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Bush Retribution. . .retired
career diplomat Joe Wilson tried to warn the administration of [the
false reports about Iraq's purchase of African uranium]
. . .
Wilson tells
NBC News the White House deliberately leaked his wife’s identity as a
covert CIA operative, damaging her future career and compromising past
missions after he criticized the administration on “Meet the Press” and
in the New York Times.
Andrea Mitchell
NBC NEWS on MSNBC 7/21/03
Bulletproof Evidence: Rumsfeld
promised that the Bush administration had "bulletproof evidence" of a
Qaeda-Iraq link, . . . the two highest-ranking Qaeda operatives in
custody, have told investigators that Mr. bin Laden shunned cooperation
with Saddam Hussein. A United Nations team investigating global ties of
the bin Laden group reported last month that they found no evidence of a
Qaeda-Iraq connection. . . .a review panel of retired intelligence
operatives put together by the [CIA] agency found that . . . "it was not
at all clear there was any coordination or joint activities."
DANIEL BENJAMIN and STEVEN SIMON, NY Tiems 7/20/03
3 Months before Bush State-of-the-Union:
Beginning in
October, the CIA warned the administration not to use the Niger claim in
public. CIA Director George J. Tenet personally persuaded deputy
national security adviser Stephen Hadley to omit it from President
Bush's Oct. 7 speech in Cincinnati about the threat posed by Saddam
Hussein.
Walter Pincus and Dana Priest, Washington Post
Friday, July 18, 2003;
Ideologue Thinking: From
his discussions, Perry [a highly respected Korean analyst] has concluded
the president simply won’t enter into genuine talks with Pyongyang’s
Stalinist government. “My theory is the reason we don’t have a policy on
this, and we aren’t negotiating, is the president himself,” Perry said.
“I think he has come to the conclusion that Kim
Jong Il is evil and loathsome and it is immoral to negotiate with him.”
Thomas E. Ricks And Glenn Kessler The Washington Post, 7/15/03
What you Know vs. Who you Know:
Unlike Burkle
[the rejected Sr. Advisor in Iraq for Health], Haveman, 60, was largely
unknown among international public health professionals. A social worker
by training, he has no medical degree or any formal instruction in
public health, and he hasn't been in the military. From 1991 to 2002, he
served in the cabinet of John Engler, the Republican governor of
Michigan, directing state health programs. Most of Haveman's recent
overseas experience had come through International Aid, a Christian
relief organization that provides health care and spreads the Gospel in
the Third World.
Michael Massing, Washington Post Outlook 7/6/03
There are some who feel like the
conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is,
bring them on."
George
W. Bush quoted by Loughlin, CNN 7/1/03
Another Surprise for Bush:
"Turkish
officials protested today what they said was the detention of 11 Turkish
soldiers by American forces in northern Iraq, where there are
indications that the Turks want to play a more aggressive role."
DEXTER FILKINS, NY Times
7/5/03
A successful
U.S. rebuilding of Iraq is the key to America's standing in the world
right now. But Mssrs. Bush and Rumsfeld seem to be treating it like some
lab test in which they can see how much nation-building they can buy
with as little investment as possible. As one Marine officer
said to me: There is something to be said for doing war on the cheap,
but if you want to do war on the cheap, "pick a country that doesn't
matter." Friedman,
NY Times 6/25/03
Pakistan
remains in Washington's good graces. Musharraf qualifies on virtually
every one of the counts used by George W. Bush and his administration to
justify deposing Saddam Hussein: the nuclear- equipped,
terrorism-sponsoring dictator who represses his own people, threatens
neighboring countries, and exports nuclear technology to America's
enemies.
Geov Parrish,
WorkingForChange.com
06/24/03
"After all,
suppose that a politician — or a journalist — admits to himself that Mr.
Bush bamboozled the nation into war. Well, launching a war on false
pretenses is, to say the least, a breach of trust. So if you admit to
yourself that such a thing happened, you have a moral obligation to
demand accountability — and to do so in the face not only of a powerful,
ruthless political machine but in the face of a country not yet ready to
believe that its leaders have exploited 9/11 for political gain. It's a
scary prospect. Yet if we can't find people willing to take the
risk — to face the truth and act on it — what will happen to our
democracy?"
