Tagged: Foreign Policy & Military & War
Shaun Waterman of UPI on 9/11 report: No Iraq link to al-Qaida: The report of the joint congressional inquiry into the suicide hijackings on Sept. 11, 2001, to be published Thursday, reveals U.S. intelligence...
Dana Milbank and Walter Pincus of The Washington Post on Bush Aides Disclose Warnings From CIA – Oct. Memos Raised Doubts on Iraq Bid: The CIA sent two memos to the White House in...
Gene Callahan on We Already Know the Administration Was Lying: I think it is important to be fair to those one criticizes, so I want to consider two scenarios that might excuse those who...
Sheldon Richman on Presidential Sophists on the Loose: The controversy over President Bush’s State of the Union allegation about President Saddam Hussein of Iraq and African uranium is a lesson in how to distinguish...
Elaine Cassel on How Goes the Occupation of Iraq? Ask the Iraqi People: Americans and the "coalition of the willing" supposedly went into Iraq to make them free. Free for what? Free to have...
Daniel McCarthy at LewRockwell.com Blog on Military Slavery: I don't think the draft is likely to return, not short of World War III. Conscription simply elicits far too much resistance. The War Party can...
Thomas R. Eddlem of The New American on War Under False Pretense: President Bush was able to play up the uranium issue only by ignoring his own intelligence agencies. According to CIA Director George...
Richard Cohen of The Washington Post on …Unshakable Faith: The favorite Bush grammatical construction is the tautology: Something is bad because it's bad. A synaptic leap is made in which a certain cause will...
Associated Press on Bomb kills U.S. soldier, Iraqi interpreter: A roadside bomb exploded near a U.S. military convoy in north Baghdad today, killing an American soldier and his Iraqi interpreter. Three other members of...
The Independent Institute has posted a transcript from a June 25, 2003 Policy Forum on Preemptive War Strategy: A New U.S. Empire? at this location. Interesting reading.