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Hypothesis: In the 1991 Gulf War, after ejecting Saddam Hussein from Kuwait, the United States was determined to invade Iraq, remove Saddam Hussein from power, and pursue the same goals it is pursuing in Iraq today. It was “deterred” from doing so only because Saddam Hussein had chemical weapons then, deployed and ready to be … Continue reading “Chemical Saddam Met
Nuclear Uncle Sam”

While the past 15 months have brought a slight decline in anti-U.S. sentiment, public opinion in the Arab world about Washington’s policies and intentions in the Middle East remains overwhelmingly negative and deeply skeptical, according to a major new survey released here Friday. Most Arabs continue to believe the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq has … Continue reading “Arab World Remains Hostile, Fearful Toward US”

Maybe you thought that when President Bush declared war on terror it was just a euphemism. Wrong! By that declaration, Bush made himself commander in chief of our armed forces, which he is – under the Constitution – only "in time of war." Once proclaimed, our commander in chief immediately called to active duty the … Continue reading “Neo-Crazies Already Planning Beyond Iran”

Politicians, like writers, preachers, and professors, are word people. They deal mainly in words, not in actions. If you wish to understand the present political situation, you need to understand how politicians use words. You can start by scratching off "communication of truth." That is a very low priority in Washington, for the simple reason … Continue reading “Words and Reality”

The bromide-heavy speech that President George W. Bush gave Wednesday at the Naval Academy presents a clear strategy for continued quagmire and eventual disaster in Iraq. Despite the gathering storm of opposition to the administration’s approach to the war in Iraq, the speech was long on tired clichés and bereft of new ideas, calling to … Continue reading “A Clear Strategy – for Disaster”

On July 15, 2003, ABC News aired a story about the plummeting morale of U.S. troops in Iraq. It quoted soldiers questioning the war and the judgment and candor of their commanders. One frosted GI even went on camera to call for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign. It was a devastating report, and the … Continue reading “Smear Pattern”

The Grave Threat Is the Bush Administration The police-state mentality is only a byproduct of the greatest threat to the Republic: our own feckless and desensitized people. We have a president whose obvious third-rate intellect and long history of personal business failures were alone enough to dismiss him as a pampered lightweight – but still … Continue reading “Backtalk, December 3, 2005”

On the Sept. 27 Charlie Rose Show, interviewing New Yorker editor David Remnick, Rose brought up the question of what the United States should do in Iraq. Should we “get out” – or, as Remnick so delicately put it, should we “bolt”? Here was how Remnick ended their discussion, while talking about those who had … Continue reading “How (Not) to Withdraw from Iraq”

There is no real need for a line-by-line analysis of the speech delivered yesterday by the Trotskyite-in-chief: a succinct summary will suffice. The president’s response to the polls, which show overwhelming opposition to the Iraq war, is: screw you. To those Republican members of Congress who rightly fear for their seats as election day approaches, … Continue reading “Bush’s ‘Great Leap Forward’”

A new spotlight has been thrown on the army of private military operators in Iraq, following the emergence of footage that appears to show security guards shooting up civilian cars on "Route Irish," the notorious Baghdad Airport road. The so-called trophy video now circulating widely on the Internet shows a series of clips of shots … Continue reading “Trophy Video Could Prove Costly for Aegis”