Krugman, NY
Times 6/24/03
Secretary of State Colin Powell recently announced
that nearly all foreigners seeking entry to the United States would have
to undergo in-person interviews. . . . The problem is that . . . the new
term begins in August at many American universities. Thousands of
foreigners hoping to study here will not make it in time. A compromise
is needed. NY Times Editorial
6/23/03
" In the
speech in March, on the eve of war, Mr. Bush declared, "Intelligence
gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq
regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons
ever devised."
DAVID E. ROSENBAUM, NY Times 6/22/03
"It looked like a headline from
The Onion,
but it was from CNN and the story was real: “Missile Misses Target,
Officials Call It a Success.” . . .President Bush plans to start
deploying the missile-defense program in the fall of 2004. In order to
do so, he formally abrogated the 30-year-old Anti-Ballistic-Missile
Treaty. He has requested, and Congress has approved,
$9.1 billion for
the program next year,. . . Either the tests should be judged by the
standards of an advanced program, or the program should be scaled back
to what it really is, despite its advocates’ fervent efforts: an
interesting but still quite
primitive
research project."
MORE
Fred Kaplan, Slate.com
Imperial
Rule:
Rumsfeld
"threatened Belgium with a boycott and Germany and France registered
protests at the UN about Washington's continued opposition to the
international criminal court."
Ian Black in Brussels and Ewen
MacAskill
, The Guardian
NSC Aide Protests
"The focus on Iraq has robbed domestic security of manpower, brainpower
and money, he said. The Iraq war created fissures in the United States’
counterterrorism alliances, he said, and could breed a new generation of
al Qaeda recruits. Many of his g
overnment colleagues, he said, thought Iraq was an “ill-conceived and
poorly executed strategy.' ”
MORE Blumenfeld,
Washington
Post 6/16/03
Bush Retribution. . .retired
career diplomat Joe Wilson tried to warn the administration of [the
false reports about Iraq's purchase of African uranium]
. . .
Wilson tells
NBC News the White House deliberately leaked his wife’s identity as a
covert CIA operative, damaging her future career and compromising past
missions after he criticized the administration on “Meet the Press” and
in the New York Times.
Andrea Mitchell
NBC NEWS on MSNBC 7/21/03
Bulletproof Evicence: Rumsfeld
promised that the Bush administration had "bulletproof evidence" of a
Qaeda-Iraq link, . . . the two highest-ranking Qaeda operatives in
custody, have told investigators that Mr. bin Laden shunned cooperation
with Saddam Hussein. A United Nations team investigating global ties of
the bin Laden group reported last month that they found no evidence of a
Qaeda-Iraq connection. . . .a review panel of retired intelligence
operatives put together by the [CIA] agency found that . . . "it was not
at all clear there was any coordination or joint activities."
DANIEL BENJAMIN and STEVEN SIMON, NY Tiems 7/20/03
3 Months before Bush State-of-the-Union:
Beginning in
October, the CIA warned the administration not to use the Niger claim in
public. CIA Director George J. Tenet personally persuaded deputy
national security adviser Stephen Hadley to omit it from President
Bush's Oct. 7 speech in Cincinnati about the threat posed by Saddam
Hussein.
Walter Pincus and Dana Priest, Washington Post
Friday, July 18, 2003;
Ideologue Thinking: From
his discussions, Perry [a highly respected Korean analyst] has concluded
the president simply won’t enter into genuine talks with Pyongyang’s
Stalinist government. “My theory is the reason we don’t have a policy on
this, and we aren’t negotiating, is the president himself,” Perry said.
“I think he has come to the conclusion that Kim
Jong Il is evil and loathsome and it is immoral to negotiate with him.”
Thomas E. Ricks And Glenn Kessler The Washington Post, 7/15/03
What you Know vs. Who you Know:
Unlike Burkle
[the rejected Sr. Advisor in Iraq for Health], Haveman, 60, was largely
unknown among international public health professionals. A social worker
by training, he has no medical degree or any formal instruction in
public health, and he hasn't been in the military. From 1991 to 2002, he
served in the cabinet of John Engler, the Republican governor of
Michigan, directing state health programs. Most of Haveman's recent
overseas experience had come through International Aid, a Christian
relief organization that provides health care and spreads the Gospel in
the Third World.
Michael Massing, Washington Post Outlook 7/6/03
There are some who feel like the
conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is,
bring them on."
