Month: June 2004

Intelligence Turf Wars

June 15, 2004 Off

Salon has an interesting, though certainly conjectural article on a conflict between the CIA and the Pentagon. In particular, it provides an hypothesis as to the curious timing of the departure of George Tenet, the Director of Central intelligence too close to the election to install a new Czar.

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The Effluent Keeps Floating to the Top

June 9, 2004 Off

The Centre for Constitutional Rights has the memo implicating the cabinet of the Bush administration in planning to torture prisoners. The Project to Enforce the Geneva Conventions has reproduced the Wall Street Journal article. Methinks he doth protest too much.

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History of the Vietnam Conflicts

June 9, 2004 Off

Since much is made of the comparison between Iraq and Vietnam in the U.S. press, a recent reviewing of Errol Morris’s documentary “Fog of War” (interviewing Robert McNamara, the U.S Secretary of Defence during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations), made me do a bit of digging to refresh my history of the Vietnam conflict. Given…

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Constitutionality

June 3, 2004 Off

Juan Cole has included the full text of the U.S/British proposed U.N resolution concerning the future of Iraq. A particular section caught my eye in light of my previous proposal for the U.S. to withdraw immediately: 3. Endorses the proposed timetable for Iraq’s political transition to democratic government including: (a) formation of a sovereign Interim…

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