Backtalk, September 3, 2007

Rudy Giuliani: Confused, Ignorant, or Deceitful? In his listing of "successful terrorism," Mr. Bandow obviously forgot to mention the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, which, more than anything else, drove the British out of the mandate. ~ Dieter Heymann...

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War, Peace, and the Struggle for Liberty

I delivered the following remarks at the Future of Freedom conference on June 2, an event that included such luminaries as Judge Andrew J. Napolitano, Robert Scheer, and Daniel Ellsberg, as well as an entire constellation of libertarian stars. What I meant to convey...

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Iraqi Children Robbed of Childhood

BAQUBA - The violence around the continuing U.S. military operations in this city has robbed children of their childhood. Only two provincial schools and one private kindergarten school are functioning in this city of 280,000, located 30 mi. north of Baghdad. Most...

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Death at a Distance: The US Air War

According to the residents of Datta Khel, a town in Pakistan's North Waziristan, three missiles streaked out of Afghanistan's Pakitka Province and slammed into a madrassa, or Islamic school, this past June. When the smoke cleared, the Asia Times reported, 30 people...

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Saturday: 49 Iraqis Killed, 22 Wounded

Updated at 10:31 p.m. EDT, Sept. 1, 2007During the latest violence, 49 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 22 more were wounded. No foreign military deaths were announced. Also, the AP is reporting that August was the second deadliest month for Iraqi civilians since...

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A New Motto for America

I have a rifle, a shotgun and a few rounds of ammunition locked away in my gun safe. Should I learn that enemy soldiers are landing on the beach, I will hobble down to the dunes and kill as many of them as I can before they kill me. That being said, as long as foreign...

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George W. Bush, Iraq, and the Kitchen Sink

Length does not equal strength. That's one lesson of President George W. Bush's latest speech on Iraq. The president apparently believed that the more he talked to the American Legion on Tuesday, the more persuasive he would be. But tossing in every argument that he'd...

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Truth-Tellers

As good news continues to flow from the "surge" – some of it true, some of it false and all of it spun – it is easy to forget the bottom line. The bottom line is whether or not we are beginning to see the re-emergence of a state in Iraq. Three...

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Bush Puts Iran in Crosshairs

Not another warning about war with Iran! Well, suck it up. President George W. Bush's speech Tuesday makes clear his plan to attack Iran, and how the intelligence, as was the case before the attack on Iraq, is being "fixed around the policy." It's not about putative...

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