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The fact that the court is starting with a smaller incident, the 1982 massacre of more than 140 Shiite men in the village of Dujail, is a good sign: The investigators do have witnesses, there is documentary evidence, and the story of Dujail is easier to tell than that of more complicated crimes...

Because Saddam Hussein would not leave them in the peace and isolation of their mountain redoubt, Iraq's Kurds went to war against Baghdad three decades ago. They deliberately set in motion the chain of events that were to bring an American invasion force to Baghdad to overthrow the dictator in...

The Realist Who Got It Wrong By Charles Krauthammer Sunday, October 30, 2005; Page B07 Now that Cindy Sheehan turns out to be a disaster for the antiwar movement -- most Americans are not about to follow a left-wing radical who insists that we are in Iraq for reasons of theft, oppression...

The Washington Times www.washingtontimes.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- U.S. ship in N. Korea symbolizes resistance By Andrew Salmon THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published October 29, 2005...

After reading this editorial, what describes you best? Even if you disagree with the examples used, is the essential premise of "us" or "them" true, and does it describe you? --------------------------------------------------- 'Us' or 'them' By Thomas Sowell Published October 28, 2005...

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0208-06.htm Published on Sunday, February 9, 2003 by The Sunday Mail (Brisbane, Australia) 750 Women Go Nude in Protest HUNDREDS of women bared all today in a visual anti-war demonstration on a hillside near the northern NSW beach town of Byron...

"By the year 2000, the imposition of kickbacks and surcharges by the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein brought about the emergence of illicit payments. This irrevocably changed the nature of the program." The report said, "Oil surcharges were paid in connection with the contracts of 139 companies...

washingtonpost.com Iraqis' Broken Dreams By Jackson Diehl Monday, October 10, 2005; A19 Three years ago Kanan Makiya and Rend Rahim were among the most persuasive advocates of a U.S. invasion of Iraq. Both liberal Iraqi intellectuals and eloquent English speakers, they made the case that...

washingtonpost.com Look Who's Ignoring Science Now By Sebastian Mallaby Monday, October 10, 2005; A19 The flip side of Bush cronyism is hostility toward experts -- toward people who care about what's what rather than who's who. Economists have depressingly little influence on the Bush...

Hurricane of media mendacity By Mark Steyn Published October 3, 2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dan Rather was on "Larry King" the other night and was asked about the Katrina coverage. Yet Hurricane Dan professed himself delighted with...

James C Moyer winchester VA 22601 Someone of Fundamentalist origin wrote a clever story defending yet again the fallacy of Intelligent Design and so I had to respond with a story of my own. Herewith... Somewhere once upon a time there was a professor who enjoyed the debate sparked by...

I got friends of all political stripes but it is the conservatives and liberals who are so sure of themselves that get an argument from me. The ones who are so sure, you will notice them mostly talking with the like minded and show the hand to those who aren't. But it is generally universal...

Paul Greenberg Washington Post Even more shocking than the murder and mayhem in London last month was the identity of the bombers. They weren't some shady foreigners out of a bad spy novel but home boys — four young men between the ages of 19 and 30, products of respectable, law-abiding...

This is the story of Abu. This is the story of primogeniture, alive and well in the present tense in the cradle of civilization, the Garden of Eden between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the Babylon, the ancient Chaldea and their astronomers, and the cuneiform before old Assyria. Abu means...

The Kyoto treaty aspires to do right. The science may appear totally proven but that debate is fruitless because of its intolerance for discussion and because the questions of how we treat the environment and how we provide for our energy needs are important in and of itself. But this analysis...

June 29, 2005 The End of the Rainbow By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Dublin Here's something you probably didn't know: Ireland today is the richest country in the European Union after Luxembourg. Yes, the country that for hundreds of years was best known for emigration, tragic poets, famines, civil...

June 26, 2005 Along the Syria-Iraq Border, Victory Is Fleeting in an Effort to Rout Out Foreign Fighters By SABRINA TAVERNISE KARABILA, Iraq, June 21 - American marines climbed atop the collapsed roof of the final house to be searched this week in an operation to clear this desert town of...

june 26, 2005 Troops Will Carry General's 'Common Sense' Rules on Wallet-Size Cards By ERIC SCHMITT WASHINGTON, June 25 - American troops in Iraq are getting a new list of dos and don'ts on how to behave in the war zone from their top ground commander. At a hearing of the House Armed...

26, 2005 Riverbank Promenade in Basra Pulses Anew With Life By EDWARD WONG BASRA, Iraq, June 25 - There is a famous Iraqi folk song called "He Went to Basra and Forgot About Us." It tells of love and broken promises and wounds that cannot be healed. Abdul Raheem Sultan listened to a tape of...

These are the people the world wouldn't mind taking over in Iraq. May the Iraqi people thank the world for being more concerned about American sin. The Iraqis really appreciate the concern of the world. They're glad that the insurgents mean well. I doubt anybody will really read this...