Cheney Power-Naps as Calif. Burns
Oct 26, 2007 Instead of being alert in Wednesday's Cabinet session about California's wildfire crisis and perhaps offering some helpful action items for the team, Vice President Dick Cheney apparently decided it was snooze o'clock and got a little shuteye at the meeting table, although a White House flack insisted he was simply "meditating."
Cabinet Reflects a Divided Iraq
Aug 7, 2007 Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's "unity government" has lost its last Sunni representatives, as five ministers announced a boycott in protest of sectarian favoritism. Nearly half of the Cabinet has walked this year.
When Hugging Is a Crime
May 22, 2007 Nilofar Bakhtiar, Pakistan's federal minister for tourism, is in hot water with clerics in her home country for hugging a skydiving instructor who guided her through a tandem parachute jump for charity last month. Now, after striking such an "obscene" pose, she's had to resign from Pakistan's Cabinet.A Diverse Picture in French Cabinet
May 18, 2007 Newly elected French President Nicolas Sarkozy has made something of a splash with his new cabinet. Seven of the government's 15 ministers will be women. Bernard Kouchner, the socialist founder of Doctors Without Borders, will serve as the conservative government's foreign minister. Justice Minister Rachida Dati is France's first senior cabinet official with an ethnic minority background.Insurgents Form Their Own Iraq Government
Apr 20, 2007 A coalition of eight Sunni insurgent groups has announced the formation of a cabinet, naming the head of al-Qaida in Iraq the minister of war. The announcement from the "Islamic State of Iraq" was made hours after the group released a video showing the executions of 20 people who were Iraqi civilians, soldiers or policemen.
Mr. Fish: Bush Turns to a Trusted Source
Feb 27, 2007N.Y. Times: Hold the Applause in Iraq
May 23, 2006 The national unity cabinet that Iraq presented this weekend will remain impotent unless Iraq can reform its "corrupt, brutal and highly partisan security forces"--the death squads that now range the country with impunity--argues the Times' editorial board.
Colbert to Kristol: ‘Which Dictator Do We Take Down Next?’
Apr 28, 2006 "The Colbert Report" host achieves what few traditional media interviewers can do: make neocon leader William Kristol stammer and sweat about his support for the Iraq invasion.
