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In an excellent piece in the UK’s premier conservative magazine, the Spectator, Michael Wolff, a Vanity Fair columnist who covered the invasion from Centcom headquarters, sums up the present moment in Iraq quite well: “All in all, after more than two years of combat and any number of cycles of triumphalism followed by dismal comeuppance, … Continue reading “How to End the War: Negotiations Now!”

“In this time of testing, our troops can know: The American people are behind you. Next week, our nation has an opportunity to make sure that support is felt by every soldier, sailor, airman, Coast Guardsman, and Marine at every outpost across the world. This Fourth of July, I ask you to find a way … Continue reading “They Died for Their Country”

On the propaganda front, it’s been another tough week for Washington’s war makers. But for them, where there’s hope there’s death. Let’s address the Iraq war directly: It’s too soon to know whether the Bush administration’s new PR offensive will do anything for you in terms of public opinion. But rest assured that the U.S. … Continue reading “Memo to the Iraq War”

Trading, Not Invading: US Hums Different Tune on Vietnam As someone who campaigned against the criminal American war in Vietnam, and has now lived here for eight years, this article gives an erroneous and unfair view of Vietnam today. As anyone who cares to visit or lives here can see every day, there is in … Continue reading “Backtalk, July 1, 2005”

Atrocity Porn, Human Rights, and Empire Three weeks after it went public, the video of Serb militiamen shooting six Muslims in the mountains of Bosnia has turned into a media monster. The supposedly "irrefutable" evidence of Serbian involvement in the Bosnian war or the "genocide" in Srebrenica is nothing of the sort, but that has … Continue reading “The Mask of Power”

Despite a strong delivery, solemn demeanor, and a respectful military audience, U.S. President George W. Bush’s effort to rally the nation behind his Iraq strategy through a prime-time televised speech at Fort Bragg, N.C., offered nothing new to reassure a restive public that the situation was coming under control. Rejecting increasingly bold calls by Democrats … Continue reading “Bush’s Iraq Speech Falls Flat”

As a congressional committee heard testimony last week that billions of Iraqi dollars – held in trust by the U.S. government – still cannot be accounted for, the inspector general charged with tracking the funds said he has referred three contractors to the Justice Department for possible criminal prosecutions for fraud. Stuart W. Bowen Jr., … Continue reading “Report: ‘Appalling Fraud and Greed’ in Iraq Contracts”

Oh, to be a gonzocon in denial! Has National Review online (NRO) become the National Backward Glance? Are all the rah-rah warmongers and Star Trek fans on "The Corner" beginning to feel the breath of history down the backs of their necks? Or, to paraphrase Tolkien, is Smeagol losing his nerve? Why, ragin’ Rich Lowry … Continue reading “Gonzocons Erase History”

The U.S. Air Force continued to carry out damage control Tuesday before a congressional committee looking into religious intolerance at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., which trains future officers. A military task force reported last week that there was no overt religious discrimination at the academy but that it found insensitivity by … Continue reading “Jesus Is Not Our Co-Pilot, Academy Insists”

The editors of the New York Times this morning feign shock that in his speech at Fort Bragg yesterday evening President George W. Bush would "raise the bloody flag of 9/11 over and over again to justify a war in a country that had nothing whatsoever to do with the terrorist attacks." Kudos for that … Continue reading “Stay the Crooked Course”