I don’t know how I missed it, but Lou Dobbs has called for immediate withdrawal of US troops.
From Afghanistan? YES!
From Iraq? YES!
From Germany, Japan, South Korea, and everywhere else around the world? YES!
He even has a petition on his Website!
Here’s Lou Dobbs, in his own words:
Last week the executive committee of the Alameda County (Calif) Republican Central Committee approved a resolution to be voted on by the full committee calling for a non-interventionist foreign policy. Alameda County covers the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area, with about 1.5 million people.
Tuesday night the full committee met. [...]
Transparency International reported yesterday that Afghanistan is the most corrupt nation in the world – except for Somalia.
Heckua achievement, if the only nation on earth that is more shady is one that is full of pirates… Karzai is making Marion Barry look like Mother Teresa.
The Washington Post reported today that one of Afghanistan’s top ministers [...]
Antiwar Radio took to the California airwaves last night on Pacifica Network’s KPFK — 90.7 FM in Los Angeles and 98.7 FM in Santa Barbara. Former Iraq arms inspector Scott Ritter, Salon’s Glenn Greenwald and author James Bamford joined host Scott Horton for an hour of incisive perspective from the most important minds in foreign [...]
Israeli President and political office-juggler Shimon Peres is in Argentina schmoozing the poor man’s Eva Peron, batty President Cristina Kirchner, in the week before Palestinian Authority strongman Mahmoud Abbas visits. Though he seems to be trying to stay one step ahead of his enemies, he’s traveling so quickly he seems to have left behind sense [...]
Justin Raimondo is doing a daily brief commentary for The Hill, Capitol Hill’s newspaper of record. Today’s question is “What must Sarah Palin accomplish on her book tour?” His answer is here, along with those of (so far) Larry Sabato and Glenn Reynolds.
Also, check out Justin’s response from last week’s question: Will PATRIOT Act reauthorization [...]
Following up on our coverage of the campaign to destroy the National Iranian-American Council (NIAC), Josh Rogin at the Cable has more information on the background to the attacks. The most interesting revelation concerns Hassan Daioleslam, the Iranian-American journalist — accused by critics of ties to the Mujaheden-e Khalq (MEK) terrorist group — who is [...]
Many of you have written wondering where the heck are Gordon Prather’s columns these past two weeks.
The bad news first: Doc Prather has had a fairly serious medical problem come up recently, and it has hindered his ability to work.
The good news is that he’s going to be just fine if he, and we, can [...]
The campaign against the National Iranian-American Council and its president, Trita Parsi, intensified today with the publication of a long hit piece in the Washington Times by neoconservative journalist Eli Lake. The piece’s unusual length appears to be an attempt to disguise the thinness of the allegations it contains. Most of the claims are based [...]
Some thoughts on the Gitmo 9/11 suspects that are supposedly behind 9/11 and are due to come to New York for a civilian trial:
1. Why haven’t they been brought to trial years before now? We didn’t just discover that they were behind the attacks.
2. Why are we fighting in Iraq? If the ones behind 9/11 are in custody, [...]
Satirist and entertainer Harry Shearer makes a good point today on HuffingtonPost.com:
When the Fox network staged a special Veterans’ Day version of its NFL pregame show at Bagram AF Base last Sunday, two hours was apparently not long enough to mention one interesting fact about Bagram: It’s the site of America’s other Gitmo, a prison [...]
Andy Worthington is wrapping up a speaking tour in the US introducing the new film: Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo.
Here is his talk in Fairfax, Virginia, sponsored by the Future of Freedom Foundation.
