Is President Bush Sane?

Tens of millions of Americans want President George W. Bush to be impeached for the lies and deceit he used to launch an illegal war and for violating his oath of office to uphold the US Constitution. Millions of other Americans want Bush turned over to the war crimes...

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Polonium-210, Fiction and Fact

According to Seymour Hersh, in early 2004, John Bolton, who was then the Under-Secretary of State for Arms Control, privately conveyed to International Atomic Energy Agency officials his suspicions that Iran was conducting research – at Parchin, the center of...

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Sense and Stubbornness

The meeting in Jordan between President Bush and Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki – unless the private discussions were a whole lot more frank and productive than it is reasonable to believe they probably were, based on public statements and background...

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Iraq and the Christian Conscience

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied." - Matthew 5:6 "Put not your faith in princes and sons of men, in whom there is no salvation." - Psalm 146:3 The Sunday after the election, my preacher and I had a brief...

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Uncle Sam and His Hostile Latin Relations

So far from God, so close to the United States, runs the classic Mexican complaint. These days virtually everyone in Latin America seems to believe that the U.S. is too close. The average Central or South American politician wants an embrace by Washington about as...

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America Held Hostage

I fear my readers must think I’ve forgotten about Iraq, since I haven’t written about it in well over a week. Of course it could hardly have slipped my mind – I am, after all, editorial director of a web site known as Antiwar.com. However, I must...

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More Troops?

The latest serpent at which a drowning Washington Establishment is grasping is the idea of sending more American troops to Iraq. Would more troops turn the war there in our favor? No. Why not? First, because nothing can. The war in Iraq is irredeemably lost. Neither...

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Indicting Bush

This is the first "indictment" of the president, the vice president, and their colleagues for defrauding us into war in Iraq. I put that "indict" in quotes because what follows, as former federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega makes clear in her new book United...

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