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"No, I don't think it's merely rhetoric. One of the many layers of the arguments for invading Iraq focused on the difficulties of waging a serious war on terror from a distant remove. Being based in Iraq helps us notonly because of actual bases; but because the American presence there diverts...

"This is why the Democrats will never have the upper hand in foreign policy. Their criticism of Bush's swagger stems not from an ethos of gentlemanly self-restraint but from a pathology of perverse self-loathing." John Coumarianos

I defy you to find a single instance (much less repeated instances) of Bush claiming that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11.

The sentences don't look exactly right, but I suppose that, over the number of times that Bush repeated that formulation, he may have used exactly those words. They were intended, of course, for terrorist-supporting regimes, were first uttered in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, and were...

Uh, dude, I don't think they were saying that all men were made equally intelligent, capable, talented, strong, whatever... I think they kind of had something else in mind.

Was flat when it happened, and don't trade YM. For the CBOT it was a slip-up, and it's not surprising that they would bust trades off such a huge move. Fair is another thing, though, and they really should have circuit-breakers against moves like this - so that everyone knows ahead of time...

SMALL CHILDREN MAY BE TRAUMATIZED BY ANN COULTER, PSYCHOLOGIST SAYS Few Coping Strategies for Exposure to Banshee-like Pundit “Mommy, make the scary lady go away.” Those are the tearful words of Kaylee Brodkin, 7, of Gary, Indiana, who for the last five days has been awoken in the...

In a country where there are an estimated 5 million un-registered AK-47s held amongst the populace, as well as portions of Saddam's arsenal still unrecovered, the results of a precipitous US withdrawal - or an attempted handover to forces incapable of handling the situation - could be extremely...

It's also non-responsive and irrelevant - as usual.

Please check your facts. Huge percentages of the populations of Iraq and Afghanistan were already refugees or exiles long before the US launched military action. Fearing new waves of refugees as a result of the wars, international organizations created large refugee camps and undertook...

In accusing me of responding in the manner of "attack, attack, attack," you once again ignore the detailed factual and logical arguments that I offered - either on the specific issues that were under discussion or the question of objectivity and the influence of feelings or beliefs - then merely...

You appear to misunderstand what I wrote: Refugees and exiles are returning to Iraq and Afghanistan in the millions - it's hard to offer any other reasonable explanation for the phenomenon other than that they think they have a chance to build better lives for themselves following the removal...

Apparently, your hypocrisy never ends. You offered your political judgments a couple of posts ago, complete with a "read my lips" reference and a suggestion that Bush's political fate will follow what you judge to be Blair's, and then, when I respond in kind with my own political judgment, you...

In addition to the United States, two countries with massive population inflows - signifying large numbers of people "voting with their feet" over conditions and prospects - that come to mind are Afghanistan and Iraq.

That's the trouble with analogies - at the point where the components cease being transferable, they break down. The UN is not the Federal Government of the World. The United States is not a single state within some United States of the World. The UN, like international law itself, is still...

No. It's not even remotely debatable. No one in his right mind should even consider such a position conceivable. There is and was no other country in the world in a directly comparable position to that of Saddam's Iraq. You've constructed a straw man, and you refuse to let go of him, as...

The Politics of Mass Destruction By Richard Spertzel Wall Street Journal | June 27, 2003 Even as evidence is uncovered that Saddam Hussein was planning to revive his nuclear-weapons program at the earliest possible date, politicians and pundits alike lament the failure of coalition forces...

[contd.] The real chemical warfare threat from Iraq has had two components. One has been the capability to bring potent chemical agents to the battlefield to be used against a poorly equipped and poorly trained enemy. The other is the chance that Iraqi chemical weapons specialists would sign up...

Iraq's Real Weapons Threat by Rolf Ekeus Sunday, June 29, 2003; Page B07 THE HAGUE With no weapons of mass destruction as yet found in Iraq, the political criticism directed against President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair is mounting. Before the war, the two leaders...

Yeah, but, uh, Sweetney came from Georgetown, like Patrick, that's what's important... When he's fighting for position under the basket, all he has to say is, "Hey, I don't care how much you can benchpress, I'm from Georgetown, back off!" and the rebound is his. You watch. Genius move by the...