Two high ranking former CIA officers are speaking out about the run up to war in Iraq. Namely the fact that the President was briefed about Saddam's lack of weapons of mass destruction, and didn't care, he was set to take the nation into war. Sidney Blumenthal writes in Salon today: On Sept. 18, [CIA Director George] Tenet briefed Bush on [Naji Sabri, Saddam's foreign minister]. "Tenet told me he briefed the president personally," said... more ›

LAist used to work with people who would make us think "am I the crazy one here?" While in Pasadena yesterday stumping for Phil Angelides, John Kerry dissed George Bush by saying that if he was smart he wouldn't have ended up in a quagmire in Iraq. And you've gotta hand it to the Republican Spin Machine, they're doing their best to pretend like Kerry was talking about the Troops. As if. Later Kerry... more ›