Joe Galloway from CaglePost.com Columns by Joe Galloway from CaglePost.com http://rss.caglepost.com/columns.aspx?name=Joe+Galloway Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://rss-net.sf.net/ Mission Shrink: We've Gone From Saving Wall Street In Order To Save Main Street To Just Saving Wall Street Remember how, back when taxpayers were being asked to fork over hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out Wall Street, we were told it was essential to saving Main Street? Well, in just a few months, we've gone from saving the banks in order to sav... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f62f6c06-8157-4d56-9492-c703919b0d94.html Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Barack, We Hardly Know Ye Who stole our change? Who hijacked a popular uprising that was going to put a stop to business as usual in Washington? What happened to Barack Obama on his way to the White House? The Republicans have been so busy trying to paint President Obama as a... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1f39f953-7fb2-482f-b3c5-3fc0002a54df.html Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT When Will Dick Cheney's Tower Of Lies Finally Come Tumbling Down On Him? Dick Cheney's recent statement to Greta Van Susteren that "On the question of whether or not Iraq was involved in 9/11, there was never any evidence to prove that" is being widely portrayed as an admission. But it's less an admission than a PR move. ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/574e2010-c2d3-4776-8837-adbf54c2b26e.html Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT What's Up With Dick Cheney? If former vice president Darth Cheney had been arrested for any of his multiple felonies, he might remember the most important of the Miranda rights that the arresting officer would have read to him: You have the right to remain silent. These days, y... http://www.caglepost.com/article/528d064e-529e-45e9-93b2-cd8702a7721b.html Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Everyone Agrees We Need To Reform Wall Street ... Just Like After Enron Remember how during the 2008 campaign there came a moment when candidates hoping to win the White House realized they had to declare that, like Obama, they were all in favor of "change"? Hillary did it. McCain did it. So did Romney. Giuliani too. In ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4358c83f-d7da-44ae-8243-a6702db77e0f.html Fri, 29 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT A Day To Remember The Price Of Freedom Memorial Day is upon us, and for most Americans that means the first holiday weekend of a new summer. For many, it's time to dust off the barbecue pit or head to the nearest beach or hit the mall for the big sales. For those who wear, or have worn, t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e092f569-99ff-4281-a203-7215406574e9.html Fri, 22 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Six Lessons For President Obama While the presidents of Pakistan and Afghanistan were in Washington last week telling President Barack Obama what he wanted to hear, things back home were busy going from bad to worse. Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari took the occasion to declare... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3c9b03c6-cefb-48db-9a61-64824c615247.html Thu, 14 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Why Are Bankers Still Being Treated As Beltway Royalty? During his most recent press conference, President Obama said that he's been "sobered by the fact that change in Washington comes slow" and "humbled by the fact that the presidency is extraordinarily powerful, but we are just part of a much broader t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f8f347c3-b59f-4461-8a99-448c3aef110d.html Fri, 08 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama And D.C. Dance The Torture Minuet There they go again, those folks in Washington, D.C. Everyone wants the power; nobody wants the responsibility. We're back to the question of which Bush administration officials ordered Justice Department lawyers to concoct some legal way to use ille... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ec3f374b-6152-472b-a9fc-6b58ab44c1f8.html Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Here's A Switch: Some Good News About Banking And now for something completely different: some good news about banking. Yes, I know that an upcoming analysis by the IMF reportedly says that, when all is said and done, toxic debts on the balance sheets of banks and insurers could go as high as $4... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4ce39b1f-8d43-4c27-b832-05f6598fd461.html Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Fallen Brothers Found And Lost As with so much in life and in death, there was news this week that was joyous and sad and bittersweet all at once for the small community of the Vietnam War's band of brothers of the Ia Drang Valley. Early in the morning of Dec. 28, 1965, a U.S. Arm... http://www.caglepost.com/article/40a7622c-640d-456b-91b5-9c99d28fa3c3.html Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Obama Economic Team's Flawed Cosmology: Still Believing The Universe Revolves Around The Banks A series of recent meetings with members of Barack Obama's economic team (including running into Larry Summers on my way to an appointment in the West Wing, leading to a spirited back-and-forth that made me feel like I was back at Cambridge, debating... