• Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled , That the Government of Iraq is in material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations, and therefore the President is urged to take appropriate action, in accordance with the Constitution and relevant laws of the United States, to bring Iraq into compliance with its international obligations . (jonathanturley.org)
  • The US Senate late Tuesday passed a half-trillion dollar budget bill for 2008 that includes $70bn for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, dealing a major victory to President George W. Bush. (emirates247.com)
  • The Senate voted 70-25 to approve the catch-all budget bill, passed late Monday by the House of Representatives, but added extra war funds after the House version included $31bn solely for US-led efforts in Afghanistan but none for Iraq. (emirates247.com)
  • U.S. and NATO  assassination teams have emerged in Iraq and Afghanistan, where, according to the United Nations, they have killed scores of people. (mltoday.com)
  • For all their abilities, tactical skills, training prowess, and battlefield accomplishments, the capacity of US Special Operations forces to achieve decisive and enduring successes - strategic victories that serve US national interests - have proved to be exceptionally limited, a reality laid bare from Afghanistan to Iraq, Yemen to the Philippines. (envirosagainstwar.org)
  • During that time, we've had as many as 180,000 troops in Iraq (to their west) and 100,000 in Afghanistan (to their east). (blogspot.com)
  • What a coincidence," writes Sellin, a retired colonel with 29 years of service in the U.S. Army Reserve and a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. (noisyroom.net)
  • Then in November 2011 the Jerusalem Post reported that the US Army had expressed interest to protest its bases in Iraq and Afghanistan. (defenseindustrydaily.com)
  • He headed the notoriously brutal "Quds force" - the Iranian regime's military units used for intervention abroad - "deniable assets" that have reportedly played a big role in the conflicts in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Gaza, Lebanon and Afghanistan. (socialistalternative.org)
  • In three weeks, Russia has reportedly lost more troops in Ukraine than America did in Iraq and Afghanistan combined in 20 years. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Yet Iraq and Afghanistan are routinely called mistaken misadventures in "nation building" that we were goaded into by "neocons. (frontpagemag.com)
  • A 2021 AP-NORC poll found that 62% of Americans say the war in Afghanistan was "not worth fighting," and 63% say the same thing about the war in Iraq. (frontpagemag.com)
  • In Afghanistan, he reportedly trained military judges and attorneys. (fitsnews.com)
  • New Politics' other success story is Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin, who notably blamed Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, rather than the ill-advised Iraq war, for the rise of ISIS. (commondreams.org)
  • McCain urged immediate action saying "Every hour the options become fewer and fewer as ISIS, the most radical terrorist group alive, sweeps across Iraq. (therealnews.com)
  • ISIS militants have made hostages of hundreds of Yazidi women after America waded into the unfolding crisis in Iraq by dropping bombs on the extremists' artillery. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • Fighters were today just 25 miles from Erbil, the Kurdish capital, which has been a safe haven in the country throughout the rise of ISIS, and also during the Iraq war to topple Saddam Hussein. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • The visit presented a significant photo op moment, as the ship is the first non-American vessel to take command of the task force carrying out airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • A financial report says in order for ISIS to remain financially viable it will have to further expand the territory it controls in Iraq and Syria. (americantaskforce.org)
  • ISIS extremists in northern Iraq destroy a priceless collection of statues and sculptures from the ancient Assyrian era. (americantaskforce.org)
  • on Monday that President Obama's authorization of 1,500 additional troops to Iraq in the campaign against the Islamic State is "for lack of a better phrase … crazy. (truthdig.com)
  • U.S. intelligence officials also denied that they had made a mistake Thursday when they advised Congress in classified briefings that they did not expect Russian President Vladimir Putin to send troops into Crimea, although they acknowledged it was possible. (latimes.com)
  • Democrats, who took over the US Congress in November 2006 elections fueled by anger at the war in Iraq, have tried without success to use their power of the purse to impose a timetable for withdrawal from the strife-torn country where nearly 4,000 US troops have died since the March 2003 invasion. (emirates247.com)
  • Michigan Democrat Sen. Carl Levin (news, bio, voting record) also predicted the Republican president would soon find a way to end the "open-ended commitment" of U.S. troops to Iraq, even if Bush does propose a short-term boost in forces. (twoday.net)
