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The good news about Bolton
Even if he's ultimately confirmed, those who spoke out against him have signaled to the world that he doesn't represent all Americans -- and ensured he won't wield a big stick.
By Ian Williams May 13, 2005
A special relationship gone sour
Tony Blair wouldn't come clean about his deep problems with the Bush team, making him look furtive and dishonest. And he paid the price at the polls.
By Sidney Blumenthal May 12, 2005
The general's revenge
Colin Powell, no longer the loyal soldier, rises up to help stop conservative hard-liner John Bolton from becoming U.N. ambassador.
By Sidney Blumenthal Apr 28, 2005
The numbers Condi doesn't want you to see
The State Department won't include statistics on global terrorism in its annual report on global terrorism. Wonder why?
Tim Grieve Apr 27, 2005
Counting on the AWOLs
A new GAO report exposes the Pentagon's fuzzy math regarding Iraq's new security forces.
Mark Follman Mar 16, 2005
Rice in 2008: Will she or won't she?
After equivocating in the Washington Times, the secretary of state tells ABC that she won't run.
Tim Grieve Mar 14, 2005
The empire strikes back
John Bolton, a man who doesn't believe in diplomacy and thinks the U.S. should be the only permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, gets yet another chance to wield his stick.
By Sidney Blumenthal Mar 10, 2005
Global gorilla
Bush's jaw-dropping nomination of John Bolton as ambassador to the U.N. is a slap in the world's face.
By Ian Williams Mar 9, 2005
Cheney for president in 2008?
He says he won't do it. The Weekly Standard says he should think again.
Tim Grieve Mar 2, 2005
Containing Bush
The president doesn't seem to realize it, but the Europeans still don't buy his neocon vision -- and they've backed him into a corner on Iran.
By Sidney Blumenthal Feb 24, 2005
The threat to Bush
The fear the president invoked to marshal support for the Iraq war is failing him in his war on the New Deal.
By Sidney Blumenthal Feb 10, 2005
"A military in extremis"
Still living in a fantasy world, the administration has no strategy for maintaining the current number of U.S. forces in Iraq for two more years.
By Sidney Blumenthal Jan 27, 2005
The song remains the same
Any vague hope that a second Bush term will be different was crushed by Condoleezza Rice Tuesday. Yes, the U.S. will have a new secretary of state. It will not have a new foreign policy.
By Tim Grieve Jan 19, 2005
An unchanged landscape in Washington
The administration's confused and negligent policy toward human rights abuses in Indonesia is not likely to change in the wake of the tsunami.
By Sidney Blumenthal Jan 6, 2005
Neocons take complete control
George W. Bush continues to purge his administration of those who advised caution in Iraq, while Dick Cheney wrests power from a wobbly Condoleezza Rice.
By Sidney Blumenthal Dec 30, 2004
Right Hook
Conservatives cheer Condi, scratch their heads over Colin, and see bright days ahead for Bush's faith-based team. Plus: Rich Lowry cackles with glee over the prospect of more blacks voting Republican.
By Mark Follman Nov 17, 2004
First buddy
Condi Rice has rarely used her close relationship with Bush to offer dissent or hold back administration hard-liners. That doesn't bode well for her tenure at State.
By Dennis Jett Nov 17, 2004
Bush's night of the long knives
The fall of Powell and the rise of Rice reveal the true face of this strange, Soviet administration, where bureaucratic fear and blind loyalty reign supreme.
By Sidney Blumenthal Nov 17, 2004
The wimpiness of the Democrats: Part 46
A Senate report conveniently blames the CIA, not Bush, for hyping the threat of WMD in Iraq -- thanks to Democrats who allowed the GOP to mug them.
By Mary Jacoby Jul 9, 2004
Don't know much about history
Condoleezza Rice dismissed the Aug. 6 PDB that warned of al-Qaida attacks against the U.S. as "historical." She was dead wrong -- and as a historian herself, she has no excuse.
By Sean Wilentz Apr 13, 2004
Dubya's angels
Laura Flanders talks about her book "Bushwomen," and why the media has given a free pass to Condi Rice, Christie Whitman, Elaine Chao and the other women who've put a pretty face on ugly policies.
By Suzy Hansen Apr 12, 2004
The performer lost in her performance
Condoleezza Rice was my graduate student, and a woman raised to excel. But she failed the American people because she forgot a higher duty than excellence: Truth.
By Alan Gilbert Apr 9, 2004
Mission accomplished
Bush's brain trust had a grand plan for the Middle East. The results are coming home every day in body bags.
By Martin Sieff Apr 8, 2004
Fighting stem cells, not terror cells
Weeks before 9/11, the president was "consumed" by a pressing policy matter -- but it wasn't al-Qaida.
By Eric Boehlert Apr 8, 2004
How the war in Iraq has damaged the war on terrorism
A terrorism expert formerly on the National Security Council explains why Richard Clarke is right and Condoleezza Rice is wrong.
By Jessica Stern Apr 7, 2004
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