George
W. Bush quoted by Loughlin, CNN 7/1/03
Another Surprise for Bush:
"Turkish
officials protested today what they said was the detention of 11 Turkish
soldiers by American forces in northern Iraq, where there are
indications that the Turks want to play a more aggressive role."
DEXTER FILKINS, NY Times
7/5/03
A successful
U.S. rebuilding of Iraq is the key to America's standing in the world
right now. But Mssrs. Bush and Rumsfeld seem to be treating it like some
lab test in which they can see how much nation-building they can buy
with as little investment as possible. As one Marine officer
said to me: There is something to be said for doing war on the cheap,
but if you want to do war on the cheap, "pick a country that doesn't
matter." Friedman,
NY Times 6/25/03
Pakistan
remains in Washington's good graces. Musharraf qualifies on virtually
every one of the counts used by George W. Bush and his administration to
justify deposing Saddam Hussein: the nuclear- equipped,
terrorism-sponsoring dictator who represses his own people, threatens
neighboring countries, and exports nuclear technology to America's
enemies.
Geov Parrish,
WorkingForChange.com
06/24/03
"After all,
suppose that a politician — or a journalist — admits to himself that Mr.
Bush bamboozled the nation into war. Well, launching a war on false
pretenses is, to say the least, a breach of trust. So if you admit to
yourself that such a thing happened, you have a moral obligation to
demand accountability — and to do so in the face not only of a powerful,
ruthless political machine but in the face of a country not yet ready to
believe that its leaders have exploited 9/11 for political gain. It's a
scary prospect. Yet if we can't find people willing to take the
risk — to face the truth and act on it — what will happen to our
democracy?"
Krugman, NY
Times 6/24/03
Secretary of State Colin Powell recently announced
that nearly all foreigners seeking entry to the United States would have
to undergo in-person interviews. . . . The problem is that . . . the new
term begins in August at many American universities. Thousands of
foreigners hoping to study here will not make it in time. A compromise
is needed. NY Times Editorial
6/23/03
" In the
speech in March, on the eve of war, Mr. Bush declared, "Intelligence
gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq
regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons
ever devised."
DAVID E. ROSENBAUM, NY Times 6/22/03
"It looked like a headline from
The Onion,
but it was from CNN and the story was real: “Missile Misses Target,
Officials Call It a Success.” . . .President Bush plans to start
deploying the missile-defense program in the fall of 2004. In order to
do so, he formally abrogated the 30-year-old Anti-Ballistic-Missile
Treaty. He has requested, and Congress has approved,
$9.1 billion for
the program next year,. . . Either the tests should be judged by the
standards of an advanced program, or the program should be scaled back
to what it really is, despite its advocates’ fervent efforts: an
interesting but still quite
primitive
research project."
MORE
Fred Kaplan, Slate.com
Imperial
Rule:
Rumsfeld
"threatened Belgium with a boycott and Germany and France registered
protests at the UN about Washington's continued opposition to the
international criminal court."
Ian Black in Brussels and Ewen
MacAskill
, The Guardian
NSC Aide Protests
"The focus on Iraq has robbed domestic security of manpower, brainpower
and money, he said. The Iraq war created fissures in the United States’
counterterrorism alliances, he said, and could breed a new generation of
al Qaeda recruits. Many of his g
overnment colleagues, he said, thought Iraq was an “ill-conceived and
poorly executed strategy.' ”
MORE Blumenfeld,
Washington
Post 6/16/03
Aid to Kosovo per capita is still 25
times higher than aid to Afghanistan. Without European and Japanese
help, aid to Iraq is destined to be too little, too late.
Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek
American Empire:
"Not since Rome has one nation loomed so large
above the others. Indeed the word "empire" has come out of the closet.
Respected analysts of both left and right are beginning to refer to
"American empire" approvingly as the dominant narrative of the 21st
century." Nye, Washington Post
5/25/03
On Fanatics: "Who
else but a fanatic would have made the outrageous claim, as the president did
last Friday, just four days after the deadly reemergence of al-Qaeda in Riyadh,
that "the United States people are more secure, the world is going to be more
peaceful"? More peaceful than what? The West Bank?"
