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September 2003

Now The Blame Game Starts

Tuesday, 30 September 2003 11:59 P GMT-07

Don't expect anyone in the Bush administration to admit that their plan for attacking Iraq, quickly turning the country into a grateful democracy, and paying all the costs with Iraq's oil , has gone awry. The "grand plan" of the neo-c

The Clark Critique

Saturday, 27 September 2003 11:59 P GMT-07

I'm reprinting here an excerpt from Gen. Wesley Clark's book, Winning Modern Wars: Iraq, Terrorism, and the American Empire, that was printed in the 9/29/ issue of Newsweek magazine. I haven't yet decided who I would s

"Prisoners of Our Own Beliefs"

Friday, 26 September 2003 11:59 P GMT-07

Bush and his supporters have lied to us from the beginning about Iraq. After three separate rounds of "weapons inspections" -- one by the UN and two by the U.S. -- there is still no sign of WMD in Iraq. (I wonder how long we'll have to wa

How We 'Misread the Table' In Iraq

Friday, 26 September 2003 11:17 A GMT-07

Jay Bookman, writing for Cox News Service, had this perceptive column published in Liberal Opinion Week, 9/15/03, comparing the Bush administration's policies in Iraq to high-stakes poker with it's bluffing and gambling. "The player that c

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Right-Wingers Just Don't Get It

Wednesday, 24 September 2003 3:27 P GMT-07

Molly Ivins notes the short memories of hard-right ideologues who helped give us 8 years (and counting) of vicious Clinton-hating, but now whine about "Bush-haters," all the while professing great surprise and seeming to have difficulty comprehending

A Tale of Two Researchers

Tuesday, 23 September 2003 4:51 P GMT-07

An interesting account of how concerns about the accuracy of statements by two researchers on opposite sides of the gun issue, have had totally different outcomes. Up to now, at least. As you might expect, the NRA led a "lynch mob" after

Unilateralism: A Failed Policy

Saturday, 20 September 2003 5:40 P GMT-07

There are still more fine articles that you can read at http://www.prospect.org the website of The American Prospect (TAP), but this will likely be the last one I post, at least for now. A great essay on how the unilateralist, go it

Bush v Gore Haunts CA Recall

Saturday, 20 September 2003 2:20 P GMT-07

Here's another interesting article from the web page of The American Prospect (TAP) http://www.prospect.org . Sean Wilentz looks at the box the California recall election has created for the Republican Supreme Court. The argume

Radical Neocons Set Foreign Policy

Saturday, 20 September 2003 11:03 A GMT-07

The current website of The American Prospect (TAP) http://www.prospect.org has an especially good group of articles. I'm posting two of them today (this is the 2nd) and wish I had time to post them all. (I may get another

"Sleeping With The Devil" - The Bush-Saudi Connection, Part II

Saturday, 20 September 2003 9:55 A GMT-07

A month or so ago I posted a blog on the Bush-Saudi "connection". A couple of days ago a reader posted a comment to that blog. Identifying himself as "Omen Nemo" the comment was a long and somewhat rambling polemic on this issue. In

Bush and Napoleon: The Fatal Flaw

Friday, 19 September 2003 11:59 P GMT-07

I recently finished reading Robin Neilland's book, "Wellington and Napoleon", and was struck by some of the parallels between Napoleon's campaign in Spain and Bush's invasion of Iraq. Here are a few excerpts from the book on what Napoleon

Serious Defects In Bush Doctrine

Friday, 19 September 2003 5:36 P GMT-07

Buying into the Bush Doctrine is a course fraught with danger to our country, our values and our liberties. What is the Bush Doctrine? Jay Bookman, writing in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution recently, does a good job of analyzing the doc

Is Bush Using Bribes To Get Help in Iraq?

Friday, 19 September 2003 11:59 A GMT-07

The Associated Press carried this story today of an interview with Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA). In the interview Kennedy states that the Bush administration war in Iraq was a "fraud" and indicates that its current policy in Iraq is "adrift."&

From Superpower To Supplicant

Thursday, 18 September 2003 6:18 P GMT-07

There's a kind of poetic justice, I suppose, in watching the change in the U.S. approach to the UN and to countries like France, Germany, China and Russia. We wrote off the UN as "irrelevant" to the "new" world that we thought we cou

The Bush Plan For The U.S.

Thursday, 18 September 2003 4:28 P GMT-07

The American Friends Service Committee has published online an Iraq War Timeline. You can access it at: http://www.afsc.org/iraq/guide/war-timeline.htm I'm posting here only the Introduction. It succinctly summarizes the Bush admini

What Is U.S. Doing In Eurasia?

Thursday, 18 September 2003 1:00 P GMT-07

If you think U.S. armed forces abroad are only in Afganistan and Iraq, think again. Actually, our armed forces are spread all over the world. I'd like to see a list of all the countries where we have military forces stationed. I thi

Hawking The Deficit

Thursday, 18 September 2003 12:22 P GMT-07

Another piece received from Working Assets/Working For Change. E.J. Dionne takes a look at the wierd priorities of the Bush administration. Pouring billions and billions into the morass we created in Iraq (I see by today's news that he wa

Time For A Reality Check

Wednesday, 17 September 2003 5:45 P GMT-07

Here's Molly Ivins on her own. Running her own reality check on how things look for our country, and why, once you get beyond the hollow rhetoric of our "leaders." We're all in this together and as she says, the government is really not "

Fair And Balanced Look At O'Reilly

Wednesday, 17 September 2003 12:25 P GMT-07

I've taken a few shots at Fox News' propagandist, Bill O'Reilly, but nothing compared to the shot Fox News took at him by filing the silly law suit (so much for the Republican's being opposed to "frivolous law suits") against author/humorist Al

Who We're Fighting in Iraq Now

Sunday, 14 September 2003 11:59 P GMT-07

Last March we began a long-planned war of aggression against Iraq that was totally unnecessary. Bush and his apologists still try to convince the American people that this war has some connection to the so-called "war on terrorism" that was his

Liberal Voices Finally Being Heard

Sunday, 14 September 2003 5:20 P GMT-07

At last something positive to report: the liberal point of view is finally being heard -- at least among those who read books. What is seen and heard on radio and TV is still almost completely dominated by far-right reactionary voices.&nb

The Patriotism Of Fear

Saturday, 13 September 2003 11:59 P GMT-07

Several weeks ago I posted a blog on this site called "Language as a Weapon". If you haven't read it, I urge you to. It's perhaps the most important blog I'

No More Blank Checks

Saturday, 13 September 2003 6:02 P GMT-07

Michael Kieschnick, president of a great organization, Working Assets,(http://www.workingassets.org ) writes of the "fall from hubris" of the Bush administration in terms of what it has done in Iraq. He pleads for "no more blank

Economic Agenda 'According To Plan'

Friday, 12 September 2003 5:29 P GMT-07

If any readers are naive enough to think that with close to 3 million jobs lost, an unemployment rate in double digits, a buget deficit nearing half a trillion dollars and t

Bush Veto Would Hurt Millions

Friday, 12 September 2003 4:52 P GMT-07

In my last post here (the Bernie Sanders article) I slipped in a comment about Bush wanting to do away with workers ability to earn overtime pay for overtime work. Here is more on this issue. Sen. Tom Harkin's amendment to prevent this mo

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