Category Archives: Iraq

To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq

Posted on October 7, 2021 by Luke Ford

This is a terrific 2020 book by journalist Robert Draper. Here are some highlights: * Donald Rumsfeld’s desire for dominance at times hindered his desire for information—except, of course, around the president, at which time he became a model of … Continue reading →

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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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