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ce14a628-647a-42ee-822e-096fc1765b6b.html Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Political Makeovers WASHINGTON -- In a world in which errors, mistakes and gaffes have been rampant, whether in politics, banking or foreign policy, the current answer often seems to be: Stop and start over again. In golf, it's called a mulligan. And now in these other ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ffa3e81b-c208-41a3-8e9d-2d6d023a6cb3.html Sun, 05 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Long Arm Of Uncle Sam It's that time of year again. Uncle Sam takes off that gaudy blue coat, puts on his white smock and snaps that all-too-familiar rubber glove into place. And we, the taxpayers, must gird ourselves for intrusions of proctological magnitude and glacial ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/11d75ad0-805a-4518-b48d-550b44bf50e6.html Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT A Great Day for U.S. Army FORT BENNING, Ga. -- It was a great day for the infantry and for the U.S. Army, and it was one for the history books, as well. On a bright, sunny spring day in Georgia, Fort Benning and the National Infantry Museum dedicated a new parade ground, and ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2e1db253-a322-42f8-acdf-14ce0f0dd346.html Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT A Shining City On A Hill Can't Have Dungeons In Its Basements It turns out that even the most paranoid among us were right to be afraid of what George W. Bush's White House and Justice Department were up to in the days and months after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. This week the Justice Department declassified... http://www.caglepost.com/article/28cb3c67-f6f6-4487-a491-682c60629a9d.html Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:00:00 GMT Are Those Who Fail To Learn Afghan History Doomed To Repeat It? President Barack Obama this week is laying out the road home from the war in Iraq during the next 19 months. More or less. The president has indicated that he'll order the withdrawal of upward of 100,000 American troops from a war that began six year... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f20f60b1-e805-422e-a9ff-b1ee8ffca47d.html Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Afghanistan Has The Smell Of South Vietnam In 1965 President Barack Obama this week announced that he was ordering an additional 17,000 American troops to Afghanistan, more than half the reinforcements that ground commanders have been seeking for months. By providing that half a loaf, the new preside... http://www.caglepost.com/article/70598576-4ecb-4eee-b36e-e1e76b594cb6.html Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT It's Time For The Change We Were Promised Welcome to Washington. The paint isn't dry on the bathroom walls in the White House, and already President Barack Obama is negotiating his way through the quicksand traps and political cesspools of our capital, and poorly at that. The trouble arises ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4a934ef0-312d-4f6d-8754-d9e0ac5c592d.html Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Bank Robbers In Oxford Suits And Mercedes Limos This is a story of the greatest bank robbery in the history of the world, a tale that would leave the James gang and John Dillinger and Willie Sutton green with envy. In this story, no mobsters or Robin Hoods burst into a bank, guns drawn, shouting, ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d0ec35ca-49cc-479a-990b-78b484ffa292.html Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT It's Time To Choose Right Over Wrong While President Barack Obama was busy closing down our military prison in Guantanamo and shuttering the Central Intelligence Agency's secret Gulag around the world, Republicans on Capitol Hill were stalling a vote on Obama's choice for attorney gener... http://www.caglepost.com/article/bbbbeb7c-1a59-407a-b615-d389621c0e3a.html Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Some Kind Words For Bush? How About: Adios! He's leaving the same way he arrived eight years ago: clueless and somehow unable to discern up from down, right from left, and right from wrong. George W. Bush, who famously styled himself as The Decider, said a formal farewell to America in a natio... http://www.caglepost.com/article/563108c0-01bb-416e-90a5-fd0ca778fb59.html Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT At Long Last, Sir, Have You Left No Sense Of Decency? Even as President George W. Bush was packing up his knick-knacks and calling for the moving van, the White House spin machine was whirring along at Warp 6, doing its best to put a happy face on the sorry history of his eight years in the Oval Office.... