Here’s an interesting Joe Conason find: President Bush’s special envoy for the Middle East, former Marine general Anthony Zinni, is opposed to going to war in Iraq.
Entries from August 2002
Anthony Zinni against war in Iraq
August 27th, 2002 · Comments Off
Galen Rowell
August 27th, 2002 · Comments Off
I missed the news a couple of weeks ago that Galen Rowell and his wife were killed in a plane crash. What a loss.
Jamie Lee Curtis
August 27th, 2002 · Comments Off
Jamie Lee Curtis is pretty cool. It’s almost impossible not to take for granted the massive transformation that takes place before most celebrities allow themselves to be photographed.
Another one liner
August 27th, 2002 · Comments Off
“Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer.“
I love the federal judiciary
August 27th, 2002 · Comments Off
“Democracies die behind closed doors.” So says federal judge Damon J Keith in an appellate ruling that it is unlawful to hold deportation hearings in secret without petitioning an immigration judge for the right to do so. After 9/11, the government held hundreds of such hearings without even disclosing the names of the potential [...]
This one’s too easy
August 27th, 2002 · Comments Off
“Round up the usual suspects …“
The war drums
August 27th, 2002 · Comments Off
The Bush administration seems to have lost interest in having mere functionaries talk about how important it is that we “liberate” Iraq — Dick Cheney gave a speech seeking to justify going to war on Monday. The question I now wonder about is whether the Bush administration planned on going to war before he was [...]
More Bush antics
August 26th, 2002 · Comments Off
The Bush administration is making it known that they don’t need the permission of Congress to go to war with Iraq. I would argue that a true leader wouldn’t shy away from making a solid case to Congress (and to their fellow citizens) in favor of war, if such a war were truly justified. If [...]
Richard Perle
August 26th, 2002 · Comments Off
Slate’s Chris Suellentrop profiles Richard Perle, America’s spokesman for invading Iraq.
Hello, world!
August 25th, 2002 · Comments Off
Should students learning an object oriented programming language start out with a “Hello, world” program? That’s the question David H Steinberg asked in an onjava.com article this week. He does a pretty good job of covering the tradeoffs in the article, and I think that the question is worth some thought. As [...]