Friday, January 6, 2006
The Quiet Death Of Freedom
On Christmas Eve, I dropped in on Brian Haw, whose hunched, pacing figure was just visible through the freezing fog. For four and a half years, Brian has camped in Parliament Square with a graphic display of photographs that show the terror and suffering imposed on Iraqi children by British...
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Thursday, January 5, 2006
DO THEY THINK IT'S WORTH IT??
The work in Iraq is difficult and it is dangerous. Like most Americans, I see the images of violence and bloodshed. Every picture is horrifying, and the suffering is real. Amid all this violence, I know Americans ask the question: Is the sacrifice worth it? It is worth it, and it is vital to the...
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Wednesday, January 4, 2006
CORRUPTION IN AMERICA! WELL, THERE'S A SURPRISE!!
Well, Mr Jack Abramoff has pleaded guilty as charged and, in his wheeling-dealing way, has cut a deal with the prosecutors to take a lighter sentance in return for a list of names. Names of members of Congress and members of their families, on both sides of the mythical divide, who have accepted...
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Wednesday, December 28, 2005
Fear Destroys What bin Laden Could Not
One wonders if Osama bin Laden didn't win after all. He ruined the America that existed on 9/11. But he had help. If, back in 2001, anyone had told me that four years after bin Laden's attack our president would admit that he broke U.S. law against domestic spying and ignored the Constitution -- and...
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Tuesday, December 27, 2005
Iraq and the Laws of War
On 19 March 2003 President Bush Jr. commenced his criminal war against Iraq by ordering a so-called decapitation strike against the President of Iraq in violation of a 48-hour ultimatum he had given publicly to the Iraqi President and his sons to leave the country. This duplicitous behavior violated...
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Saturday, December 17, 2005
Persian Fire
So now we know: Next time the fire will come in Iran. The blow will be delivered by proxy, but that will not spare the true perpetrator from the firestorm of blowback and unintended consequences that will follow. Even now, the gruesome deaths of many innocent people in many lands are growing in...
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Sunday, December 11, 2005
' When I pass protestors every day at Downing Street, and believe me, you name it, they protest against it, I may not like what they call me, but I thank God they can. That's called freedom.' Tony Blair, 7th April 2002 Yesterday, in stark contrast to this quote, Maya Anne Evans received a criminal...
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Wednesday, December 7, 2005
THE IRAQI WMD MYTH - HOW POLITICS CORRUPTS INTELLIGENCE
The recent exchange of vitriol between Republican and Democratic lawmakers over the issue of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and more specifically the disconnect between the intelligence data cited by the Bush administration as justification for invading Iraq and the resultant conclusion by the...
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Monday, November 21, 2005
U.S. Admits: Phosphorus May Have Killed Civilians in Iraq
The US military on Wednesday acknowledged it might have killed civilians in the Iraqi city of Falluja with white phosphorus munitions during the battle against insurgents a year ago. The Pentagon insisted civilians had not been targeted, however, and that it had avoided unnecessary casualties by...
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Friday, November 18, 2005
It Is Time To Bring Them Home
I'll be interested to see the reactions to this one. Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) is a former Marine, a Vietnam Veteran and the former Chairman of the House Committee on Defense Appropriations. He has also spent time in Iraq, and he's visited wounded troops at Bethesda and Walter Reed hospitals almost...
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