New Play Explores Genesis of Iraq War

Previews of David Hare’s new play Stuff Happens began last night at New York City’s Public Theater. The play explores the reasons for the war in Iraq using characters ripped from the headlines; actors actually play Bush, Powell, Blair, Rice and Rumsfeld, transforming...

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Pipes gets it wrong

when he says,"I wish Iraq well, but I as a foreign policy analyst from the United States am not willing to take responsibility for what takes place in Iraq."It is your responsibility, not simply for being an American, but because you pushed it.

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Margolis gets it right

when he says,"The only way to drive U.S. influence out of the Muslim world, bin Laden has long maintained, is to tie it down in a series of small wars that bleed it financially. The nearly $10-billion-a-month wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are doing just that. Iraq, as...

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This Man’s Army

Via Scott Horton, the human rights attorney (no relation): Eric Haney, the former command sergeant major of Delta Force, and a key advisor to CBS’s program “The Unit” gives an interview to the LA Daily News and puts it straight.“Q: What do you make of the torture...

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Robert Dreyfuss Interview

Tuesday afternoon I talked with investigative reporter Robert Dreyfuss about America's switching sides in the Iraq civil war and the likelihood of conflict with Iran. Click here to download the mp3. (about 40 minutes)

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A Lie Supreme

In a brief on the Hamdan case before the Supreme Court, Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) argue that a a bill passed last December invalidates Hamdan's suit. They cite their own remarks in the Congressional Record during the debate on the Detainee...

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Simple Yet Profound

Perhaps you already thought of it, and perhaps I should have thought of it, but one of my readers (who wishes to remain anonymous) recently gave me something simple yet profound about Iraq's WMD: The thought that occurred to me from the first mention of WMD's and...

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Domenech Tricks

As the wingers turn on serial plagiarist Ben Domenech – with the sort of righteous indignation others might reserve for oh, I don't know, presidents who lie us into war – Michelle Malkin shares her pain:As someone who has worked in daily journalism for 14 years, I...

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Bush’s War is Anti-Christian

Many things about Bush's war are anti-Christian, but the destruction of Christianity in Iraq is near the top of the list. Writing in the current issue of Chronicles magazine, Wayne Allensworth reports how Christians in Iraq have faced contiinuous attacks since the...

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Good to Know There Are No Hard Feelings

Ukraine will hold parliamentary elections on Sunday. From the AP:Opinion polls show no party will get a majority, which means Ukraine's future government will be determined by who joins in a coalition. A strong showing would give [Yulia Tymoshenko] the upper hand in...

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