Huffington, Working For Change
Bush, supporter of international law,
invokes Hague Regulations of 1907: "The
Hague document says, "The authority of the legitimate power having in fact
passed into the hands of the occupier, the latter shall take all the measures in
his power to restore, and ensure, as far as possible, public order and
safety...." And so American soldiers are becoming the new centurions,
charged with pacifying a disorderly realm. And Iraq, which was to be the model
for democratization in the Middle East, joins other Arabs and Muslims who are
hostile to America." Daniel
Schorr, The Christian Science Monitor. 5/23/03
On Foreign Policy Decisions Based
on Helping Your Business Partners "It's remarkable
there's been so little attention paid to the Halliburton contracts," said
Mr. Waxman. In addition to doing business in countries that have sponsored
terrorism, the congressman said, Halliburton has been accused of
overcharging the U.S. government for work it did in the 1990's. And last
year the company agreed to pay a $2 million settlement to ward off
possible criminal charges for price gouging.
MORE
BOB HERBERT, NY Times, 5/22/03
On "mini nukes"
RICHARD BUTLER,
FORMER UN CHIEF ARMS INSPECTOR:
"I can't
overstate the seriousness of it. It is absolutely shocking. If this
becomes the policy of the United States Government, if it passes through
the Congress and the Bush Administration, which wants it to be the policy,
if it implements it, it will involve the United States walking away from,
tearing up, solemn obligations that it's made for 30 years now under
international law" MARK
DAVIS,
Transcript of an interview on Australia's Dateline on SBC on ConterPunch
"If it is true that this Administration
deliberately, from the very beginning, understood that the best way to mobilize
the American people was to present Saddam as a direct national-security threat
to us, without having the evidence beforehand that he was, that's, well,
frankly, lying. That's the worst kind of deceit a President can practice"
MORE.HERSH,
The New Yorker Online
"the
Niger mining program was structured so that the uranium diversion had been
impossible. The envoy's debunking of the forgery was passed around the
administration and seemed to be accepted — except that President Bush and
the State Department kept citing it anyway."
Kristof,
NY Times
"Pentagon
adviser Richard Perle briefed an investment seminar on ways to profit from
conflicts in Iraq and North Korea just weeks after he received a
top-secret government briefing on the crises in the two countries, the Los
Angeles Times reported on Wednesday."
AP on
MSNBC
"Secretary
of Defense Donald Rumsfeld circulated a memo suggesting that Washington
and Beijing together bring down the North Korean government . . . "That
would be truly insane," said Steven Bosworth, a former ambassador to
Seoul. He added, "For us to unilaterally attack North Korea would in my
judgment be one of the most immoral acts conceivable."
MORE
KRISTOF NY
Time
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Texas Neo-Cons
Faced with a $10 billion deficit, the [Texas]
Republicans decided to outlaw gay marriage. Then they kicked 250,000 poor
children off a health insurance program that is mostly paid for by the
feds in the first place. Picking on the weakest, the frailest, the
youngest and oldest Texans has been the sport of choice this session. When
the handicapped came to the capital to protest cuts in their services, the
governor had them arrested.
Ivans, Washington
Post
Free Mike
Hawash!
"Mike's friends and those who know him think
the idea that Mike would have fought for the Taliban or traveled to
Afghanistan is absurd. . . . A protest is scheduled for Tuesday
morning outside the courthouse where his arraignment will take place" C|Net
News
 s
the war began, members of the House of Representatives gave speech after
speech praising our soldiers, and passed a resolution declaring their
support for the troops. Then they voted to slash veterans' benefits . .
.the list of cuts — in child nutrition, medical care for children,
child-care assistance and support for foster care and adoption (leave no
child behind!) — was clearly designed to suggest that the budget can be
balanced on the backs of the poor, . . . As long as the nation is at war,
then, it will be hard to get the public to notice what the flagwavers are
doing behind our backs.
KRUGMAN NY Times
MORE
Rather than a smoking gun, inspectors may wind up
finding a bullet here, a barrel there and a chamber somewhere else. That makes
the credibility of the people doing the inspecting even more important. And it
makes President Bush's decision not to invite international inspectors to
monitor the job seem even more misguided.
NY
Times Editorial
Clear Channel can say the Dixie Chicks are tools of
Saddam if it wants to, but it should not be allowed to kill the livelihood
of any recording artist based on politics.
