Word: iraq
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...citizens of Vietnam. Yet when we look around us today, we find nothing but Kissinger-style diversionary tactics which are meant to scare the American public into silence and blur our moral obligations. President Bush seems shocked that we want to know about his arms deals with Iraq, his possible complicity in the Iran-contra scandal, his rush for a land war against Saddam Hussein and any number of other issues which question his judgment as president. When he criticizes the media for hyping issues "the American people" care nothing about, he is in fact imagining a silent majority, telling...
...mistakes at home, history may one day ask us why we spend so much time worrying about our own house when we still have no compass to guide our foreign policy. Our children may ask why, for example, we never asked Bush about the genocide of the Kurds in Iraq...
...This case is the mother of all cover-ups," Cook thundered. "It is not the truth." Cook, echoing charges by Democrats and critics of the Administration's prewar support of Iraq, portrayed his client as a pawn, a bit player used by the Bush Administration to warm relations with Iraq, only to be discarded when hostilities broke out. Cook presented no evidence to support his theory, other than to claim that his client's confession was forced by government pressure. "It got to where he just couldn't swallow it anymore," the lawyer drawled...
...District Judge Marvin Shoob allows Drogoul to change his plea this week, it is sure to re-open questions about the government's awareness of the financial chicanery surrounding Iraq's military buildup. Though a retrial by jury would be months away, the specter of the "Iraq-gate" scandal would surely hang, unresolved, over the Bush White House until well after the November election...
AMERICA ABROAD: Iraq -- It Could Be Worse...