Obama Taps Panetta for CIA Director
President-elect Barack Obama has chosen Leon Panetta as his Director of the CIA. Panetta served as former President Bill Clinton’s chief of staff from 1994-1997 and was a member of the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan commission that pushed for a phased withdrawal of American troops from Iraq—a recommendation that was ignored by the Bush administration,
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U.S. Opens Word’s Largest Embassy in Iraq
U.S. diplomats and Iraqi leaders took part in a ceremony opening the new US embassy in Iraq. The $592 million, 104-acre compound becomes the largest, and most expensive, American embassy in the world. The U.S. diplomatic core in Iraq moves to the new compound – located in Baghdad’s “Green
Cheney Defends Bush’s War Actions
Vice President Cheney offered an unabashed defense of the Bush administration’s claims of broad executive powers today, mocking criticism from Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. and
British PM Brown Sets Iraq Pullout Date: May 31 2009
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has set the Iraq deadline for British troops to pull out of Iraq to May 31. More than 4,000 British troops are currently in Iraq. 178 have been killed during the war.
Double Bombings Kill 18 in Baghdad
As US President George W Bush enters his final month in office, he is attempting to secure his legacy and make the case that the Iraq war was ultimately the right thing to do. Today’s double blast that killed 18 in Baghdad offers yet another chilling example that Bush was wrong. .msnbcLinks {font-size:11px;
Bush Dodges Reporter’s Flying Shoes
During a press conference in Iraq George Bush dodged two shoes that were thrown at him by an Iraqi journalist. Bush was on his farewell tour in Iraq and was holding a joint conference with President Maliki when the reporter stood up and hurled one shoe after the other.
UN Inspector Kicked Out of Israel for 9/11 Views
JERUSALEM — Israeli authorities on Monday expelled Richard Falk, a United Nations investigator of human rights in the No Comments • Read this story »
Rumsfield | Responsible for “Aggressive Interrogation” AKA Torture
Reporting from Washington — A bipartisan Senate report released today concluded that decisions made by former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld were a “direct cause” of widespread detainee abuses, and that other Bush administration officials were to blame for creating a legal and
Obama Chooses Clinton as Sec. of State
President-elect Barack Obama’s cabinet choices for his national security team were made official today, as he announced Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, Robert Gates as defense secretary, and Eric Holder as attorney general. Other appointments Obama made public this morning were Arizona Gov.
Baghdad Suicide Bomber Kills at Least 17
Baghdad was rocked by three explosions on Monday, killing at least 17 people two days before the Iraqi parliament is to vote on a controversial military pact which would require all US troops to leave Iraq by the end of 2011. The first attack killed 13 people when a roadside bomb exploded near a