War Without End
Robert Higgs of The Independent Institute on Suppose You Wanted to Have a Permanent War: The war-on-terrorism rationale has proved congenial to the American public, who have swallowed bogus government assurances that the so-called...
Tagged: Foreign Policy & Military & War
You’re Free To Do As We Say
Jacob G. Hornberger of the Future of Freedom Foundation on The Ten Planks of the “Freedom” Manifesto: Now, tell me if I have this right: It doesn’t really matter whether President Bush and his...
Liberated to Death
Kamal Taha of Agence France-Presse on Shepherd sues over slaughter: An Iraqi shepherd is seeking $US200 million ($300 million) in damages from the United States military for the deaths of 17 members of his...
More on Impeachment
John Dean of FindLaw.com on Is Lying About the Reason for War an Impeachable Offense? President George W. Bush has got a very serious problem. Before asking Congress for a Joint Resolution authorizing the...
Terrorism Double Standards
The Houston Chronicle on GO RUDOLPH? Violence to support beliefs is not heroism, but terrorism: After Saturday's arrest of Eric Rudolph, the suspect charged with the bombing at the 1996 Olympics, attacks on abortion...
Now Where Did I Put That WMD Evidence?
Jim Lobe of Asia Times on The truth, the whole truth and nothing but …: When all three major US newsweeklies – Time, Newsweek and US News & World Report – run major features...
Mystical, Magical, Mysterious Weapons of Mass Destruction
CNN on Iraq war allies face tough questions on weapons: British Prime Minister Tony Blair faced a stormy House of Commons Wednesday, and pressure has mounted after suggestions that his office amended intelligence reports...
Sniper Fire and Stupid Accidents
Monica Davey of The New York Times on Some Back Home Wonder, 'Why Are People Dying?' Somewhere along the way, the military families had stopped bracing so hard for the possibility of terrible news....
Chemical Weapons and Dodging a Bullet
Ted Galen Carpenter of Cato on Why Didn't Iraq Use Chemical and Biological Weapons Against U.S. Troops? As U.S. troops continue to search for evidence of Iraq's alleged arsenal of chemical and biological weapons,...
Lying Bastards Under Microscope
Tim Harper of the Toronto Star on U.S. under pressure over intelligence about Iraq: Bush stunned many when he claimed on the eve of the G-8 Summit that his government had found weapons of...