WMD AWOL from Bush Speech

Bush celebrated the 1 year anniversary of his vendetta invasion of Iraq by giving a speech in which WMD was mentioned once. Here it is: Our coalition is also confronting the dangerous combination of outlaw states, terrorist groups and weapons of mass destruction. WMD...

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Our Last War on Spain

Murray Polner reminds us of the continuing relevance of William Graham Sumner, particularly his 1898 essay "The Conquest of the United States by Spain." Some choice snippets from Sumner: It has become almost a doctrine with us that patriotism requires that we should...

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Maybe I Misread

Keep those filthy big-spending liberals from giving WMDs to the kids and STDs to the Islamofascists. Or something like that. Make checks payable to the Boy Bombardier.

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Lying by Inertia

From Serbian daily "Blic," March 19, 2004 (UNMIK summary) A woman, representative of UNMIK Police told Blic on condition of anonymity that she could only repeat the statement given by the spokesman of UN Police Derek Chappell about the tragic death of three Albanian...

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Arab Press Snubs Powell

As Powell walked into a press conference in Baghdad today, an Arab journalist stood to read a statement of protest for the killing by American troops of two Iraqi journalists, cameraman Ali Abdul Aziz and reporter Ali al-Khatib at a checkpoint yesterday. "We declare...

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Pristina: All Serbs are gone

According to Orthodox priest Miroslav Popadic, special units of UNMIK police evacuated him and the last handful of Pristina Serbs to the besieged enclave of Gracanica. Burned out of their ghetto, they had sought shelter in the parish hall basement next to the torched...

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Gary Nolan?

Apparently, Gary Nolan is the Libertarian candidate for U.S. president. I'm a libertarian (I don't belong to the LP) and I have no clue who this guy is. What happened to this Russo guy? Last I heard, he was....uh....running. To be honest, I lost interest in this...

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Irony MOAB

"In a morning meeting on Wednesday, Mr. Bremer warned the Iraqi leaders that they risked isolating themselves and their country if they continued to snub the United Nations." NY Times

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