Showing posts with label security. Show all posts
Showing posts with label security. Show all posts

Thursday, December 11, 2008

General James Jones

12/11/2008 Update
Security Adviser Pick Stresses Oil Independence

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Gen. Jim Jones

The more I have read about Obama's pick for National Security Adviser the more impressed I have been.

USAToday: Jones not regarded as 'political general'

Slate: The Enforcer

Friday, September 28, 2007

Saddam Hussein Was Ready For Exile and $1 Billion

Must reading from Professor Juan Cole - Transcript Reveals Impeachable Offenses by Bush
In other words, Bush could have sent Saddam off to exile in Saudi Arabia and avoided the whole war, but refused to do so because of the family vendetta between the Bushes and the Tikritis. Nearly 4,000 US soldiers have died and thousands have been wounded because Bush would not take the deal Saddam offered him. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis are dead, and millions displaced.

Going to war unnecessarily is an impeachable offense.


And One Billion dollars or 400 plus billion?
Cost of the War in Iraq
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Thursday, July 19, 2007

Can't See The Bomb For The Water Bottle

Via ISN - Fake bomb eludes airport test

The screeners at Albany International confiscated the water bottle but missed the bomb.