon--especially the overseas issues, and most especially Afghanistan, which seems to be falling apart. The latest crisis , the run on the Kabul Bank, has brought the rot at the heart of the Karzai government to the fore. I'm told that some leading members of the Obama Administration are reaching a breaking point, finally convinced that the...

Obama Tries to Get Realist
President Barack Obama is continuing to reorient U.S. Foreign Policy in general, and in the Middle East in particular, along the lines of the internationalist/neo-realist approach pursued in the pre-9/11 years of Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Obamas televised address marking the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq, coupled with his earlier decision to escalate U.S. Military involvement in Afghanistan and this weeks start of a new round of U.S.-orchestrated...

Obama Tries to Get Realist
President Barack Obama is continuing to reorient U.S. Foreign Policy in general, and in the Middle East in particular, along the lines of the internationalist/neo-realist approach pursued in the pre-9/11 years of Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Obama’s televised address marking the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq, coupled with his earlier decision to escalate U.S. Military involvement in Afghanistan and this week’s start of a new round of U.S.-orchestrated...

War Pigs-A Rock and Roll Epistle
Evil minds that plot destruction, Sorcerers of death's construction. In the fields the bodies burning, As the War Machine keeps turning; Death and hatred to mankind, Poisoning their brainwashed minds... Oh Lord yeah!" "War Pigs," Black Sabbath Paranoid , 1971 Officially Combat Operations in Iraq are now over. De jure , as an attorney would say. De facto , we still have 50,000 Troops in harm's way there, officially six "advisory brigades." In the Second World War, 50,000 men was the minimum...

UK: Army to Discharge 5,000 Injured Troops
© Press Association Up to 5,000 Troops could be discharged from the Armed Forces because they are medically unfit for combat duties, including many injured in Iraq and Afghanistan, it was reported today. The Sunday Times quoted a leaked Ministry of Defence document as saying that 5% of The Army's 102,000 personnel were no longer fit to be deployed in action. The newspaper suggested that the worst affected 1,500 Troops were in line to be discharged first, with 750 following in each of...

The true cost of the Iraq war: $3 trillion and beyond
Writing in these pages in early 2008, we put the total cost to the United States of the Iraq War at $3 Trillion. This Price Tag dwarfed previous estimates, including the Bush Administration's 2003 projections of a $50 Billion to $60 Billion War. This Story View All Items in This Story View Only Top Items in This Story This Story View All Items in This Story View Only Top Items in This Story But today, as the United States ends combat in Iraq, it appears that our $3 Trillion estimate...

The most important race you don't know about -- yet
With the fight over Congress intensifying and President Obama’s agenda hanging in the balance, coverage of this fall's Governor’s races has largely fallen by the wayside. But the outcomes of some of these races will have significant consequences -- none more so than the contest in Texas, between Republican Incumbent Rick Perry and Democrat Bill White, the former mayor of Houston. Texas, where Democrats have been struggling for years to wage competitive campaigns, may seem like an...

Could Tony Blair have been a great US president?
Unless you’ve been on another planet, you will have noticed that Tony Blair published a book last week. One of the interesting things about it is that it’s a paen of praise for the United States. The American edition of My Journey has a six-page foreword that amounts to a hot-breathed love letter to the US. In the book, Blair critiques - very kindly - Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. I get the sense reading it that Blair feels that he had qualities that...

Code Pink, MoveOn in the Red
“As President Barack Obama formally declared an end to combat operations in Iraq this week, the Anti-War movement that helped sweep him into office and that worked for seven years to bring U.S. Troops home finds itself struggling for survival. Several factors War fatigue; a deep, lingering Recession; and the presence of a Democratic president they helped elect have drained the energy from organizations that led the fight against the Iraq War. Some of the most influential...

Pa. race on the edges instead of in the middle
Philadelphia For decades, Pennsylvania has perfected a unique politics of ambivalence in its Senate races, sending to Washington nonconformists who do not fit comfortably into their parties' norms but reflect accurately the subtle variations within their constituencies. For 30 years, Arlen Specter has been the emblematic figure -- a man who started as a Democrat, became a Republican for most of his political life and then switched back . He was notorious for his "flexibility" on...

Suicide Bomber Hits Iraqi Army Base
Reuters reports: Five Suicide Bombers armed with rifles tried to storm an Army Base in Baghdad on Sunday, killing seven people and wounding 29 less than a week after Washington declared U.S. combat operations in Iraq over. Two attackers blew themselves up at the back gate of the compound after being shot, while a third detonated a minibus packed with explosives at the entrance. The remaining two fought an hour-long gunbattle with Troops before being killed, said Baghdad security...

