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Still Waiting for the Euphoria in Iraq Posted: Monday, October 27, 2003 40 Killed in Iraq Suicide Bombings Volley of Rockets Shatters a Life and Images of Stability Attack Is a Media Coup for Iraq Resistance, Experts Say The onslaught, in which one U.S. colonel was killed and 15 people were wounded, did not cause as many casualties as previous attacks on other high-profile targets in the capital. But it exhibited the growing sophistication of the opposition's tactics and raised hard questions about whether it would be possible to stem such attacks. Still Waiting for the Euphoria Five months after the end of the war, Americans remain deeply ambivalent over whether it was right or wrong to invade Iraq. In part, that's because it's still not clear whether we were, in fact, welcomed by the people we set out to liberate. Occupational Schizophrenia Patriotism? Or Just Conformity? I am opposed to nationalistic displays of any kind. Patriotism strikes me as divisive, a kind of misplaced pride based on the geographic fluke of where one happened to be born. Bush blasted for Sept. 11 secrecy Prominent senators of both parties, learning that the chairman of the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks has not received full access to pertinent government documents, called on the Bush White House Sunday to be more forthcoming. Banging your head into walls We've all met them, people who stubbornly hurl themselves in the wrong direction, stopping only when they violently collide with reality. It is a painful way to learn, but those afflicted with the disability seem unable to learn in any other way. Credibility showdown: Bush&Co. deceived the public and itself False Claims Led to Attacks on Grenada, Iraq President Ronald Reagan claimed that the unrest following the recent overthrow and murder of Grenada's socialist Prime Minister Maurice Bishop had put the lives of more than 500 American medical students there at risk. Hoon: We won't be deterred by Iraq attacks Our Friends, The Israeis Israel breaks pledge on disputed settlements   Printer friendly version  Send page by E-Mail |