“[T]o the corporate media, a casual threat to incinerate millions of innocent people doesn’t have nearly the importance of a lapel-pin,” writes John Eskrow at The Huffington Post, but the issue he’s talking…
Yesterday on Fox News, John McCain once again put his foot where his military and foreign policy expertise are supposed to be, flubbing a discussion of the ceasefire in Basra last week by asserting it was insurgent chieftain…
The front-and-center fight for the Democratic nomination has produced a number of endlessly remarked soundbites that are certain to be used against Barack Obama in a general election race, chief among them the words of Jeremiah Wright and Hillary Clinton’s…
As I see people compiling lists of things President Bush and Vice President Cheney said about Iran — after they had been alerted by their intelligence chief of new evidence that an Iranian nuclear weapons program had halted…
President Bush seems to be saying that yesterday’s big news that U.S. intelligence now believes Iran is not actively developing a nuclear bomb doesn’t affect his policy. I didn’t hear anything specific that might signal whether the…
The National Intelligence Estimate on the subject, representing the consensus of 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, is that Iran halted weapons development in 2003, probably couldn’t process enough fuel for a bomb until the middle of the next decade,…
Reese Erlich says yes, by proxy at least.
After reporting trips to Iran, Iraq and Washington, Erlich, who will speak at the University of Minnesota this afternoon (details here) told me in a phone interview yesterday:
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If a war with Iran becomes necessary, Israel would have American support. That’s the message Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., gave in an interview with the Jerusalem Post last Wednesday.
“If action is going to be taken,…
Iran’s belligerent president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is a loser in most of his international appearances. But on Monday he garnered a rare victory at an unlikely venue: Columbia University in New York. He withstood a barrage of insults…
But withers before tough Iraq questions from reporters
In a rare news conference Valentine’s Day morning, President Bush strongly defended the troop surge in Iraq and touted the recent multinational agreement on nuclear weapons with North Korea. While both received…
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