As awful as war is, opponents of military action have lost this round. Congress has already approved military action. The U.N. has already told Iraq that it must comply or face “serious consequences.”
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Month: February 2003
“It’s like refusing to recognize someone who doesn’t believe in gravity for a PhD program in physics.”
On Stephen C. Pelletiere’s contention that Saddam Hussein did not gas the Kurds in Halabja in 1988.
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Reality reruns.
Let us praise Flak, the e-magazine where Lindsay Robertson dishes up the latest episode of “Joe Millionaire” so you don’t miss a thing even when you can’t be bothered to watch.
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Buehrens on Iraq today.
If the legitimacy of the United Nations was in question in 1998, today President Bush is disarmingly explicit in his threat to go after Iraq alone.
In 1998, President John Buehrens wrote, “The resolutions of the United Nations must be enforced… [T]he consequences of diplomatic failure will belong squarely with Saddam Hussein, as will those of any attempt to use civilians as human shields.”
The loss of the space shuttle Columbia this morning cuts deeply.