Friday, June 29, 2007

News Tidbits

Powell Tells Of Dysfunctional White House, ‘We Weren’t Aware Of The Advice Cheney Was Giving’

In First Full Term, Supreme Court Nominees Roberts And Alito Show True ‘Loyal Bushie’ Colors

Search for WMD in Iraq finally over.

145 lawmakers write to Bush: close Guantanamo. Today, a bipartisan group of 145 members of the House sent a letter to President Bush urging him to close Guantanamo Bay and move the detainees to military prisons in the United States. From their letter:

Special ops no longer a ‘giant killing machine.’ Under Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. special operations became a “giant killing machine,” according to former Army colonel Douglas Macgregor, who anticipates a change when Navy Vice Adm. Eric Olson takes the helm of the operations. “The emphasis will be on, ‘If you have to kill someone, then for God’s sakes, kill the right people,’” Macgregor said. “That’s been lost over the last several years.”

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