The Eight Year Plan: Part 1

by Scott Creighton( reposted from June 19th 2008)
I would like you to think about this objectively; not as an American or a Republican or a veteran. Just look at the sequence of events over the past 7 1/2 years, the full term of the Bush Administration, as one would review any long term business model performance report. [...]

9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Georgia, Iran, and Pakistan; The Vulcan’s Path to The Caspian Sea Basin

by Scott Creighton (reposted from Aug. 10th 2008)
One of the first things this administration did was meet with Dick Cheney’s Energy Task Force in early 2001. Those meetings were kept secret and they have refused to disclose who was actually there, and what was discussed. We all know that.
“The Washington Post reported on November 15, 2005 [...]

Biden warns of ‘hard road ahead’ as he visits Iraq (… as Iraqi civilians burn U.S. Flags)

by A. MacMillan, Yahoo News

Vice President Joe Biden on Friday warned Iraqi officials that Washington would politically disengage if sectarian and ethnic strife resumed as he warned of a “hard road ahead”.
“The president (Barack Obama) and I appreciate that Iraq has traveled a great distance over the past year but there is a hard [...]

Colbert’s Iraq War Propaganda

by Scott Creighton
It’s a “happy,happy, joy,joy” war for Stephen Colbert now that Obama’s in charge.
This week he is staging his show in Iraq; entertaining the troops and generally making them feel better about a bad situation. Gotta give him credit for that. But unfortunately, that isn’t why he’s doing it.
Team DLC Obama™ Brand has taken [...]

Hold Your Applause

by Chris Hedges, Truthdig
Did they play Barack Obama’s speech to the Muslim world in the prison corridors of Abu Ghraib, Bagram air base, Guantanamo or the dozens of secret sites where we hold thousands of Muslims around the world? Did it echo off the walls of the crowded morgues filled with the mutilated [...]

Jeremy Scahill: “Little Known Military Thug Squad Still Brutalizing Prisoners at Gitmo Under Obama”

(Go watch the video of the Democracy Now interview, here. It’s very good stuff…)
“Jeremy Scahill reports the Obama administration is continuing to use a notorious military police unit at Guantanamo that regularly brutalizes unarmed prisoners, including gang-beating them, breaking their bones, gouging their eyes and dousing them with chemicals. This force, officially known as the [...]

Prosecute Bush No Matter What the Political Cost

by Scott Creighton  (reposted from Nov. 28, 2008)
Barack Obama is never going to prosecute George W. Bush for authorizing the use of torture, or so says Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy and Robert Litt, a former top Clinton administration Justice Department prosecutor.
“These things are not going to happen,” said Leahy, D-Vt.
“Both for policy and political [...]

Soldiers Speak Out

Iraq’s main Sunni party suspends contacts with US

(After both the MainStream Corporate Approved Candidates in our upcoming election have gone on record stating that “the surge” worked, it seems that the reality on the ground in Iraq is, once again, very different than what our politicians are telling us. Millions protest our being there, Maliki himself rejects the SOFA and refuses to [...]

Maliki Won’t Submit US Security Deal to Parliament

<p>(“We will stand down as the Iraqi’s stand up“. “The job will be done when Iraq has a democratic political system that can stand on it’s own.”. Today the government of Iraq have done both. They have stood up to the most powerful military power on earth, regardless of it’s dire warnings and threats, and [...]