People who support the war in Iraq argue that the invasion (what George Bush euphemistically called "preemption") was necessary because Saddam might have become a terrorist threat; i.e., he might have acquired and used Weapons of Mass Destruction. Similarly, people who support a ban on assault rifles argue that the…
A friend of mine recently gave me a disturbing scenario: what if Iraq has descended into civil war because Bush and his neo-con puppetmasters want it that way? What if Bush's repeated failures to end the violence aren't failures at all, but rather the desired result? Consider: the continued violence…
According to this article about Saddam's execution, "Iraq's death penalty was suspended by the U.S. military after it toppled Saddam in 2003, but the new Iraqi government reinstated it two years later, saying executions would deter criminals." Deter criminals? Since Iraq reinstated the death penalty in 2005, the murder rate in…
I was recently discussing the Iraq war with a political lobbyist friend of mine when he mentioned something I had not previously considered: neocons and other law-and-order conservatives try to justify the Iraq invasion by saying that even though Saddam didn't have WMDs, he was defying UN-mandated inspections of Iraqi…
Their unnecessary, unjustified invasion of Iraq has now cost more American lives than did the (unrelated) 9/11 attack. (See http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061226/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq ).