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March 26, 2003
Bruce Jackson
A Battlefield from Hell
Pablo
Mukherjee
Watch Their Lips
David Krieger
Shock But Not Awe
Linda
Heard
Winning Hearts and Minds Bush-Style
Imad Jadaa
The Beautiful Face of America
Adam
Engel
Buckets of Blood
Patrick Cockburn
Kurds Unimpressed
David
Lindorff
POWs, Torture and Hypocrisy
Robert Fisk
The Coup That Didn't Happen
April
Hurley, MD
A Doctor's Outrage in Baghdad
Gloria Bergen
Chretien's Shame
Reema
Abu Hamdieh
The Smell of Death Surrounds Me
March 25, 2003
Jeffrey St. Clair
Life During Wartime
Gary
Leupp
What Democracy Looks Like: the Streets
of Cairo
Bill and Kathleen
Christison
An Interview with Hanan Ashrawi
Bruce
Jackson
Why Protest? Why Write?
Uri Avnery
Bitter Rice: Thoughts and Warnings on
the War
Jason
Leopold
Blood Indicator: Casualties and the Stock
Market
Ralph Nader
A Pre----------------emptive War on a Defenseless Country
March 24, 2003
Alexander Cockburn
Ominous Signs
David
Lindorff
Peacekeepers at Ground Zero
Diane Christian
Blood Sacrifice
Kathy
Kelly
The Morning After Shock and Awe
John Stanton
US Bombs Iran
Wayne
Madsen
How to Live with a Rogue Superpower
Anthony Gancarski
Iraq and the Death of the West
David
Vest
Earth vs. Bush
Ahmad Faruqui
The Liberation of Iraq in Perspective
Robert
Fisk
We Bomb, They Suffer
March 22 / 23, 2003
Edward Said
The Other America
Saul Landau
The Threats of Empire
Kathleen and Bill Christison
On the Road in the West Bank
Joanne Mariner
Suing Seymour Hersh
Ann Harrison
The Battle of San Francisco
Robert Fisk
A Cauldron of Fire
Hani Shukrallah
The Gates of Hell
Chris Floyd
Memory Lane
Kathy Kelly
Imagine Chicago Under This Kind of Attack
Ramzi Kysia
Bombing Away a Chance for Joy
Linda Heard
Baghdad Burns While Bush Does Lunch
Bradley Burston
Could the US be at War for Years?
Salvador Peralta
Mass Murder as Liberation?
Tom Gorman
Now That's a Coalition!
Jorge Mariscal
Johnny Mack, When Are You Coming Back?
Cindy Milstein
The Grassroots Go Global
Josh Frank
Blocking Portland's Bridges
Elaine Cassel
The Case of Elizabeth Smart: Kidnapping and Insanity
Gordon Solberg
Drowning in Niceness: the Lessons of Elizabeth Smart
Tom Crumpacker
Getting to Know the Real Havana
Poets' Basement
Dobie, Guthrie, Alam, Wechsler
March 21, 2003
Ben Tripp
Blood for Oil:
the Exchange Rate
Cathy Breens
Report from Baghdad: Mothers, Kids and Crash Kits
Scott Handleman
Fourth
Generation Protesting: Shutting Down San Francisco
Vanessa Jones
Paint Them
Red
Brian J. Foley
Patriotic Protest
for Professors
Zoltan Grossman
After Saddam, a War on Iraqi Rebels?
Philip S. Golub
Inventing Demons
Richard Lichtman
On the Current Experience of Terror
Milan Rai
Blitz----------------Coup
Pepe Escobar
A Cheap Family Farce
Floyd Rudmin
The Nightmare at the Back Door: Nuclear Plant's as Terror Targets
Chris Floyd
See Rome (poem)
Website of the War
Iraq
Body Count
March 20, 2003
Stephen Banko
I Was a Soldier
Once
Kevin Alexander Gray
How Did We Become
an Outlaw Nation?
