I usually limit my commentary about Iraq to WMD-related issues. That reflects both my own relative expertise, as well as my sense of futility about the entire endeavor. The course of this catastrophe follows a terrible, inexorable logic that I believe immune to the efforts of policymakers or protestors. In a way, that’s moral cowardice …
NNSA Asks Congress to Drop RNEP
by | 2005-10-26 | 7 Comments
Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM) sent out a press release announcing that the Appropriations Conferees “have agreed to drop funding for continued research on the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP) project…” The House had eliminated DOE funds for RNEP, while the Senate recommended $4.0 million. The real shock: NNSA asked the conferees to do it. Apparently, …
TPM: No Second Source on Niger Claims
by | 2005-10-25 | 2 Comments
I started this blog to be on record so I could say “I told you so.” Josh Marshall reports that—despite what the T-Bone and the FCO have claimed—Britain did not have a second source for their bogus claim the Iraq was pursuing Niger: So, wait! Didn’t the Brits have some other source of intelligence for …
Ceci n'est pas une pipe
by | 2005-10-24 | No Comments
Nick Schwellenbach, writing on the POGO blog, noticed that the “generic country” in some Air Force slides looked suspiciously like Iran: Three of the Power Point slides used in a presentation on the Air Force’s Future Total Force plan featured an unnamed country littered with targets in a hypothetical US air attack. [snip] As an …
