A blog by Nicholas Solter about politics and everything else
Posted in Iraq War on Aug 5th, 2008
A new book by Pulitzer-price winning journalist Ron Suskind alleges that President Bush ordered the CIA to forge a letter showing a connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda in the run-up to the Iraq war.
I don’t know whether or not this assertion is actually true, but the response of the mainstream media has been interesting. […]
Posted in Barack Obama, Election 2008, Hillary Clinton, Politics on Jun 9th, 2008
A recent CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll indicates that 17% of Clinton supporters will vote for McCain if Obama doesn’t select her as his running mate. And an additional 22% would refuse to vote for Obama.
I don’t get it.
I understand the vehement support for Clinton and the desire to see her in the White House. I […]
Posted in Iraq War on Feb 29th, 2008
In his recent Newsweek column, Fareed Zakaria rebuts Bush’s argument that democracy is the antidote to terrorism, and shows that Bush, in his support for Pervez Musharraf in Pakistan, doesn’t even follow his own rhetoric. Some choice quotes from the article:
“Pakistan took Bush’s advice last week… The results returned to power civilian parties that had […]
Posted in Iraq War on Jan 31st, 2008
According to the Center for Public Integrity, George W. Bush and other top administration officials made 935 “false statements” about, “the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein’s Iraq” in the lead-up to the Iraq war. Check them out.