ALL SADDAM’S TRIALS MEDIA NEEDS REDEMPTION WMD CITED IN BOSTON GLOBE Ok class, let’s open our copies of Alice in Wonderland. Let me draw your attention to a phrase relevant to today’s news. It is a pithy one: “first the sentence, then the trial.” And so from the rabbit hole of Iraq, we have this [...]
THE SNEAKY TRANSITION WOLFIE SAYS SORRY F-911 PACKING THEM IN Remember the sneaky start of the pre-emptive war for Iraqi (sic) “freedom?” It began with that “decapitation” air strike that the brain trust in the White House launched to pre-empt the war itself. 50 Cruise missiles slammed into a home in Baghdad in the middle [...]
NEW ENGLAND SOJOURN IRAQ "HAND OVER?" DONE! DEAN DUMPS ON NADER I spent my B-day Sunday rediscovering the beauty of historic New England, motoring alongside the Merrimack River on the North "Sho-ah,"once the source of power for the mills of Lawrence and Lowell in another time, another age. We have seen the deindustrialization of America [...]
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