  • News reports: increase of US forces in Iraq estimated to be between 9,000 and 40,000 extra troops. (twoday.net)
  • The gradual escalation, with both sides expecting the other to step back, led to the shocking US killing of Soleimani on January 3, and Iran's direct attacks on bases housing US troops in Iraq, a measure Tehran had previously avoided. (timesofisrael.com)
  • In fact, Bush misappropriated funds to build bases and move troops and equipment to invade Iraq over five years ago. (freepress.org)
  • Also, about two dozen female service members were reportedly sexually assaulted during Desert Storm, when U.S. troops helped drive Iraq's Saddam Hussein from Kuwait in 1991. (picayuneitem.com)
  • Happening now, a terrible toll among U.S. troops in Iraq -- a chopper downed and a rescue force ambushed. (cnn.com)
  • In Iraq, the deadliest month to for American troops. (cnn.com)
  • President Barack Obama ordered all of the American troops out of Iraq. (frontpagemag.com)
  • But Obama called Iraq "a dumb war" and ordered the troops home. (frontpagemag.com)
  • In response, Obama gradually sent back to Iraq about the same number of troops that Bush considered necessary. (frontpagemag.com)
  • But public support waned - even though, before President Trump withdrew more than 2,000 troops, our military commitment in Iraq dropped to 5,200 troops. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Nobody in Congress, Democrat or Republican, has been able to persuade the Bush administration to reveal what it has done about the case since then. (islamicinsights.com)
  • Moulton was reportedly recruited to run for Congress by 'New Politics,' a group that seeks to elect both Democratic and Republican veterans. (commondreams.org)
  • No Republican in Congress has moved more quickly to try to incorporate Trumpist elements into his program than Cotton has, and he's been rewarded by the White House for it with outsized influence. (hotair.com)
  • Republican hawks are using the violence in Iraq as a political tool that is escalating pressure for US military intervention. (therealnews.com)
  • Republican Congressmember Duncan Hunter, one of Gallagher's most vocal supporters, recently admitted in a podcast to killing hundreds of civilians while serving in the U.S. military during his deployment to Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004. (truthout.org)
  • One of Gallagher's most vocal supporters in Congress has been Republican Congressmember Duncan Hunter of California. (truthout.org)
  • In the aftermath of a classified Senate briefing on the deal held last week that left members of both parties fuming, Republican staffers on Capitol Hill are circulating declassified U.S. military information detailing how IRGC-backed militias are responsible for killing more than 600 Americans in Iraq, according to a copy of that document obtained by the Washington Free Beacon . (freebeacon.com)
  • The focus on IRGC sanctions comes alongside a growing list of vulnerabilities that Republican leaders see derailing the agreement in Congress, including carveouts that will let Russia cash in on a multibillion-dollar contract to build up portions of Iran's nuclear infrastructure. (freebeacon.com)
  • Mourners attend a funeral ceremony for Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani and his comrades, who were killed in Iraq in a U.S. drone strike on Friday, at the Enqelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) square. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Saudi Arabia also weighed negotiating with Iran through intermediaries in Iraq or Pakistan, with Soleimani reportedly acting to facilitate talks with both countries. (timesofisrael.com)
  • It is widely thought by participants in the recent protests in Iraq, which have demanded the end of Iranian and all foreign intervention, that Soleimani had not only been pushing the Baghdad government to take a hard line, but had been supplying and pushing the militias to attack the demonstrators. (socialistalternative.org)
  • The same people who got the US into the mistaken Iraq War are now urging President Obama to use military force in Iraq again. (therealnews.com)
  • Joe Cirincione, president of Ploughshares Fund, urges Obama not to get sucked into war and points out the current mess was the predictable result of the US invasion of Iraq. (therealnews.com)
  • Steven T. Dennis wrote in the inside-the-beltway CQ News "President Barack Obama has the authority to wage war in Iraq without going to Congress, because the original use of force authorization remains in effect. (therealnews.com)
  • At a press conference on June 12, President Obama seemed to indicate he was open to that position saying he was "not ruling anything out" in Iraq. (therealnews.com)
  • Reportedly, Obama has ordered the Pentagon to develop a variety of military options. (therealnews.com)
  • Rosie P thinks Obama has to issue an executive order because we have a Congress that won't act! (rosie.com)
  • U.S. officials reportedly handed the evidence to KBR, whereupon the evidence apparently disappeared. (islamicinsights.com)
