Archive for November, 2005
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The Bush administration clearly blamed al-Jazeera for undermining the first siege on Fallujah and fueling Iraqi public opinion and resistance against the U.S. occupation. Given Washington’s record of attacking al-Jazeera both militarily and verbally, it is not outside the realm of possibility that the Bush administration could have simply decided that it was time to take the network out…..
The Goldberg Variations
As is always the case with totalitarian movements, the War Party is led and defended by individuals who are hardly slaves to intellectual or ethical consistency…..
Unforgivable
“It’s the war the neoconservatives marketed. Those people had an idea to sell when September 11 came, and they sold it. Oh boy, did they sell it. So this is not a war that the masses demanded. This is a war of an elite. … I could give you the names of 25 people (all of whom are at this moment within a five-block radius of this office) who, if you had exiled them to a desert island a year and a half ago, the Iraq war would not have happened,”…..
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