Well, that tears it. I read the Military Commissions Act of 2006 on my sh*tty little dial-up connection here in the cabin, and immediately went to the pawn shop in Moab and bought another rifle. Five of them now in the stash, plus a couple pistols. Ready enough to arm...
As the "failure" or "partial success" of an apparent atomic bomb by North Korea reverberates around the world, with many automatically judging the test a failure, ignored is the Bush administration's concept of "usable nukes," or "mini-nukes." The Democratic...
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...
The war on terror is a false metaphor that has led to counterproductive and self-defeating policies. Five years after 9/11, a misleading figure of speech applied literally has unleashed a real war fought on several fronts – Iraq, Gaza, Lebanon, Afghanistan,...
As the violence in Iraq mounts and the U.S. military experiences a spike in deaths and casualties, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shia, has refused to begin disarming Shi'ite militias, which have infiltrated the government security forces. Maliki has also...
Between Sept. 11, 2001, and his State of the Union Address in 2002, George W. Bush had America in the palm of his hand. But in that speech, Bush blew it. Singling out Iran, Iraq, and North Korea as state sponsors of terror seeking weapons of mass destruction, Bush...
Updated at 11:55 p.m. EDT, Oct. 17, 2006 In today's developments, at least 77 Iraqis have died and 49 more were injured. The Department of Defense today announced the death of an American soldier in Iraq; he died of non-combat related injuries on Saturday. According...
"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,...
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...
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,"...
