Author: Jeff Huber

Podhoretz Begs Bush to Bomb Iran

Leading neoconservative Norman Podhoretz wants George W. Bush to bomb Iran.  In a May 30 Wall Street Journal, he writes “I hope and pray that President Bush will do it.” Podhoretz sees the campaigns in Iraq and...

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Iraq: Go Big, Go Long, Go Fish

Mr. Bush got his way on the war funding bill–sort of.  He won a “victory” when Congress passed the bill stripped of the timeline restrictions contained in an earlier version.  But his victory over the...

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The Wolf Who Cried “Media!”

Paul Wolfowitz, a leading architect of our war in Iraq, is blaming his departure from the World Bank on the standard neoconservative scapegoat–the media.   In an interview with the BBC on Monday, Wolfowitz denied that...

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My Memorial Day

PILE the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo, Shovel them under and let me work– I am the grass; I cover all. And pile them high at Gettysburg And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun. Shovel them under and let me work....

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John Bolton: Still Revoltin’

So you thought we were shed of John Bolton?  Think again.   Last Thursday, the former (and never confirmed) U.S Ambassador to the United Nations was wreaking havoc in London.  In an interview with John Humphrys,...

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