BOB EDWARDS
Special to The
Courier-Journal
"Muslims were upset that Franklin
Graham, who had condemned Islam as evil, preached at the Pentagon last
week. Now comes word that the White House held a private briefing for 141
evangelical Christian leaders March 27 to discuss the Iraq war and other
subjects.
Those invited included Jerry Falwell, who apologized
last year for calling the prophet Muhammad a "terrorist," and broadcaster Marlin
Maddoux, who has
proclaimed
an "irrefutable
connection" between Islam and terror."
MORE Dana
Milbank, The Washington Post
On almost every
front,
President Bush's domestic agenda is a disaster,
a national train wreck that must be headed off for the
country's well-being.
NY Times Editorial
[The Bush] domestic
agenda is a joke.
There is no program — except for the never-ending quest
for unwarranted (and unwanted, if the polls are right)
tax cuts and a quietly corrosive effort to undermine
existing government rules and regulations. Bush faces
rebellion by members of his own party in Congress who
are dismayed by the superficial nature of his
Administration. "When was the last time the White House
took an active leadership position on anything?" a
Senate Republican asked last week, and then answered the
question. "The education bill, two years ago. We get
general 'principles' but no detailed proposals, no
guidance, no leadership." Klein,
Time
Should we care abut World
Opinion?
"Unilateral Iraq Action Would Be Questionable-Annan" U.N. Chief -
Reuters
“Upwards
of $20 billion a year for several years for the requirements of
post-conflict peace and stability as well as reconstruction in post-war
Iraq,” said Eric Schwartz, director of the post-war Iraq task force at
the Council of Foreign Relations. Schwartz’s estimate is based on 75,000
U.S. troops on the ground" MSNBC
MORE
What is the U.S. plan for Iraq's Political Future?
"It is like I am seeing the same movie twice and
no one is trying to fix the problem. What was promised to Afghans with
the collapse of the Taliban was a new life of hope and change. But what
was delivered? Nothing. Everyone is back in business."
Krugman quoting Hamid Karzai's brother, Ahmed
Wali Karzai.
MORE
The scary thing is that this slash-and-burn
approach to governing may continue to work for Mr. Bush's people because
the initial triumphs get all the headlines. Unfortunately, the rest of
the world has to live in the wreckage they leave behind. KRUGMAN,
NY Times
MORE
Undersecretary of State Marc Grossman
remarked at a news conference recently that he would be delighted if a
new Iraqi government's first act was to recognize Israel. But is it
really likely that a majority of Iraqis, if allowed to express their
opinions freely, would push now for recognition of Israel?
Corothers, Washington Post
MORE
"If the Iraqi people loved Saddam Hussein, the American military
wouldn't be able to last one day in Iraq. Not one day. We would attack
them.
"If Bush just wants to get rid of Saddam, that's fine, but if he is
going to try go alter our basic institutions, like our religion and
traditions and culture, then he will have no support."
Sultan Mahdi, NY Times
MORE
[Finding the next Iraqi leader]
"is not going to be easy. Because the ideal Iraqi we
are looking for is one who will say no to Saddam Hussein, no to Nasserism,
no to tyranny and no to any permanent U.S. presence in Iraq."FRIEDMAN
, NY Times
MORE
What will
happen to U.S. Freedoms if others fear us?
Thomas Dewey, the Republican
candidate, campaigned on the theme that Franklin Roosevelt was a "tired
old man." As far as I've been able to ascertain, the Roosevelt
administration didn't accuse Dewey of hurting morale by questioning the
president's competence. After all, democracy — including the right to
criticize — was what we were fighting for.
Krugman, NY Times
MORE
How well is the Bush Administration
winning friends in the world?
HERBERT, NY Times
On U.S. media smarts with the
international press: "there's a Beijing-style rah-rah
self-righteousness, too earnest by half, so the propaganda fizzles, even
from a $250,000 stage." KRISTOF,
NY Times
MORE
R.
James Woolsey, the former director of central intelligence, said
for the fourth time in a hundred
years, this country and its allies are on the march . . . In other
words: crusade, anyone?
From Corn in The Nation
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How much will war cost?