  • Former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson spoke out publicly yesterday about the investigation into the leaking of his wife's identity as an undercover agent for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), reportedly by White House officials. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Its officials say the listing was a concession by Western governments to appease Tehran, and Iranian officials have long reportedly targeted it in negotiations with the West. (foxnews.com)
  • Many regime officials have stated officially that Syria and Iraq represent the strategic depth for the regime. (foxnews.com)
  • With the Biden administration facing increasing pressure to waive IRGC sanctions so that a deal can be finalized, the extent of Iran's bloodshed in Iraq is taking on renewed significance, congressional sources and former U.S. officials who reviewed the declassified intelligence told the Free Beacon . (freebeacon.com)
  • This means that "the FBI investigation was based on highly questionable evidence" for which former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele reportedly "paid intermediaries who in turn paid sources for the information he used in the report. (noisyroom.net)
  • Bush's top aide, Karl Rove, reportedly remains a target of the probe. (globalsecurity.org)
  • He points to the very first sentence of Tom Ricks' 2006,Fiasco which warns, "President George W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq in 2003 ultimately may come to be seen as one of the most profligate actions in the history of American foreign policy. (therealnews.com)
  • Mr. Fox was also reported last week to be considering holding his country's support for the U.S. resolution on Iraq in the U.N. Security Council hostage to Mr. Bush's support for amnesty. (vdare.com)
  • Under the Bush administration's legal framework for Iraq during its occupation, the Iraqi government wields no authority over Blackwater corporation's security guards. (islamicinsights.com)
  • Wilson argues that the White House compromised national security to punish critics like himself who accused the Bush administration of using "false pretenses" to persuade Congress and Americans to support going to war. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Washington, 1 November 2005 (RFE/RL) -- It all began with 16 words uttered by President George W. Bush during his State of the Union address in January 2003 -- two months before the invasion of Iraq. (globalsecurity.org)
  • So while there is a small chance that the Bush administration's inflexible optimism will be rewarded, that the political process will undercut the insurgency and that democracy will take hold in Iraq, there is a far greater chance of other, more troublesome outcomes: That Iraq will fall into civil war, or spark regional war, or eventually become home to an anti-American regime, or break up altogether. (therealnews.com)
  • If you want to know the chief source of all the baloney that led President Bush to decide to go to war with Iraq in January of 2003 (no matter what the UN inspectors found in the next two months), you have to look to Richard Perle, the mastermind whose puppets include Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and Condoleezza Rice. (wanniski.com)
  • Legislation that would give legal status to hundreds of thousands of undocumented Mexican farmworkers has won strong bipartisan support, and Bush is reportedly leaning on Fox to use his U.N. vote to help his cause in Washington. (vdare.com)
  • The Bush administration continues to push forward with its controversial project allowing Mexican trucks to move freely on U.S. roads despite strong protests from both chambers of Congress, where legislation is pending. (blogspot.com)
  • When General Petraeus betrayed us with his testimony last month, a congress member asked him what he would do if congress were to cut off funding for the occupation of Iraq and Bush were to order him to keep it going. (freepress.org)
  • But Bush would keep it going, and Congress would have two choices. (freepress.org)
  • Former Associated Press D.C. Bureau Chief Ron Fournier claimed that "Bush lied us into the war in Iraq. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Never mind that Laurence Silberman of the bipartisan Robb-Silberman Commission, formed by Bush to examine the intelligence behind the Iraq war, wrote: "No one in Washington political circles offered significant disagreement with the intelligence community before the invasion. (frontpagemag.com)
  • Republicans will take full control of Capitol Hill when the 114th Congress is sworn in on Jan. 6, but even with a political shift, there will be little change in the overall religious makeup of Congress, according to a new analysis from the Pew Research Center . (sojo.net)
  • There are several other Republicans in Congress who also support amnesty under one euphemism or another. (vdare.com)
  • He will need to convince Congress-virtually all Republicans and some skeptical influential Democrats, like Senators Chuck Schumer and Bob Menendez-that rejoining JCPOA, along with Iran's return to compliance, is a necessary first step. (gmfus.org)
