If Karl Rove ran the Democrat's campaign, his ads aimed at John McCain would look something like this: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEmPZoRVRII&eurl=http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/[/youtube] I spotted this ad at Andrew Sullivan's The Daily Dish.
This report is from DemocracyNow.org: A new report by the Congressional Budget Office estimates the US will have spent $100 billion by the end of the year on private contractors in Iraq since the invasion in 2003. The Pentagon’s reliance on outside contractors in Iraq is proportionately far larger than…
I'm creating a place to collect the incidents where the mainstream media unfairly dumps on Obama. I'll start with this outrageous Washington Post article (and headline) slamming Obama's proposed budget even while McCain's proposed budge is much worse pursuant to non-partisan sources.
The recent set of no-bid contracts to big oil corporations, gaining them cheap access to Iraqi oil fields, is Exhibit A. Yes, the Iraq invasion was all about oil all along. Here's how Bill Moyers sums it up: Perhaps those sweetheart deals in Iraq should be added to his proposed…
I thought this was interesting...while America drowns in red ink from a combination of Bush tax cuts and the money pit known as Iraq, Iraq has been racking up nice profits from selling all that oil they have. This year's spike in oil prices has been especially good for Iraq…