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2b3780b6-7e19-49e8-9d6d-5e2860a46fc2.html Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Remember The Empty Chairs At Holiday Tables Even in hard times, this is the holiday season and a time when thoughts turn to home and family and dinner tables covered with food and gaily wrapped presents and bright lights. Save a moment amid the celebrations to give thought to the hundreds of t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6c0cf406-6a5c-43d5-a7ae-8c8e560fcdd4.html Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Good Night And Good Riddance We've been treated to a real spectacle this week as President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney limped into the home stretch of their Magical History Tour, employing distortions, half-truths and untruths in a final, desperate attempt to p... http://www.caglepost.com/article/441eef05-4dc7-43b6-857e-e14a4908e6fb.html Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Best Appointment Yet: Eric Shinseki President-elect Barack Obama's choice of retired Army Gen. Eric K. Shinseki to head the Department of Veterans Affairs is the smartest and best appointment he's made so far. It sends a signal to millions of our veterans, and to the active-duty milita... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6d0f8de9-cd94-4b9b-bbff-f6624f117aab.html Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Times Drags An Honorable Soldier Through The Mud This week, I'm writing in defense of an old friend, retired Army Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, who was dragged through the mud this week in a 5,000-word article by David Barstow in The New York Times. Several months ago, Barstow wrote a story on a Pentago... http://www.caglepost.com/article/18e8adeb-0a61-496d-9a95-f3331e14b09e.html Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT So Much For Letting The Free Market Rule Hear that humming sound? That's the printing presses at the U.S. Treasury running 24 hours a day, seven days a week, churning out an ocean of green paper to bail out the billionaire bankers, brokers and assorted brigands who are responsible for the e... http://www.caglepost.com/article/11ca79ca-fd38-4e21-b9fb-c455e7f42aa8.html Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Moderation In The Pursuit Of Justice Is No Virtue With two months still to go before his inauguration as the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama and his transition team are already getting off on the wrong foot, signaling that they have no intention of investigating anyone in the Bush ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/96a51597-3a8b-4ae7-9b93-2d08537f13bf.html Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT They Gave All, For . . . This? It is autumn, and the air is crisp and cool at night at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. It gets very quiet at The Wall around midnight. The tourists have gone home, and are all tucked into bed. A homeless Vietnam veteran patrols the blac... http://www.caglepost.com/article/da8d50f1-6f1d-4075-9d1b-ec092bf78632.html Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Shattered Main Street Is About To Give The Gop Its Comeuppance This is an autumn of great discontent as not just the United States but the entire world trembles on the brink of an economic recession that may bring the kind of pain that's known only to the oldest among us. With days to go before Election Day, the... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a24c15c2-a214-48f3-8557-ad925babed13.html Sat, 25 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT What McCain and Obama didn't say Two words were never uttered by either candidate or by the moderator during Wednesday night's 90-minute final presidential debate between John McCain and Barack Obama: Iraq and Afghanistan. Those two words, those two wars, have cost a cash- and credi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c130f480-4c53-46fd-8b20-0c76d8f6e6f2.html Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Trust Us? In A Pig's Eye, I Say "Trust us!" the earnest Capitol Hill staffer told me. I'd wandered into a trendy watering hole not far from the marble halls where our nation's legislators gather regularly in apparent violation of parole board regulations, which forbid felons from c... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e05ab483-e4a1-4f33-9190-91c7cb7ade70.html Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Now, Maybe The Issues Will Start To Matter In This Election There's nothing like a 504-point freefall in the Dow Jones Industrial Average to clear the mind and lead voters to set aside debate over such critical issues as lipstick on pigs and Gov. Sarah Palin's dismissal of the man who refused to fire her stat... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1f9f65c1-39c4-4706-b8a3-4e521e665c2e.html Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Farewell To An American Hero For the better part of 60 years, two old Army pilots who loved each other argued over many a meal and drink as to which of them was the second best pilot in the world. The two shared the cockpits of old Beaver prop planes and Huey helicopters; they s... http://www.caglepost.com/article/365a5827-2195-4878-a620-cf4ce49a1686.html Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT A Sad Week For Georgia, America And The World Only someone with a tenuous grasp on reality and a poor knowledge of history and the world could have looked into the flinty eyes of a onetime colonel in the Soviet KGB and "found him very straightforward and trustworthy." That was newly elected Pres... