Continuing the blog series on the administration push to
the White House has marshaled all the necessary think-tank support and has
enlisted every significant element of the rightwing echo machine.
Monthly Archives: December 2007
Eyewitnesses on one side, Musharraf government on the other
Two different accounts about the assassination of Benazir
Bhutto: On one hand, eyewitness accounts from several independent sources that
Bhutto was shot by a gunman who then blew himself up. On the other hand,
Pakistani officials in Musharraf
Leading to Iraq: High crimes and misdemeanors. Early July, 2002.
In July, administration war plans proceed behind the
scenes. Warnings of terrorist strikes over the July of Fourth holiday abound
but are unfulfilled, with the possible exception of the Egyptian-born gunman
who opens fire at the El Al Airlines desk at LAX.
A Christmas Eve Wish, Hope and Plea: Help the World Abolish Land Mines
When the
it left Afghani roads, villages and fields sown with tens of thousands of land
mines. According to the international Landmine Monitor
Report for 2006,
Leading to Iraq: High crimes and misdemeanors. June, 2002.
Summer 2002. The drumbeat for war commences in
louder earnest from June through August 2002, with the doctrine of preemption
getting boosted by the highest office in the land. The spin allies in media are
apprised of their talking points and rapidly fall in line; by the end of
summer, the fall offensive
Leading to Iraq: High crimes and misdemeanors. Late May, 2002.
Not a good couple of weeks for the White House, forced to
admit that numerous warnings before the attacks of
11, 2001
went unheeded. Changeable and contradictory accounts come from senior
government officials including National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice,
about who heard what, and from whom. FBI Director Robert Mueller has testified
before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the
Leading to Iraq: High crimes and misdemeanors. Third week of March, 2002.
Day 30 in continued blog series on the
lead-up to invading
March, 2002, continued:
Leading to Iraq: High crimes and misdemeanors. Second week of March, 2002.
The spring campaign for war continues, intensifying
around the mini-event of
9/11.
8, 2002
Rudy Guiliani: TO ME, CONTRACTORS AND SUBCONTRACTORS!! TO ME!
Drawing on
some hidden inner reserves of strength I never knew I had, I just watched
the Des Moines Register Republican debate on MSNBC, moderated by the Register
Leading to Iraq: High crimes and misdemeanors. Early March, 2002.
March