A report released this week by the non-profit research organization Media Matters found that military analysts secretly cultivated by the Pentagon’s communications apparatus appeared a whopping 4,500 plus times on major TV and radio networks since 2002 on segments covering the Iraq war, Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and other foreign […]
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Congressman Moran’s News Commentary
A report released this week by the non-profit research organization Media Matters found that military analysts secretly cultivated by the Pentagon’s communications apparatus appeared a whopping 4,500 plus times on major TV and radio networks since 2002 on segments covering the Iraq war, Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and other foreign […]
Helen Thomas: Worth a Thousand Words
WASHINGTON — Some readers resented The Washington Post for publishing an Associated Press photograph of a critically wounded Iraqi child being lifted from the rubble of his home in Baghdad’s Sadr City “after a U.S. airstrike.”
Maureen Dowd: The Dream is Dead
WASHINGTON — The man crowned by Tommy Franks as “the dumbest ((expletive)) guy on the planet” just made the dumbest ((expletive)) speech on the planet.
Our Man In Arlington
Social historians tell us that there are one or two events in each generation that almost everybody remembers vividly – exactly what they were doing at the time they learned of the event, and what they did during the rest of the day. Two in my generation were the assassination […]
Helen Thomas: Bush Should Explain Why He Invaded Iraq
WASHINGTON — As the nation marks the fourth anniversary of the war against Iraq, we still await an explanation from President Bush about why he invaded that oil-rich Middle Eastern country.
Helen Thomas: Neo-Cons Now Blame Bush for Iraq Debacle
WASHINGTON — The mid-term elections sounded the requiem for the group of neo-conservatives who helped design the disastrous U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Our Man In Arlington
Sociologists say that there is at least one event in every generation that will remain forever burned in the memory of almost everyone. Pearl Harbor and the Kennedy Assassination are two obvious examples.