Double suicide bombing 'kills eight in Baghdad'
Baghdad — A double Suicide bombing killed eight people on Sunday at an Iraqi defence Ministry complex that three weeks ago was hit by a massive Suicide Attack which killed dozens, a health official said. A Suicide Bomber blew up a minibus at the rear gate of the Rusafa Military Command headquarters in east Baghdad around 10:50 am (0750 GMT), said Major General Qassim Atta, a security forces spokesman in the capital. A policeman told an AFP reporter at the blast site that a second Suicide...

Taliban vow to attack polling places, warn Afghans to avoid Sept. 18 parliamentary vote
Kabul, Afghanistan — The Taliban vowed Sunday to attack polling places in Sept. 18 parliamentary Elections, warning Afghans not to participate in what it called a sham vote. Meanwhile, two coalition Soldiers — at least one of them British — were killed in fighting in the turbulent south, while a political rival of President Hamid Karzai questioned his approach to pending Talks with rebels who might be persuaded to abandon the Insurgency. The threat issued Sunday comes just...

Hurricane of Inhumanity: Five Years after Katrina
Those who remained, whether by choice or for lacking an option, were automatically perceived as "looters", and "looting" itself became the ultimate crime, second only maybe to Terrorism. People who did not or could not (and in some cases were not allowed to) leave the scene were being shot at for daring to eat food from deserted shops just to stay alive. Protecting businesses has become more important than saving lives, even though most of the products in those shops were doomed to destruction...

Into The Streets and not on Saturday
Thom Hartman a long time radio host seems to think that all you have to do is go to the democratic meetings and take over, good luck with that one. He constantly Talks about working inside a corrupt system to make it better. You cannot make it better Thom. The democratic party is on its death bed, going to die soon. Ed Shultz is also using his radio and TV Show to push the concept of we must unite as Progressives and vote for the lesser of two evils. Sorry Ed, thousands upon thousands of...

Graham: Obama is 'tone-deaf'
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) on Sunday slammed President Obama as "tone-deaf" on sensitive political matters, and said that the November Elections will prove most Americans disagree with his views. Graham, an occasional ally of the administration on Immigration, Energy Policy and Military issues, also told NBC's "Meet the Press" host David Gregory that Obama's agenda is too liberal for the country. Democrats, led by Obama, have gone "hard to the left," Graham said. "Now...

Yemen Arrests 14 Suspected Al Qaeda Members
Police arrested 14 suspected members of Al Qaeda in a Raid on one of the group's alleged hideouts in south Yemen, the Interior Ministry said Sunday. The Ministry statement said the Raid took place on Saturday night in Abyan province in the town of Lawder, 155 miles southeast of the capital where government Troops have for weeks been battling what it describes as Al Qaeda elements. The statement added that further Raids are planned in the area. Elsewhere in south Yemen, gunmen from a...

Yemen arrests 14 suspected members of al-Qaida in southern raids
SAN'A, Yemen — Police arrested 14 suspected members of al-Qaida in a Raid on one of the group's alleged hideouts in south Yemen, the Interior Ministry said Sunday. The Ministry statement said the Raid took place on Saturday night in Abyan province in the town of Lawder, 155 miles (250 kilometers) southeast of the capital where government Troops have for weeks been battling what it describes as al-Qaida elements. The statement added that further Raids are planned in the area. Elsewhere in...

Army Downplays Depleted Uranium Risk on Hawaiian Island
The Army said yesterday that the results of a Depleted Uranium study at Pohakuloa Training Area on the Big Island show radiological doses "well within limits" considered safe by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Army studied the potential Health risk posed by residual DU in Pohakuloa areas where past and current weapons firing has taken place. Depleted Uranium, a weak radioactive heavy metal, was used in aiming rounds for the Davy Crockett, a 1960s Nuclear device...

Yemen arrests 14 suspected members of al-Qaida in southern raids
SAN'A, Yemen -   SAN'A, Yemen (AP) — Police arrested 14 suspected members of al-Qaida in a Raid on one of the group's alleged hideouts in south Yemen, the Interior Ministry said Sunday. The Ministry statement said the Raid took place on Saturday night in Abyan province in the town of Lawder, 155 miles (250 kilometers) southeast of the capital where government Troops have for weeks been battling what it describes as al-Qaida elements. The statement added that further Raids are...

Suicide car bomb attacks Baghdad military headquarters killing at least 8
Baghdad — Militants detonated a Car Bomb at a Baghdad Military headquarters on Sunday and then tried to shoot their way into the building, killing eight people and wounding 29 in a brazen morning Attack, Iraqi officials said. Immediately after the car exploded, gunmen assaulted the headquarters, battling the building's guards in a 15 minute firefight in downtown Baghdad, according to Police officials. Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Mohammed al-Askari told the Associated Press...