May 2006
February 2006
TomPaine.com - Washington's Iraq Blindness
The Iraq that exists in President Bush’s imagination and the real Iraq, the one in which 160,000 U.S. troops occupy a nation sliding into civil war, have never seemed further apart.
Bloggerheads- Reactions to State Of The Union 2006
Reactions to Bush's State Of The Union 2006 Address from around the blogs
January 2006
Whiskey Bar: Twilight of the Neocons?
History, Ismael Reed once said, is the story of warfare between secret societies. I'm not ready to go that far, but I think it's fair to say the history of U.S. foreign policy over the past forty years has been the story of the war between two not-so-secr
December 2005
James Wolcott: Intelligent Design: Opiate of the Dummies
Wielding a sword of truth and a surgical scalpel of reason (he's quite ambidextrous), NRO's John Derbyshire pierces the fatty deposits of bad faith in the postures of religious piety by certain conservative eggheads.
Iraq's Death Squads
OF ALL THE bloodshed in Iraq, none may be more disturbing than the campaign of torture and murder being conducted by U.S.-trained government police forces.
Mr. Bush, have I got an exit strategy for you
In view of his miserable record, his arrogant lack of good judgment and his failure to understand the gravity of his record, President Bush (and Vice President Dick Cheney) should be shown the exit door with a proviso to never darken the Oval Office again
May 2005
The Quagmire: As the Iraq War Drags on, it's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Vietnam
. Two years after the U.S. invasion, Iraq is perched on the brink of civil war. Months after the election, the new Iraqi government remains hunkered down inside the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, surviving only because it is defended by thousands of U.S
April 2005
Ian Rutledge in the Financial Times:
US appears to have fought war for oil and lost it
Speech by Cindy Sheehan made at Riverside Church -- where Martin Luther King gave his "Beloved Community" speech
Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs....gangsters who lust after fortunes and power; never caring that their addictions are at the expense of our loved ones, and the blood of innocent people near and far.
February 2005
Press Impostor
How is it that an administration that screened thousands of people for attendance at Bush campaign rallies repeatedly let a fake reporter into the sanctorum of the White House pressroom under a false name? Who was running that background check?
January 2005
Ignore the vanity of the Bushites, America's might is draining away: Matthew Parris
For many decades America’s share of the world’s economic output has been in decline. America’s modesty in 1945 understated its muscle, Bushite vanity overstates it today.
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