Yeah, that Boris Johnson of Lord Black’s stable purees the Hutton report:
Let us remember how this affair began. On Tuesday September 24, 2002, Tony Blair stood in the House and waved a document of which he had high hopes. “The threat of Saddam and weapons of mass destruction is not American or British propaganda,” he [...]
Jacob Sullum on the White House’s “noble” facades:
Last June New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman counted four reasons for the war: the stated reason (Saddam had WMDs and might give them to terrorists for an attack on the U.S.); the moral reason (saving Iraqis and their neighbors from a brutal, murderous tyranny); the real [...]
Andrew Higgins of The War Street Journal seems to think he’s stumbled across an original insight. In today’s opening installment of a series called “Power & Peril: America’s Supremacy and Its Limits,” Higgins profiles Morocco (sorry, not available for free). The Moroccans, of course, have democratized themselves, so the resentment of outsiders that we see [...]
The “Defense” Dept. actually endangers the United States — for example, its empire of bases brought a foreign power struggle to New York and DC a couple of years ago. (So now we have a Homeland Defense department. What were the other guys supposed to be defending?)
NASA, of course, is part of the whole [...]
The inability to make distinctions, or the belief that one’s audience is so unable. R. Emmett Tyrrell begins his defense of Oxyconservative Rush Limbaugh as follows:
Really, it is not very amazing that a government vendetta has been launched against Rush Limbaugh, the very successful and gifted talk show host. Governments have attempted to suppress criticism [...]
War planners not only are rethinking the unthinkable — how and when to use nuclear weapons — they’re discussing it. Out loud. Over drinks and cheese balls…
William M. Adler begins his frightening commentary with the opening night reception of Strategic Space 2003, a three-day national security conference held in Omaha, Nebraska this past September.
Three [...]
Does America really need “warrior” presidents, and what does that say about our country and its citizens. Why is a military background so important in candidates for the presidency, and would we be better off as a nation without that qualification? In this commentary, The Costs of Tough Talk, these topics are discussed.
It [...]
Cpl Jamie Brendan Murphy, 26, died in Afghanistan just a week before he was scheduled to return home.
Military personnel knocked on the Murphy family’s door at 5 a.m. to tell them their son had been killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan. Hours later, members of the Murphy family gathered at their parents’ home [...]
Take a two day trip with Dahr Jamail, a freelance journalist from Alaska, as he collects data on the present state of the water infrastructure in Iraq. Some excerpts:
Hilla, right near Babylon, has a water treatment plant and distribution center that is managed by Salmam Hassan Kadel, who is also the Chief Engineer. The [...]
….here are some great stories from links stuck near the bottom of the front page of Antiwar.com:
Anti-US Tunes Big Hits in Iraq:
The story is a bit frightening. Some of the lyrics call for continued resistance:
“The men of Fallujah are men of hard tasks,” Mr. al-Jenabi sings in a dialect decipherable only to people [...]
It’s an affront to every cynical bone and iconoclastic nerve in my body, but here goes: Jeremy Scahill kicks ass. Read this interview with Wesley Clark and tell me I’m wrong. Jeremy Scahill for the White House (press corps)!
Your moment of Zen, courtesy of John Ashcroft:
Weapons of mass destruction, including evil chemistry and evil biology, are all matters of great concern, not only to the United States, but also to the world community.
Think Ashcroft just let that slip? He has already used the phrase at least three times in public:
Sept. 10, 2002:
But we [...]
