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washingtonpost.com Democracy Under The Veil By Anne Applebaum Post Wednesday, May 25, 2005; A27 She looked nice, Laura Bush, in her black veil and modest dress, touring the Dome of the Rock, smiling sweetly at the protesters outside. She sounded nice, too, in her keynote speech at the Dead...

The Puzzle Of the Suicide Bomber By Anne Applebaum Wednesday, November 16, 2005; A19 In the four years since the most famous suicide bombing in history, our explanations of what motivates suicide bombers haven't grown any simpler. Certainly the old stereotype of a suicide bomber as someone...

The idea here is that before the Iraq war and before the building of the wall in Palestine, the Middle East seemed destined to maintain the status quo of NO CHANGE. Middle East Surprises By Jim Hoagland Sunday, November 27, 2005; B07 Israel's warrior-politician, Ariel Sharon, is abandoning...

A Dream of Cairo Reborn An Architect Reflects on What Could Have Been in Egypt By Anthony Shadid Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, November 27, 2005; A01 CAIRO As Abdelhalim I. Abdelhalim recalls it, the power of the vision struck him, as if he had been on a modern-day road to...

In some ways the least discussed matter is the SOLUTION on Iraq? There is a lot of merit in many of the arguments posted on this board. There is a lot of merit in much of the criticism posted on this board. I'd like to hear proposals that involve the least damage to all. That the damage be...

Here's how the morality play is: It is the natural food chain with each self righteous predator eating up the one below. Ready? Here's a sample food chain of the self righteous: The liberal Left eats the Radical Christian Right who eats the Fanatic Muslim radicals. Another sample food...

Here I go again. None of you may believe this. None of you may give it much importance. But here it goes anyway. I've enjoyed this board immensely, and despite disagreeing with many of you and thinking us conservatives (the debatable label I use to describe my position these days) are in the...

Rationalizing torture By David R. Irvine Published November 2, 2005 washington times -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Since the photographs of U.S. soldiers abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib became public more than a year ago, the world has been...

washingtonpost.com Amnesty's Amnesia By Anne Applebaum Post Wednesday, June 8, 2005; A21 A few years ago I spent several days sitting in the back of a library in London, reading through newsletters, pamphlets and other accounts of Soviet prison conditions published in the 1970s and '80s by...

washingtonpost.com The Discreet Charm of the Terrorist Cause By Anne Applebaum Wednesday, August 3, 2005; A19 Since the bombing attacks in London last month, a welter of columnists, writers, talking heads and ordinary people have puzzled over the mystery of British Muslims, one in four of...

The Rumor Mill By Anne Applebaum Wednesday, October 5, 2005; A23 Did you know that a monster crocodile was fished out of the New Orleans floodwaters? Had you realized that sharks were swimming through the submerged streets of the Lower Ninth Ward? Did you see the photographs of Katrina, the...

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...