Backtalk July 15, 2004

Whitewash! Thank you for your succinct article that struck like a hard slap upside my head, causing me to read and reread the sentence ending with the phrase "lack the competence or character for self-rule." For me, it resounds a truth throughout history with but the...

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Backtalk July 13, 2004

Inoculated for a While? Some time ago I was reading PNAC's Dec. 3, 2003, National Security Outlook, authored by Thomas Donnelly and Vance Serchuk. The following practically leapt off the page ["Fighting a Global Counterinsurgency"]: (D)efense transformation must bring...

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Backtalk July 11, 2004

Senate Iraq Report Said to Skirt White House Use of Intelligence American principles (truth, justice, responsibility) anyone? It's been quite a while since anything I've read on Antiwar.com has gotten me riled up. But today, two articles really bothered me. First, it...

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Backtalk July 7, 2004

Republicans Can't Handle the Truth Thank you for calling on conservatives to be true to the ideals their party was founded upon. It is very sad to see the GOP devolve into blind, mindless nationalism that represents a road for them, and the nation as a whole, that is...

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Casualties in Iraq Anne Wicks: Please include those soldiers who have committed suicide while in Iraq and those who committed suicide as a result of PTSD once they returned to the United States. Thank you. Mike Ewens: We do. I believe that there have only been two...

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Washington's Foreign Policy I just want to express my profound gratitude for Antiwar.com. While I don't agree with everything everybody says. I agree strongly that we had no business sending troops to Iraq and that this administration lied about WMDs. I am a patriotic...

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Neocons Earn an 'F' The Neocons and their champions should be charged, at the very least, with malfeasance for leading the US into an unnecessary Iraq war. By steering US foreign policy down the preemptive path without imminent threat, they have set precedents that...

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Was Reagan the First Neoconservative? I've listened to a lot of talk from just about everybody this past week, but this piece by Buchanan is by far the most evenhanded, the best yet. Thanks for your insight – and your fairness. The quicker we remove the neocons...

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How High Does the Abu Ghraib Scandal Go? Thank you for your excellent article. The terrifying and grossly illegal excuse offered by the Defense Department attorneys makes me ashamed of the legal profession – once again. The president's powers derive SOLELY FROM...

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The Dog Days of the War Party Pat's latest is a cogent and too-brief listing of the unresolved issues facing the current administration – and, of course, the American people. For all of us old Goldwater conservatives the travesty of neocon Republicanism is deeply...

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