Backtalk October 17, 2006

Why We Still Fight Mr. Lind: I read your article as noted above, and would like to express to you how thankful I am for writers such as yourself. My son is presently in Ramadi, and the city is lost. It's like out of a Mad Max movie, or Dawn of the Dead – the...

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Nine Paradoxes of a Lost War

Here's how the president described the enemy in Iraq at his press conference last week. "The violence is being caused by a combination of terrorists, elements of former regime criminals, and sectarian militias." "Elements of former regime criminals," AKA...

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Election 2006:
A War Referendum

The November election is shaping up as a national referendum on the war in Iraq – and the GOP, AKA the War Party, is in deep trouble. A recent CNN poll asked voters to rank the importance of the war issue: 48 percent said it is "extremely important,"...

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Nuclear Strike on Iran Is Still on the Agenda

The Bush administration has radically redefined America's nuclear use policy [1], [2]: U.S. nuclear weapons are no longer regarded as qualitatively different from conventional weapons. Many actions of the administration in recent years strongly suggest that an...

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The Second Children’s Crusade

"You see, we're invading Iraq, kicking out the wicked witch, establishing democracy, and they will all live happily ever after," explained President Bush to the White House interns, as they watched shock and awe light up the Iraqi skyline. The kids were all happy,...

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Good News From Gaza

Fleeing from Nazi Austria on the eve of World War II, Sigmund Freud was asked to sign a statement saying he was not mistreated. The old Jewish psychiatrist is said to have asked whether he could add: "I can most highly recommend the Gestapo to everyone." Israeli Hotel...

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Iraq: Little Brother Poses a Problem

LONDON (IPS) – The signs have been emerging thicker and faster of late that the British want to pull out of Iraq altogether, but on Friday a British general set a timeline, and Prime Minister Tony Blair as good as agreed. General Sir Richard Dannatt said in an...

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