Month: June 2003

Surfing the blogs and reading the usual suspects in the usual propaganda outlets, I get the impression that the war hawks have settled on a response to the WMD snipe hunt fiasco and the broken promise of democracy fiasco. This is to respond to every bit of bad news – and every new sign of … Continue reading “Question of the Day: ‘Would You Have Left Saddam in Power?’”

While the hawks in the Bush administration attempt to justify the logic behind a preemptive strike against Iraq as the likelihood of finding the country’s alleged weapons of mass destruction grows increasingly remote, the truth behind the war is finally coming to light. In his State of the Union address in January, President George W … Continue reading “Why Saddam Was Doomed, WMDs or None”

This article from a year ago is no less relevant today. Some of the players have changed: Zoran Djindjic is no longer among the living. There’s been a change of scenery as well, with Iraq supplanting Afghanistan as the next stage of Perpetual War. The chain of interventions continued from the Balkans to Afghanistan, then … Continue reading “Retrospect”

The good news is that, according to one of President Bush’s top advisors, "If many more months go by and our troops are still there, the Iraqis are still fighting each other and us, and we still haven’t found any WMD, there will be hell to pay." The bad news is that all of us, … Continue reading “HELL TO PAY”

Here’s what we know so far about Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction: of the 600 or so sites identified by United States intelligence and Iraqi officials as places where the country’s biological weapons may be hidden, about 100 of these sites have been searched over the past six weeks and not a single speck … Continue reading “The Iraq War Was Always Based On Shaky Evidence and Bad Intel”

The usual suspects are pushing for Iran to be the next target of pressure, criticism and eventually (perhaps) military activity. Much of this bellicose advice emanates from some of the same mostly neoconservative quarters that promoted the war on Iraq for months and even years before the U.S. government had actually decided to undertake it … Continue reading “On to Iran?”

You know George W. Bush is in big trouble when even George Will, who backed the Iraq war and has toed the neocon line pretty faithfully, sharply questions the rationale for war. The complete absence of any evidence that Saddam Hussein’s regime possessed weapons of mass destruction presents the administration with a major problem: “The … Continue reading “WACKOS, WEIRDOS, AND WING-DINGS”

Recently, I was the guest on a radio talk-show hosted by a thoroughly decent far-right Republician. I got verbally battered, but returned fire and, I think, held my own. Toward the end of the hour, I mentioned that the National Security Strategy – promulgated by the Bush Administration in September 2002 – now included attacking … Continue reading “A PNAC Primer: How We Got Into This Mess”

Paul Wolfowitz finally fessed up to the obvious last week: the alleged weapons of mass destruction in Iraq were merely a pretext for ousting Saddam. That few seem troubled by this brazen admission is a sad cultural indicator. Can you imagine FDR spilling the beans on Pearl Harbor or LBJ coming clean on the Tonkin … Continue reading “Guantanamo, USA”