Baghdad bombing blitz mocks US mission
Posted: Tuesday, October 28, 2003

Stopping the Cycle of Dictatorship
Missiles strike the Hotel Rashid. Kurds and Arabs fight over land in northern Iraq. Rebels kill Iraqi policemen. Mosques are blown apart. American soldiers are killed almost daily. Isn't the war over? Aren't the Iraqis free? Why won't they settle down? Because U.S. plans for post-invasion Iraq were based on a singularly wrongheaded idea.

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US warfare equation 'full of baloney'

Random Thoughts, More Questions
Was President Bush just pulling our leg when he first appointed Henry Kissinger to head the federal 9/11 investigation commission? And why is the Bush White House refusing to release information being requested by the bipartisan 9/11 commission now?

Tony Blair's New Friend
There is just one test of this sincerity, and that is the consistency with which his concern for human rights guides his foreign policy. If he cares so much about the welfare of foreigners that he is prepared to go to war on their behalf, we should expect to see this concern reflected in all his relations with the governments of other countries.

A Willful Ignorance
According to The New York Times, President Bush was genuinely surprised to learn from moderate Islamic leaders that they had become deeply distrustful of American intentions. The report on the "perception gap" suggests that the leader of the war on terror has no idea how badly that war — which must, ultimately, be a war for hearts and minds — is going.

The White House whine: 'It's all the media's fault'

Iraq through a filter
It is those who rely only on the Bush administration's propaganda - perhaps including the president himself - who are receiving a distorted picture of events in Iraq.

See no protest
The White House apparently believes members of the public who disagree with President Bush should be neither seen nor heard. Protesters, rather than being allowed to line the presidential motorcade route, are routinely corraled into areas known as "protest zones" or the euphemistically named "free speech

Wolfowitz's wakeup call in Baghdad

Paranoia Is Home Spun Policy Makers Beware
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz saw first hand the risk of the policy that he helped to fashion. Baghdad is starting to resemble Jerusalem with reoccurring bombing on a scale that scatters any myth that Iraq is improving. As the colonial occupation continues, reminders of why the U.S. is garrisoned in the Middle East are becoming all too frequent. Does any public official ever learn or will it take the franchising of the Rashid Hotel on domestic soil to drive the point home?

Baghdad bombing blitz mocks US mission



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