Fallujah:City of Ghosts

Via Yoshie at Critical Montages, a quote from Iraqi doctor Ali Fadhil:The US military destroyed Falluja, but simply spread the fighters out around the country. They also increased the chance of civil war in Iraq by using their new national guard of Shias to suppress...

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Is it Something in the Water?

What are they putting in the water cooler over at the Cato Institute, once a bastion of reliably anti-interventionist scholarship and an invaluable resource for antiwar activists? I was reading Christopher Preble's op ed on "How to Exit Iraq," and everything was going...

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Spreading Democracy and Hypocrisy

At a time when Iraqi expats all over the world are registering to vote in the forthcoming election, here's a related situation, explored by James Bowen in the Irish Times, to ponder:The elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about is the disenfranchisement of...

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Investor’s Business Daily Goes Over the Edge

Investor's Business Daily wants the US to invade Syria:Regime change in Syria should be the ultimate goal of the civilized world.And they seem to have no illusions about it:A move against Syria would no doubt have given critics even more reason to make the Vietnam...

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Bush: Election win rules out accountability

From the Department of Creating Your Own Reality: President Bush said the public's decision to reelect him was a ratification of his approach toward Iraq and that there was no reason to hold any administration officials accountable for mistakes or misjudgments in...

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Kostunica in Kosovo

At the midnight liturgy on Christmas Eve in Belgrade, president Tadic appeared in the first row of worshippers, right next to Prince Alexander Karadjordjevic. Technically, the prince was all chummy with the man who usurped his birthright, since the republic was...

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The Pentagon’s Gay Bomb

The Pentagon is full of it-I mean full of them; good ideas, that is. Turns out, in 1994, they had a thought. That's newsworthy itself, but the thought was this; what we'll do is, we'll deliver a bomb to a site where there are a bunch of enemy troops. It will contain,...

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