A sprinkling of news reports has suggested that CBS is
looking for a replacement for Katie Couric. Not to do product placement here, and
I have not been hired by anyone to provide PR for Keith Olbermann
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Live-blogging the Petraeus and Crocker Iraq hearings, continued
11:15 a.m. With the televised portion of the Petraeus and Crocker appearances now concluded–including a very little Q&A with some senators–there is indeed little new news. What Petraeus said, or projects for the future–“the way ahead,” it’s characterized–amounts to little good, for the public interest.
Gen. Petraeus
The ‘drawdown’ of the ‘surge’ buildup will be completed in about July. Then there will be a ‘pause,’ acc to SecDef Gates, tho Petraeus phrases it differently, for “assessment” and “evaluation.” The ‘pause’ is projected to last about 45 days, during which time apparently they’re not going to be trying to bring any more troops home. Then–it will be around election time.
I suppose we can all hope that John McCain will not suddenly notice that the Iraq war is wrong, go roadblock on national television at the end of October, and call for bringing all the troops home with a promise to do it himself if elected. Or if he does, we can but hope that the public will not be fooled. But both Ike and Nixon did milder versions of same, Ike with regard to Korea and Nixon w/ Vietnam.
Shots of Sen. Joe Lieberman always show him looking like McCain’s mini-me. All the speculation about how the three senators who are presidential candidates will present seems to me to be trumped by the inevitable: Sen. Clinton will come across bogus; Sen. McCain will come across used up by the system, played out; Sen. Obama will come across well.
CNN seems to have judged accurately that the news quotient of any remaining discourse will be comparatively negligible. Some senators might ask good questions, however. We can tune in at cnn.com.
Meanwhile, I wish the Code Pink people would demonstrate at Lockheed Martin, at GE (incl NBC), etc. Much of the political world has gotten the message. It’s the corporate world that needs to get it.
Leading to Iraq: High crimes and misdemeanors. July, 2004.
122nd in continuing blog series on the
administration push to war. In summer of 2004, the news keeps coming out
Leading to Iraq: High crimes and misdemeanors. May, 2004.
120th in blog series on the administration
push to war. As more information on the abuse of prisoners in Abu Ghraib and
other
White House becomes more defensive. Its special new ally in the White House
press corps continues his effort to defend the administration. The situation in
administration responds
Leading to Iraq: High crimes and misdemeanors. April, 2004.
119th in blog series on the administration
push to war. As the election year proceeds, the tragedies of war continue,
including the death of football star Pat Tillman, who gave up his pro contract
to volunteer in
suspicious circumstances, and the administration instantly fabricates a John
Wayne-style narrative.
April, 2004:
Leading to Iraq: High crimes and misdemeanors. Third week of June, 2003.
93rd in continuing blog series on the
administration push to war. As the story of the
Sandy ‘pockets’ Berger, Ron ‘deep pockets’ Burkle, and the Clinton campaign
campaigning
as first lady of Arkansas and as first lady in the White House, it is fair to
look at the Clintons
Leading to Iraq: High crimes and misdemeanors. April 2003, continued.
Unable to bring forth the caches of Iraqi weapons of mass
destruction it had promised the public, the administration engages in a series
of shifting maneuvers to change the story or to divert attention from the
weapons issue. Doing its best Grima Wormtongue imitation, the administration
first claims that the WMD will be found, then that they must have been
destroyed or moved to
search must be on the personnel who created them rather than on the purported
weapons themselves. Like Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein before them,
Saddam
Clintons got money from Rezko co-defendants
Since the name of
defendant Antoin
Conventional wisdom already setting into concrete about Nevada and South Carolina
The conventional wisdom is already congealing around results
in the
Carolina
On the Republican side, the line is that John McCain