As it’s been reported that, several days before the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, Donald Trump had told members of his Mar-a-Lago golf club that his administration would soon be delivering a “big” response to the Iranian regime, we can assume that the administration had time to plan not just the killing itself, but […]
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There was never a plan for navigating the aftermath of Soleimani’s killing
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged assassination, bad planning, Brian Hook, credibility, deescalation, diplomacy, Donald Trump, foreign affairs, foreign policy, Gang of Eight, House Intelligence Committee, imminent threat, Iran, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mar-a-Lago, Mike Pompeo, national security, noise, offending allies, Qassem Soleimani, Secretary of Defens, Senate Intelligence Committee, State Department, war 103 Comments
Cheney asserts his alibi
Former Vice President Dick “There is No Doubt that Saddam Hussein Now Has Weapons of Mass Destruction” Cheney has just released a book entitled In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir. The reviews thus far have not been kind. Many, including Colin Powell’s former chief of staff Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, feel as though it’s […]
Posted in Politics Also tagged Abu Ghraib, Ahmed Chalabi, Cheney's secretive energy task force, Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, George Bush, George Tenet, Halliburton, In My Time, Iraq, Lawrence Wilkerson, lies in the run-up to the Iraq war, memoirs, National Archives, Obama, Office of Special Plans, Saddam Hussein, torture, Unitary Executive, war crimes, war profiteering, warrantless searches 9 Comments