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1d10352f-4296-4315-bcfc-f32a91eeb381.html Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Mccaffrey: We Can't Shoot Our Way Out Of Afghanistan There's military slang that seemingly applies to the situation on the ground in Afghanistan today. The operative acronym is FUBAR -- Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition. That first letter doesn't really stand for "Fouled," and the R sometimes stands for... http://www.caglepost.com/article/478c04bb-ce31-4462-987f-6461d578ebef.html Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Back To The Future In The War On Terror The events of this week served to underline the fact that the war on terrorism was always really about Afghanistan and Pakistan, and that President George W. Bush's splendid little adventure in Iraq was always a sideshow, even though it siphoned off ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/36a9438c-9568-402c-87a9-f31e9877983b.html Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Bush & Co. 'Authorized A Systematic Regime of Torture' Tony Taguba knew something about prisoners in wartime long before the Pentagon ordered him to investigate the torture and shameful mistreatment of Iraqi detainees revealed by those soldier photographs taken inside Abu Ghraib prison. You see, his fath... http://www.caglepost.com/article/24b91ab8-89f0-4f23-92a0-9c8bcf9a9840.html Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT News, Good And Bad, From America's War Zones The waning days of the Bush administration are filled with news, good and bad, and American voters who should be watching the lame ducks with the eyes of a hawk are still absent without leave. In just one week, these news bites have crawled across th... http://www.caglepost.com/article/372129ac-6a26-485a-a33c-96e7a3526035.html Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT It's Time To Do Right By Our Troops Wonders never cease! There we were, well down the road to naming the presidential nominees for both major parties, without any of the candidates addressing anything but peripheral finger-pointing nonsense and the daily media-generated crisis, when su... http://www.caglepost.com/article/45422dbd-a6f3-409d-9715-b01a2e3bbc1f.html Thu, 29 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT How We Can Really Honor Our Veterans Memorial Day is upon us again, and the more traditional towns will be flying flags and hosting parades and holding ceremonies to honor the million American soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen who've fallen in the wars of history an... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6a77cf5c-ff21-4924-8a7a-2d5dd2faf82a.html Thu, 22 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Propaganda And The Media Once upon a time, it was widely believed that one of the greatest sins the U.S. government or its temporary political masters could commit was to turn a propaganda machine loose on the American people. Congress viewed this so seriously that every app... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c83fcc72-29f1-4d1f-aa37-78a5544fbb1b.html Mon, 19 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT An Indictment of Our Army's Competence The latest outrage is a father's video of a U.S. Army barracks at Fort Bragg, N.C., the home of the 82nd Airborne Division. It shows the quarters where his soldier son and other soldier sons were sent to live upon their return from combat. Mold and m... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f695ea40-d4dc-460d-b10e-bbbfa83a326e.html Fri, 02 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT In Iraq And In Washington, Reality Bites The closer we get to the end of the Bush administration, the more honest the assessments of where we are in Iraq and where we're going have become, at least from some key players. Consider these comments by Army Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8df17eb5-3e95-444b-b79f-396d81531621.html Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT A Common Bond For Gold Star Children The fifth anniversary of our invasion of Iraq sparked many memories of the beginning of a war that isn't even close to being over and has, so far, consumed the lives of more than 4,000 American troops. A good friend, Tony Cordero, has written of that... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a2b8d1ae-c650-42a4-bd54-2490911bc53e.html Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT Shame On Them And Shame On Us This week, the Iraq war claimed its 4,000th American killed in action, but that sad and tragic milestone came as the war seems to have slipped off the evening news, off the front pages and from the minds of the American people. I suppose this benign ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/24c92167-0d65-4421-8b6d-1c970ca85f05.html Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT When Will It End? This month marks the beginning of our country's sixth year of war in Iraq, and still the question is: Why? The other question is: When will it end? President George W. Bush, who started the war with the advice and go-get-'ems of his neoconservative f... