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[Stories from The Sun] Barton on Fire | The Cornell Daily Sun: This idea came across in particular two-thirds of the way through the show when Coyne stopped and asked the audience to remember the destructive power of the world. It was a move Coyne said the band had done at every live show for some time, always hoping the war in Iraq would be over the next time they played, always in the hope that the world can find some way to live in peace.

[Press] President George W. Bush Lied To You » Press: President Bush and Press Secretary Tony Snow assured the public that nothing was changing and everything was going just like they thought it would in Iraq. These reassurances came despite the bloody civil war that was ravaging Iraq and claiming the lives of hundreds of soldiers and thousands of Iraqis.

[Mondoweiss] Assessing Iran's nuclear intentions: At one point in a quite heated discussion with this individual I said that sooner or later the US would finally come to the conclusion that Israel was becoming an unneeded burden and realize that we would stop giving them unconditional support. His response was quite chilling: namely if the US ever withdrew its support the US should know that all of those nuclear warheads are not just targeted at the Arabs.

[The Global Journal] Hamas' Rockets are No “Peashooters” « The Global Journal: On this issue, he is unwilling–for understandable reasons who loathes to concede, that despite the heavy price, Iraq has been a tremendous success of the Bush-Cheney administration– to learn the lessons of the Surge in Iraq and the irrefutable evidence as presented by Bob Woodward in his new book, that it was the clandestine operations of Special Forces that killed al-Qaeda and al-Sadrist operatives in Iraq that has brought the country on the threshold of democracy.

[BOVARD] BOVARD » Bush Lied Up & Down on the Iraq War: Certainly, a military victory does not automatically absolve the Bush administration of the falsehoods it told prior to launching an unprovoked and unnecessary war. If victory is justice’s only measure, then the U.S. government could lie about almost any other government and ”” after the U.S. military assaulted the country into submission ”” it would be another triumph for “the American way.”

[War in Context] Washington's cult of narcissism and Iraq ”” War in Context: None of the above is evidently appropriate for “the indispensable nation,” as former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright once called the United States, and to whose leaders she attributed the ability to “see further into the future.” None of the above is part of the American arsenal, not when Washington’s weapon of choice, repeatedly consigned to the scrapheap of history and repeatedly rescued, remains a deep conviction that nothing is going to go anything but truly, deeply, madly badly without us, even if, as in Iraq, things have for years gone truly, deeply, madly badly with us.

[Atlantic Free Press OP/ED] The American Way: In Defense of George W. Bush | Atlantic Free ...: But even in the best-case scenario, giving the American government the full (and wholly undeserved) benefit of the doubt, the Bush Administration launched a war that has killed more than a million innocent people solely on the basis of a mere threat, from weapons that had never been used against the United States ”” and whose existence had not even been proven. If this is a legal, moral justification for war, then every American president of the last half-century has been guilty of a treasonous dereliction of duty for not launching a pre-emptive attack on the Soviet Union, whose actually existing arsenals of nation-destroying weapons were aimed openly and specifically at the United States for decades.

[Affiliate MarketingAffiliate Marketing] How likely is it that we will go to war with Iran? :Affiliate ...: Bush is a war monger and he has already displayed his total disregard for the laws and constituion of the United States. Once he realized that we will never win the war in Iraq through military efforts, he began planning his .

[Mondoweiss] Is the US getting ready to push Israel to declare its nuclear status?: One government official said Netanyahu’s decision to attend, despite this likely scenario, had been made because key issues affecting Israel would be discussed there, and it was important for the Jewish state’s voice to be heard – as well as the realization that Israel’s reported nuclear capacity would be an issue whether Netanyahu participated in the meeting or not.

[War in Context] Being there ”” War in Context: During March, to mark seven years since the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Shadow Elite column has been focusing on what I call in my book the “Neocon core,” a tiny circle of longtime ideological allies who used their interlocking relationships across government, think tanks, business, and national borders to achieve their vision of asserting American power, and firepower, to remake the Middle East.

[Asia History Books] Asia History Books » Blog Archive » My Year in Iraq: The Struggle ...: This book convinced me that, in the case of the Iraq war and its aftermath, it is almost impossible for ordinary citizens to know first, what is the right thing to do, and second, whether the government is actually doing it, and third, whether it is working. Iraq: A Future and A Hope —

[Marc Cooper] Marc Cooper » Blog Archive » Finally: Dems Nix “Surge”: (Maybe Pelosi would be more deserving of respect if she’d done something to effectively demonstrate that she’s politically serious… like signed the Euston Manifesto.) Incidentally, Nancy Pelosi has been a beacon on the issue of human rights in China for years…and it’s not necessarily a popular issue among a large sector of her constituents –

[Austin Bay Blog] Austin Bay Blog » No, Sadr did not win: Democrats have already distanced from the disaster so that Bush, General Petraeus, and John McCain are entirely responsible. I mean, if you see some good news that indicates Iraqis are looking after themselves, then what is Nancy Pelosi going to say to Petraeus, and then some presidential candidates are going to have to explain how their position is better than McCain’s.

[TomDispatch - Blog] Tomgram: Engelhardt, Numbers to Die For | TomDispatch: From Halliburton's vital mission as the logistical backbone of the U.S. occupation in Iraq—without it there could be no war or occupation—to its role in covering up gang-rape among its personnel in Baghdad, Halliburton's Army is a devastating exposé of corporate malfeasance and political cronyism.

[Mondoweiss] A presidential death warrant: It is just like torture, I have still never heard any of my fellows ever go into the use of torture by rulers who serve an elite, they have never said a word about the elite use of torture. You hear a lot of talk about how you get the “wrong confession”

[American Street] American Street » Blog Archive » Interview with Knut Royce: The Talking Dog: Do you have any doubt that if either the Italian forgeries (the relevant documents were in the French language, interestingly) had never existed, that the Bush Administration would have either highlighted other strands of information, such as the famous aluminum tubes that it claimed were intended for centrifuges to process uranium although all the evidence suggests that they were to be used for Iraq’s existing artillery rockets, or the purported meeting between Mohammed Atta and an Iraqi intelligence official in Prague, or perhaps something else, even some other strand that was otherwise discounted, would have been highlighted instead, Judith Miller would have played her part, opposition to the war would have been duly ridiculed by the usual news outlets, and we surely would have gone to war in Iraq anyway, pretty much no matter what? If that’s the case, could you tell me the particular significance of this particular forgery–

[The Next Hurrah] The Next Hurrah: Why Libby's Defense Relies on Richard Nixon: Nor is release of the tapes required by the Sixth Amendment guaranteeof a public trial. While public understanding of the highly publicizedtrial may remain incomplete in the absence of the ability to listen tothe tapes and form judgments as to their meaning, the same could besaid of a live witness' testimony, yet there is no constitutional rightto have such testimony recorded and broadcast.

[The Hotline's Blogometer] 11/16: And The Name Of The Star Is Called Woodward - The Hotline's ...: In other news, the company formerly known as Pajamas Media goes online today -- and is holding its launch event morning panel at deadline, conservative bloggers consider the Senate's vote to require reports on Iraq progress, the "bridge to nowhere" is defunded, and a VA GOV campaign manager fires off an angry e-mail to a would-be ally.

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