The neocon theory is interesting and complex. It's like a new theory for solving a scientific question. New theories need grueling examination by peers who try to knock holes in them before they are accepted as the basis for action. They also need to be explained, patiently and with precision, so the public can know what it is being asked to purchase with the lives of its kids and its money.
The neocon foreign policy agenda got neither a thorough vetting nor public explication -- because its authors apparently thought the American people wouldn't understand it or wouldn't buy it. Instead, the neocons pulled a classic, and very arrogant, bait and switch. Sooner or later, they're going to pay for it.
Scientists Still Deny Iraqi Arms Programs: U.S. Interrogations Net No Evidence U.S. Says China Is Stepping Up Short-Range Missile Production African Held for War Crimes Dies in Custody of a Tribunal Annan Warns of World 'Crisis' Bush Denies Claim He Oversold Case for War U.S. Economy Grew at 2.4% Annual Rate in 2nd QuarterBritish Prime Minister Tony Blair's speech last week to a joint session of the U.S. Congress was witty, erudite and nauseating.
In fact, the only thing more stomach-churning than the image of the man the British press refers to as "Bush's poodle" doing tricks to entertain America's elected representatives was the image of those representatives applauding the lies they wanted to hear.
BC, MIT decline to name students in music-use case Follow the Yellowcake Road: What began as a minor Italian mystery is now a drama testing Bush's credibility as never before. Inside the Iraqi intel wars Unimpeachable Sources: Congress: Low Friends in High Places Exclusive—The 9-11 Report: Slamming the FBI State of Siege: Total Recall: As goes California, so goes the nation. If true, we're all in trouble. An economy on the ropes, and a political culture on the verge of collapse Columnist Blows CIA Agent's Cover Antiwar Groups Say Public Ire Over Iraq Claims Is Increasing Warning of Toxic Aftermath from Uranium Munitions Proposals To N. Korea Weighed: U.S. Might Offer No-Attack Pledge U.N.: Bioweapons Chief Wrongly Dismissed by US Bush in New Threat to Iran and Syria Human Rights Group Blasts Israeli Soldiers Robert Fisk: The ugly truth of America's Camp Cropper, a story to shame us allThis year's deficit is projected to be $455 billion. That's $455,000,000,000. Over the next five years, the administration estimates, the cumulative deficits will total $1.9 trillion. That's $1,900,000,000,000.
As Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan told the Senate Banking Committee last week, "There is no question that if you run substantial and excessive deficits over time, you are draining savings from the private sector, and other things equal, you do clearly undercut the growth rate of the economy."
As Budget Deficit Grows, Greenspan Speaks Softly Eric Margolis: Bush Deserves to be Impeached BBC Says Arms Expert Who Died Was Source for Contested Report Forget WMD. What's an NIE? In Sketchy Data, Trying to Gauge Iraq Threat Blair in crisis after Iraq expert's suicide BBC under fire as it admits Dr Kelly was source Decades of Devastation Ahead as Global Warming Melts the Alps F.B.I. Is Accused of Bias by Arab-American Agent After 9/11, US Planes Began Softening Iraqi Defenses Gephardt, in N.H., takes aim at Bush - 'Worst President I've Served With,' He Tells Gathering Where the Enemy Is Everywhere and Nowhere Italian Says She Gave Iraq Papers to U.S. African Nation Says: We Never Sold Uranium to Saddam Bush Ready to Wreck Ozone Layer Treaty - US Slips in Demand to Drop Ban on Harmful Pesticide Dangerous minds: Ann Coulter sharpens her knives and tears into the 'treasonous' liberal oppositionAUSTIN -- Texas plaintiffs lawyers opened their checkbooks last month to fight a proposed constitutional amendment that would give the Legislature authority to cap lawsuit damages.
Save Texas Courts, a political action committee formed to oppose Proposition 12, reported raising $1.9 million from June 9 to June 30.
White House Foresees 5-Year Debt Increase Of $1.9 Trillion $455 Billion -- and Counting 'No war' sail painters sent for trial Maverick former Beirut MP criticizes 'Hariri phenomenon'Only last winter Perry publicly argued that the North Korea problem was controllable. Now, he said, he has grown to doubt that. "It was manageable six months ago if we did the right things," he said. "But we haven't done the right things."
He added: "I have held off public criticism to this point because I had hoped that the administration was going to act on this problem, and that public criticism might be counterproductive. But time is running out, and each month the problem gets more dangerous."
From his discussions, Perry has concluded the president simply won't enter into genuine talks with Pyongyang's Stalinist government. "My theory is the reason we don't have a policy on this, and we aren't negotiating, is the president himself," Perry said. "I think he has come to the conclusion that Kim Jong Il is evil and loathsome and it is immoral to negotiate with him."
The immediate cause of concern, Perry said, is that North Korea appears to have begun reprocessing the spent fuel rods. "I have thought for some months that if the North Koreans moved toward processing, then we are on a path toward war," he said.
Rather than escalate in this way, Perry said, the administration should engage in "coercive diplomacy," which he explained as, "You have to offer something, but you have to have an iron fist behind your offer." He didn't specify what should be offered, but others have suggested that North Korea would like economic aid, trade deals, diplomatic recognition or a nonaggression pact.
Budget Deficit May Surpass $455 Billion: War Costs, Tax Cut, Slow Economy Are Key FactorsTONY BLAIR has ditched plans to receive a "thank you" medal from President Bush next week for backing the war on Iraq.
