New leadership in Great Britain has brought fresh thinking on Iraq, and the White House is worried.
It appears the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown may take his country in a different direction than his predecessor. The London Times reports:
A SENIOR Downing Street aide has sounded out Washington on the possibility of an early British [...]
July 29th, 2007
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Time Magazine is reporting that key G.O.P. presidential candidates are suddenly finding scheduling conflicts and other excuses to back out of the September 17 YouTube debate on CNN. From Friday’s story in Time:
The Rudy Giuliani campaign has cited scheduling conflicts in saying it will skip the Republican version of this week’s Democratic debate, while Mitt [...]
July 28th, 2007
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Shouting matches. Our top people in Iraq are negotiating via shouting matches.
This from the Telegraph in the UK:
Relations between the top United States general in Iraq and Nouri al-Maliki, the country’s prime minister, are so bad that the Iraqi leader made a direct appeal for his removal to President George W Bush.
Although the call [...]
July 28th, 2007
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Oh, no. It was bound to happen. Here we are just taking ourselves a bit too seriously. Yes, it’s an election, but Hillary and Barack are having at it, tearing each other apart. Barack isn’t yet the seasoned campaigner Hillary Clinton is. He’s tremenous, don’t get me wrong, but he [...]
July 27th, 2007
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It really looks like Gonzales’ world is collapsing around him, like that of so many, “Heck-Of-A-Job,” members of the “W.” Fan Club before him. The man has no credibility left, and could not possibly inspire any sense of confidence in the office of the Attorney General. From today’s Washington Post:
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III [...]
July 27th, 2007
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What a chilling thought.
From the Associated Press:
Army medical examiners were suspicious about the close proximity of the three bullet holes in Pat Tillman’s forehead and tried without success to get authorities to investigate whether the former NFL player’s death amounted to a crime, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. “The medical evidence did [...]
July 27th, 2007
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Turning Left has been a low volume blog for the past few months. Now, however, it is really starting to take off. We have over 500 regular readers! We enjoy sharing our views, but the real key is when we all leave our computers, we must act. [...]
July 26th, 2007
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Just in from The Pittsburgh Channel:
WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee voted contempt of Congress citations Wednesday against White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and President George W. Bush’s former legal counselor, Harriet Miers.
The 22-17 vote, which would sanction for pair for failure to comply with subpoenas on the firings of several federal prosecutors, [...]
July 25th, 2007
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I don’t know who will win the next presidential election. Don’t waste my time with such trivia. Prefer to work my ass off up to and including election day, and then kick back with some friends, count the votes, and hope like Hell.
But these Democrats sound like fun.
What Republican presidential candidate would open [...]
July 23rd, 2007
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It was all too tempting to start this reflection with some quip, making light of the conviction of a Deerfield, Illinois, couple found guilty of allowing their son’s friends to drink in their basement one night last October. How easy it is sitting on this side of the monitor to mock, to ridicule, or [...]
July 21st, 2007
Categories: General, Philosophical . Author: G . Comments: 1 Comment