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Tag Archives: Iraq
Why I was willing to risk arrest at the AIPAC annual dinner
Though I’ve been a community organizer for several years, Monday night was the first time I was willing to get arrested for an action. Though unfortunately, we didn’t get the chance to finish performing our dance and sharing our message … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged AIPAC, annual dinner, arrest, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Oakland, Syria, unending war
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The regrets of a war-party liberal
From the last two paragraphs of George Packer’s review in The New Yorker of George W. Bush’s book, Decision Points: [Bush's] decisions, he still believes, made America safer, gave Iraqis hope, and changed the future of the Middle East for … Continue reading
Posted in Iraq, US Politics
Tagged George Bush's Decision Points, George Packer, Iraq, Iraq war, liberal hawks
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Lesson from Japan: a review of John Dower’s Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq
In a 2007 speech at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention, President Bush sought to ridicule, as he had done throughout his time in office, all those “specialists” who supposedly belittled Iraq’s prospects for democracy. In doing so, he invoked … Continue reading
They can’t contain themselves
Dum Spiro Spero: “While I breathe I hope” is South Carolina’s state motto. With that in mind, it was unsettling to hear Republican Lindsey Graham of South Carolina call for military action against Iran from, of all places, the Canadian … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Iran, Iraq, Lindsey Graham, new york times, nukes, war drums, WikiLeaks
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You’d have to give Chris Matthews sodium pentathol to find out why we invaded Iraq
This is mind-numbing. Last night on Hardball, Chris Matthews interviewed Joseph Wilson, Michael Isikoff, David Corn and Thomas DeFrank about Bush’s memoir. They harped on a lie in the book: Bush’s claim that he was upset when he learned that … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Bush memoir, Chris Matthews, David Corn, Iraq, Joseph Wilson, Mike Isikoff, neoconservatives, Points of Decision, sodium pentathol, Zionism
30 Comments
Mearsheimer: Our morally bankrupt policy of killing civilians moves from Iraq to Afghanistan
John Mearsheimer was on the PBS News Hour talking about the Wikileaks document dump. Great to hear this on the mainstream media: [I]t does make it very clear how horrible the violence has been in Iraq since we invaded in … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Afghanistan, Iraq, John Mearsheimer, Margaret Warner, PBS News Hour
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If it was a war for oil, the US lost
Although the Bush administration denied it, the conventional wisdom on the part of the anti-war movement was that the war on Iraq was launched in order for the US to take over Saddam’s oil supplies which would give Washington an … Continue reading