The Prime Minister and the President scrapped the ceremony as it would have triggered a furious backlash in Britain where controversy over the war is raging.
Bremer a quick study in colony building Pentagon Civilians' Lack of Planning Contributed to Chaos in Iraq Revealed: first dossier also dodgy Blair to challenge Bush over Britons held at Camp Delta Did CIA warn UK to drop Niger claim? Texas Search for Democrats Is Ruled Illegal Investigations of Chemicals Will Continue Lawmakers Attack Use of Antitorture Law to Block Immigrants' Deportation Where US promises proved hollow: Nigerian villagers have learnt from recent history to treat the visit of an American president with scepticism Distant giant planet is oldest yet discovered Discovery of Truman diary reveals attack on Jews: Biographer denies cold war president was anti-semitic Truman diary reveals anti-Semitism and offer to step down No 10 v BBC: the letters that fuelled row Mystery death of anti-war student: Family calls for new German police inquiry after crucial questions left unanswered GM foods: unloved, unwanted and a rush to grow crops could cause civil unrest: Minsters try to put gloss on bleak view from strategy unit US and Europe on brink of trade war: WTO says Bush's steel tariffs break rules · Brussels threatens to retaliate unless Washington backs down Iraq fall-out grows: Uranium claims pose new threat to Blair White House turns on CIA over uranium claim CIA chief takes rap for Bush's false war claim A beginners guide to Esperanto Trading on fearFrom the start, the invasion of Iraq was seen in the US as a marketing project. Selling 'Brand America' abroad was an abject failure; but at home, it worked. Manufacturers of 4x4s, oil prospectors, the nuclear power industry, politicians keen to roll back civil liberties - all seized the moment to capitalise on the war. PR analysts Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber explain how it worked.
Palestinian Village Finds Itself Walled In, Not Out CIA chief takes blame for Iraq arms blunder Bush team split as CIA becomes the fall guy Iraq uranium claim sows confusion Bush Expresses Confidence in Tenet Support for Bush Declines As Casualties Mount in Iraq"It was Enron accounting," said Joseph Rodriguez, a former employee of the district's office of research and accountability, who is running for an open seat on the Houston school board. "Who are our dropouts? We haven't identified them."
Straw Link Clears Beeb Angry Mandela Attacks Warmonger BlairIn an astonishing attack on the Premier and President Bush, he said in London: "To see young political leaders of the developed world act in ways that undermine some of the noblest attempts of humanity to deal with historical legacies, pains me greatly and makes me worry immensely about our future."
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In a bitter swipe, he added: "We have a common obligation to care for each other, particularly in conditions that foster behaviour to the contrary."
Giving the annual Red Cross Humanity Lecture before a 700-strong audience which included Home Secretary David Blunkett, he said: "We have found ourselves compelled to speak out strongly against the rise of unilateralism in world affairs.
"We publicly and in private expressed our sharp differences with Prime Minister Blair and President Bush. The differences we have, particularly in the war against Iraq, are not simply of political difference.
"In a world still so grossly unequal our hope for orderly co-existence lies in global co-operation and an uncompromising multilateral approach to problems and challenges.
"The Geneva Convention and its successors tell us more powerfully than all treaties of the strength of international consensus."
After being presented with a Red Cross Humanity Fellowship award, he added: "The 21st century, which so many hoped would be the century of the triumph of world peace, has not started too promisingly."
Democrats Outraged Over Bush Iraq Intel Will Nader Run? It Depends in Part, He Says, on 2 OthersNorth Korea has conducted 70 high-explosive tests linked to nuclear weapons development, South Korea's spy chief was quoted as saying last night.
Israel asks ABC to can a program Fear US will push N Korea into fight Rumsfeld admits evidence for war was not new U.S. report on 9/11 to be 'explosive' Iraq weapons 'unlikely to be found' Bush Knew Iraq Info Was False President Bush's claim about Iraq Uranium was Forged CIA wanted British to drop uranium reference Schumer: Tactics Are 'Stalinist' Rumsfeld Doubles Estimate for Cost of Troops in Iraq Halliburton Unit Expands War-Repair Role Row Over Weapons Allegations Threatens to Turn the Iraq Conflict Into Liability for Bush The Bloody Profits of General Dynamics: Dealing with the Devil Bush and the Paramilitaries: Coddling Terrorists in ColombiaNearly one in three doctors reports withholding information from patients about useful medical services that aren't covered by their health insurance companies, and the number may be on the rise, a study reports.
On Goree Island, Bush Visit Sparks Anger US lawyer warns Hicks unlikely to get proper defence William Rivers Pitt: The Insiders Are Coming Out A Diplomat's Undiplomatic Truth: They LiedGod told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you can help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them.
U.S. Links Chinese, N. Korean Aid to Iran Fears Hicks's trial will not be fair Scalia Lashes 'Law-Profession Culture' How we helped liberate Iraqi fundamentalismEven though the worst of the bear market might be behind us, the American middle class will continue to lose ground and the American consumer will continue to be squeezed for some time to come, said Hess and Gail Eisenkraft, one of his partners, in a recent interview.
U.S., Indonesian jets in standoff It may be a very rough ride if we go all the way with BushAmerica has the technology to wipe all life from the face of the planet. Maybe it will one day, writes Hugh Mackay.
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