In 2001, this man was pressured to resign from the new leadership position h'e been appointed to five months sooner. You see, he'd been accused of sexual harrassment by one of his employees. This oversensitive fellow took issue with his boss grabbing his genitals when...
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I'm no democratic consultant, but if I were I'd be putting together some 30 second spots about McCain's vote on this one.
In assessing a potential unity ticket, Mark Schmitt says:Obama is in many ways the most plain-spoken liberal to win the Democratic nomination since Walter Mondale. But while Clinton is probably.
I'd have to agree that when it comes to wingnut conspiracy theorists I prefer the undiluted brew. What's scary about Laurie "Saddam Poisoned My Hamster" Mylroie is this:I’m happy to sit back and watch this unfold, but two points first. First, Hayes writes:"Although her emails...
A commenter chez Yglesias links to this 2003 interview with Paul Berman. I think this is my favorite part:Even people who think that Bush is making a blunder with his.
Following up on Scott's post about today's outbursts in Baghdad and Basra -- which suggest a possible collapse of the Shia cease-fire -- here's Marc Lynch on the other half.
Good article about Iraq from McClatchy:A cease-fire critical to the improved security situation in Iraq appeared to unravel Monday when a militia loyal to radical Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al Sadr began shutting down neighborhoods in west Baghdad and issuing demands of the central government.Simultaneously,...
Exactly right:Meanwhile, you need to put Iraq in strategic context. The goal wasn't merely to topple Saddam, but to intimidate other "rogue" regimes by creating a credible threat to take.
An op-ed for an alternate universe in which people who were actually right about the Iraq War received a significant media platform, as opposed to giving space to those who.
Just so you know, Richard Perle really wishes we'd turned Iraq over to the Iraqi National Congress -- which is to say the people who loaded the Bush administration's trencher with all the bullshit they could gobble with a gigantic wooden spoon.Having noted that, I'm...
Ugh. Remember when installing an Islamist quasi-state in Iraq was defended as a boon to the interests of Iraqi women (oddly enough, usually by people otherwise hostile to women's rights?).
On the Clinton war counterfactual, I think it's worth distinguishing between a weaker and a stronger version:Did Clinton see desposing a secular dictatorship that posed no significant threat to the.