Posted on May 28th, 2008 by Frenchdoc
Cross-posted from The Global Sociology Blog.
Standard Operating Procedure is a book co-authored by Philip Gourevitch (also author of the great We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow, We Will Be killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda and writer for the New Yorker) and Errol Morris (director of the great documentary The Fog of War [...]
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Filed under: Afghanistan, Arts & Entertainment, Books, Bush Admin, Foreign Policy, Frenchdoc, George W. Bush, Iraq, Military, Movies, Scandals, War
Posted on April 2nd, 2007 by Todd Mitchell
He actually said he “fell in love with” George Bush. LOL. That must’ve been some kind of kool-aid they were cooking up down there in the summer of ‘99.
They say confession is good for the soul. And as Pamela already noted yesterday, former Bush aide Matthew Dowd’s confession is causing all kinds of stink:
“Looking back, [...]
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Filed under: Iraq, John Kerry, Politics, Republicans
Posted on March 16th, 2007 by Robert Stein
The American Society of Magazine Editors, of which I am the last surviving founder, announced today this year’s finalists for the National Magazine Awards.
It’s no surprise that Iraq is high on the list of subject matter–the Abu Ghraib scandal and the massacre at Hadditha–along with articles about breast cancer, fishing, Scientology and the best [...]
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Filed under: Iraq, Judicial, News Media, Politics, Republicans
Posted on August 29th, 2006 by Virginia Cotts
The New York Times reports Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told several thousand veterans at the American Legion’s national convention in Salt Lake City that critics of the administration are afflicted with “moral or intellectual confusion” about the real threats to our national security. Falling back on the usual distortions of the criticisms and inaccurate historical comparisons, Rumsfeld also presented the absurd idea that the press spent disproportionately more time on Abu Ghraib than a Medal of Honor given to Sgt. 1st Class Paul Ray Smith.
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Filed under: Bush, Homeland Security, Iraq, National Security, Politics, Republicans, Terrorism