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Iraq War Cost Estimates
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Per Iraqi
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Per American
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Per person in World
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Optimistic
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$99 billion *
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$4,125
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$341
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$16
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High
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$1,924 billion *
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$80,167
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$6,628
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$305
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Moderate
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$242
billion **
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$10,083
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$834
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$38
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*
William D.. Nordhaus, Dept. of Economics at Yale (Bush Alma Mater)
**
Costanzo.org estimate
Population: World --
6,315 million; U.S. = 290 million, Iraq = 24 million
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 Allow
the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it
necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so, whenever he may
choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose -- and you allow him to
make war at pleasure. If today, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary
to invade Canada, to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop
him? You may say to him, 'I see no probability of the British invading us' but
he will say to you, 'Be silent; I see it, if you don't. . . The provision of the
Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I
understand it, by the following reasons: kings had always been involving and
impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that
the good of the people
was the object.'"
-- Abraham Lincoln
More War Quotes
What do former U.S. Presidents
say?
Abraham Lincoln
2002 Nobel Peace Price Winner on "Just War — or a Just War?"
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Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,
signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and not clothed."
--Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th U.S. President
Education
Policy
Information
Technology
Ethics
and Religion
Science
and the Universe
Business
and Finance
World
Politics 9/2/02
Turkey wants control of the Kurds in Northern Iraq
Iran may get nukes, ally with Sunni Muslims in
southern Iraq
U.S. Bill of Rights is threatened
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New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq to bar the station's
reporters NY Times
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Greed could imperil war goals
Korean war could reignite
Other Islamic nations could become active
adversaries
Humanitarian crisis could be blamed on U.S.
U.S. and world economies could be severely
damaged.
The
Arrogant
Empire" Newsweek
What does big oil want in Iraq?
". . .America's leadership has lost touch with reality.
. ."
PAUL KRUGMAN in the New York Times
What does big oil want
in Iraq?
"we need to finish the peace better than we started
the war."
Friedman, NY Times
the great challenge of Iraq has seemed to be less
about winning the war than about securing the peace
NY Times Editorrial
Refugees
DisasterRelieve.org (Red Cross)
The
administration has begun farming out contracts, and politically
connected firms like
Halliburton are among the
early winners. This looks like naked favoritism and undermines the
Bush administration's portrayal of the war as a campaign for
disarmament and democracy, not lucre. NY
Times MORE
"It was known by the fall of 1983 that Iraq
had used chemical weapons against Iran. That did not prevent the
U.S. from pursuing improved relations with Saddam, or curb the
enthusiasm for the Aqaba pipeline — a project promoted by a
company that had given the Reagan administration not just its
secretary of state, but also its secretary of defense . . . " A
previously classified State Department memo that is contained in a
report on the pipeline by the Institute for Policy Studies in
Washington described how Mr.
Rumsfeld broached the subject
during a private meeting with Iraq's foreign minister, Tariq Aziz. HERBERT,
NY Times
MORE
"The
images you are seeing on television, you are seeing over and over
and over, and it's the same picture of some person walking out of
some building with a vase, and you see it 20 times and you think,
‘My goodness, were there that many vases?'” Rumsfeld
said.
Newsday
Big Roll for
oil firms
after war
MS
NBC, Reuters
Wolfowitz says it will be more than 6 months
after the war ends before Iraqi's will have their own government,
in the meantime,
The danger is not that Iraq will turn into
another Vietnam but that after our victory, it could turn into
another Lebanon or Gaza.
KRISTOF, NY Times
Hospital looters stealing incubators and
drugs
Telegraph, U.K.
What
a Shiite Stabbing Says About Post-Saddam Perils
Can Pentagon-backed Chalabi lead Iraq?
Pittsburg Post-Gazette
It is like Enron telling the government that
Bush was out to get them." From
Kareem Fahim in the Village Voice
MORE
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D-Day
Some
35 years ago Israel won a war in Six Days. It saw its victory as
self-legitimating. Its neighbors saw it otherwise, and Israel has been
trapped in the Seventh Day ever since — never quite able to transform its
dramatic victory into a peace that would make Israelis feel more secure.
More than 50 years ago
America won a war against European fascism, which it followed up with a
Marshall Plan and nation-building, both a handout and a hand up — in a way
that made Americans welcome across the world. Today is a D-Day for our
generation. May our leaders have the wisdom of their predecessors from the
Greatest Generation.
Read More
by THOMAS L.
FRIEDMAN, NY Times
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