Shane Claiborne
Nomadic
Solidarity: Glimpses of Life in Baghdad on the Eve of War
Kathy Kelly
Waiting on the Baghdad Skies to Crack
Anthony Gancarski
Michelle
Makin's "Liberty Shields"
Rahul Mahajan and Robert Jensen
Myths and
Facts About the War on Iraq
Jason Leopold
Cheney's
Lies About Halliburton and Iraq
Ron Jacobs
If War is Business as Usual, There Should be No Business as Usual
Chuck O'Connell
Predictions About the Iraq War
Douglas Herman
US Air Force Veteran on the Coming Air Campaign
Ralph Nader
Come On Democrats,
Stand Up for Peace
William Hughes
War is Theft
Sima Saeedi
Dispatch from
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Hammond Guthrie
John Philip Sousa
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March
28, 2003
Bombing Saddam into Glory
A
Hero Made in Washington
By DAVID LINDORFF
You've
got to hand it to President and Commander-in-Chief George W. Bush. Only
last month, virtually the entire world was in agreement that Saddam
Hussein was one of the world's great villains. Not only was there near
universal condemnation of his domestic tyranny, there were also rigorous
sanctions being applied against his regime, and the U.N. was conducting
an aggressive campaign of searching out and destroying his more dangerous
weapons.
Now,
in less than a week, our benighted own maximum leader has managed to
do something that this grotesque megalomaniac had failed to accomplish
for 30 years despite billions of oil dollars spent on arms and millions
more spent on blanketing his country with statues and murals: He has
made the Butcher of Baghdad into a hero of Third World resistance.
Incredibly,
the U.S. military's massive, illegal invasion of Iraq has almost overnight
galvanized at least some of the people of Iraq into death-defying guerrilla
fighters willing to take on Apache helicopters and Abrams tanks of the
most powerful military machine the world has ever known with hand-held
weapons, and has reportedly even convinced exiled opponents of Hussein
to sneak back into the country to help defend their country against
the aggressors.
And
it can only get worse.
Each
Iraqi fighter killed now leaves behind a grieving family that can be
counted on to harbor a blood hatred for the countries that caused their
loss. Ergo: more recruits for Osama Bin Laden's Al Qaeda and those "Al
Qaeda-type" organizations.
Each
nomad family driven from its home by American troops holds bitter thoughts
of revenge.
Each
family that watches its home demolished by American or British cannons
will remember the loss. Each family that loses a child or a parent to
American bombs will become a potential enemy.
None
of this can be very comforting to think about for the American troops
who will have to serve as occupiers over the coming months and years
if things go well for America--or for their families back home.
Meanwhile,
across the vast stretches of northern Africa, the Middle East and South
Asia, and on out into the island nations of the Pacific, Islamic peoples
watching on television the wholesale destruction of one of Islam's oldest
regions, are cheering the astonishing and indeed inspiring resistance
being displayed by the vastly outgunned Iraqis.
In
a few short days of battle, the War on Iraq has become a no-win situation
for the U.S.
If
America wins at this point after an inevitably bloody battle for Baghdad,
the resulting country will be ungovernable, except under the most brutal
of martial law regimes--a quagmire-type situation that promises an endless
string of American casualties and another grim monument to insanity
on the increasingly crowded Washington Mall.
If
America loses--something that is at least being contemplated by some
military experts because of the inability of the military to secure
the 350-mile supply line from the Persian Gulf to the Baghdad front
line--it could signal the end of American superpower status in the world,
spurring nations around the globe to resist American threats and imperial
demands.
If
there is a stalemate, with the slaughter continuing on both sides and
no likelihood of a resolution of the fight, the pressures from around
the world, from Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere, for a cease-fire
will become irresistible, even as the peace movement at home will mushroom.
Bush bet mightily on this war to secure his position as a powerful leader,
harkening to the ill-conceived advice of a group of narrow-minded ideologues
with little knowledge of either military strategy or Middle East history.
Now
he appears doomed to become another Lyndon Johnson, throwing more and
more ordinance at and spilling more and more blood in a country far
from home, while his political future drains away. In the wake of the
9-11 terror attacks on America, George Bush looked unstoppable for a
second term as president.
No
longer.
David
Lindorff is the author of Killing Time, an investigation into
the death penalty case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Find
out more about Lindorff on his website.
Yesterday's Features
Pablo
Mukherjee
Watch Their Lips
David Krieger
Shock But Not Awe
Linda
Heard
Winning Hearts and Minds Bush----------------Style
Imad Jadaa
The Beautiful Face of America
Adam
Engel
Buckets of Blood
Patrick Cockburn
Kurds Unimpressed
David
Lindorff
POWs, Torture and Hypocrisy
Robert Fisk
The Coup That Didn't Happen
April
Hurley, MD
A Doctor's Outrage in Baghdad
Gloria Bergen
Chretien's Shame
Reema
Abu Hamdieh
The Smell of Death Surrounds Me
Website of the War
Iraq
Body Count
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