The unspeakable truth is that we lost in Iraq. We must not lose in Afghanistan too

Britain has fought more wars than any other country, but rarely has it suffered two defeats in a row. That humiliation is what this country is currently drifting towards, following failure in Iraq with failure in Afghanistan…Westminster might be obsessing over the Iraq inquiry’s revelations about how the decision to go to war was made, but the really important part of the inquiry’s work will come when it turns its attention to what happened after the invasion. Read more

Coordinated Bombings Kill at Least 101 in Baghdad

BAGHDAD — In what appeared to be a coordinated assault, a series of car bombings across Baghdad on Tuesday killed at least 101 people and wounded scores more, according to preliminary accounts by police and hospital officials… Five bombs, including at least one suicide attack, struck near a university, a court, a mosque and a market in a neighborhood near the Interior Ministry. The blasts began shortly Read more

McCain Wrong On This One

Sen. John McCain is the republican party front runner for the 2008 presidential nomination. He stated that we could be in Iraq for a 100 years and that is okay with him. We realize that politicians speak before they think occasionally; but whether he meant it or not, it is part of his campaign platform. This gives us an insight into what he is thinking and what type of leader he would be for our nation.

Senator John McCain is okay with our children and our grandchildren and their children fighting and dying in a war that the majority of the world believe was a mistake? We don’t know about you, but we have a problem with that statement.

To be fair, we opposed this war in Iraq from the very beginning, we personally thought the President, Vice President and Secretary of Defense have all collectively lost their minds. Now some 4000 deaths later the next leader of the republican party states that he has no problem with our sons and daughters fighting in Iraq for the next 100 years. We, the staff , as small as we are say in the strongest possible terms. Hell No!
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Lawyers Cleared Destroying Tapes

North America | USA — Lawyers within the clandestine branch of the Central Intelligence Agency gave written approval in advance to the destruction in 2005 of hundreds of hours of videotapes documenting interrogations of two lieutenants from Al Qaeda, according to a former senior intelligence official with direct knowledge of the episode… The involvement of agency lawyers in the decision making would widen the scope of the inquiries To Read More…
By Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane | The New York Times | Published: 11 Dec 2007

Waterboarding probably saved lives

Ex-CIA officer says technique worked, but he now considers it torture
North America | USA – - A former CIA officer who participated in the capture and questioning of the first al-Qaeda terrorist suspect to be waterboarded said yesterday that the harsh technique provided an intelligence breakthrough that “probably saved lives,” but that he now regards the tactic as torture. To Read More…

By Walter Pincus and Michae l Abramowitz and researcher Julie Tate contributed to this report | MSNBC.COM | Published:10 Dec 2007