Cloudy Thinking

There’s been recent chatter about the possible benefit of sending as many as 200,000 more troops to Iraq, where the war news has turned from bad to worse. It’s empty rhetoric.

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One effect of the 9/11 tragedy is a serious erosion of long-standing American values.

A few patriots — including John McCain and now Colin Powell — have spoken in opposition the misguided attempt by the current administration to set aside our obligations under the Geneva Convention.

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I can’t summarize this story, you’ll have to read it yourself. If these allegations are true, something very wrong has happened in the justice system in Ohio.

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According to a story by Stephanie Heinatz of the McClatchy-Tribune Newspapers, Donald Rumsfeld forbade post-war planning.

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David Selbourne, author of The Losing Battle with Islam, writes at The Times about ten reasons the West will NOT defeat the Islamist threat.

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David Broder, a first-rate journalist, writes in The Washington Post One Leak and a Flood of Silliness about the Valerie Palme affair.

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James Kunstler writes in his blog about Winners and Losers.

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The video clip (see link below, after the break) shows Keith Olbermann making a special comment about the recent attacks by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld against all who question the failed Iraq War II.

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Richard Cohen writes in The Washington Post Civil War? What Civil War? It’s a strongly argued, well crafted story.

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A friend sent this link about a bizarre decision that basically says having cash is a presumption of guilt.

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Perry E. Metzger writes on Dave Farber’s Interesting People list On the implausibility of the explosives plot.

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Michael R. Gordon, Mark Mazzetti and Thom Shanker write in The New York Times about the steadily worsening situation in Iraq.

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