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NOW: Nothing in the report points to a "knowing cover-up" of the facts BEFORE:"There has to have been a coverup of this thing," Rep. John P. Murtha "No question about it."

President Bush vowed for the first time yesterday to turn over most of Iraq to newly trained Iraqi troops by the end of this year, setting a specific benchmark as he kicked off a fresh drive to reassure Americans alarmed by the recent burst of sectarian violence. Bush, who until now has resisted concrete timelines as the Iraq war dragged on longer than he expected, outlined the target in the first of a series of speeches intended to lay out his strategy for victory. While acknowledging grim developments on the ground, Bush declared "real progress" in standing up Iraqi forces...

Taft + Wilson + Kennedy + Nixon = Bush 43. The political calculus is often unpredictable.George W. Bush inspires unusually passionate support and provokes unusually passionate opposition. The gap between the two -- think of it as the presidential passion gap -- suggests that future historians will fight with unusual passion about his legacy and the meaning of Mr. Bush's presidency.But as his presidency progresses -- as he does more and as his earlier actions recede from current events into history -- it is becoming increasingly clear that his decisions and initiatives are being drawn from an increasingly broad palette...

Members of a U.S. special operations task force punched and abused prisoners in Iraq in front of Defense Intelligence Agency agents and then threatened the agents to try to keep them quiet, a document made public on Tuesday stated. A letter from the head of the DIA to a senior Pentagon intelligence official, which detailed previously unknown incidents of abuse by U.S. forces on prisoners in Iraq, said the agents also saw detainees with burn marks and bruises. It was written two months after photographs of U.S. soldiers abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib jail near Baghdad became public, and five...

Last Saturday night brought His Imperial Highness Prince Nguyen Phuc Buu Chanh of Vietnam, Regent of the Imperial Dynasty and President of the Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League, to Cornell. The Prince, a member of the Vietnamese imperial family gave a lecture, entitled "Revival of Vietnamese Culture: The Nguyen Dynasty," before a crowd of about 50 people. Maria Nguyen '05, vice president of the Cornell Vietnamese Association sang the American national anthem and then played the national anthem of South Vietnam. Aided by PowerPoint slides, Prince Buu Chanh then began his lecture speaking from a podium draped with the American flag...

The Imperial Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam is politically pressuring the government of Vietnam to protect the liberty, religious rights of the Vietnamese people as well as the culture, traditions, languages of the Montagnards and Khmer Krom in Vietnam. (PRWEB) October 23, 2004 -- Today, Vietnam is experiencing a minor period of outward growth. Even the most dedicated Communists are abandoning old communist economic policies, which have proven to be ineffective and sometimes harmful. Capitalism is being introduced, with the Communist Party maintained only as a vehicle to exercise absolute control of the elite Party leaders over the common people. The...

Aurora,IL (PRWEB) September 8, 2004 -- OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS - From the Office of the Leadership of the The Imperial Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam & Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League: His Imperial Highness Prince Nguyen Phuc Buu Chanh of Vietnam, Regent of the Imperial Nguyen Dynasty and President of The Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League denounces the Communist Government on the return of United States Servicemen MIA or possible POWs’ and Human Rights Record. It has been stated by American Marines and Army Soldiers who are in Vietnam searching for MIA's, that there is corruption within the government of Vietnam. They stated that...

The jig may well be up: Iraq is now Vietnam and we are in full-on Vietnam mode. Day by day, the media chips away at the cause, the soldiers, the rationale, and the methodology and the media campaign appears to be succeeding. The incessant flailing of the public consciousness with rigged polls, interviews with school kids who don’t know why there is a war, and ''experts'' who play dumb as to the goals of the war, has induced a sufficient quotient of doubt adequate enough to loose the media dogs of war. These are the same dogs who brought us--from...

Here we go again. Only now it's the "Iraqification" rather than the "Vietnamization" of a quagmire war in another distant and increasingly hostile land. Washington's puppets are once again said to be on the verge of getting their act together, and the American people are daily assured that we are about to turn the corner. Soon we will be able to give Iraq back to the Iraqis, and some distant day the United States will get out. In the meantime, U.S. troops must continue in a "support role" while being maimed and killed with increasing frequency. Sorry to appear so...

For the Left, every U.S. military action they've opposed in the last quarter century was said to be the next Vietnam. We were going to be bogged down in one endless war of attrition after another — including our latest action in Afghanistan. They were wrong. However, the analogy largely works when applied to the policy the U.S. is seeking to impose on Israel today. On September 20, 2001, in his speech before a joint session of Congress, the president set forth his doctrine for America's war on terrorism. He said that [e]very nation, in every region, now has a...