What part of saddam do libs. don't get. Are you into people being tortured with acid baths and showers? Read more...

Nonviolence is an insult to victims of attack October 5, 2001
In the Maneater open forum op-ed section, University of Missouri at Columbia student newspaper

There has been a lot of discourse recently, especially in The Maneater, about the acts of war committed against the United States on Sept. 11. But what infuriates me is the idea that some Americans, and many of my fellow MU students, say we should sympathize with the criminals and those that harbor them who are responsible for these devious attacks. These are the same people who say we should understand the enemy, that we should condone their cause and that somehow America is to blame.

These are the same people that tell themselves, in some misguided fantasy, "I am sure Osama bin Laden didn't mean to attack us, so let's just sit around the fire -- or Peace Park -- and sing kumbaya." Read more...

By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Thursday 27 February 2003

George W. Bush gave a speech Wednesday night before the Godfather of conservative Washington think tanks, the American Enterprise Institute. In his speech, Bush quantified his coming war with Iraq as part of a larger struggle to bring pro-western governments into power in the Middle East. Couched in hopeful language describing peace and freedom for all, the speech was in fact the closest articulation of the actual plan for Iraq that has yet been heard from the administration. Read more...

Interestingly enough, Andrew Sullivan had this same title for a blog entry today... Read more...

By Norman Mailer

This article is based on Norman Mailer's Commonwealth Club speech in San Francisco on February 20, 2003. Read more...