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Steve Weissman: How Far Will Bush Go?
Thursday, 12 August 2004, 12:24 am | Steve Weissman
The day we all watched two hijacked airplanes slam into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, we learned what warriors have known ever since men first fought with stones and cudgels. If your assailant has no fear of dying, or of being caught, he ... More >>
Torture, Lies, and the Little Bush Who Cried Wolf
Thursday, 5 August 2004, 2:20 pm | Steve Weissman
While the world watches to see when, where, or even if Osama bin Laden will cast his vote in America's presidential elections, his odds-on-favorite Mr. Bush has already given him a priceless gift - and not just in Iraq. The untold damage Team Bush has ... More >>
Weissman: Jesus, Jihadis, and the Red-State Blues
Thursday, 29 July 2004, 12:24 am | Steve Weissman
In this week of John Kerry's nomination, we should all give President Bush his due. Iraq boils up in his face. Over half his fellow Americans now think his war wrong-footed, if not pig-headed. More >>
Steve Weissman: Americans, The Missionary Position
Thursday, 22 July 2004, 6:21 pm | Steve Weissman
Left, right, or center, Americans like to believe we have a mission, that ''the shining city on a hill'' - as Ronald Reagan quoted our Pilgrim Fathers - stands as a universal beacon to the world. More >>
Steve Weissman: Whose Coup in America?
Thursday, 15 July 2004, 4:00 pm | Steve Weissman
A coup d'etat in the United States? What sane person would believe it? No one in their right mind could honestly think that President George W. Bush would use the officially predicted terrorist attack on American soil in the next few months as ... More >>
Steve Weissman: Embracing Saddam-Lite
Thursday, 1 July 2004, 1:22 pm | Steve Weissman
Poor Mr. Bush. Like bad sex, his hurried consummation of Iraq's mini-sovereignty left everything to be desired. Only a handful of people celebrated the occasion, while his Baghdad stand-in Jerry Bremer could hardly wait to jet away from the chaos ... More >>
Steve Weissman: Bush Reaps What Kennedy Sowed
Friday, 25 June 2004, 12:32 am | Steve Weissman
New photos of American soldiers raping and killing Iraqis will likely emerge in the coming days, as Secretary Rumsfeld obliquely warned us weeks ago. More >>
Steve Weissman: Torturing Mr. Bush
Wednesday, 16 June 2004, 2:29 pm | Steve Weissman
Should George W. Bush lose his bid for re-election this November, historians will find a major cause in the flood of pornographic photographs that show American soldiers torturing and sexually humiliating naked Iraqis. How will publishers of sanitized ... More >>
Weissman: Why Should the UN Buy the Iraq We Broke?
Tuesday, 4 May 2004, 2:39 pm | Steve Weissman
Colin Powell, who plays the soft, sensitive shill in Washington's globally ambitious cop shop, used to quote what he mistakenly called the Pottery Barn rule: You Break It, You Own It. But now that American bombs, boots, and blunders have shattered Iraq, ... More >>
