Archive for January, 2007

2007: The year the U.S. attacks Iran?

January 15th, 2007 – 8:24 pm
Tagged as: Iran

Are President Bush’s recent moves leading up to the attack on Iran that some had expected to happen last fall? Let’s look at the list: The appointment of Admiral William Fallon (an expert in naval aviation, not ground operations) as the theater commander for the region Bush’s speech on January 10th, which contained saber rattling […]

Same old song and dance

January 10th, 2007 – 9:25 pm
Tagged as: Iraq

As I write this President Bush is giving his big speech about sending another twenty-thousand troops to Iraq. He’s disguising the fact that what he’s proposing is merely a change in tactics, rather than any sort of change in strategy. He’s brushing aside the fact that only 12% of American’s (and few in the military) […]