Bush’s Satanic Verses

George W. Bush was under orders from God to invade Iraq. That's what he told the Palestinians, according to Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, who describes what transpired during his first meeting with the American president in June 2003. According to Abbas,...

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Bush Raises the Stakes in Terror War

Despite fading public – and Republican – confidence in his performance in Iraq and the wider "war on terror," U.S. President George W. Bush Thursday raised the stakes by warning that a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq would lead to a takeover by al-Qaeda...

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Chemical Weapons,
Nuclear War

The Bush administration started a conventional war over imagined chemical weapons in Iraq. It is getting ready to start a war over imagined nuclear weapons, and real chemical ones, against Iran. This time it may be a nuclear war. It is well known that Iran has...

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Four Years Into Afghan Campaign, Perils Abound

On the eve of the fourth anniversary of the launch of U.S. military operations against the Taliban regime, Afghanistan presents a mixed picture, according to experts here. The relative stability of the government of President Hamid Karzai and last month's successful...

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In Defense of Lew Rockwell

Recently, Jacob Laksin over at the dreadful FrontPageMag.com snapped at Lew Rockwell, the libertarian-minded editor of the popular LewRockwell.com, for aligning himself with the most "unhinged elements of the far left." I mean really, you've got to laugh out...

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The Triumph of Ideology Over Reality

Not content with the terrorist-breeding instability he caused by invading Iraq, President Bush is plotting with Israel to repeat the disaster in Syria. The diplomatic editor of the London Telegraph reports (Oct. 5) that the U.S. is aiming at Syrian "regime...

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The Revolution Wasn’t

Serbia, Five Years Later The Official Truth goes that five years ago on the streets of Belgrade, the disaffected citizenry of Serbia rallied in support of the Democratic Opposition (DOS), charged the parliament, and forced the hated dictator Slobodan Milosevic out of...

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Backtalk, October 6, 2005

The Greatest Strategic Disaster in US HistoryYour views are so shocking, one wonders what your evidence is. One story that has not appeared anywhere else in the news is that contained in the New Yorker "Talk of the Town" this week. It concerns the lengths...

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White House Losing Ground on Prisoner Treatment

Despite strong opposition from the Pentagon and the White House, the Republican leadership in the U.S. Senate is coming under growing pressure to set specific standards for the "humane" treatment of detainees taken in Iraq and elsewhere in the George W. Bush...

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Our Kurdish Problem

It didn't take long for the "liberated" Iraqis to turn on each other. While no one expected the Sunni Arabs of central Iraq to take the de-Ba'athification of the country lying down, the Iraqi "constitution" had barely been printed up and distributed before large...

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