Henry Waxman is one of the only Democrats trying to hold this administrations feet to the fire. Here is his House Committee on Government Reform-Minority Office web site. There is tons of stuff here. My favorite area is on the right side under features, the Iraq Contracts link. This is where the exposure of Halliburton and Bechtel is occurring.

Remember Afghanistan? US explores its Afghanistan exit options.

If this wasn't so sad it would be funny, Bush orders officials to stop the leaks.

Friedman makes some good points here, On Listening. Although it seems like he contradicts himself here:

To begin with, listening might actually force the Bush team to frame its vision of U.S. foreign policy and its rationale for the Iraq war on our hopes for the world, not just our fears of it. Every other word out of this administration's mouth now is "terror" or "terrorism." We have stopped exporting hope, the most important commodity America has. We now export only fear, so we end up importing everyone else's fears right back.

Yes, America faces real threats, and this administration, to its credit, has been serious about confronting them. But America also has many more friends, actual and potential, and nurturing them is also part of our national security. We cannot spend so much time talking about our enemies that we forget to listen to our friends, because without them, ultimately, we cannot win either a war of terrorism or a war of ideas.

We've been serious about confronting threats even though all we export is fear, no longer listen to our friends and talk about nothing but terror, terror, terror? That's seems a little contradictory to me.
- posted by Mom/Dad @ 11:51 AM