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d2df0fdb-2cc3-4cbe-afa9-8ccba2ea0cfd.html Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT Pentagon Financed Like Enron And Run Like General Motors When George W. Bush disappears out the door of the White House, he'll leave his successor a long list of horrendous problems, not least of them a Defense Department budget of more than $518 billion that doesn't even include another $170 billion or so... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a708ff52-eb56-48e5-a062-b7a0996ec16c.html Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT Some Inconvenient Truths, Conveniently Locked In A Safe One of the great strengths of the American Army that was reborn in the wake of the disastrous Vietnam War has been a rigorous After-Action Review and Lessons Learned process that's conducted after field-training exercises and battlefield combat. Not ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/524794d0-8a1c-402f-9c84-af2ca419c3ea.html Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT It's Time To Do Right By The Veterans of Iraq And Afghanistan If a society is judged by the way it treats its military veterans, then we who live in the richest nation in the world and those who lead us should be condemned for our shameful neglect and callous disregard for those who defend us. When 15 million J... http://www.caglepost.com/article/9ab7352e-fccb-4c71-80b8-1af92c13eea6.html Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT Doing Right By Our Newest Veterans GAINESVILLE, Fla. - There's a fast-growing new community on the campuses of our universities and colleges: young men and women combat veterans fresh out of military service. Those here at the University of Florida and Santa Fe Community College have ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e967fd29-18e0-4230-83ae-2553a83a08a0.html Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT Only 11 Months To Go There's a Russian joke from the bad old days when Leonid Brezhnev and the Communist Party ran the country. One worker in a state industry runs into another and sternly notes: "I didn't see you at the last Party meeting." The other guy shrugs and r... http://www.caglepost.com/article/89ec2709-9903-4418-8ca4-0df38fb970f1.html Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT Drop In Iraq Violence Threatened By Assassinations Some weeks ago, we issued a small warning against prematurely celebrating victory in the U.S. surge in Iraq because the level of violence has dropped, a phenomenon that we argued had far more to do with the Iraqis than it did with the Americans. I... http://www.caglepost.com/article/514c6c8b-8f81-4150-89e3-f28116f12bd2.html Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT Pakistan Awakes To Home-Grown Jihadists There are signs that Pakistan's leaders finally are waking up to the threat that faces them from the Islamic jihadists who poured into the untamed provinces bordering Afghanistan six years ago and have spread their poison on fertile ground. For mo... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b1e6c950-2fef-4bd1-a6e7-0157300bb382.html Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT New Hampshire: Great For Hillary, Crappy For Pollsters NASHUA, N.H. - The results from New Hampshire represent a crushing setback. Not for Barack Obama - after all, only three weeks ago he was 12 points behind. No, the biggest losers were the pollsters, who now have to down a heaping helping of humble ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c2c544f1-e6be-442d-a35d-be033a2de3e6.html Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT Sins Of Omission And Sins Of Commission Haunt Bush In Pakistan In the real world, there are consequences. For every action there's a reaction, and often even inaction triggers a reaction. The unfolding disaster in Pakistan in the wake of the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is in part a rea... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3ccdb509-f5a8-4efe-9050-84ec5cfcf86d.html Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT It's Not Over, Over There In a remarkable and rare display of both caution and good sense, no one in the Bush administration has begun doing victory laps over the good news from Iraq. Yes, the numbers of American troops and Iraqi civilians dying there have fallen sharply i... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d50e67bf-1230-4981-b7c3-2b78c6dc0a32.html Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:00:00 GMT A Day Late and a Dollar Short Near the end, when the Watergate bloodhounds were baying at his heels and the sword of impeachment hung over him, Richard Nixon sought solace, refuge and redemption in foreign affairs and foreign travel. This week, President George W. Bush made a ha... http://www.caglepost.com/article/cb32b33f-65cf-4891-bd90-a734532ed7ad.html Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:00:00 GMT Good Ridance to Them All There was little for the unindicted co-conspirators of the Bush administration to give thanks for this week as the clock winds down on the 14 months they have left in power. With former White House press secretary Scott McClellan spilling the bean... