Wait for him to hit you, then kick his...
"You hit the other guy, but only if you know he's
going to hit you," Gwynne
Dyer quotes Henry Hyde. He is summarizing the novel
idea that just war is defensive. Bush's paranoia
about WMDs and "Hitleritis"is
blinding him from reality: Saddam is a weakling, with
two SCUDs, a slingshot and some oil.
I'm
not telling!!!
...cries
John Ashcroft to those who hound him about the condition
of the men detained after September 11th. Hey, leave Jonnie
alone, he only forgot about the Constitution!
"Clouds of Glory" clouding Bush's brain
The
president "seems to think more about war than peace,"
opines
James P. Pinkerton, who explains that after 9/11,
the big business (read corporate-cronyist) wing of the
Republican party was eclipsed by empire-builders. Hmm,
ever think the two go hand-in-hand? *cough*
oil
*cough*...
American
virute...ha!
As a matter of routine, U.S. journalists are too discreet
to bring up unpleasant pieces of history that don't fit
in with the slanted jigsaw picture of American virtue.
Norman
Solomon highlights the ignorance of the press: Saddam
can't trust inspectors when the ones in the past were
US spies. Who can blame him, especially Americans
who worry
that their plumber is a CIA spook.
Frightened of doves
Micah
Holmquist reveals the "things in the night"
that frighten Andrew
Sullivan. From newspapers reporting the same story
(gasp!) to "doves" (those who are cautious with
bombs) in the military, Sullivan better not read antiwar.com
- a house full of real doves.
Chicken-hawks out to roost
Justin
Raimondo
explores a paradox in DC: the Pentagon, for once,
is arguing for nonintervention while the War Cabinet (AKA:
Bush's Barn o' Chicken-Hawks) screams for bombs, troops,
nukes and Saddam's head. But what will the former do with
all its
new allowance?