12/03/08

Bringing Back Saddam (Almost)
By Ivan Eland

The Saddam-al Qaeda connection has fizzled and no nuclear, biological or chemical weapons have been unearthed in post-invasion Iraq. So the Bush administration’s fallback, ex post facto rationale for invading Iraq is that the country is better off without Saddam. But the U.S.-backed Iraqi government seems to be ruling more like Saddam everyday.

Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has recently ordered the arrest of political opponents, closed a prominent media outlet reporting stories that were embarrassing to the Iraqi government, and taken up aggressive tactics vis-a-vis the opposition guerrillas, including reinstating the death penalty against them. (Read the rest here)

Libertarian Commentary on The Day's News
By Nathan A. Barton © 2004

Good day to all! This document contains views and commentary which may be objectionable and offensive to statists and others of that ilk, but should be suitable for feeding to children and small furry creatures, from A-Centauri, with reasonable precautions. Obviously, it is NOT necessarily the official view of anyone except the author.

1) Najaf fighting continues: Four US, 415 Iraqi dead
Philadelphia Inquirer
As fighting heats up, the need to make sure that people realize what is at stake, and what is being sacrificed, grows more important. There is no chance for US withdrawal unilaterally (or with the other Allies) at this point without making a bad situation even more of a disaster.

Mama's Note: Nobody has come even close to explaining how withdrawing from an illegal and immoral invasion of another country could be worse than what is going on now. Anybody want to give it a try?

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The Real Abu Ghraib Scandal
By Ted Lang © 2004

I have, over the course of many months and many columns, contended that the POW torture scandals at Abu Ghraib, as well as the ones in Guantanamo, were symptomatic of extensive across-the-board changes in American military policy. And those changes could only have been planned, engineered and initiated from the highest levels within our government.

The proof of this assertion is simple: two-star Maj. Gen. Geoffrey D. Miller was specifically transferred to Abu Ghraib to institute Guantanamo torture methods and transferred to the theater command of three-star Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez. The head of Army intelligence in Iraq is Maj. Gen. Keith Alexander who is one-star Brig. Gen Janis Karpinski’s biggest critic. Massive disruption of military management occurred when intelligence-oriented elements of the military invaded the domain of what normally constituted military police functions. Karpinski is an MP General. Additionally, these military police functions pertain to combatant enemy soldiers, not randomly rounded-up Iraqi civilians.

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The Trouble with Talk Radio
by Christopher Westley

A recent article of mine on a public sector scandal, this one in Milwaukee, brought several e-mails from friends and strangers telling me that it was read and discussed on WTMJ-AM in that city by its weekday morning host, Charles Sykes. WTMJ is Milwaukee’s highest rated talk station, and while I appreciated the plug, I was not sure if that is the sort of station that friends of liberty need to be associated with.

That’s because that station, like so many across the U.S., have adopted the pro-war, pro-Bush nationalist format that dominates AM radio today, robbing it of much of the diversity that once characterized it. It is a marketing model that appeases small government conservatives (who have always favored radio) by telling them that big government really isn’t all that bad—as long as the right guys can control it.

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Free "The Hunter"

Free Hunter: Collateral Damage
by Carl Bussjaeger

American Independence Day has come and gone, along with the traditional boom and glare of fireworks that bring joy to many kids, young and old.

Picture two such of the younger children: Adorable little girls just six and four years old respectively, Mikayla and Brittany. Imagine their anticipation as the big day approaches and they look forward not only to the beloved fireworks, but also to the arrival of their favorite uncle Jeff, whom they haven't seen in months.

Now picture the adorable little girls' disappointment because a suited goon in Ohio wouldn't let Uncle Jeff come see his family. Yes, Mikayla and Brittany are just two more victims of the Ashland County, Ohio prosecutor's office.

Call them "collateral damage," more innocents caught in the cross-fire as the run-amuck prosecutors pursue their vendetta against Jeffrey "Hunter" Jordan. (Read the rest here)

 

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