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William Rivers Pitt: Cindy Has Earned a Rest
Thursday, 31 May 2007, 9:59 am | William Rivers Pitt
My alliance with Cindy Sheehan began with an exchange of emails several years ago after I made mention of her son, Casey, in an article about the expanding number of American troops lost in Iraq. She wrote to thank me, and to correct me on some ... More >>
Of Actions and Consequences, Torture and Troops
Thursday, 24 May 2007, 10:36 am | William Rivers Pitt
There was an ambush outside Baghdad a few days ago, yet another accent in Iraq's ceaseless symphony of carnage. Little about it was distinctive at first, until word got out that three American soldiers attached to the attacked convoy were missing. ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Two Hearings, One Reality
Monday, 14 May 2007, 1:06 pm | William Rivers Pitt
The fur was most definitely flying in Washington, DC yesterday. Newspaper reports revealed a White House meeting between several GOP House members and Mr. Bush. More >>
William Rivers Pitt: A Veto Inked in Blood
Thursday, 3 May 2007, 11:02 am | William Rivers Pitt
Four years after a humiliating strut across the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, four years after declaring major combat operations in Iraq ended and the mission accomplished, four years and more than three thousand dead American soldiers later, ... More >>
William Pitt: What Gonzales Really Told Us
Wednesday, 25 April 2007, 1:10 am | William Rivers Pitt
The testimony given Thursday by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales before the Senate Judiciary Committee during a hearing to investigate the firing of eight United States attorneys deserves a place of high honor in the Gibberish Hall of Fame. It was astonishing ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Take a Moment for Death
Friday, 13 April 2007, 11:30 am | William Rivers Pitt
Let's take a moment, you and I, to slice through the shouting and the posturing and the politics. Let's elbow out some space, just a wee margin, away from fired US Attorneys and Gonzales and subpoenas and Karl Rove, away from Cheney and Bush ... More >>
Will Pitt: The American Tragedy of John McCain
Saturday, 7 April 2007, 3:29 pm | William Rivers Pitt
Arizona Sen. John McCain took a walk through a Baghdad market on April Fool's Day, and may well have burned his presidential campaign down to the ground in the process. That little stroll has visited upon his head a deluge of humiliation and shame vast ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: And Then, Something Went Bump
Wednesday, 4 April 2007, 2:00 pm | William Rivers Pitt
When the new Democratic majority successfully attached a troop withdrawal deadline to the $124 billion supplemental Iraq spending bill in late March, the newspapers described it as a stunning development. If this bill made it through the Senate, ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Lucky Libby
Friday, 9 March 2007, 9:59 am | William Rivers Pitt
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby has been convicted by a federal jury of two counts of perjury, one count of making false statements and one count of obstruction of justice. He faces, due to federal sentencing guidelines, a term of between one and one-half and ... More >>
Will Pitt: The Bush Administration In One Sentence
Friday, 2 March 2007, 9:56 am | William Rivers Pitt
Just because the Supreme Court set that poison precedent and anointed Bush, who brought in a crowd of neocon yahoos which earned no attention before the 2000 campaign, just because we 'Muricans vote for the man and not the mob, which in this case turned ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: No Bottom to the Barrel
Sunday, 25 February 2007, 10:48 pm | William Rivers Pitt
I awoke near dawn on Thursday, crawled to my desk with coffee in hand, and began my daily morning ritual: blazing through twenty different newspapers to see what was happening across the nation and the world. Two stories immediately jumped out ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: The 21st Century Sucks
Tuesday, 13 February 2007, 9:03 am | William Rivers Pitt
It took an astonishingly stupid bomb scare in my town last week to really make me feel old for the first time. "Old" isn't the proper word, I guess, since I am only midway through my 30s. I live in Boston, temporary home to nearly one million students ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: A Cornered Animal
Monday, 29 January 2007, 12:01 am | William Rivers Pitt
Question: What is the connection between a possible American attack on Iran and the perjury trial of I. Lewis Libby? Answer: Vice President Dick Cheney. More >>
Will Pitt: Bush The Next 100 Hours
Tuesday, 23 January 2007, 11:56 am | William Rivers Pitt
Something really weird is going on here. All of a sudden, the folks in Congress are behaving as if they actually represent ... well ... the people. Aren't they supposed to be hauling water for President Bush? What happened to all those arm-twisting, ... More >>
William Pitt: Politics in the Service of War
Monday, 15 January 2007, 3:54 pm | William Rivers Pitt
It was the famous Prussian strategist Carl von Clausewitz, in his analysis of the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars, who wrote that war is "a continuation of politics by other means." This is a line that many have heard, and have mistakenly used as ... More >>
Will Pitt: Bush Extends Hand With Fingers Crossed
Wednesday, 10 January 2007, 4:07 pm | William Rivers Pitt
George W. Bush has been loath, over these last years, to acknowledge the existence of an opposition party within American government. There has been, until recently, little need for him to do so. His GOP allies have maintained an iron grip on the ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Hussein the Rabbit
Wednesday, 10 January 2007, 3:00 pm | William Rivers Pitt
My cell phone has been buzzing with regularity all day, alerting me to the arrival of text messages from my conservative friends. "Saddam is dead woohoo" reads the latest one, and that pretty much describes all the others. Somehow, a lot of people ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: A Sentinel in Time
Friday, 29 December 2006, 11:40 am | William Rivers Pitt
The calendar pages of our collective history are dotted with a gloomy constellation of days marked in blood, in woe, and in regret. The assassinations of Lincoln and Kennedy; that last, hurried helicopter flight from that last rooftop on that last ... More >>
Will Pitt: All the Way on Lobbying Reform
Monday, 27 November 2006, 5:40 pm | William Rivers Pitt
The names are well known by now. Congressman Tom DeLay (R-Texas) was indicted for money-laundering and bounced from the House of Representatives. Congressman Bob Ney (R-Ohio) pleaded guilty to accepting bribes. Congressman Randy Cunningham (R-Calif.) ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: The Same Old George
Friday, 17 November 2006, 2:40 pm | William Rivers Pitt
All the talk of bi-partisanship after the midterm elections was really nice, wasn't it? Granted, the only reason conversation got steered in that direction was because the Republican Party absorbed a staggering defeat the Tuesday after last, because ... More >>
