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While Republicans voice growing unease over U.S. President George W. Bush’s vow to "stay the course" in Iraq, Democrats remain deeply divided about their position on a conflict that most of them privately describe as a major foreign policy disaster. Despite the plunging popularity of the war – and of Bush’s approval ratings – leading … Continue reading “Democrats Fumble Iraq Policy”

MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity SUBJECT: Recommendation: Try a Circle of "Wise Women" By way of reintroduction, we begin with a brief reminder of the analyses we provided you before the attack on Iraq. On the afternoon of Feb. 5, 2003, following Colin Powell’s speech before the UN Security Council … Continue reading “Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity: Memo to President”

PREAMBLE We the sons of Mesopotamia, land of the prophets, resting place of the holy imams, the leaders of civilization and the creators of the alphabet, the cradle of arithmetic: on our land, the first law put in place by mankind was written; in our nation, the most noble era of justice in the politics … Continue reading “Iraqi Draft Constitution”

Some American pundits are suggesting that a major transformation has been taking place in the direction of the Bush administration’s foreign policy. “The Bush Doctrine has collapsed, and the administration has consequently embraced realism,” Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs magazine, argued in a recent op-ed piece in the New York Times. Rose and other … Continue reading “Realism in Washington? Don’t Hold Your Breath”

You find anti-Semitism in the strangest of places – the Democratic Leadership Council, for example. Perusing the online pages of Blueprint, the DLC house organ, I came upon this filthy piece of anti-Semitic propaganda from Will Marshall, the head of the Progressive Policy Institute and a well-known DLC fellow traveler: "As they catalogue the administration’s … Continue reading “Dying for Israel”

President Bush has shown a remarkable persistence in defending his ongoing Iraq mission. "Our troops know that they’re fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere to protect their fellow Americans from a savage enemy. They know that if we do not confront these evil men abroad, we will have to face them one day in our … Continue reading “Trapped in His Own Roach Motel”

Serbia’s Hysterical Jacobins Last week, several charges against members of Slobodan Milosevic’s family were dropped by the Serbian judiciary, drawing howls of fury from the political and media opposition to the current government. "Milosevic is making a comeback!" was the common denominator of hysterical headlines. Within hours, the chorus was picked up by the Imperial … Continue reading “Malicious and Loud”

After a week or so of being backed into a corner by a mom with a few questions, George W. Bush is coming out fighting, we are told, with a new campaign to popularize the war. In a speech given on Monday to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, however, it seemed more like he was … Continue reading “Recanting the War”

On the April day in 2003 when American troops first entered Baghdad, historian Marilyn Young suggested that Operation Iraqi Freedom was “Vietnam on crack cocaine.” She wrote presciently at the time: “In less than two weeks, a 30-year-old vocabulary is back: credibility gap, seek and destroy, hard to tell friend from foe, civilian interference in … Continue reading “Military Families May Once Again Lead Us Out of War”

Cindy Sheehan is exactly what we needed. Following the 2004 elections, the antiwar movement was left in shambles, unable to recover from the malfunctions of the Democratic Party. MoveOn.org had capitulated its antiwar position by supporting John pro-war Kerry. United for Peace and Justice did not organize a single rally against the Iraq occupation. Indeed, … Continue reading “The Democrats and Cindy Sheehan”