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Will Durst: My Top 10 Comedic Stories of the Decade
By Will Durst - AOL News(Dec. 17) -- Believe it or not, an entire decade has passed since the turn of the millennium. One hundred twenty months. One tenth of a century. More than 3,600 days. How did that happen? It's harder to comprehend than a faded Kazakhstani street sign tagged by Mongolian graffiti. As we are painfully aware, much ugly stuff occurred during the decade, but what with all the mayhem and turmoil, you might think nothing worth laughing about went down. You'd be wrong. I know. I know. I know. "Not another top 10 list. " Yes. Another top 10 list. Hey, how many ends of the decade does one get in a ...
WikiLeaks: Spanish Firm Suspected of Supporting Syrian WMD Development
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyWikiLeaks has released a memo marked "secret" between the State Department and the American Embassy in Madrid warning that for the last seven years the Spanish steel producing firm Aceros has been "maintaining a business relationship with" Syrian firms that, American officials believe, could be acting on behalf of the Scientific Studies and Research Center (SSRC), "the entity responsible for overseeing Syria's WMD and missile programs." The cable maintains that the materials supplied to Syria "can be used in structural support components in ballistic missiles and in some forms are controlled ...
A Neutron Bomb Primer: 5 Key Questions and Answers
By J. Richard - AOL News(Dec. 2) -- His legacy lives on. Physicist Samuel T. Cohen died this week, roughly 50 years after using pencil, paper and a slide rule he received for his 15th birthday to create the neutron bomb, the Los Angeles Times reported. A cousin of the conventional nuclear bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the neutron bomb has been called "the ultimate capitalist weapon" because it was designed to incinerate humans with massive amounts of radiation while sparing buildings and infrastructure. Since Cohen laid out the concept for the weapon in 1958, the neutron bomb has been reportedly ...
George W. Bush: Still Not Telling the Truth About Iraq and WMDs
By David Corn - Politics DailyOnce again, George W. Bush is not telling the truth about Iraq. He has, as you may have heard, a book coming out this week. It's not a full-fledged memoir. It's an examination of various decisions he has faced during his life. (Andover or Exeter?) But he ducks much. He avoids the deregulation and free-market policies of the Bush-Cheney years that helped cause the economic meltdown at the end of his presidency. He doesn't confront his decision to divert resources from the war in Afghanistan to Iraq. Nor does he cover the administration's cherry-picking of the intelligence regarding Iraq's ...
Congress OKs Strict Sanctions to Cut Off World Energy Trade With Iran
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyCongress voted overwhelmingly Thursday to impose its toughest-ever sanctions against Iran as reports confirmed that the country is moving forward on its nuclear enrichment program. Although the United Nations also passed sanctions against Iran recently, lawmakers warned that nothing so far has slowed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's march toward a nuclear Iran. A unanimous Senate vote was followed quickly by passage in the House, and the bill now heads to President Barack Obama. "There's no joy in crafting this bill," said Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), whose Banking Committee wrote the ...
Inspector Says Feds Aren't Prepared for a WMD Attack
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News(June 1) -- What if terrorists let loose with a chemical weapon in the middle of Washington and the agency in charge of coordinating the law enforcement response wasn't ready? Well, it isn't, according to the Justice Department inspector general, which today said the department has failed to prepare itself for leading the reaction to an attack with biological, chemical or nuclear weapons. Though the FBI regularly conducts drills to hone its response to weapons of mass destruction, the rest of the department -- including the agency charged with ensuring public safety and security after an ...
Can the 'Bush Lied' Deniers Handle the Truth?
By David Corn - Politics DailyBring it on. Conservative apologists for the George W. Bush crew are swinging hard these days to defend their man -- and themselves -- from the charge that W. and his gang misled the nation into war. They must worry that they are going to end up on the wrong side of history. After all, a 2008 Gallup poll found that 53 percent of Americans believed that the Bush administration "deliberately misled the American public about whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction." (This was a big change from a poll taken two months after the 2003 invasion that noted that 67 percent believed that Bush had ...
Karl Rove Book Exposes Lies of the Bush White House
By David Corn - Politics DailyI doubt this was Karl Rove's intention, but with his new book, he demonstrates how the Bush White House got away with lying. Here's the back story. In September 2003, a furor erupted when the news emerged that the Justice Department had begun an investigation of the leak that outed undercover CIA case officer Valerie Plame Wilson. Several months earlier -- while her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, was slamming the Bush administration for having misled the nation into the Iraq war with a phony WMD argument -- two administration sources had told conservative columnist Robert Novak ...
Karl Rove Admits Mistake in Advising Bush on Iraq Invasion Response
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyKarl Rove, the White House adviser whom George W. Bush called his political "architect," admits in a new memoir that the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq severely damaged the Bush presidency -- and he suggests the war might not have occurred had Bush actually known the truth. Of his own role, Rove writes that his biggest mistake was not pushing back against claims that the president had led the country into the Iraq war under false pretenses. If Bush had known about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, Rove questions whether the United States would have gone to war, ...
Blair Staunchly Defends Decision to Invade Iraq
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON (Jan. 29) -- Star witness Tony Blair took the stand today in Britain's ongoing inquiry into why Britain joined the U.S.-led war in Iraq -- and why its forces were so ill-prepared for the chaos that followed Saddam Hussein's overthrow. The quizzing of the former prime minister has drawn the country's rapt attention as the climax to the formal questioning of dozens of diplomats, spy bosses and military chiefs since November. Blair arrived at the inquiry two hours early under heavy security and was driven into a back entrance at London's Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre. A crowd of ...
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