So the US debt balloons to a whopping great $9 trillion in order to pay for Iraq without tax rises or further cuts in public spending. I guess Bush, like a spendthrift ever extending his mortgage, must be relieved that he´s been handed more free money to spend as he wishes. One can understand how [...]
Americans must be patient….
You have to give it to Dubya; the guy’s got some front.
It seems that the American people are going to have to be patient, while US and Iraqi forces fight “the enemies of a free Iraq.” The obvious question is: haven’t the American people been patient enough?
Almost daily, reports are emerging [...]
Milosevic and Saddam: lessons we have unlearned
Few people, beyond his wife and gangster son Marko, will rue the passing of Slobodan Milosevic, found dead in his cell in the early hours of Saturday morning.
The former Yugoslav president, and architect of the civil wars that tore the fragile Balkan union apart, was on trial for his alleged crimes against humanity. The [...]
Is America Ready for a Mormon President?
With Mormon Harry Reid leading the Democrats in the Senate, and fellow Mormon and Republican Massachussetts Governor Mitt Romney making all the right noises for a 2008 bid, the US may need to face up to the idea of a President who believes that the chosen pure (white) people in America were wiped out by [...]
Bush in a slump
The quiet realisation of the American people, that they may indeed not have the best possible man in the White House, has been slow coming. While for some time Bush has been seen as week on domestic issues, now even in the war on terror he is viewed as a doofus: –
A poll [...]
The Neocon’s break ranks
Power
The polarising effects of the Bush administration have been assessed many times, both by ideologues on the left, and on the right. Pragmatic centrists such as myself, have also considered them, and found that it’s idealism that separates the two camps.
The Bush of 2000 was of course, we now know, and have always suspected, [...]
Terrorists Take Over US Port
President Bush is allowing a UAE company (Dubai Ports) to take control of six major US sea ports as part of the Dubai company´s acquisition of UK shipping company P&O.
Dubai Ports are an established and successful port management company and hail from the relatively western-friendly United Arab Emirates. Many US sea ports have long been privatised. The Bush [...]
Democrats Missing the Target
This excellent Guardian article backs up my point about criticism of Cheney over the hunting accident. Glenn Reynolds rightly points out how opponents of the Bush White House are just shouting about everything in a “scattergun” manner, thus drowing out real constructive concerns: “the response to the “cartoon jihad” by Islamic extremists has been limp. [...]
Giuliani a serious contender?
While your first source should be Mr.Zhisou’s comprehensive series on the runners: 2008 Watch, for another interesting review of Ruddy Giuliani’s chances see Andrew Sullivan’s excellent article in today’s Sunday Times review.
The Ice is Melting
The US are being taken to the UN for their failure to prevent temeperature rises which are damaging the protected area of Waterton-Glacier Peace Park (see here).
Despite Bush recently thawing his hostility to climate change science (well, he had to, really, he was starting to look stupid in the face of the overwhelming scientific concensus), this [...]
