Category Archives: Iraq

The Iraq Invasion Of 2003 & The Israel Lobby

Posted on August 20, 2019 by Luke Ford

Stephen Walt wrote in 2010: In his testimony to the Iraq war commission in the U.K., former Prime Minister Tony Blair offered the following account of his discussions with Bush in Crawford, Texas in April 2002. Blair reveals that concerns … Continue reading →

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The Merry Fahad of Windsor: Verses 1-6

Posted on November 22, 2018 by Luke Ford
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Chain Of Command

Posted on February 13, 2018 by Luke Ford

I’ve watched the first five episodes of this National Geographic documentary series and it is amazing that the United States is so heavily invested in fighting something as subjective and amorphous as “violent extremism.” This is an arbitrary moral category. … Continue reading →

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Haaretz: ‘White Man’s Burden’

Posted on October 4, 2017 by Luke Ford

None of these people who pushed for the 2003 Iraq invasion seem to have paid any price for their idiocy. A smaller percentage of American Jews thought the war was a good idea compared to the general population, but a … Continue reading →

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White Man’s Burden

Posted on October 4, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comment: “Haaretz ran this interesting story back in 2003 about the genesis of the Iraq War. Suffice it to say no respectable journalist in the US could have run this without ruining their career.” Haaretz: The war in Iraq was … Continue reading →

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