  • American forces have found a "smoking gun" that proves Iran is supporting the insurgency in Iraq - captured Iranian documents showing the country is abetting both Sunni and Shiite terrorists. (twoday.net)
  • Chalabi, a non-practising Shia, is reportedly a close friend of the late Shah of Iran, the former Crown Prince Hassan of Jordan and Col. Oliver North of the Reagan Administration, according to a recent paper on Chalabi for the South Asia Analysis Group titled 'Ahmed Chalabi: The Janos Kadar of Iraq' by B. Raman, a Indian intelligence expert. (wanniski.com)
  • one negotiated in advance, allowing Iran and Iraq a face-saving way to "retaliate" in some flashy way, without causing any U.S. casualties that would invite further vengeance. (blogspot.com)
  • Tonight, Iran has reportedly launched a dozen or so missiles at two US military bases in Iraq (apparently without American casualties). (blogspot.com)
  • It says Iraqi authorities also massacred dozens of its members at the behest of Iran at Camp Ashraf, its former encampment in Iraq. (foxnews.com)
  • Iran-backed Shia militants probably have been responsible for at least 603 U.S. personnel killed in Iraq," according to the document, which details attacks by Iran-backed Shia militias in Iraq. (freebeacon.com)
  • Still, the Biden administration is reportedly promising Iran it will remove the IRGC from the U.S. blacklist in return for assurances from Iran that it will cease these attacks. (freebeacon.com)
  • Far from establishing that Iraq was any threat to this nation or apologizing for having clearly lied about it, this gang is using almost identical lies to push this nation toward an attack on Iran. (freepress.org)
  • Cheney's latest scheme is reportedly to persuade Israel to bomb a uranium enrichment plant in Iran. (freepress.org)
  • Saudi Arabia is also reportedly seeking security guarantees from the US, ostensibly against regional rival Iran. (palestina-komitee.nl)
  • Whilst the U.S. Democrats are correctly pointing out that Trump may be trying to cut across the impeachment process, they would do well to remember that in 1998 President Clinton launched an urgent air strike against Iraq just as his own impeachment proceedings were getting under way. (socialistalternative.org)
  • Sanctions in themselves are an act of war and the Iranian regime has sought to push back, including downing a U.S. military drone and using their proxy forces in Iraq to attack bases with U.S. forces. (socialistalternative.org)
  • This is the first State of the Union address given by U.S. President Donald Trump and his second joint-session address to Congress. (commondreams.org)
  • But no one, apparently including the committee itself, anticipated the smoking gun it produced last week linking former president Donald Trump directly and personally to the armed assault on Congress. (thenationalnews.com)
  • Although five leaders of pro-Trump white supremacist gangs have been indicted for seditious conspiracy , I strongly doubted evidence would emerge to unambiguously tie the former president to a deliberate effort to use violence to prevent Congress from confirming Mr Biden's victory. (thenationalnews.com)
  • Comey told Congress that the Bureau has been actively investigating possible links between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin since "late July" of 2016. (noisyroom.net)
  • She also said that Iran's goal is to expand its brand of religious fundamentalism at the expense of the West, a prospect that has emboldened Bashar al-Assad in Syria and Nouri al-Maliki in Iraq. (foxnews.com)
  • The head of the Iraqi National Congress (INC), Chalabi comes from an aristocratic Shiite family that was connected to the monarchy of Faisal. (wanniski.com)
  • The visit came after Carter flew out to the USS Kearsarge, also in the Persian Gulf, where the secretary expressed his condolences over what appears to have been an errant U.S. airstrike in Iraq which killed Iraqi forces fighting against the Islamic State near Fallujah. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • It was Cotton, an Iraq war veteran, who reportedly first suggested H.R. McMaster to the administration as a replacement for Mike Flynn. (hotair.com)
  • We speak with Waitman Wade Beorn, a combat veteran of Iraq and a Holocaust and genocide studies historian. (truthout.org)
  • Well, for more, we're joined from Charlottesville, Virginia, by Waitman Wade Beorn, a combat veteran of Iraq and a Holocaust and genocide studies historian. (truthout.org)
  • Representative-elect Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, found himself under attack last month when he announced he'd take his oath of office on the Koran - especially from Virginia representative Virgil Goode, who called it a threat to American values. (twoday.net)
  • President Obama's new immigration plan will reportedly lift the threat of deportation for millions of illegal immigrants but a lot of people are slamming him for overstepping his powers. (rosie.com)
  • The war in Yemen appears to be winding down , and while Iraq remains in a state of Sunni-Shiite sectarian strife after the disastrous US invasion of 2003, the tensions there are localized, at the moment at least. (palestina-komitee.nl)
