Month December 2005

Pathetic

Why the Democrats are clueless House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said yesterday that Democrats should not seek a unified position on an exit strategy in Iraq, calling the war a matter of individual conscience and saying differing positions within…

Bush’s ‘nightmare’

Socialist coca farmer Evo Morales has claimed victory in Bolivia’s presidential elections. Morales has vowed to be "Washington’s nightmare", exerting more state control over South America’s second-largest natural gas reserves and ending the US-backed campaign to eradicate the coca plant.…

Emissions from the Planet Clueless

 George W. Bush says the U.S. is "winning the war in Iraq" Perhaps Dubya is so bubble-wrapped and insulated that he actually believes what he is saying, or perhaps he’s lied so often and for so long that he no…

Winning their hearts and minds

The United States operated a secret prison in Afghanistan as recently as last year, torturing detainees with sleep deprivation, chaining them to the walls and forcing them to listen to loud music in total darkness for days, a human rights…