"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the…
Does it all seem like déjà vu? It should. Most of us first heard the unfolding national story while sitting on our parents’ laps, courtesy of Dr. Seuss. A con artist comes to town to exploit a glaring weakness: the willingness of the citizens to act out of bigotry. In…
One of the Sunday morning pundits today (4/16/06) made an excellent point. He observed that President Bush has refused to give a firm date for withdrawing US troops from Iraq, because, Bush says, such an action would embolden the terrorists to just wait us out. However, Bush then ignored this principle…
James Zogby has recently pointed to the public dispute between Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice as yet another way in which the Iraq war has become “Strange and Troubling”: And so here we are, nearly three years after "mission accomplished," many dead and injured later, Iraq imploding, the US floundering,…
1) According to Zogby's February 2006 survey, 85% of US troops serving in Iraq believe that the U.S. invasion was mainly “to retaliate for Saddam’s role in the 9-11 attacks.” 2) According to Mr. Bush, "We have no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the 11 September attacks." 3) More…