  • Hence the war to depose Saddam Hussein and liberate Iraq from a brutal dictator. (ips-dc.org)
  • The removal of IRGC sanctions has reportedly stalled talks in Vienna and is threatening to derail the accord at home. (freebeacon.com)
  • And I would like to say that not on behalf of me, but on behalf of 17,000 Americans who have been killed or wounded in Iraq in a war that was sold to us on false pretenses. (globalsecurity.org)
  • 2) Protestants and Catholics continue to be over-represented as members of Congress than other Americans. (sojo.net)
  • 3) The biggest difference between Congress and other Americans is the number of people who say they are religiously unaffiliated. (sojo.net)
  • Later the U.S. military conducted two additional air strikes against the extremists near the city of Arbil in northern Iraq, the Pentagon said. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • American aircraft continued attacking targets in Iraq on Friday, the Pentagon said, killing terrorists who were launching attacks from mortars and underway in a convoy. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • Military advisers will reportedly establish training sites across the country. (truthdig.com)
  • The chaos in Iraq now was a predictable result of US military intervention and the US cannot correct this mistake with more war and violence. (therealnews.com)
  • While we need to figure out how to make up for destroying the country, we also need to avoid any US military in Iraq which will make things worse. (therealnews.com)
  • And, Secretary of State John Kerry said that a meeting had been held Thursday night about Iraq where a range of options was discussed, "including military action. (therealnews.com)
  • This is Hunter speaking on the podcast Zero Blog Thirty in audio released last week, in which he admits to killing hundreds of innocent people while serving in the U.S. military during the Iraq War, during his deployment to Fallujah in 2004. (truthout.org)
  • After the US Congress approved $205M in military aid to procure 9 Iron Dome batteries, Israel said that it would start deploying the systems by the end of that year to protect civilians from rockets, mortar and artillery fired by Hamas. (defenseindustrydaily.com)
  • As commander of MNF-I, Petraeus oversaw all coalition forces in Iraq. (wikipedia.org)
  • Moulton, who reportedly backed that tragic misadventure, enjoyed the early support of two generals who helped lead it, David Petraeus and Stanley McChrystal. (commondreams.org)
  • Therefore, the focal point of what is happening in Syria and Iraq, is Tehran," she said. (foxnews.com)
  • The subpoena orders Rice to testify about forged documents that were used by the president to claim Iraq had tried to purchase uranium in Africa. (freepress.org)
  • In Iraq, such special operations forces have carried out a number of killings, including a raid that killed the son and a nephew of the governor of Salahuddin Province north of Baghdad. (mltoday.com)
  • The casualties, which occurred primarily in Baghdad and southern Iraq, represent 17 percent of the total 3,534 U.S. personnel killed in action in Iraq between May 2003 and January 2019. (freebeacon.com)
  • It happened in Baghdad today, a raid almost breath taking in its audacity with very, very ominous implications for everyone in Iraq now. (cnn.com)
  • In Iraq, the country's Shiite vice president has also survived an assassination attempt. (democracynow.org)
  • The 110th Congress, in its oversight role, may choose to examine the sufficiency of U.S. and NATO forces, the impact of an evolving insurgency, NATO's operations against insurgents, the size, proficiency, and equipping of the Afghan National Army, and the effectiveness of counternarcotics operations. (congressionalresearch.com)
  • The moment the Iraqis figured out that the U.S. administration really was going to try to re-invent, not re-discover, Iraq is the moment that U.S. forces went from liberators to occupiers. (ips-dc.org)
  • May 27/21: Malfunction An Iron Dome battery of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reportedly shot down its own Surveillance UAV during the 11-day conflict with Hamas while in another incident, the battery malfunctioned allowing rockets from Gaza to rain down on Ashkelon city. (defenseindustrydaily.com)
  • On November 9, 2012, he resigned from his position as director of the CIA, citing his extramarital affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell, which was reportedly discovered in the course of an FBI investigation. (wikipedia.org)
  • He did so over the objection of practically his entire defense and national security team including the secretary of state, secretary of defense, the national security adviser, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq and the CIA director. (frontpagemag.com)
  • The number of injured has far outstripped the dead, with the Veterans Administration reporting that more than 150,000 veterans of the Iraq war are receiving disability benefits. (twoday.net)
  • But, if the US follows the rule of law - both US and international law - the president does not have the authority to attack Iraq without Congressional and UN authorization. (therealnews.com)
  • Amid deep differences with the Congress over the Iraq war, the White House had threatened to veto the entire spending bill if it contained no funding for Iraq. (emirates247.com)
  • The United States Congress risks a presidential veto if it approves a multibillion-dollar disaster aid package for farmers and ranchers, the White House said on Tuesday, ahead of a Senate vote on the question. (intoxination.net)
  • Even today, with all the White House talk of turning sovereignty over to the Iraqis, there remains a hardcore determination by the warhawks to get their man in a key position, where he can exercise sufficient control to make the 'democratically elected government of Iraq' in 2005 an instrument of their desires. (wanniski.com)
  • MCINTYRE (voice-over): U.S. deaths in Iraq this month have now surpassed both April and December highs, to make May the deadliest month in almost three years. (cnn.com)
  • In fact, the only member of Congress who publicly identifies herself as religiously unaffiliated is sophomore Rep. Kyrsten Sinema , D-Ariz. (sojo.net)
  • Saudi Arabia is positively apoplectic about the Iranians' nuclear program, as well as about their mischief making in Lebanon, Iraq, and the Palestinian territories," the pro-Israeli analysts empathised. (mediamonitors.net)
  • Congress has stated clearly that it believes going forward with such a program, without the information needed to assure safety on American roads, is not safe," said Barry Piatt, spokesman for Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-ND. (blogspot.com)
  • His other four-star assignments include serving as the 10th commander, U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) from October 13, 2008, to June 30, 2010, and as commanding general, Multi-National Force - Iraq (MNF-I) from February 10, 2007, to September 16, 2008. (wikipedia.org)
  • The National Intelligence Estimate was persuasive - to the president, to Congress and to the media. (frontpagemag.com)
  • The deployment will more than double the current U.S. force in Iraq and cost an estimated $5.6 billion. (truthdig.com)
  • It was a political stunt, nothing like my deployment," said Jonathan Lubecky , a former Marine and retired U.S. Army sergeant who did a fourteen-month tour of duty in Iraq. (fitsnews.com)
  • This is important because as Cirincione points out "The American public long ago decided that the Iraq War was a mistake, that Iraq is not worth fighting for. (therealnews.com)
  • No country, least of all Iraq with its long history, is a tabula rasa. (ips-dc.org)
  • Petition Congress to Reinstate $3 Billion in Border Fence Funds Read petition and sign it at www.ReformUS.org . (blogspot.com)
  • Without explanation, Congress has stripped away $3 billion in desperately needed funds to build the Border Fence that it approved last year and to provide for other border security. (blogspot.com)
  • This is indicated by the warning sent out by the U.S. government to U.S. citizens in Iraq to leave the country immediately, making no attempt to approach the U.S. embassy. (socialistalternative.org)
  • Surely he doesn't fear challenging a Congress that trails him in public approval surveys. (intoxination.net)
  • Just 0.2 percent of Congress say they are religiously unaffiliated, compared with 20 percent of the general public. (sojo.net)
  • That's right-without telling the public, Congress is pulling the plug on the U.S.-Mexico Border Fence that it voted for with such enthusiasm last year (just before they asked voters to re-elect them). (blogspot.com)
  • Then there's the case of Jamie Leigh Jones, an American employee of Halliburton/KBR in Iraq who claimed she was gang raped by co-workers in 2005. (islamicinsights.com)
  • Four others, cuffed and blindfolded, were dragged to the helicopters, which vanished back into Iraq. (mltoday.com)
  • Agitprop provocateur Robert Greenwald ( "Wal-Mart," "Outfoxed," etc.) is back with "Iraq for Sale," an exposé of the remarkable levels of greed and corruption that accompany our partly privatized overseas war. (salon.com)
  • The new Congress will include at least seven members who are ordained ministers. (sojo.net)
  • His spokesman, Joe Kasper, told WND, "Rather than working with Congress to ensure the program is implemented in a manner that is safe and efficient, the department has instead decided to continue its plan of opening our roadways to an increasing number of Mexican trucking companies. (blogspot.com)
  • Before that, he had spent three years at USA Today, where he covered foreign policy and Congress. (latimes.com)
  • Wilson said he had no quarrel with those who suspected Iraq had weapons of mass destruction -- weapons that have never been found. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Not only did he ignore Congress, which is supposed to sanction such actions, reports imply that he barely consulted his own advisors. (socialistalternative.org)
  • Time is critical-Congress will finalize this funding question before Christmas! (blogspot.com)