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d925c0a4-1226-4dee-97ca-f68a0feccb73.html Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:00:00 GMT Heaven Just Got a lot More Interesting The word most of the Norman Mailer obituaries I've read seem to associate with him is "ego," but I strongly disagree. I first met Mailer in 1980. I'd just arrived in New York from London, fleeing a relationship and mending a broken heart. We were ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/576a1788-1b3e-46b9-b059-23e1e09c5c01.html Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:00:00 GMT Is Waterboarding Torture? Yes Did Bill Clinton have sex with that woman? Is Elvis Presley really dead? Is the Pope Catholic? Does a bear do his ablutions in the woods? Is waterboarding torture? The answer to all of these questions, put simply, is yes. All of Judge Michael M... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1ab679c3-ea13-49a2-b79c-9ee34ddc3e61.html Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:00:00 GMT Inexorable March Toward War with Iran There were some things far more frightening this week than Halloween's small ghouls and goblins - and the scariest of all is the Bush administration's seemingly inexorable march toward military confrontation with Iran. What are they smoking back t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/56e422c3-9e63-4b9d-a3bd-d5d56ba32a58.html Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:00:00 GMT Asking Too Much of Too Few Although they seem to have faded out of the headlines and been put on the back burner by the politicians in the nation's capital in recent weeks, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan grind on, whether we're paying attention or not. This week, we had a... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d7649cd5-076a-4e46-a548-af387442a722.html Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:00:00 GMT 'Defense Strategy' Unbalanced, Incoherent and Underfunded One of America's more thoughtful military strategists, retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey, a veteran of ground combat in Vietnam and the Persian Gulf, says that our ""defense strategy is unbalanced, incoherent and underfunded."" McCaffrey made his ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d457b707-ead2-4b46-9635-aafda4b447ff.html Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:00:00 GMT The Evil That Men Do Once again, the Bush administration is flimflamming the hapless Democratic majority in Congress into rushing an important piece of legislation into law without serious thought or debate about the implications. Although Congress passed a temporary ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6eccdbd8-2e76-4e96-a733-cca23a3cd0a2.html Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:00:00 GMT Bush Fulfills H.L. Mencken's Prophecy It took just eight decades, but H.L. Mencken's astute prediction on the future course of American presidential politics and the electorate's taste in candidates came true. On July 26, 1920, the acerbic and cranky scribe wrote in The Baltimore Sun:... http://www.caglepost.com/article/cdb9b73b-06cc-4a1a-9ddb-29d463cc52c7.html Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:00:00 GMT Bush Still Refuses to Admit He's Wrong Well, now we've heard from Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker and President George W. Bush, and it appears that the surge has succeeded - succeeded in guaranteeing that the Iraq War will drag on for the last 16 months of the Bush preside... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3db86a6d-4ed1-44ce-968a-89ccb89c4cb4.html Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:00:00 GMT Can't We Do Better Than This? Dulce bellum inexpertis. War is sweet only to those who have no experience of it. Maybe that bit from Erasmus can help explain why George W. Bush and Dick Cheney not only won't consider any way out of Iraq but seek to condemn our troops to fight t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4a52b08b-f36f-4340-b5a0-5e74dfce0e72.html Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:00:00 GMT For Bush, Bad News on Every Side If it weren't for bad news, George W. Bush wouldn't have any news at all. Let us count the ways that this lamest of lame-duck Presidents has been hammered in recent days. Two of his closest Texas buddies have jumped ship. First, the man known a... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6135a939-24c0-41ac-a3fe-4313e884198f.html Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:00:00 GMT Bush's Rationale for Iraq Keeps Changing Year by year, month by month, now even day by day, we're treated to a different rationale for the Iraq war from a different President George W. Bush. In the beginning, the reasons for invading Iraq and toppling the dictator Saddam Hussein were his... