Molly Ivins / TruthdigMar 16, 2006
"The Pentagon has decided to fight what it is now calling the 'Long War.' Has anyone asked you about this? Me neither." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMar 10, 2006
A protester interrupts the secretary of state at a budget hearing: "The blood is on your hands and you cannot wash it away." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Molly Ivins / TruthdigMar 9, 2006
There is now a three-year record of who has been right about what is happening in Iraq -- Rumsfeld or the media. And the score is: Press, 1,095; Rumsfeld, 0. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigMar 9, 2006
Bush's choice of Panama to make his declaration that America does not torture "is a little like dropping by a slaughterhouse to pronounce the United States a nation of vegetarians." Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 22, 2006
The secretary of defense claims he didn't know about the pending sale of six major U.S. ports to a United Arab Emirates company, even though, as ThinkProgress points out, he sat on a board that approved the sale.
Meanwhile, the president vows to veto any blockage of the sale, setting up a showdown with Republicans and Democrats.
Confused about the issue? The Moderate Voice has a good primer. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 20, 2006
Rumsfeld says that we're losing the media war against Al Qaeda, on the same day a militant website posts a new tape by Bin Laden, in which he vows never to be taken alive.
In perhaps unrelated Al Qaeda media war news, Batman cartoonist Frank Miller says that the caped crusader's next foes will be Bin Laden's henchmen. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 4, 2006
The secretary of defense likens the Venezuelan president to the German dictator, saying: "He's a person who was elected legally -- just as Adolf Hitler was elected legally." | story Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Andy Borowitz / TruthdigJan 28, 2006
Jack Abramoff? Sorry, never knew the guy Oh yeah, and while we're on the topic of bad guys, I don't know that Bush character either Photos? What photos?. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJan 28, 2006
A Georgetown think tank secures the release of a secret 2003 Rumsfeld-approved "road map" for psychological warfare abroad. | postAccording to the document, our government takes no responsibility for propaganda that boomerangs and returns home--as long as the U.S. public isn't "targeted." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJan 26, 2006
With America sticking its guns in the eyes of so many Arabs, is it any wonder that Muslim hard-liners have gained so much popular support? Do we need any further proof of the neocon fallacy of Rumsfeld-style shake-n-bake democracy? | storyAnd with right-wing pretenders lingering over Sharon's deathbed, have prospects for peace in the Mideast ever looked more distant? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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