Uranium-Enrichment Myths Busted

To get your support for the application of the Bush Doctrine to Iraq last year, the neo-crazies claimed to have slam-dunk intelligence that Saddam had secretly reconstituted his uranium-enrichment program and would, therefore, soon have nukes to give to terrorists....

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Why We Fight

In the day-to-day business of tracking the War Party's machinations, it's easy to lose sight of the forest for the trees: Powell out, Condi in, AIPAC spies, Chalabi's lies, Bush and Kerry, Fallujah and Allawi. But what, exactly is the bottom line? It is this: American...

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Media Repression in ‘Liberated’ Iraq

BAGHDAD - Journalists are increasingly being detained and threatened by the U.S.-installed interim government in Iraq. Media have been stopped particularly from covering recent horrific events in Fallujah. The "100 Orders" penned by former U.S. administrator...

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The Streets of Baghdad

We had our daily car bomb today when a suicide bomber drove his car into a U.S. patrol as it passed near the Yarmouk police station. Several Iraqis were killed, with no report yet on U.S. casualties. I felt the rumble even though I was on a street far away from the...

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Don’t Count Out Realists Yet

While after a week of personnel announcements conventional wisdom appears to have concluded that the foreign policy of President George W. Bush's second term will be at least if not more radical than the first, there is also a minority view that such a conclusion is...

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There Is No One Left to Stop Them

The United States is in dire straits. Its government is in the hands of people who connect to events neither rationally nor morally. If President Bush's neoconservative administration were rational, the U.S. would never have invaded Iraq. If Bush's government were...

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Preemptive Strikes Will Not Disarm Iran

In 1981, Israel bombed Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor when it believed Saddam Hussein was close to producing a nuclear bomb. Growing concern about advances in Iran's nuclear capabilities has fanned speculation that Israel could launch an attack against key Iranian...

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Human Rights Personnel Under Attack

UNITED NATIONS - The world's human rights defenders – including lawyers, journalists, judges, women's activists, and representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) – are increasingly coming under attack by repressive governments, according to a...

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Hubris Goeth Before…

I spent a couple of hours with Condoleezza Rice back in 1999, when I was a media fellow at the Hoover Institution and she was still provost at Stanford but already an adviser to Dubya, who was obviously going to be influential. Then I wrote about it for WorldNetDaily....

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