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2f76a2e3-b21c-4b0e-84f2-ad4898eef89e.html Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:00:00 GMT Good Riddance, Karl Now leaves the spinmeister himself, Karl Rove, the biggest rat yet to skitter down the hawser of the SS Bush Titanic, heading off to "spend more time with his family" and less time looking over his shoulder for the subpoena servers. What will the ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/65ea6b81-94d6-4eca-ab53-c18a92048135.html Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:00:00 GMT Congress Escapes, Leaving NSA to Eavesdrop Feely The nation's capital is blissfully Congress-free this week, as our senators and representatives join their colleagues in the Iraqi parliament on summer vacation. The Iraqis left Baghdad with an unblemished record of having done nothing. If only we co... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e0ab8a78-4ba6-4de5-8c1c-e44557e3bd0f.html Thu, 09 Aug 2007 07:00:00 GMT Outbreak of Truth-Telling to Congress on Iraq The Bush administration and the Pentagon were rocked back on their heels this week by an unfamiliar outburst of public truth-telling by the admiral President Bush has nominated to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The simple, star... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e462e3eb-853c-462a-b87c-8522eac05eb9.html Thu, 02 Aug 2007 07:00:00 GMT Theres No Vacation for our Troops in Iraq We're hard upon the dog days of August. Members of the U.S. Congress and the Iraqi parliament will soon slither away to the shade of cooler rocks, and President Bush will no doubt head off to Crawford to take his frustrations out on some brush with a... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7c2ca39d-aa89-4f04-a059-7b4bb3b98436.html Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:00:00 GMT Nie Report Card Gives Bush a D It was report card time this week, never one of George W. Bush's happier moments, and the news was anything but good. Never mind his usual grades in English or math or coloring inside the lines, or those teacher notes at the bottom about plays wel... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a3d3b814-031d-48dd-9af0-1063181e9097.html Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:00:00 GMT Bushs Unwinnable War Grinds On What part of too little, too late doesn't the president understand? How much longer does he think he can stonewall Congress and ignore the reality on the ground in Iraq, where neither our allies nor our enemies seem to be paying much heed to George W... http://www.caglepost.com/article/dc15abc2-b85f-422a-8822-9d00a5f85fa2.html Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:00:00 GMT What Happened to the George Bush Who Insisted on Honest Government? Why is it that the Bush administration, in its dying throes, looks remarkably more like an organized crime ring than one of the arms of the American government? A poorly organized and run crime ring, truly, but a crime ring nonetheless. Why do I k... http://www.caglepost.com/article/24439cd2-9bed-4132-8eec-59167352da87.html Thu, 05 Jul 2007 07:00:00 GMT Reopen Investigation Abu Ghraib We were reminded again this week that in this administration, no good deed goes unpunished, and that no scandal is so great that it can't be hidden until it's forgotten. The sad spectacle that transpired inside the crumbling walls of Abu Ghraib pr... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0010efca-230a-4c9f-99fa-c874f249a4b5.html Thu, 21 Jun 2007 07:00:00 GMT The Dying Continues in Iraq While at Home We Bury Our Heads in the Sand The war in Iraq grinds on without much regard for an American president's pipedreams of victory, a congressional majority's impotent attempts to stop it and most of the American people's wish that it would just go away. We're now well into the fif... http://www.caglepost.com/article/17d83692-492b-4562-9835-9126308d22a7.html Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:00:00 GMT Bush Mantra: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid The Democrats in Congress wring their hands, gnash their teeth and wail that there was nothing they could do but cave in and vote to continue funding the war in Iraq. After all, that crafty George W. Bush had maneuvered them into a corner and they di... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2a3386f8-bf02-471c-a2c8-f0c1f45928c6.html Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:00:00 GMT Congress Goes on Vacation While More Honored Dead Come Home This week it's Congress' turn in the bulls-eye - all of the elected worms on both sides of the aisles. Especially the new Democratic majority, which arrived last January with the mistaken idea that their long ordeal of wandering, Moses-like, in the d... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4c571c86-c1bd-41a9-8dd4-85cd739bae2a.html Thu, 31 May 2007 07:00:00 GMT Dont Forget the True Meaning of Memorial Day It's that time of year again. Memorial Day weekend is the beginning of summer fun for most Americans, and as I've done before in this space, I want to pause to take note of the real reason there is a Memorial Day. It's meant to honor and pay our r... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1fa7d9b9-a974-4563-a28a-63b18d3a5a61.html Thu, 24 May 2007 07:00:00 GMT

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