The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg offers an interesting excerpt from “A World Of Trouble,” a forthcoming book by Patrick Tyler on the White House and the Middle East:
A servant appeared with a bottle. Tenet knocked back some of the scotch. Then some more. They watched with concern. He drained half the bottle in a few minutes.
“They’re setting me up. The bastards are setting me up,” Tenet said, but “I am not going to take the hit.”…
“According to one witness, he mocked the neoconservatives in the Bush administration and their alignment with the right wing of Israel’s political establishment, referring to them with exasperation as, “the Jews.”
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WatchMojo NewsletterVice President Cheney has come out and said that the Iraq would have happened, regardless of the threat of weapons of mass destruction. Now on MSNBC’s show Hardball, right-wing commentator Frank Gaffney has defended Cheney and the Bush administration’s choice to invade Iraq, and Cheney’s remarks, by saying Saddam Hussein posed a “mortal threat” to America.
Host of the show, Chris Matthews, was appalled by Gaffney’s lack of remorse over the deaths of 4000 Americans in that war. Deaths Matthews attributes to the mistakes of the right-wing. To which Gaffney basically replied, paraphrased of course, well, it’s a shame, but I think they had to die. Read more…
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In an unexpected move (sarcasm), Time magazine has named president-elect Barack Obama person of the year for 2008. He fought a long and difficult battle to the presidency, and gave hope to America and the world; plus he overcame a mess of obstacles I’m not even going to get into. For these reasons, he is the person of the year, and we await his inauguration anxiously. Read more…
But, that doesn’t mean he’s not worth keeping a watchful eye on. John Hastings thinks so:
