Posted on May 17, 2008 by butnerblogspot
Bush’s appeasement malarkey
When he hinted to the Israeli Knesset this week that Barack Obama was an appeaser for being willing to talk to Iran, President Bush broke an unwritten rule against partisan politicking on foreign shores. He also displayed confusion about his own policies — and about the cause of his calamitous foreign policy failures.
Perhaps Bush [...]
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Posted on May 17, 2008 by butnerblogspot
Why the economy is worse than we know
KEVIN PHILLIPS - Harper’s Magazine
If Washington’s harping on weapons of mass destruction was essential to buoy public support for the invasion of Iraq, the use of deceptive statistics has played its own vital role in convincing many Americans that the U.S. economy is stronger, fairer, more productive, more [...]
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