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Sen. Zell Miller was loud. He was aggressive. And while his speech at this month’s Republican National Convention tried to paint John Kerry as soft on defense, Miller also unwittingly exposed the utter hypocrisy that allows the Pentagon to continue wasting tens of billions of dollars per year on useless weapons systems.

In his new book, “Thank You, President Bush: Reflections on the War on Terror, Defense of the Family, and Revival of the Economy,” author Rod D. Martin argues that Bush has not only made America safer and stronger, but that he will go down in history as one of our greatest presidents.

Last month, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld assured Americans that Iraq “continues to calm down.” But the bitter reality is that America is losing the war in Iraq.

In November 2002, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld assured us that the then-looming second Iraq war had “nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil.”

In early September, during the Republican National Convention, the GOP is almost certain to name Dick Cheney as its nominee for vice president of the United States. In the meantime, it’s clear that Cheney deserves another nomination: as one of the worst CEOs in recent American history.

The report put out recently by the Senate Intelligence Committee was a stunning indictment of the Central Intelligence Agency and other U.S. intelligence agencies.

Robert Bryce was online to discuss the prosecution of former Enron officials. Enron’s former chairman and chief executive, Kenneth Lay, was charged with securities fraud, wire fraud, and false and misleading statements in an indictment unsealed this morning.

Now that former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay has been indicted for his role in the company’s downfall (the specific charges are to be unsealed Thursday), the question that needs to be asked is: Will he turn against the Bushes?

The Bush administration’s response to the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal has brought on a case of Enronesque deja vu.

It wasn’t just another corpse. Like other TV viewers, I see plenty of dead bodies. But this one was particularly gruesome.

What’s old is new again. In March 1973, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries began discussing the need to increase oil prices because of the falling value of the dollar.