Obama Hammered McCain: “We’ve Seen This Movie Before”

By- Suzie-Q @ 8:00 PM MST
Obama keeps the pressure on McCain, says ‘we’ve seen this movie before’
Posted May 31st, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Let no one say the Obama campaign is unwilling to take advantage of opportunities that avail themselves.
Last night, Barack Obama hammered John McCain for his bogus claim that U.S. forces in Iraq have [...]

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Conyers mulls hearings over McClellan revelations

anthony @ 22:45 BST

(Updates at bottom: McClellan tells CNN he’d ‘be happy’ to testify; Perino suggests White House could block)
Nick Juliano | therawstory | Friday May 30, 2008
Lawyers working for the House Judiciary Committee are meeting with former White House spokesman Scott McClellan regarding the explosive revelations contained in his new tell-all memoir, and the [...]

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24 Former U.S. Attorneys: Congress Can Subpoena White House

By- Suzie-Q @ 8:00 AM MST

24 Former U.S. Attorneys Say Congress Can Subpoena White House
By Andrew Tilghman – May 30, 2008, 2:26PM
In the legal standoff between Congress and the White House, a group of 24 former federal prosecutors is siding with Congress.
The attorneys joined in a friend-of-the-court brief arguing that Congress should be [...]

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We like your Tony Blair!

anthony@ 14:28 BST
It was a priceless moment — one that I would savour for years to come.
The statement, “Tony Blair…is normally immensely popular in the US for his support for President George W Bush’s ‘war on terror’”, contained in the Daily Mail article, Tony Blair is barracked over Iraq by students at Yale University, which [...]

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The Book They’re All Talking About!

anthony @ 12:06 BST

Even before it was published (May 27, 2008), Pat Buchanan’s book, Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War”: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World, set the cat amongst the pigeons, not least because of John Lukacs review, “Necessary Evil”, which appeared, somewhat incongruously, in the June 2, 2008 [...]

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The last Briton in Guantanamo faces death penalty

anthony @ 09:30 BST
Yesterday, I saw the above headline in The Independent newspaper. “Probably just another British Asian working for Muslim Aid or some other such-like charity, being rounded up in eastern Pakistan and brought back to Gitmo for a showtrial to keep alive people’s fears of ‘terrorism’”, I thought. “Is Gordon Brown going to [...]

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Invitation to Steal: War Profiteering in Iraq

Sudhan @09:15 CET

William D. Hartung | Foreign Policy In Focus, May 28, 2008
[Note: This essay was drawn from FPIF's latest book, Lessons from Iraq: Avoiding the Next War, published by Paradigm Publishers.]
The heavy reliance on private contractors to do everything from serving meals and doing laundry to protecting oil pipelines and interrogating prisoners has been [...]

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