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A local appearance tomorrow by former Army interrogator Mike Ritz is especially timely given fresh revelations about the Bush administration's support of waterboarding: WASHINGTON - The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA...
Roger Williams University is scheduled to receive a visit at 7 tonight by Tom Trento. Here's how the College Republican Federation of Rhode Island , which is sponsoring his appearance, describes it: This Thursday Tom Trento will be heading to Roger...
In 2004, Democrats tried using the national security argument -- not very successfully -- against President Bush. Now, with Obama taking Senators Jack Reed and Chuck Hagel with him to Iraq, Reed is once again getting the call to lend the respect that...
A lot of folks are not exactly surprised at former White House press secretary Scott McClellan's realization that the run-up Iraq war came with an excess of hype and salesmanship. As former Bush aide Andy Card said back then: ``From a marketing point...
The office of US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse just put out this release: “Five years ago, President Bush told America its mission in Iraq was accomplished. Today, four thousand American lives and hundreds of billions of dollars later, our country is mired...
This from the RI Community Coalition for Peace : Beneficent Church in Providence to bring the “Winter Soldier” testimony to Rhode Island . From March 13 thru 16, in Silver Springs, MD, members of Iraq Veterans Against the War(IVAW) spoke publicly and...
As the price of gas hits a local high , a coalition of groups plans to make a point tomorrow -- April 15, of course -- about the high cost of the war in Iraq. We at the Phoenix have previously written about that subject here . Activists from American...
Bob Herbert's view : The U.S. seems almost paralyzed, mesmerized by Iraq and unable to generate the energy or the will to handle the myriad problems festering at home. The war will eventually cost a staggering $3 trillion or more, according to the Nobel...
Maureen Dowd went to yesterday's US Senate hearing: It’s hard to follow the narrative of our misadventure in Iraq. We went in to help the Shiites that we betrayed in the first Gulf War shake off their Sunni tormentors. But then, predictably for everyone...
Early on during the war in Iraq, there was talk of how Americans officers were checking out The Battle of Algiers , a movie about the Algerian insurgency against the French in the 1950s, for clues about the politics of insurgency and counter-insurgency...
As has been reported, Colin Powell took aside President Bush before the US invaded Iraq and told him about the Pottery Barn Rule . In other words, you break it, you own it. We recently looked at some of the impacts of the war: [There's] a tab in the trillions...
UPDATE: Another Protest (today) . From the RI Community Coalition for Peace : On March 19, Rhode Islanders will mark the beginning of the sixth year of the war on Iraq with a march through downtown Providence followed by a rally on the mall side of the...
Isn't there something a bit striking in how Obama's minister problem has come to a head at the same time as the fifth anniversary of the Iraq? I mean, yes, some of Jeremiah Wright's statements are not the kind of thing to which you want to hitch your...
If you listen to John McCain , or Bob Watson, his man in RI, they will tell you that the Surge is working in Iraq. Yet political progress remains elusive, and, as the New York Times reported yesterday, a diminished level of violence is the same thing...
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz , the author of The Three Trillion Dollar War: the True Cost of the Iraq Conflict , is the subject of a Q+A in this week's Phoenix : Let’s start at the beginning: why did the Bush Administration go to war...
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